PLAYS
The plays listed below are available for production. Please contact me at dribblefunk@yahoo.com for information, rights and royalty details, and to request a script.
You can see info about my plays on Doollee.com. And on the Small-Cast One-Act Guide Online.
Also, feel free to view my playwriting resume for a more comprehensive catalogue of what I've written for the stage.
I
HAVE ANGERED A GREAT GOD
3M/2F - Running Time: 50 Minutes
Robert von Ritchie Ritchie has somehow angered a Great God. He retraces his steps over the past few days to discover where he ran afoul. It might have been easier if he weren't constantly on his cell phone talking with his now ex-girlfriend Martha, who barely made it into Mensa. A brief satire of modern public etiquette.
Productions:
~ Staged Reading with Audacity Theatre Lab (January 2010)
~ Workshop Production at FronteraFest at Hyde Park Theatre; Austin TX (February 2010)
CHOP
1M
- Running Time: 55 Minutes
CHOP concerns a man devoid of ambition, with a profound sense of isolation from the busy, happy, productive people around him. Through a chance encounter with a mysterious tattooed woman he is introduced to what may be his true calling - a subculture of unique fetishists who enjoy getting their limbs lopped off. As the guy willing to wield the axe and make the chops, he may finally develop a sense of belonging. A dozen(+) characters performed by a single actor.
Productions:
~ Staged Reading with Outsider's Inn Collective; Seattle WA (October 2008)
~ Workshop Reading with Cry Havoc; New York NY (March 2009)
~ World Premiere at Out of the Loop Fringe Festival; Addison Water Tower Theatre; Addison TX (March 2010)
~ Official Entry in 2010 Phoenix Fringe Festival; Phoenix AZ (April 2010)
RAPUNZEL: A MUSICAL SHADOW PUPPET TALE
With
Music by Stuart Grant & Lee Holt
2M/3F - Running Time: 30-45 Minutes
Like many stories of Germanic folklore from the Brothers Grimm, Rapunzel is a tale of happiness hard won. Rapunzel is held captive by a wicked old enchantress, brought up in loneliness, parted from her young prince, and must struggle to find her own place in the world before her troubles are overcome. The tale is valuable to children with the timeless message that faith and character will ultimately win out over hardship, and true love will find its happy ending. This hip adaptation of the classic story is told with shadow puppets, witty banter and finger-snappin' songs.
Productions:
~ World-Premiere with the Dramatic English Educational Repertory (DEER) Theatre, Hong Kong (October 2006)
~ The Peak Galleria/ Dramatic English, Hong Kong (April 2007) Click here for a video clip of an excerpt from this production.
FOR
THE LOVE OF AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST
2M/3F - Running Time: 60 Minutes
A man named Alfred is driven to commit an extremely unpleasant act by his devoted love for Claudia, an anesthesiologist. This act leads, in turn, to a life outside the law and on the run. He now comes to the end of his life… Judgment Day. He must come to terms with his past lives and his past deeds, as he prepares to meet his Maker. He does this waiting at a tiki-inspired cocktail lounge somewhere on the edge of life and death. The embodiments of what he could have been and what he was converge.
Productions:
~ World-Premiere as part of the Sixth Annual Festival of Independent Theatres at the Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas TX. Presented by Audacity Productions (July & August 2004)
Notes from the Playwright ~ Full Synopsis ~ Press
ARSENIC
& ROSES
1M/1F - Running Time: 40 Minutes
Charles is having one of the worst nights of his life. To make matters worse he runs smack into a certain someone from his past... someone with quite a grudge! A darkly comic tale of a parakeet-murderer and the passive-aggressive woman who loves him.
Productions:
~ World-premiere at the Weckesser Studio in Santa Fe NM (December 1996).
~ Staged Reading with Audacity Productions, Lewisville TX (April, 2000).
~ Regional-premiere in North Texas at the Barn Door Theatre as part of the Flower Mound Performing Arts Theatre's First Annual New Plays Festival, Flower Mound TX (May 2003).
~ Asian-premiere with DEER Theatre as part of CHEW ON THIS! an evening of site-specific pieces in a diner, Wan Chai, Hong Kong (April 2007).
~ Dallas premiere with Audacity Theatre Lab as part of The Festival of Independent Theatres 2009 at the Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas TX (July/Aug 2009).
COOKIES
& PUNCH
1M/2F - Running Time: 20 Minutes
Two suburban housewives take a unique revenge on a cheating husband and plan the perfect crime. Hell hath no fury...
Productions:
~ Texas Woman's University; Denton TX; Original One Acts Series (March 2006)
~ Staged Reading with DFW Playwrights' Allinace/ Ground Zero Theatre Company; Dallas TX (May 2004)
~ Audacity Productions; Dallas TX; (excerpt) Mild Dementia Continuous-Play Variety Hour (November 2002)
~ Staged Reading with Square Peg Theatre Collective; New York NY (Feb 2002)
RUDNICK THE CANDLE-HEADED BOY
3M/2F
- Running Time: 10 Minutes
The Unicorn Children won't let poor Rudnick play in their Unicorn Children games. An imaginative retelling of a certain reindeer story.
Productions:
~ Estranged Bedfellows Sketch Comedy; Santa Fe NM (Feb 1996)
~ Audacity Productions/ProgreXssive Arts;" The HO! Show" ; Garland TX (Dec 2000)
~ Audacity Productions; Mild Dementia Continuous-Play Variety Hour; Dallas TX (May 2004)
~ EndTime Productions; Naked Holidays 2009; New York NY (December 2009)
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