Archive for category News
“Just Another Day At The Office” wins a prize
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Reviews, Uncategorized on July 14, 2018
An unexpected award.
An unexpected surprise arrived in the mail recently: My one-act play JUST ANOTHER DAY AT THE OFFICE won top honors at an April festival of staged readings in Middleburg, Virginia sponsored by Shakespeare In The Burg.
Here’s video of the actual reading.
Praise for “The Face on Mars” in London
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Reviews on July 11, 2018
In May, Horatio Theatre in London, UK produced my short play THE FACE ON MARS as part of a three-day festival of short science fiction plays. Here’s a note from the producer:
“Courtney Larkin tackled the bottomless depths of Dwayne Yancey’s imaginative and sharp script, and made it into a clean, dry, and twisted piece of wonderful stagecraft. It was uncomfortably funny, and it perfectly mirrored many of the things we hate about the world around us. The twist, unexpected as it was, was sold to perfection by Lindsey Huebner and Martin Lomas. After watching them, I really want to know more about that martian civilisation, that society that disappeared millions of years before we even existed.”
The script was previously produced in Connecticut. No photos from London but do have some from Connecticut.
Nine short plays produced in Maryland
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on June 22, 2018
“A Vampire Soap Opera”
“A Vampire Soap Opera”
“Damsel Not in Distress”
“Damsel Not in Distress”
Radcliffe Creek School in Chestertown, Maryland produced nine of my short plays in May — two ten-minute scripts and seven that run about five minutes. Of note: One of those 10-minute plays is “A Vampire Soap Opera,” which I wrote in 2010 as part of the annual 24-hour play festival Overnight Sensations in Roanoke, Virginia produced by Hollins University and Mill Mountain Theatre. I’ve participated in maybe a half dozen of those festivals; each time I try to write a script that I think will have a life beyond that particular festival. This, though, is the first time I’ve actually had one of those scripts go on to a second life.
More photos below.
“Sometimes Elephants Die Standing Up” in Peeskill, New York
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on June 8, 2018
Peeskill High School in Peeskill, New York produced my 10-minute play SOMETIMES ELEPHANTS DIE STANDING UP on June 4, 2018. Terry Sandler shares these photos.
Two circus workers try to monetize a dead elephant.
Hilarity ensues.
More photos below. Read the rest of this entry »
Video from the 2018 Gone in 60 Seconds Festival in Leeds, UK
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Video on June 8, 2018
I had two pieces in the 2018 edition of the Gone in 60 Seconds Festival of one-minute plays in Leeds, Great Britain: THREE POSSUMS AT THE BAR and MERMING. The former comes up at the 42:41 mark, the latter at 57:35.
Video from the 2017 Gone in 60 Seconds Festival, the UK edition
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized, Video on June 8, 2018
I had three pieces in the 2017 edition of the Gone in 60 Seconds Festival of one-minute plays in Leeds, Great Britain: TWO SQUIRRELS ON A POWERLINE, NOBODY EVER ASKS ME and THE SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT.
Here, at last, is the video from that show.
You can find photos from my three pieces here.
Poster from “Gone in 60 Seconds Festival” in Leeds, UK
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on May 25, 2018
My name is on a show poster in the UK! I have three scripts in this year’s edition of the Gone in 60 Seconds festival of one-minute plays — two in the UK edition on May 31 and one in the New York version June 7-9. Here’s the poster for the UK show in Leeds. My shows there are MERMING and THREE POSSUMS AT A BAR. The US festival will include PICKING UP STARS.
My name in lights! Well, sorta. Ink!
Poster from “Curiosity Killed The Cat” in Moose Jaw
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on May 25, 2018
Moose Jaw!
My one-act CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT will be produced May 28 by RuBarb School of Performing Arts in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Here’s the poster.
It was previously produced in Clarksville, Texas in 2017 and Fincastle, Virginia in 2012. Photos from Texas here and Virginia here.
Photo from “The Angel Tree” in Hollywood
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized on May 25, 2018
Stacy Ann Raposa of Actors Workout Studio in North Hollywood, California shares this photo from my one-act THE ANGEL TREE, one of three of my scripts that were produced there in December 2017.
Photo courtesy of Stacy Ann Raposa
MORE PHOTOS:
And here’s a photo from when the show was done at Showtimers in Roanoke, Virginia in 2014.
Photos from “The Monkey At the Wedding” in Texas
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on May 16, 2018
Louis Antonelli shares these photos from the recent production of my one-act THE MONKEY AT THE WEDDING by Red River Revue in Clarksville, Texas in early May.
Yes, the monkey really is a character.
Biker dude and dudette.
More photos here.
This script was previously produced at a high school in Massachusetts in 2015 where it won four awards.
THE MONKEY AT THE WEDDING
A wedding goes afoul when the ringbearer — a monkey — swallows the ring. Chaos, and comedy, ensues. Features a motorcycle gang, and someone in a monkey suit. Cast: 12 or 13 — 5 male, 5 or 6 female, 2 non-gender. Running time: 30 minutes
