Plays
Posted on November 2, 2009. Filed under: Plays | Tags: Albert Camus, Home In Time, L'Entranger, Movement, Nietzsche, one act play, ottawa theatre, Plays, Samual Beckett, Sterling Lynch, theater, theatre, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Waiting For Godot |
Last week, I wrote a play! Here it is! When you have a chance please give it a read and let me know what you think. I’m pretty pleased with it, so I hope you enjoy it.
Home In Time: A Play In One Act.PDF
All thoughts, comments, etc. are very welcome.
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Posted on December 6, 2008. Filed under: Plays | Tags: Albert Camus, art, Beckett, Beyond Good and Evil, Caligula, Camus, Contingency Irony and Solidarity, Cormier, dating, death, emptiness, Existentialism, F. Scott Fitzgerald, fashion magazines, feminism, Feurerbach, gender, happiness, Hemingway, John D. Fitzgerald, life, living, Me and My Little Brain, meaning of life, Nietzsche, Philosophical Investigations, relationships, Rorty, sadness, Samual Beckett, Seventeen Magazine, sex, Shakespeare, Sweet Valley High, Taming of the Shrew, The Chocolate War, The Diary of Anais Nin, The Essence of Christianity, The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, Wittgenstein |
Jacob, glistening in suntan lotion, wearing sunglasses, and a tiny pair of swim shorts, lies on a beach towel, sunning himself, peacefully. Next to him, there is a cooler with beer. The light in which he lies is warm, bright, and distinct from the cold gray wash that covers the rest of the stage. He [...]
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Posted on December 4, 2008. Filed under: Plays | Tags: apples, art, conflict of interest, creation, creativity, evidence, forgetting, french fries, Humor, memory, one act, original, play, potato, remembering, the creative process, theatre, writer's block, Writing |
A door slams. JACOB storms on stage, carrying a tall stool. He is wearing a black whole body leotard which is much too small for him. He slams the stool down somewhere. Immediately, he is unsatisfied with its position and he moves it and slams it down somewhere else. Again, he is unsatisfied and moves [...]
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Posted on December 3, 2008. Filed under: Plays | Tags: art, Auckland, auckland new zealand, backpacking, beauty, Blue Jays, europe, feminism, friendship, gender, hosteling, hostels, Kiwis, love, New Zealand, Ottawa, Ottawa Canada, Ottawa Ontario, Paris, paris france, personal identity, play, Rutherford, rutherford new jersey, sex, sports, Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, theatre, three acts, Toronto Blue Jays, Twelfth Night, world series |
ACT I
ANDREW, PATRICK, THOMAS are on stage, as the audience enters. The stage is set and lit with three distinct spaces, one for each speaking character. They are played by females.
There are also three televisions–one for each space. On each TV, running on a loop, in slightly slow motion, each actor gives a performance [...]
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Posted on December 2, 2008. Filed under: Plays | Tags: Alannis Morrisette, choice, essays, ethics, Existentialism, feminism, freedom, Hamlet, Henry Miller, Kafka, Milan Kundera, one act, Oscar the Grouch, Oscar Wilde, Philosophy, play, Plexus, prisoner's dilemma, rationality, reason, smoking, Soylent Green, temping, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Joke, The Muppets, The Simpsons, theatre, university |
A cold, sterile, and clinical holding cell. Poorly lit. There is a heavy door with no window, a well-worn wooden bench, and a cheap cot with an uncovered mattress. A second door, almost indistinguishable from the wall, leads to a small unseen room.
SARAH sits on the cot, smoking. She wears little or no make-up and [...]
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Posted on December 1, 2008. Filed under: Plays | Tags: adultery, Aegina, Ancient Greece, Ares, Asophus, Autolycus, beatles, branding, Cerebus, Charon, Christianity, corporations, crime, damnation, death, father, God, gods, guilt, Hera, holy ghost, Humor, Irony, justice, marketing, memory, Merope the Pleiad, myth, one act, out-sourcing, philosphers, play, Pong, private contractors, punishment, Religion, salvation, sin, Sisyphus, son, Thanatos, theatre, Torture, underworld, Zeus |
The stage is divided by a wire fence about six feet high and six feet wide. It is perpendicular to the audience. To one side of the fence, SISYPHUS rolls a large rock up an incline. The labour is easy and he is not upset by it. Once the rock is rolled to the top, [...]
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Posted on November 29, 2008. Filed under: Plays | Tags: award wining play, award winning, debt, economics, housing crisis, Humor, one act, one act play, Philosophy, play, Politics and Society, property, Rousseau, sub-prime mortgages, theatre |
Two men enter, STAN and WORKER. STAN is carrying a role of black tape.
WORKER
So I was pointing out irony to Uncle Hoary when a man walks in, leading a fat spaniel and carrying a birdcage.
STAN stops, tapes a square approximately two feet square on the ground
WORKER
Why did you tape a square on the [...]
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