LGBT Festival Logline: Death by Cornbread, by Gina York

Logline: Bickering interlopers must put aside their differences and choose the lesser evil: evacuate their New York apartment to objectionable locations or face extermination by an assassin.

ACT I
It’s post 2016 election at a carnival. We see a LAWYER and a JUDGE fighting on The Flying Dutchman. The lawyer brandishes a pen while the judge wields a golden gavel. Both stagger back and forth with their weapons of choice as the Dutchman whooshes and rocks full tilt. Bloodied and torn tickets swirl shapelessly about in the darkness.

CUT TO:
A few minutes before dawn, sunlight casts three blurred shadows on what appears to be a 12’ x 12’ scrim: GRAND MÁS, the group’s elder, a self-deprecating trickster woman, TARDIS, a “water bear”, and JABBERWOCKY. They are all aware that an “X-MAN” has been sent to kill them.

Grand Más stands, removes her modified Steampunk goggles, yawns, and begins rapping:…