Coming Soon!
The Raw and the Cooked: a comedy about ritual sacrifice.
and
The American Moment:
a trilogy about silk strikes, salons and the birth of American
drama.
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Standing in the Shadows
concerns a critically injured woman�s journey to recover in the midst of
the
power struggle between her parents and her lover.
World premiere was at Wings
Theatre Company. Recent productions include Outward Spiral Theatre,
Minneapolis, a production directed by Elaine Shatzline-Behr that played
in Illinois and Hertsfordshire, England, and the upcoming West Coast premiere
at Lambda Players, Sacramenta, CA, January, 2001.
Review
of Outward Spiral production.
Drama, 5 females, 1 male;
1 interior set.
Synopsis.
The Second Coming of Joan |
Staged reading performed at Waterfront Ensemble (one-act version) and
the Win Atkins Theatre Project (full-length)
Comedy; two interior, two exterior sets. Cast: Can be performed
with as few as 7 actors.
MAXWELL, a gifted history teacher with a penchant for drag, doesn't
want to tell his conservative boyfriend, ARTHUR that he's getting messages
from a dear, departed Saint, for fear of unsettling their already rocky
relationship. When he learns a
friend of his, a kind and innocent priest, is being blackmailed, he
goes into his "Joan of Arc" mode to defeat the blacklisting/book-burning/power-broking
of CARDINAL HOOLIGAN, SENATOR PORKBELLY and
REV. HELMSLEY PHLEGM and bring peace, justice and tasteful pumps to
the world.
Other characters include: FATHER DENNIS GOOD, a priest who lives up to his name; MARGO & CECILIA, the madly-in-love neighbors next-door; SISTER VIVA LAS VEGAS, trades Bingo for blackjack to raise money for her flock; DR. SAUERBRATEN, runs group therapy for saints displaced in the 20th century; JEANNE, a housekeeper/reincarnation of Joan of Arc.
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Comedy. Staged reading performed by Waterfront Ensemble.
Cast: Two female, one male; One interior set.
KAY WINSTON-BRADDOCK-- 30-ish; a sign-language interpreter for the
past two years, she is open-minded, warm-hearted; GEORGIA HOGENTOGLER--
same age; KAY's estranged lover, a psychologist whose Sixties' enthusiasms
are dwindling; CHARLES CARLSON-- late 20's; deaf, African-American;
an aspiring photographer supporting himself as a porter, certain he has
found his muse in KAY. His unannounced, late-night arrival startles
the women into thinking there's a desperado banging at their door, refusing
to identify himself. For KAY it's a potential friendship. For
GEORGIA, a potential rival.
Revised 7/10/01
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