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Caving: a comedy
Read more: Caving: a comedySCENE 5: Bo Tries to reach over an audience member – pulls 3 times on his rope – whose end disappears into darkness.) BO(To audience member)Work with me here. You got anything? I have to take her SOMETHING. (Audience members confer. The hand him a program. Putting it in his mouth like a dog BO…
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Caving: a comedy
Read more: Caving: a comedySCENE 4: (Lights down on this couple and up on Back of Stage where HEDJ is splashing in a stream) HEDJHelp! Help! Help! (REV appears, tries to lasso him) REVStop struggling! HEDJStop struggling and DROWN? That’s all you’ve got to say? Lift up your arms! (Finally gets the rope over him, hauls him out. He…
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Caving: a comedy
Read more: Caving: a comedy(SCENE 3: VAYRE appears crawling down the stage into the audience. Shines her light) VAYREWhat was that? Anybody there? Rev? This isn’t funny, whoever you are! I’m warning you, I have a knife! (Silence) I’m armed and I’m desperate! (Satisfied, she crawls to the first row, up and over the audience’s laps. At their reaction…
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Caving: a comedy
Read more: Caving: a comedy(SCENE 2: Meanwhile the boys, HEDJ and BO are crawling down the center aisle shining their flashlights up into the audience) HEDJ(Halts, attentive)Omigod, I think I just saw something. I swear I heard somebody breathe. BOThere’s no room in this tunnel for anyone but US. Bacteria and bugs on the other hand – probably PLENTY…
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Caving: a comedy
Read more: Caving: a comedyIn this comedy, the theatre becomes a cave as 2 college frat boys (HEDJ & BO) & 2 Sorority girls (REV & VAYRE) become trapped while spelunking on a dare. Unsettled friendships and a longing for connection have driven them to risk the cell-phone-free dangers of this place. All four long for emotional and sexual…
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Inspired Pleasure
Read more: Inspired PleasureDiary of a Dancer but they don’t seem to care if you don’t so I spend all mytime talking to Ryder. He says he’s just separating fromhis wife and it’s extremely traumatic. They have beentogether since high school. He’s a tad hyper – always onthe go, but very entertaining He usually brings me gifts –flowers,…
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Correction!
Read more: Correction!Diary of a Dancer our way thru Mom & Dad’s supplies. The grapenuts went firstthen the soup. Now we are on sauerkraut and spinach.Playing Fleetwood Mac & Jimmy Spheeris while sitting onthe balcony looking over Rock Creek Park. You don’t see onebuilding; Washington DC masquerades as a virgin world. Ineed a job by next Mon.…
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Inspired Pleasure
Read more: Inspired PleasureDiary of a Dancer Fri. 16 April 1976 – 2 PM – Train to Philly – a zombified redhead in suede coat, oversized purse & glasses. Lacking mirrors, we lose our faces. Got to get my emotional house in order but I can’t think how. I used to have a roadmap and none of this…
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Haunted by Emily…a play
Read more: Haunted by Emily…a playThe Last Scene Scene 10 (The 1930’s. HOMESTEAD to the left, EVERGREENS still to the right but the DELL in between has vanished. Both houses look the worse for wear; HOMESTEAD sports a “For Sale” sign. Arms crossed, two young women in thirties clothing study one another. They are the actresses who played SUE and…
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Haunted by Emily…a play
Read more: Haunted by Emily…a playscene 9 (Curtain rises on a Massachusetts courtroom in the 1890’s. Judge seated at center; witness box directly beneath his high lectern, bleachers to left and right. Buzzing noises of excited crowd) JUDGE(Banging gavel) We will have order in this court! Mr. Hammond, call your witness! EMILY(Pretends to bang the gavel too) The Unknown is…