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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.
Rehearsal photo from one of my scripts in the U.K. “Gone in 60 Seconds” Festival
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on May 31, 2013
Photo courtesy of Jan Ansell.
Here’s a photo from the rehearsal of my one-minute script “This Is The Captain Speaking,” one of three scripts of mine that will be produced in this year’s U.K. edition of the “Gone in 60 Seconds” Festival of one-minute plays.
You can find details on the scripts and the festival here.
Still photos from my short film, “The Secret Lives of Goldfish”
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized, Video on May 1, 2013
Chad stars as the goldfish in “The Secret Lives of Goldfish.”
I recently collaborated with Salem filmmaker Hank Ebert to create a short film for the annual “Bike Shorts” film competition. The main rule is, it has to feature a bicycle. I adapted my short script “The Secret Lives of Goldfish” (actually this is episode 6 in the series of short stage plays) for the project.
The main thing you need to know about “The Secret Lives of Goldfish” is that it involves a goldfish riding a bicycle — our riff on the line about “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”
I wrote the script; Hank Ebert was the director and videographer. Chad [last name withheld] and Kevin McAlexander are the two goldfish (although only Chad appears on camera; Kevin is there in a voiceover.) Hank’s wife, Marianne, made the goldfish suit; my wife, Trina, made the headpiece. We did the outdoor filming in March in Green Hill Park in Roanoke County, then finished up with voiceovers in the studio in April.
I’ve worked with Hank on two other short films — “My Kid Could Paint That” and a Sweded version of “Back to the Future” in a local competition. Both Chad and Kevin had key roles in that project, as well.
The films will be screened, and judged, on May 3, with the winner advancing on to national competition. I’ve held off posting still photos now, until after the entry deadline has passed, so here goes. Read the rest of this entry »
Photos: “The Ancient Texts of Love” at No Shame Theatre
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, No Shame Theatre, Photos, Uncategorized on February 19, 2013
The mystic ponders the ancient texts.
Here are some photos of Darlene Fedele and Todd Ristau doing a staged reading of my short script “The Ancient Texts of Love” at No Shame Theatre in Roanoke, Virginia on Feb. 15, 2013. It’s a three-minute (or so) piece in which a woman seeks help from a mystic to cure her love life.
Unfortunately, the ancient text he consults is “snips and snails and puppy dog tails.”
No Shame is a weekly open-mic venue for original performance; the Roanoke one is just one of many around the country.
The mystic advises that he needs escargot. “In the vernacular, snails.”
The mystic’s robe began its life as a Jedi costume at Halloween for my son.
Seattle radio station produces two of my scripts as radio plays
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Radio plays, Uncategorized on February 2, 2013
Caitlin Bancroft, Dave Matsui and Walter Lutsch of Falcon Radio Theatre in Seattle. They were the cast. Photo courtesy Falcon Radio Theatre.
A Seattle Internet radio station produced two of my scripts on January 31 in a radio theatre format.
KSPU — kspu.org — is affiliated with Seattle Pacific University. Each Thursday, the station produces Falcon Radio Theatre.
The folks behind the show came across my site, contacted me, and eventually settled on “Occupations,” a dark one-act about three siblings who each are trying to hide their true jobs from one another (mercenary, prostitute, thief), and “The Secret Lives of Goldfish: The Escape,” a light, bright five-minute piece.
I listened in on my home computer and, after fumbling a bit over which software to use, had the broadcast coming in loud and clear, all the way from Puget Sound to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Based on what the producers have told me, it sounds like there’s a good chance they’ll be producing some additional scripts of mine in the future.
Photos from “Deep Into October” at New York benefit
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on January 14, 2013
Mickey Ryan in Dwayne Yancey’s DEEP INTO OCTOBER directed by Rose Bonczek. photo by Faye Ellman. — at Cherry Lane Theatre.
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In December, two of my short baseball pieces were performed at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City in a benefit for Hurricane Sandy victims in The Rockaways section of Brooklyn.
Here are photos from one of those pieces, “Deep Into October.”
Mickey Ryan reprised his role from when this piece was originally performed in the Gone in 60 Seconds Festival in New York in 2011. You can find video of that performance here.
And here’s another photo of Mickey: Read the rest of this entry »
Photos from staged reading of “Klaus” by Hollins Playwright’s Lab
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on December 18, 2012
Curtain call for “Klaus.” From left: Martha Boswell, Brian O’Sullivan, Kevin McAlexander, Blair Peyton, Will Coleman, Drew Dowdy and Ross Laguzza. Behind them, barely visible, is stage manager Melissa Kennedy who, for purposes of this reading, was on the stage to provide sound effects much like a radio play.
The Hollins Playwright’s Lab put on a staged reading of “Klaus,” my Christmas play about the origin of Santa Claus on December 16, 2012 at the June M. McBroom Theatre at Community High School.
Here are some photos. The one above is from producer Todd Ristau; the back-and-white ones below are from MFA student Chad Runyon:
