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Week 3 of ‘Exchange of Gifts touring show
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on December 27, 2019
My first self-produced show is now history. The Christmas show EXCHANGE OF GIFTS played nine shows in different different locations up and down western Virginia in December 2019. Here are photos from week 3 — which saw the show in Bedford at the Bower Center for the Arts, in Axton at Mountain Valley Brewing and the finale in Lynchburg at Riverviews Artspace. Next up: EXCHANGE OF GIFTS will be published in 2020 by Norman Maine / Big Dog Plays.
In Bedford: Svetlana shows Tilly what she’s found.
Axton: A very intimate space, and a dog in the audience.
Lynchburg: Stuck in the airport one last time.
MORE ON EXCHANGE OF GIFTS:
* Photos from week 2 in Critz, Monterey and Clifton Forge
* Photos from week 1 in Roanoke, Galax and Blacksburg
* Interview with Alleghany Mountain Radio
* Full tour schedule and ticket info.
* Behind the scenes of the publicity photos.
* Rehearsals begin
Week 2 of ‘Exchange of Gifts’ touring show
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on December 17, 2019
On weekend 2, my self-producing touring Christmas show EXCHANGE OF GIFTS was in Critz at the Reynolds Homestead on Dec. 13, in Monterey at the Highland Center on Dec. 14 and in Clifton Forge at the Masonic Theatre on Dec. 15. Good crowds in all, but Monterey — the smallest town on our 9-date tour — had the biggest crowd of all!
Stuck in the airport — at Reynolds Homestead in Critz.
What’s up, doc? In Monterey.
Svetlana demonstrate how a roller coaster works — in Clifton Forge.
MORE ON EXCHANGE OF GIFTS:
* Photos from week 1 in Roanoke, Galax and Blacksburg
* Interview with Alleghany Mountain Radio
* Full tour schedule and ticket info.
* Behind the scenes of the publicity photos.
* Rehearsals begin
Photos from ‘God and the Devil Meet for a Business Lunch’ in California
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on December 17, 2019
My 10-minute play GOD AND THE DEVIL MEET FOR A BUSINESS LUNCH was produced Dec. 13-14 at American River College in Sacramento, California, directed by Zachariah Mejia.
God, the waitress, the devil. Or so I assume!
Definitely no waitress here.
Pretty sure that’s the devil on the left.
MORE FROM THE GOD AND THE DEVIL SERIES . . .
Want to see more?
* Here’s video of a group in Sacramento, California doing the same piece in 2005.
* Here’s audio from when Falcon Radio Theatre in Seattle did the script in 2013.
* Video: “God and the Devil Settle a Contract Dispute”
* Video: “God and the Devil Debate The Issues”
* GOD AND THE DEVIL MEET FOR A BUSINESS LUNCH by the Lake Players, Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia, 2014.
‘Your play is terrific!”
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Reviews, Uncategorized on December 12, 2019
Fellow playwright Melinda Gros recently attended the Quannapowitt Players Suburban Holidays festival in Reading, Massachusetts where my one-act THE GIRL WHO MADE EMUS BELIEVE THEY COULD FLY was produced Nov. 29-30, Dec. 1, 5-7, 2019. She sends this happy message:
“I saw the production this weekend – the company did a very nice job – and your play is terrific! I don’t know much about emus, but the actors made them very avian and hysterical, especially the ballet-dancing emu. Congrats!”
Poster for ‘A Zombie Christmas’ in Richmond, Virginia
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized on December 12, 2019
Chesterfield Children’s Theatre in suburban Richmond, Virginia will present my 10-minute piece A ZOMBIE CHRISTMAS on Dec. 13, 2019 as part of several other works. Here are the promotional images. The show, by the way, is sold out.
World premiere of ‘Rhonda’s High-Class Roadkill Chili’
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on December 4, 2019
My full-length script RHONDA’S HIGH-CLASS ROADKILL CHILI had its world premiere Nov. 22-23 at Salt Fork High School in Catlin, Illinois. It’s the ninth full-length script I’ve had produced. Director Lauren Hous shares these photos. She writes: “The script is funny and endearing and the kids loved it.” The show first came to life in a staged reading at Showtimers in 2016 and then was published earlier this year by Norman Maine / Big Dog Plays. Rights info here.
51Hunter and his map.
Zeke and 51Hunter meet.
Pay no attention to the woman with the sledgehammer.
The piece de resistance.
Interview with Alleghany Mountain Radio
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Uncategorized on December 4, 2019
Alleghany Mountain Radio
Scott Smith of Alleghany Mountain Radio — a network of six stations along the Virginia-West Virginia border — did an interview with me about EXCHANGE OF GIFTS, the touring Christmas show that opens Dec. 6 (and comes to Monterey in his listening area on Dec. 14).
Kaiya Hoagland (left) and Lyndsey Hanks (right) rehearse a scene.
MORE ON EXCHANGE OF GIFTS:
* Full tour schedule and ticket info.
* Behind the scenes of the publicity photos.
* Rehearsals begin
Photos from reading of ‘Extracted’ in New York
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on November 28, 2019
Equity Library Theater of New York hosted a reading of my full-length play EXTRACTED in New York on Nov. 16. The reading was directed by Alexandra Scordato. Actor Paul Weissman paid me what I thought was the ultimate compliment: When he met me, he said he was surprised. He said he assumed that, based on the hip dialogue, the writer was in his early 30s. I’ll take that anyday! Next up: Revisions!
For more photos, see here.
it was hard to get the whole cast in the same photo. From left: Erika DeGraff (Myth America); Esh Red (Dominique; she’s seated so hard to see here), Victoria Marliny (Esmerelda), Amina Theis (Sam), Kimberly Rios (Libby), Matt McGlade (Joe), Paul Weissman (Gordon), Brandon Bogle (Tiny).
Here’s a better view of Esh Red, who played Dominique. She’s at left, casting an eye on Sam and Libby.
More photos (and commentary) below: Read the rest of this entry »
Photos from ‘The Debate At Bosworth Field’
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on November 7, 2019
In August my 10-minute play THE DEBATE AT BOSWORTH FIELD was produced in Manchester, Great Britain — not all that far from the actual Bosworth Field — as part of the Fight Like a Girl festival (a fund-raiser for cancer research). Now, at last, here are some wonderful photos from Shay Rowan of my piece.
Richard III in a modern campaign-style debate.
Journalism is hard in any era.
The full gallery is here.
Review for “The Math Lesson’
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Reviews, Uncategorized on October 24, 2019
My 10-minute play THE MATH LESSON got a nice review from New York playwright Scott Sickles on the New Play Exchange:
“An elegant and concise sci-fi drama illustrating what’s at the root of everything wrong in the world, namely institutionalized ignorance. Yancey shows us a savvily-defiant teacher called to task over a subversive math problem. The power struggle is palpable and infuriating. Meanwhile, two normal girls simply observe the changes in the world around them, unaware that their planet is in a show but certain freefall. The play infuses doom with hope, and pays tribute to the beauty of their world and ours. Much like the math teacher, THE MATH LESSON is a sublime protest. A genuinely important short play!”
— Scott Sickles
Here are photos from a 2017 production in Chicago.
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