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Video: ‘As Asian As Apple Pie’ in New York festival
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized, Video on November 30, 2020
My very short monologue AS ASIAN AS APPLE PIE was included in The Faces of America monologue festival by The Playground Experiment in New York on Nov. 21. Here’s the whole show:
Review of ‘A Dickens of a Christmas’
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Reviews, Uncategorized on November 18, 2020
The New Zealand playwright Rex McGregor has left this lovely review on the New Play Exchange for my Christmas full-length A DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS:
“A delightful script with likable characters, witty dialogue and a twist I didn’t see coming.”
A DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS
Two orphan girls in Victorian London desperately want a proper Christmas dinner. At first, they conspire to sneak into a private club and pass themselves off as men. Their plans are frustrated by a retired military man, and two fellow orphans. That’s when they devise another plan that involves the mean old rich woman at the end of the street. Cast: Six – three male, three female.
Here’s a video of a virtual reading of the script in September 2020.
Photos from ‘Red Moon Rising in the East’ in Norfolk
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on November 11, 2020
Sergei talks about the first time he saw an airplane.
Little Theatre of Norfolk has produced my one-man play about the father of the Soviet space program as a virtual show. The theatre staged the show without an audience, filmed it, and has posted it online through the platform ShowTix4U. Here’s Brian Cebrian as Sergei Korolev. This marks the fifth production of the show — at the moment, it’s my most-produced full-length show.
Showing off the design for the N1 moon rocket.
Watching the launch of the first Sputnik.
Video: Reading of ‘Freeda’s Fascination With Fire’
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Uncategorized, Video on October 18, 2020
My newest full-length play is the comedy FREEDA’S FASCINATION WITH FIRE. On Oct. 17, I held a Zoom reading with an international cast (and a small audience that included former U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, a big fan of live theatre).
FREEDA’S FASCINATION WITH FIRE
A teenage pyromaniac in Texas is sentenced to an unusual community service punishment: To serve as fire baton twirler for a high school that doesn’t have a football team but needs a halftime show. Comedy ensues. Cast: Eight – five female, three male.
The cast:
Stage directions: Charlie Boswell (Roanoke, Va.)
Freeda: Emily Solomon (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Miss Battleaxe: Alyson Bates (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Ramona: Martha Boswell (Roanoke, Va.)
Judge Hardhammer: Brian Otto (Waterloo, Ontario)
Cee Cee: Sally Miller (Roanoke, Virginia)
Dee Dee: Emily Bolyea-Kyere (Hamilton, Ontario)
Fast Eddie: Stephen Baltz (Christiansburg, Virginia)
Slowhand Sam: Mason Micevski (Hamilton, Ontario)
‘The Weird Sisters Go Rogue’ in Georgia
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized, Video on October 17, 2020
In August, I wrote the short play THE WEIRD SISTERS GO ROGUE as play of a 22-hour play festival through the Honestly Speaking theatre group in Washington (although it didn’t get produced until September). Now it’s gone on to a second life in a virtual production by the Pumphouse Players in Carterville, Georgia. Here are some screenshots of the three actresses playing the witches from Macbeth.
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Video: ‘Bolivia!’ in London
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized, Video on October 16, 2020
My short monologue BOLIVIA! is getting a lot of traction in virtual festivals in this year of the pandemic. So far, it’s been performed in festivals in New York, Missouri and now this festival out of London by a group called The Queens of Cups. Here’s the video — BOLIVIA! is the third one in the order. It was performed by Georgia Goodman who was featured in a Super Bowl ad in 2017.
Video reading of ‘A Dickens of a Christmas’
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Uncategorized, Video on September 27, 2020
Here’s a video reading of my new Christmas play, A DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS, performed by an international cast with an international audience.
Rose: Kira Simmons (Chantilly, Virginia)
Lily: Irene Kenney (Memphis, Tennessee, but logging in from Nashville)
Colonel Brampton: Charlie Boswell (Roanoke, Virginia)
Toby: Stephen Baltz (Christiansburg, Virginia)
Percy: Mason Micevski (Hamilton, Ontario)
Lady Crumblebum: Martha Boswell (Roanoke, Virginia)
Stage directions: Emily Bolyea-Kyere (Hamilton, Ontario)
Our audience included former Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Roanoke (and his wife, Maryellen, both fans of live theatre) and from Auckland, New Zealand, playwright Rex McGregor. Theatre is a small world: Rex and I both had pieces in a monologue festival out of New York earlier this summer. Irene was one of the actresses we saw in that festival — and since then we’ve both recruited her for projects.
A DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS
Two orphan girls in Victorian London desperately want a proper Christmas dinner. At first, they conspire to sneak into a private club and pass themselves off as men. Their plans are frustrated by a retired military man, and two fellow orphans. That’s when they devise another plan that involves the mean old rich woman at the end of the street. Cast: Six – three male, three female.
Video: ‘The Armadillo Queen’ in Colorado
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Video on September 26, 2020
Fountain Community Theater in Fountain, Colorado produced my full-length script THE ARMADILLO QUEEN in June 2020 — as an outdoor show to allow for social distancing during the pandemic. Here’s the video. The production was notable because the female characters of Cee Cee and Dee Dee were played by men.
Mrs. Battleaxe: Alyson Bates
Gypsy Jane: Chalica Pack
Charlie: Kaleb Rodriguez
Sara: Emily Solomon
Dee Dee: Justin Frizzell
Cee Cee: Cory Rothermal
Coach:Robert Robinson
Stage crew: Zachariah Werner
Lighting: Cory Rothermal
This was the premiere production of the show — which previously had a staged reading at Renaissance Theatre in Lynchburg, Virginia in 2016. The script will soon be published by Norman Maine / Big Dog Plays. Still photos from the production are here.
Video: ‘Bolivia!’ in Missouri
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Video on September 16, 2020
Talking Horse Productions in Columbia, Missouri is posting a monologue a day for the month of September and asking people to “vote” for their favorite by making a donation here: https://paypal.me/TalkingHorse?locale.x=en_US (It’s a fund-raiser for the theatre). Here’s their video production of my short piece, BOLIVIA!, performed by Sarah Jost.
Video: ‘The Weird Sisters Go Rogue’ in Washington, D.C.
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Video on September 15, 2020
In August, I signed up for an overnight play festival through Honestly Speaking, a theatre group in Washington, D.C. The theme: “It was a dark and stormy night.” Had to incorporate a roll of paper towels. I drew a cast of three teen-age girls. To me that meant just one thing: The Weird Sisters from Macbeth.
So I wrote THE WEIRD SISTERS GO ROGUE.
Some of the cast were no-shows for rehearsals, so performance of my piece got bumped to September 12 — so still a 24-hour (more like 22 hour) play festival, just with a big intermission!
