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Photos from “Famous People Killed by Animals” at Michigan State
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on November 22, 2017
Here’s an odd little script of mine: FAMOUS PEOPLE KILLED BY ANIMALS. It’s an one-act about a suburban costume party in which each person comes dressed as, well, um, a famous person killed by an animal.
The characters:
* Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen and the host of the party.
* Jezebel, the Biblical harlot queen.
* Gallito, a famous Spanish bullfighter and the husband of Jezebel at this party.
* Aeschylus, the Greek playwright and the husband of Cleopatra at this party. He finds the whole thing ridiculous; he just wants to sit and watch football on TV.
Michigan State University produced the script in October 2017 and these photos from director Brandon Niemi look spectacular:
The party.
Gallito and Cleopatra.
Check out the snakes.
Oh, yeah, bad things happen.
You can find the full gallery of photos here.
Photos from “The Math Lesson” in Chicago
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on November 22, 2017
My 10-minute script THE MATH LESSON was one of two scripts of mine included in the Paragon festival by Otherworld Theatre in Chicago. Here are some photos.
THE MATH LESSON
A math teacher at a Martian school for girls teaches a forbidden subject – how to compute the rate of evaporation of the planet’s last, dying ocean. Cast: Five – one adult female, two non-gender adults, two teen-age girls.
From left to right, Helen (Elpis), Kathleen (chancellor), Jonathan (vice chancellor), Sara (Demi) and Laura (Phoebe).
Martian school girls.
More drama on Mars.
I also have a photo from my other script in the show, the one-act JOY TO OTHER WORLDS.
Cast photo from “Joy To Other Worlds” in Chicago
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on November 15, 2017
Joy To Other Worlds
Former Roanoke city manager Chris Morrill sends this photo of curtain call for JOY TO OTHER WORLDS, my one-act that was in the Paragaon science fiction festival by Otherworld Theatre in Chicago on Nov. 12, 2017.
“Putting The Fair In The Tooth Fairy” in Houston
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on November 7, 2017
Annie Wild as the key and Ty K. Fisher as the tooth fairy.
My short script PUTTING THE FAIR IN THE TOOTH FAIRY is in the annual Cone Man Running Festival at the Beacon Theatre in Houston. Here’s what it looks like.
PUTTING THE FAIR IN TOOTH FAIRY
A child who has just lost a tooth confronts the tooth fairy with a baseball bat — and finds the tooth fairy is a large, hairy man. The child wonders why he hasn’t gotten as much money for his teeth as other kids have. Cast: Three — 1 male, 1 female, 1 child. Running time: Five minutes.
* Staged reading at No Shame Theatre at Mill Mountain Theatre, Roanoke, Va. , November 2005.
* Staged reading at Attic Productions New Year’s Eve Party, Fincastle, Va., December 2005.
* Staged reading at The Best of No Shame Theatre at Mill Mountain Theatre, Roanoke, Va., March 2006.
* Produced by North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe, San Diego, California, October 2006.
* Performed at Kevin Jones Performing Arts Studio summer acting camp showcase, Roanoke, Va. July 14, 2007.
Photos from “The Rules Are The Rules Are The Rules” in Australia
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions on October 31, 2017
The cast.
Here are some photos from the Australian production of THE RULES ARE THE RULES ARE THE RULES, the one-act that Pop Culture Theatre of Melbourne produced this summer (winter to them) as an entry in the Victorian Drama League competition.
This is the second time that Pop Culture has produced one of my shows. In 2015, the group produced THE ONE-WORD MACBETH. (Video of that show here.)
THE RULES ARE THE RULES ARE THE RULES
A farce set on an airplane. A male passenger has apparently died, and the flight attendants carry him up to first class, telling other passengers he’s simply drunk. The chief flight attendant, though, insists they go by the book and perform CPR and mouth-to-mouth on the hapless victim until the plane lands. The other flight attendants devise ways to skirt those rules, with increasing hilarity. That hilarity hits its peak when it turns out the man isn’t dead, after all. Cast: Five — four female, one male. Running time: Thirty minutes.
* Produced by the Castle Players, Lytchett Matravers Village Hall, near Poole, England. Feb. 18-29, 2011.
* Produced by Pop Culture Theatre, Melbourne, Australia, July-September, 2017.
More of the cast.
Photos from “A Chicken Walked Into A Bar” in Ohio
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on September 22, 2017
The chicken.
The West Grandview Fringe Festival in Columbus, Ohio produced two of my short pieces in August 2017: MORAL COMPASS and A CHICKEN WALKED INTO A BAR . . .
You can guess which one these photos are from.
Yep, that’s a chicken.
Photos from “Death by Poinsettia” in Maryland
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on August 22, 2017
Silver Spring Stage in Silver Spring, Maryland (Washington suburbs) produced my one-act DEATH BY POINSETTIA August 18-20. Here are some photos.
A lonely woman tries to commit suicide at Christmas by eating a poinsettia, and broadcasting it via webcam.
She invited all her co-workers to a party, knowing they wouldn’t show up. But the nerdiest one did. He also knows something she doesn’t: Poinsettias aren’t really poisonous.
He also brought mistletoe. Love happens, reluctantly.
Theatre is that-a-way.
This was the third production of the script.
DEATH BY POINSETTIA
A lonely woman tries to kill herself at Christmas by eating a poinsettia, convinced the plant is poisonous. It’s not, though. A male co-worker shows up and a touching scene ensues. Cast: Two – one male, one female.
* Produced at Studio C, Hollywood, California, December 2015.
* Produced by Artists Exchange, Cranston, Rhode Island, August 2016.
* Produced by Silver Spring Stage, Silver Spring, Maryland, August 2017.
Photos from “Black Market Bombs” in India
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions on August 22, 2017
G.D. Birla Memorial School in Ranikhet, Amora, Uttarkhand, India produced three of my short plays June 29-30: THE FERRYMAN’S APPRENTICE, COPIER DEMON and BLACK MARKET BOMBS. Here are photos from BLACK MARKET BOMBS, which traces the path of a small nuclear weapon from Russia into the hands of a terrorist.
The businessman.
The middlemen.
Awesome fake tattoes!
More photos here.
Photos from “It’s Real To Me” in New Jersey
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on August 22, 2017
Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, New Jersey produced by one-act IT’S REAL TO ME June 1-4, 2017.
A doctor figures out a way to transplant memories with troublesome results.
The doctor comforts his daughter, who had a bad experience, which he transplanted into someone else’s brain.
Not everything goes well.
Curtain call.
You can find more photos here.
IT’S REAL TO ME
A doctor devises a way to transplant memories from one person to another. It’s a form of therapy, a way to give one person’s surplus happy memories to those who have suffer from depression or some traumatic incident. But when one woman gets a memory transplant to overcome her depression, something goes wrong. She wakes up with a memory of killing someone. It’s a repressed memory that the donor had given away. A dark, serious piece. Cast: Nine: Four female, one male, four non-gender. With option of adding a tenth, non-gender, character with two lines. Running time: 30 minutes.
* Produced at Bergen County Academies, Hackensack, New Jersey, June 1-4, 2017.
Photos from a show that never was
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on August 22, 2017
Glasstown Players in Wallaceburg, Ontario was supposed to produce my one-act THE RULES ARE THE RULES ARE THE RULES in June 2017. The group rehearsed the show, but then the show was postponed indefinitely, for reasons I’ve yet to learn. However, the players did send me these rehearsal photos.
An airplane passenger appears to be dead, and flight attendants try to figure out what to do with the body.
You can find more awesome photos here.
This would have been the second production of the script. Instead, Pop Culture Theatre in Melbourne, Australia got that honor. Maybe this will be the third.
THE RULES ARE THE RULES ARE THE RULES
A farce set on an airplane. A male passenger has apparently died, and the flight attendants carry him up to first class, telling other passengers he’s simply drunk. The chief flight attendant, though, insists they go by the book and perform CPR and mouth-to-mouth on the hapless victim until the plane lands. The other flight attendants devise ways to skirt those rules, with increasing hilarity. That hilarity hits its peak when it turns out the man isn’t dead, after all. Cast: Five — four female, one male. Running time: Thirty minutes.
* Produced by the Castle Players, Lytchett Matravers Village Hall, near Poole, England. Feb. 18-29, 2011.
* Produced by Pop Culture Theatre, Melbourne, Australia, July-September, 2017.
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