For I Am Zeus: A Collection of Plays About Greek Mythology contains six short plays about the most entertaining of the Greek gods. Join Zeus as he suffers through marriage counseling, makes an indecent proposal to his sisters, and tries to sleep with anything that moves.
Genre: DRAMA / General80 copies sold and more than 1000 free downloads; voted best comedy book of 2012 in the Turning the Pages Book of the Year contest
For I Am Zeus
Setting: A bar called Dionysian Delights.
At rise: LINDSEY, blonde, 25, and dressed in a tank top and short skirt, is sitting alone at a table for two. As she takes a sip of her appletini, ZEUS, wearing a toga and holding a lightning bolt in one hand and a scepter in the other, approaches her.
ZEUS
Mind if I join you?
LINDSEY
I’m waiting for someone.
(Zeus sits down and props his scepter and lightning bolt against the chair.)
ZEUS
I know. You’ve been waiting for me your whole life.
LINDSEY
Who are you?
ZEUS
I am Zeus, god of everything. I know, I know, it’s a pleasure to meet me.
LINDSEY
I’ve never heard of you.
ZEUS
Sure you have! I live on Mount Olympus, I rule the heavens, and I have a bunch of kids…because I’m great at seducing women.
(Zeus kisses Lindsey’s hand.)
LINDSEY
(uncomfortably)
Could you not do that? I don’t even know you!
ZEUS
All you need to know is that no woman can resist me, for I am Zeus!
LINDSEY
I’m sure some women can resist you.
ZEUS
Nope! When I want a woman, I get her…my success rate is one hundred and ten percent.
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