Bernard Mendillo

Circle A, Circle B Bernard Mendillo

Publisher Marketing: Circle A, Circle B is a romantic comedy about the Sixties and the Nineties- and love is the battlefield! Meet the Cantata brothers: Theodore and Frederick. They're children of the Sixties. Theodore is a public defender; Frederick works for historic preservation. Theodore is happily, if sometimes stormily, married to Sue; they have four daughters. Frederick is divorced, the father of 2 sons. The brothers play touch football on Sundays, they do "their work" around Theodore's house, and dream of ways to get rich. And then Frederick meets Angela Monterro-a woman of the Nineties; professional, beautiful and independent. They are attracted to each other-but Angela isn't about to allow herself to be trapped into a relationship with "an older man, who has two children, is economically strapped, and, by his own admission, hasn't much of a financial future." Or will she? The play is episodic-set against scenes of touch football; scenes of the brothers trying to fix toilets, chop down trees, paint garages and construct gardens; scenes of Angela trying to figure out if she wants Frederick or another suitor (the detestable Scott Jones-a man of the Nineties). It's actually simple: all these people have to do is make a few decisions and figure out why they fall in love. Contributor Bio:  Mendillo, Bernard Bernard Mendillo grew up in Providence, Rhode Island. He studied writing at Brown University - where he earned a B. A. in English and an M. A. in Playwrighting. He has had 18 full-length plays produced - two of them off-off-Broadway and others regionally in upstate New York, Massachusetts and Los Angeles. He has published two novels: "Dancing Naked with the Devil," "Marvin Piersoll" and "Electra 225"-and three memoirs: "Football, " "Bella in America" and "Nuns!" He lives in Canton, Massachusetts.