Bernard Mendillo

The Last Baby Boomer Bernard Mendillo

THE LAST BABY BOOMER is a play about a man-set in his ways, trying to come to grips with an ever-changing world-who must choose between his career and the people he loves. Bill Mazetta likes to talk. He talks to the audience. He rants and raves about women and men. He castigates the politically correct, overpaid ballplayers and political scoundrels. His "fevered mind" is so active, that the four women in his life often appear onstage. He talks to these apparitions, arguing, cajoling, pleading. He also reacts with them in real time and space-with similar, confused, results. He has a "once in a lifetime" job offer to teach in Missouri. That means leaving his daughter behind-as well as the woman he loves. (He may not actually say it, but he loves her.) Meanwhile, his department head is in love with him-something he is painfully unaware of. And then, if possible, things get more complicated when a female student charges him with sexual harassment. Down to the very end, Bill Mazetta never stops talking, never stops changing his mind, never stops trying his best to make things right. Of course he does-but the fun is getting there.