Plays
OLD FLAME, a play in 2 acts
After 50 years Barbara’s high school sweetheart, Mike Ripley, calls her out of the blue. Mike and his much younger Serbian girlfriend, Leonora, arrive for a visit, and an unlikely friendship develops between them and Barbara and her blue collar husband, Frank. As time passes, Frank becomes jealous of Barbara’s friendship with Mike – and then accuses her of betraying him. Marshall, Frank and Barbara’s 50 year old son, with marital problems of his own, attempts to mend the break between his parents, and in the process takes a vertiginous look into his own identity. For Barbara – and Frank – a new door in their relationship has opened. The question is will they go through it?
OLD FLAME is a play that considers how we approach love and sex as we grow old.
VERSAILLES
VERSAILLES is a full length contemporary drama with 7 characters and a single set.
SHARON, a 28 year old single mother, is waking up to the hard reality of her life. Her youth gone, her beauty and power going, she is caught in a web of dead end relationships and a nowhere job. As her house is slowly sinking into the swamp her young daughter appears to have gone missing. A mysterious figure, MR MASON, a kind of investigator/conscience, surfaces. Is he the resolution to Sharon’s problems?
There are also Sharon’s younger, blue-collar boyfriend, BRANDON, her father, HARMON, who may have molested her as a child, and NICK, her boss, owner of the Golden Lady where she works (and with whom she is sexually involved). Lastly there are BOB and BETH the seemingly ideal married couple who have moved into the house across the street.
The play, in 28 scenes, was inspired by the Casey Anthony trial in Florida.
BONE APPETITE
BONE APPETITE is a 2-character black comedy loosely based on a recent incident in Germany in which a cannibal advertised for someone who wished to be slaughtered and consumed – the ad was answered and the business duly consummated.
BONE APPETITE was produced by Emerging Artists Theater, Spring 2009
CEZANNE ON A CLEAR DAY
Cezanne sought balance in the compositional elements of his paintings (colors and forms – a flask, a blue rug, a Chinese vase, Monroe, Gable, a cork . . .) arranging and rearranging them to achieve a pictorial mot juste. His most successful efforts, he said, were achieved on a “clear day”.
MEMORY LIKE A PALE GREEN CLOCK
An attractive, well off, middle aged couple are dining at a posh restaurant to celebrate their (almost) 16th anniversary. An older, discreet waiter is in attendance. The wine flows. The 4th character, an attractive, large, slightly younger woman, is dining alone at a nearby table. She seems familiar to the husband, but he can’t quite place her. Gradually he grows obsessed with trying to remember her, and the celebratory evening begins to unravel.
The 3 scene play takes place on one evening in the intimate dining room of a classy restaurant.