Drama.  2 males.  It runs approximately 20 minutes and can stand alone or play with Ticking and/or You're Next as part of the Gunplay trilogy, chronicling a day in the life of the Doc Family and their relationship with guns.  Play's End premiered under its original title of Foreplay (at the time, it was the first play in a cycle with Replay and Stop) on a bill of one-acts at the Brick Playhouse.  The Philadelphia Inquirer called it "the most interesting stimulating work [of the evening]..." and went on to say, "in heightened dialogue reminiscent of Pinter, Dorf shows quite effectively how a parent's attitudes can influence a child without either of them knowing it."

"It was an amazing journey working on Gunplay.  We took this trilogy all the way to the State level of competition and learned something new with every performance.  This piece offers many educational opportunities without preaching the dangers of guns."--Michelle Backel, Faculty Director, Lyman High School (Longwood, FL)

JOHN DOE, a gun salesman just shy of middle-age, arrives home to find his son JOHNNY, ten, already back from school and playing on the living room floor. As they talk, Johnny slowly comes to the realization that something "sad" has happened, but he can't remember what it is. Johnny tells John about Billy Fireman, a boy who was shot to death at school the week before. Throughout the telling of the story, Johnny continues to be bothered by his repressed memory. As he slowly reconstructs his day, and as John tells him the gun-happy family's own version of the "birds and the bees," Johnny remembers that his brother Jay has been shot, or "stung," as Johnny calls it.