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| LOST
LOVE
""A little jewel of an existentialist comedy." - Robert Avila, San Francisco Bay Guardian "The
best cabin-fever housewife since - Chicago Maroon "Damned if Peter Papadopoulos hasn't woven together wildly disparate but topical threads in Lost Love that somehow reflect the information-loaded emotional breakdown that typifies our historical moment." - Minneapolis City Pages ""A smart, silly gem." - TimeOut Chicago "Everything that your Jane Eyre at the Guthrie is not." - Minnesota Daily |
Full Length Play, 3W/2-3M |
Global warming has never been so much fun! Mitzy, a waterlogged, wedding-day bride, and Tito, her streetwise, Zenwise parking valet, argue on the mountaintop where they have been stranded after a devastating flood. Several states away, Barb comes home from work to find that her firebrand girlfriend, Jan, has exacted revenge for her cheating by selling off the contents of their house and then filling it with yard plants. The waters are rising fast in this global warming play. Can these lost souls find their way back to love in time to save themselves and the planet? (Part II of Mojo Love Trilogy) *Hypatia Theatre New Play Symposium *Seven Devils Playwrights Conference (finalist) *Kitchen Dog Theater New Works Festival (finalist) *Northen Kentucky YES New Play Festival (finalist) *Bloody Unicorn Theatre Queer Women's Play Contest (finalist) Two monologues were published in One on One: The Best Men's Monologues for the Twenty-First Century from Applause Books. Read full play synopsis for LOST LOVE (spoilers). Read a sample of LOST LOVE PDF Version
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| THE
BARTENDER MIXES MAGIC LIGHT
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One Act Play, 1M/1W/1E |
MAN and WOMAN rendezvous in the classic bar pickup scene. Or is it? Can these would-be-barfly-lovers reach transcendent grace under the tutelage of their benevolent libation-slinging guru? They speed through their fledgling relationship-the “lust" phase, the “sharing" phase, the “blaming" phase, and finally into their own place of magic light-the “family" phase-all before closing time. *American Globe Fifteen-Minute Turnip Festival *Offstage Theater Barhopper Series *Bedlam Theatre Ten-Minute Play Festival Read a sample of BARTENDER MIXES MAGIC LIGHT To read the whole play for free, email (Note whether you would like to read the PG-13 version or the R-version.) |
| HE
SHE BY THE SEA
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Ten Minute Play, 1M/1W | A young
man and a young woman attempt to
reconcile on a deserted tourist beach. She is wearing his engagement
ring. All seems to be going well, until they collide head-first
into the limits of racial tolerance. To read the whole play for free, email |
| LAST
LOVE
"The outragreous situations that evolve are not only laugh-out-loud funny, but also provide incredible insight into relationships." - Centralian Advocate (Australia) |
Full Length Play, 3M/2W | Drunken poetry.
Competitive sex. Furniture hurling. Two couples do battle inside
a mountainside house while an international terror crisis looms
outside. A darkly funny and expressionistic look at cycles of violence -- from couples
arguing over the toilet seat to troops fighting in the Iraq War. (Part I of
Love-Gone-Wrong-at-the-End-of-the-World-Trilogy)
*Algonquin Productions Project Footlight *Byrdcliffe Theater Festival Published
by
Playscripts
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in Algonquin Plays, Volume One Monologues from this play are also published in: Audition Arsenal for Men in their 30's Audition Arsenal for Women in their 30's Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women |
| IN
THE COOL COOL COOL
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Ten Minute Play, 2M/2W | A Dr. Seuss divorce
story told simultaneously through the mother, father, mistress,
and son.
*Lincoln Square Theatre Night Caps 2 Festival *Rogue Valley Ten-Minute Play Festival (finalist) *Impact Theatre Winter One-Act Festival *Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award (finalist) *Cleveland Public Theatre AtTENtion Span Festival *Miami City Theatre Summer Shorts Festival (finalist) *TYG Family Beef Festival (finalist) *Theatre Limina Summer Shorts Festival *Boston Theatre Works Unbound Festival The play will be published soon in An Anthology of Contemporary American Short Plays, Volume III from the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in Beijing, China.Published in Spring 2007 edition of Karawane. Read a sample of IN THE COOL COOL COOL PDF Version To read the whole play for free, email |
| 3 CHOICES | Full Length Screenplay |
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| A
LAND WITHOUT TREES
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One Act Play, 4M/4E |
Poetry, as a force of nature, disrupts sham proceedings within the King's Court
when Jack Straw discovers his voice...and heads start to roll. Read a sample of A LAND WITHOUT TREES PDF Version To read the whole play for free, email |
| THE HUNS | One Act Play, 4M/2E |
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UNDER THE SYCAMORE
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Ten Minute Play, 1-3E | Request
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| MIDDLE-CLASS MEMOIRS | One Act Play, 2M/2W |
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| THOUGHTS 2010 | One Act Play, 2W/1M |
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