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Photo from ‘The Ring’ in Geneva, New York
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on May 4, 2019
Staged reading of THE RING
Here’s a photo of the staged reading of my one-act THE RING at Geneva Theatre Guild in Geneva, New York in April 2019. That same script is also having a staged reading in Louisiana in both April and May.
THE RING
Sixty years after a close call in a state championship girls basketball game, the star of the losing team still can’t reconcile herself to losing — so she breaks into the home of the star player on the winning team, hoping to steal her championship ring. A poignant story about regrets and sportsmanship. Cast: Two senior females.
* Produced by Haylofters, Burlington, Wisconsin, May 2014; took second place in audience vote at one-act festival.
* Staged reading by Readers Repertory Theatre at San Pedro, Los Angeles, February 2015.
* Staged reading by Geneva Theatre Guild, Geneva, New York, April 26-28, 2019.
* Staged reading by The Itinerant Theatre, Lake Charles, Louisiana, April 27-28, May 3-4, May 24-26, 2019.
Now produced in 13 countries
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized on May 4, 2019
This month (May 2019), my ten-minute play CHEF PIERRE DOES NOT DO SIMPLE is being produced in Kaiserslautern, Germany by KMC Onstage Studio Shows (which is affiliated with the U.S. Army; I believe this is at an Army base there).
This makes the 13th country in which my work has been produced.
The full list, in alphabetical order:
1. Australia (including one full-length script)
2. Cameroon
3. Canada
4. Germany
5. Great Britain
6. India
7. Ireland
8. New Zealand
9. The Philippines
10. Singapore
11. South Africa
12. South Korea
13. The United States (including seven full-length scripts)
Rehearsal photos from ‘Veronica’s Dolls’ in Texas
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on April 26, 2019
Paris Junior College in Paris, Texas is producing my short one-act VERONICA’S DOLLS, along with five other scripts of mine (!). VERONICA’S DOLLS involves some dolls coming to life to rescue their now-teenage owner, who has overdosed in a suicide attempt. One of the dolls uses the girl’s cellphone to call 911. If you’re using humans to play dolls, then you need a phone scaled accordingly. And director Lisa Martin has created one!
The phone!
The toy box!
‘Extracted’ is semi-finalist in Austin competition
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Reviews, Uncategorized on April 25, 2019
I’m there!
My play EXTRACTED was a semi-finalist in the Southwest Theatre Productions competition in Austin, Texas. Six plays were finalists, so in theory my play could have finished as high as seventh. This marks the second time this play has gotten some recognition (just no productions yet). Earlier a theatre in New York passed on the script but sent word that “We quite enjoyed the play’s precise comic sensibility and symbolic meditation on contemporary America.”
Here’s the synopsis of the show:
EXTRACTED
A dark allegorical tale about modern politics and immigration. An American truck driver sleeping in his cab at a truckstop in southern California is awoken by two teenage girls, Sam and Libby. He thinks they’re truckstop prostitutes and tries to run them away. Instead, the one explains that she has rescued her sister from drug gangs in Los Angeles and is trying to take her home to safety in New York. The rescued sister is our allegorical Statue of Liberty. In fact, she has not been rescued; she has been drugged against her will, for reciting — and practicing — the poem at the statue’s base: “give me your tired, your poor . . . ” As the roadtrip across North American unfolds, we see that the older sister is not, in fact, a protector and rescuer, but rather her kidnapper, who is trying to brainwash her. Along the way, the keep running into another truck driver, who is taking the same route across the country, and a mysterious woman. In the climactic scene, Sam has hired a tattoo artist to blot out “The New Colossus” poem that Libby has tattooed on her. Just then the two mystery figures burst in — revealing themselves to be special agents for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who are mounting a hostage rescue and extraction to take Libby to safety in Canada. They are joined by a Mexican intelligence agent, as well, who they had previously met along the way at a truckstop. Cast: Eight — Five female (including who can pass for teens, and one Latina adult), three male.
Poster for ‘The Ring’ in New York
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on April 18, 2019
Top billing!
My one-act THE RING will have a staged reading April 26-28, 2019 at the Geneva Theatre Guild in Geneva, New York. Here’s the poster. Top billing!
Half the shows in this festival are mine
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized on March 6, 2019
Festival logo
Usually I don’t brag about individual acceptances unless they’re REALLY big. This one is really big. In April, Paris Junior College in Paris, Texas will hold a festival of 12 short plays. Exactly half of those are mine.
The scripts getting produced are DEANNA DUPES THE DEVIL, THE FERRYMAN AND THE THIEF, LETTERS FROM THE MONA LISA, MY SUMMER AS A MERMAID, THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS and VERONICA’S DOLLS. You can find a complete list of my 2019 productions here.
Book now for ‘Red Moon Rising in The East’
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in Other, Productions, Uncategorized on February 19, 2019
Red Moon Rising in the East – Press Release
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. We typically hear the story of the space race from the American side. There was, however, another side – the Russian side. My play RED MOON RISING IN THE EAST is a one-man show based on the true story of Sergei Korolev, the father of Soviet space program. The script has been produced four times before previously and earned good review. A magazine in Duluth, Minnesota called it a “tour de force” and “masterful story-telling.”
I have lined up Roanoke actor Gary Reid, who has recently been touring his own one-man show, “A Life of Sorrow,” based on bluegrass musician Carter Stanley. We are now in the process of trying to book enough shows this summer to make the project viable. Here’s our flyer.
Rehearsal photos from ‘The One-Word Odyssey’
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on February 2, 2019
Director Tyler Olsen-Highness shares these rehearsal photos from THE ONE-WORD ODYSSEY at Great River School in St. Paul, Minnesota. The show was supposed to be Feb. 1-2 but the polar vortex has pushed it to Feb. 8-9.
Odysseus himself?
Holding up the storm.
Something’s happening here but I don’t know what it is.
And then there’s this.
THE ONE-WORD ODYSSEY
The story of the Odyssey, more or less, in which each line consists of just a single word. Ideal for a class project. Includes monsters and a talking hamburger. Cast: As few as 18 — 9 males, 3 females, 6 non-gender — or as many as 33 — 17 males, 7 females, 9 non-gender. Running time: One hour.
Review for ‘The One-Word Christmas Carol’
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Reviews, Uncategorized on January 5, 2019
Here’s a review for my short Christmas play THE ONE-WORD CHRISTMAS CAROL that was posted on the New Play Exchange:
“If you haven’t partaken of Yancey’s one-word classics, they are a treat and this is a good place to start. Dickens himself would be proud. I particularly liked this glimpse into Belle’s family, and of course Scrooge’s back and forth with the Christmas ghosts always delight. Yancey makes it look deceptively easy but don’t be fooled, it’s HARD selecting the exactly right single word at a time to convey the spirit of a timeless story, move the plot forward and still have the entire project feel fresh and vibrant. Yancey is just the man for the undertaking.”
— Matthew Weaver
THE ONE-WORD CHRISTMAS CAROL
The traditional Christmas Carol story, more or less, told with each actor speaking a line of just a single word. Cast: Can be done with as few as six, or expanded larger, if you desire. With six, 4 male, 1 female, 1 non-gender. Feel free, of course, to use non-traditional casting.
2018: 72 productions and 7 readings in 6 countries
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized on December 31, 2018
UPDATED! In 2018: I had at least 72 productions and 7 staged readings in 5 countries: Australia, Cameroon, Canada, China (Hong Kong), Great Britain and the United States. That’s a record number of productions and included my first international production of a full-length script (in Australia) and my first production in Cameroon (of a one-act). That number of productions may rise because one of my publishers is always very slow in reporting.
Most of those were shorts, but that list did include two productions of full-length scripts — THIS ROSE HAS THORNS by BustCo in Melbourne, Australia and ON THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS by Fountain Community Theater in Fountain, Colorado. That, by the way, was the third production of that script. I also had one staged reading of a full-length: REVENGE OF THE FAIRY QUEEN at the Bower Center in Bedford, Virginia.
Other milestones: My most frequently-produced script is the one-act THE FRUITCAKE, published through Brooklyn Publishers. The script had its 51st and 52nd productions in 2018 and has a 53rd scheduled for early 2019.
My most frequently-produced script in 2018 was the short play THE CELLPHONES OF THE DEAD, which was produced at least seven times (and maybe more) because it was included in a collection of gun-related plays which got a lot of productions in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
You can see the complete list of my 2018 productions here and an up-to-date list of my 2019 productions here.
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