Unlike the other plays on this site, Mr. Holloway’s Toy Company has yet to see the light of the stage. However, it should be noted that it was the recipient of an award, 2nd Place in the 2005 Southern Literary Festival. What’s funny is that this play started out as a project for a playwrighting class I took at Belhaven College.
It recently was shot as a film and will be premiered at the Crossroads Film Festival in Jackson, MS in April 2010. Below is the original screenplay version of the Mr. Holloway’s Toy Company and the film’s synopsis.
Synopsis
George Holloway has a passion to create toys for the orphans at St. James Children Village, but he also has a failing business he is trying to maintain. Enter Baxter Glenfeld, a young, ambitious exec for a behemoth toy company, who has his sights set on one of Holloway’s toys: a stuffed rabbit doll. Glenfeld makes a lucrative offer that would not only save Holloway’s business, but also make Holloway a wealthy man.
However, Holloway feels torn since the offer also states he can no longer make the toy for the orphans once Glenfeld’s company commences their production of the rabbit doll.
But Glenfeld is not the only unexpected visitor to Holloway’s shop. A young lady, Carmen Maguero, arrives as well. Carmen, who was once an orphan at St. James, tells Holloway how his toy impacted her life when he gave it to her as a child. Invigorated by Carmen’s visit, Holloway makes a bold decision concerning Glenfeld’s offer, all the while revealing a stunning secret about himself in the process.
George Holloway realizes in this touching story that love and compassion are the most essential tools when creating toys.