The One Good Thing or "Are Ya Patrick Swayze"

Written by Joe Bravaco

About the Show

Jamie and Tommy, two brothers who share a cottage on the Cliffs of the Irish Sea. One morning Jamie makes an astonishing declaration. He announces that he is dead – and now a ghost. Tommy, naturally, is unconvinced and maintains that his brother’s delusion is caused by the grief Jamie has suffered since their mother’s death. With pathos and gentle humor, the brothers explore a trail of unexpressed love, grief, guilt, and forgiveness, and within everyday events and their nostalgic memories, which are as ordinary as all our memories, they discover the eternal exists in their fraternal bond.

(Reader’s Theatre Staged Reading)