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Cast photo from “On the Thirteeth Day of Christmas”
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on December 19, 2013
Here’s a photo from “On the Thirteenth Day of Christmas,” which was produced this month at Santiam High School in Mill City, Oregon.
This was the first production of this script, and the sixth full-length script I’ve had produced.
MORE ON THE SHOW
* Director calls “On the Thirteenth Day of Christmas” a “true gem.”
* About “On the Thirteenth Day of Christmas.”
“Requiem for a Buzzard” is reprised in Ontario
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on September 27, 2013
Photo by Paddy Gillard-Bentley
My short piece “Requiem for a Buzzard” was produced this summer in Kitchener, Ontario as part of the Asphalt Jungle series. It’s an annual festival of outdoor theatre, in which the audience is taken on a walk around downtown and encounters short pieces of theatre at various venues.
The group is now holding a 10th anniversary festival — a “best of” its first decade, and I was honored to have “Requiem for a Buzzard” included. Artistic Director Paddy Gillard-Bentley shares this photo of the audience as it assembles at the staging point for my piece.
MORE ON THE BUZZARD PIECE:
* Photos from the June production
* Poster for the June production
REQUIEM FOR A BUZZARD
What do buzzards do when one of their own becomes roadkill? They say a few words of remembrance, then they eat him. Cast: Three, non-gender, but perhaps best as two male, one female.
This is one of many short pieces I have which are available royalty-free.
UPDATED: Here are some more photos from Paddy of the actual performance:
Video: “Thirty Years of Bitterness on the Tongue” at Liminal
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in Photos, Uncategorized, Video on September 27, 2013
Mike Allen and Heather Brush
The Liminal alternative artspace in Roanoke holds a regular reading series. The theme for this month was the Equinox, for which anything autumnal would do, we were told. Almost everybody else brought pieces about the fall and the changes of seasons.
I brought a piece about football. A very loud piece, in which Mike Allen played a high school football coach and Heather Brush was the school principal.
Here’s a photo from “Thirty Years of Bitterness On The Tongue.”
THIRTY YEARS OF BITTERNESS ON THE TONGUE
A coach attempts to motivate his high school players by making them drink vinegar — to know what the taste of defeat is like. Cast: One male, one non-gender. Running time: Five minutes.
* Staged reading at No Shame Theatre, Roanoke, Va., Sept. 4, 2010.
* Staged reading at Liminal alternative artspace, Roanoke, Va. Sept. 23, 2013.
UPDATED: And now here’s the video from the event:
Poster from “Virginia’s Real” at Cobb County Playhouse
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on September 24, 2013
I’m not sure how I overlooked this earlier, but this was the poster for my full-length script “Virginia’s Real,” which played at the Cobb County Playhouse in suburban Atlanta in 2006.
VIRGINIA’S REAL
A Southern family is divided over what to do with the family farm when the patriarch retires. The drama focuses on the farmer’s youngest daughter, a waitress and single mom named Virginia, who is eager to subdivide the farm as a way to make her fortune. Her goal is complicated by the prospect
of a new highway going through the neighborhood – and the discovery of Civil War artifacts on the site. The story deals with a variety of universal themes, but also many topical references, from urbanization of rural areas, the preservation of historical sites, and NASCAR. Cast : 11 – 4 adult
females, 3 adult males, 4 female children (two teens, two pre-teens), and one off-stage voice which can be either male or female. Set requirements:
Minimal, although at various points you’ll need to create some aspects of a kitchen and a diner.
* Finalist, Shenandoah International Playwrights, Staunton, Va., 2004.
* Produced by Cobb Playhouse, Acworth, Ga., July 2006.
Poster for “Sweets to the Sweet” in Chicago
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on August 28, 2013
Here’s the post that the Gorilla Tango Theatre in Skokie, Illinois (Chicago ‘burbs!) is using for my show “Sweets to the Sweet.” This is a modern version of Hamlet, with a gender-reversed cast — so Hamlet becomes Hamlette, Ophelia becomes Phil and so forth.
Alas, in converting this from a pdf to a jpeg, the photo lost a lot of quality. I assure you the original is quite spectacular, with a woman’s pensive eyes looking out . . . presumably Hamlette herself.
Here’s a link to the PDF to see the better version . . .
“Fishing for Men” made into a short film in New York
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized, Video on August 10, 2013
Anthony Ponzio and Galyn Clarkson-Farrell.
In June, my short (and dark) piece “Fishing For Men” was performed in the annual Gone in 60 Seconds Festival of one-minute plays in New York. (You can find performance photos here.)
Producer Rose Bonczek asked if it would be OK if she had the piece turned into a short film to enter in the MSN/New York Television Festival Short Form Storytellers Challenge.
Naturally, I said “yes.”
Here’s the result. Well, sort of. I haven’t seen the actual video yet, but Rose shares these photos from the shooting: Read the rest of this entry »
Newspaper coverage of my one-act “Follow The Money”
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Reviews, Uncategorized on July 26, 2013
The festival was the cover story of the Martinsburg Journal’s entertainment section, with a photo from my show as the main image.
My one-act about a kid who kidnaps the tooth fairy to find out where the money comes from — “Follow the Money: A Modern-Day Fairy Tale” — took first place in the New Voice Play Festival in Charles Town, West Virginia. (More on that here.)
The entire festival got nice press coverage from the local daily newspaper, the Journal in Martinsburg.
When I was in Charles Town for the festival, I saw some copies lying around but they were no longer available on the newsstand, so I ordered some — and here they are.
You’ll see it was a photo from my play that graced the cover of the paper’s weekly entertainment tab (above.)
And below is the two-page spread (a doubletruck, in newspaper language) on the festival: Read the rest of this entry »
“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 »
