Archive for June, 2013
“Follow the Money” wins first place at West Virginia festival
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Reviews, Uncategorized on June 27, 2013
The Fairy Godmother frets about what to do with the Tooth Fairy, now that a precocious kid has tied her up to find out where she gets all her money. Photo courtesy of Old Opera House Theatre.
My one-act “Follow the Money: A Modern-Day Fairy Tale” won first place on June 23 in the 13th annual New Voice Play Festival at the Old Opera House Theatre in Charles Town, West Virginia.
Four scripts out of 85 were chosen for production; then the audience voted each night on their favorites, with the winner announced after Sunday’s finale.
Here’s some information on the script and how it came to be entered in the festival here.
The Journal, the daily newspaper in Martinsburg, W.Va., made the festival the cover story of its weekly entertainment section.
More photos below: Read the rest of this entry »
More photos from my staged reading in New York
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Personal, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on June 27, 2013
My daughter, Rain, took this panorama shot of me outside the Cherry Lane Theatre. That’s Keith and Trina at right.
Here are some more photos related to my recent staged reading that the Barefoot Theatre Company in New York did of my full-length script “The Ballad of Alejandro Lopez.”
First, some other links if you want to catch up:
* Photos from rehearsal, production and the after-party
* Photos of the cast and show poster
* The original announcement about Barefoot doing a staged reading of my script
And now, more photos, mostly taken by me: Read the rest of this entry »
Photos from “The Ballad of Alejandro Lopez” in New York
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on June 27, 2013
The cast of “The Ballad of Alejandro Lopez” takes a curtain call.
The Barefoot Theatre Company in New York held a staged reading of my full-length script “The Ballad of Alejandro Lopez” on June 17, 2013 at the historic Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan. (Historic because it’s a stage where Edward Albee and Sam Shepard have also had some of their works debut.)
More details on the show here.
Here are some photos, courtesy of Barefoot. Read the rest of this entry »
Photos from “Requiem for a Buzzard” in Ontario festival
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on June 26, 2013
The buzzards in “Requiem for a Buzzard.”
Two of my short pieces were produced in June in the annual “Asphalt Jungle Shorts Festival” in Kitchener, Ontario. This is a walking-tour theatre, where patrons buy a ticket and are led around downtown, where they encounter theatre popping up at various places. (More details on the festival here and descriptions of each piece here.)
My two pieces were “Pandora and Shrodinger: What’s in the Box?” and “Requiem for a Buzzard.”
Here are some photos of the event, courtesy of artistic director Paddy Gillard-Bentley: Read the rest of this entry »
Poster and cast photos from “The Ballad of Alejandro Lopez” in New York
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on June 11, 2013
Poster for my show in New York.
The Barefoot Theatre Company in New York will hold a staged reading of my full-length script “The Ballad of Alejandro Lopez” on Monday, June 17 at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan.
Here’s a poster, and the cast.
Tickets are free, but you have to email barefootrsvp@aol.com to get on the list. Other details here.
The cast of “The Ballad of Alejandro Lopez.”
Photos from “Fishing for Men” in the Gone in 60 Seconds Festival
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on June 11, 2013
Sunny approaches Brooder at river’s edge, and asks what he’s doing. Brooder says he’s fishing . . .
My dark piece “Fishing for Men” was produced in the Gone in 60 Seconds Festival in New York on June 7-8, 2013.
Here are some photos, courtesy of Rose Bonczek. That’s Chris Donovan at left as “Sunny” and Mickey Ryan at right as “Brooder.”
The pictures tell the story — although if you want the synopsis, it’s here.
I also had three scripts done in the U.K. version of the same festival; details on that here with a rehearsal photo from England here.
Umm, fishing for men, that is.
Uh, yeah . . .
And lest we not forget those behind the scenes — and out in the rain!
Poster for Canadian festival that’s producing two of my scripts
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on June 7, 2013
I have shows going on this weekend in three countries – the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
* In the U.S., the “Gone in 60 Seconds” Festival of one-minute plays is this weekend in New York, with my piece “Fishing for Men.”
* The U.K. version of that same festival is going on in Halifax, with three of my scripts: “This is the Captain Speaking, “Three Trees Talking” and “The Whole Wide World.” (You can see a rehearsal photo here.)
* Meanwhile, in Canada this weekend and next, I have two short pieces in “Asphalt Jungle Shorts,” an annual walking-tour festival in Waterloo, Ontario (near Kitchener) in which the audience is led around downtown and encounters live theatre at different spots. My two pieces are “Requiem for a Buzzard” and “Pandora and Shrodinger: What’s in the Box?”
Here’s the poster for the show. There”s also this mention in The Record, the Waterloo newspaper.
One of my short pieces included in festival of “subversive” works
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized on June 7, 2013
I guess I’m officially a subversive.
One of my short pieces has been accepted into this year’s “Subversive Shorts” show at the Subversive Theatre Collective in Buffalo, N.Y., a theatre whose motto is “Ten Years of Fightin’ the Man.”
My piece is “A Woman’s Word Versus A Machine,” a dark science-fiction piece in which I channel my inner feminist.
The festival is June 13-July 7, with different shows on alternating nights.
One of the other playwrights featured in the show is the acclaimed Rich Orloff, so I’m in quite good company.
This is the second time I’ve had my work included in the Subversive Shorts. In 2009, the theatre produced my ten-minute script “The Beautiful Ogre and Other Fairy Tales.”
Here are descriptions of both:
A WOMAN’S WORD VERSUS A MACHINE
A dark, serious piece about rape. A woman alleges she was assaulted by her household robot. But the company claims it was not a fault of product design. Cast: Two — one male, one female. Running time: Five minutes.
• Staged reading at No Shame Theatre, Roanoke, Va., spring 2012.
THE BEAUTIFUL OGRE AND OTHER FAIRY TALES
A father reads his daughter a fairy tale as a bedtime story — which the characters begin to act out. The girl doesn’t like how the story is going — no strong female role models, for instance — so she changes it all around. This is the result. Cast: Five — three males, two females. Running time: Eight minutes.
• Produced by the Paw Paw Village Players, Paw Paw, Michigan, Feb. 15-16, 22-23, 2008.
• Produced by Youth Education on Stage Summer Shorts, Williston, North Dakota, June 24-26, 2008.
• Produced by Subversive Theatre, Buffalo, N.Y., various nights between May 2-17, 2009.
• Produced by Play’n’Well Players, Plainview, Michigan, last weekend of May 2009.
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