Rehearsal for Overnight Sensations 2018
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on July 14, 2018
So, here’s how rehearsal for this year’s 24-hour play project at Mill Mountain Theatre played out.
Saturday, 8 a.m. The writers and directors meet in the green room at Mill Mountain Theatre. My director, Bob Moss, is at right.
With six shows, rehearsal space is at a premium. Our group gathered in the Harrison Museum of African-American History. From left: Michael Mansfield, director Bob Moss, Chris Shepard, J.P. Powell, Ally Thomas, Erica Muyst and Reilly Lincavicks.
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My 7th 24-hour play festival
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on July 14, 2018
For the 7th time, I was a writer in OVERNIGHT SENSATIONS, the annual 24-hour play project sponsored by Mill Mountain Theatre and the Hollins University Playwrights’ Lab. I’ve been invited a few other times but had schedule conflicts.
Here are some photos to show how the process unfolds.
First, the gear. I always wear the jester’s hat. This year, I added two hats I picked up on my April trip to Australia.
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“Just Another Day At The Office” wins a prize
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Reviews, Uncategorized on July 14, 2018
An unexpected award.
An unexpected surprise arrived in the mail recently: My one-act play JUST ANOTHER DAY AT THE OFFICE won top honors at an April festival of staged readings in Middleburg, Virginia sponsored by Shakespeare In The Burg.
Here’s video of the actual reading.
Praise for “The Face on Mars” in London
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Reviews on July 11, 2018
In May, Horatio Theatre in London, UK produced my short play THE FACE ON MARS as part of a three-day festival of short science fiction plays. Here’s a note from the producer:
“Courtney Larkin tackled the bottomless depths of Dwayne Yancey’s imaginative and sharp script, and made it into a clean, dry, and twisted piece of wonderful stagecraft. It was uncomfortably funny, and it perfectly mirrored many of the things we hate about the world around us. The twist, unexpected as it was, was sold to perfection by Lindsey Huebner and Martin Lomas. After watching them, I really want to know more about that martian civilisation, that society that disappeared millions of years before we even existed.”
The script was previously produced in Connecticut. No photos from London but do have some from Connecticut.
Nine short plays produced in Maryland
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on June 22, 2018
“A Vampire Soap Opera”
“A Vampire Soap Opera”
“Damsel Not in Distress”
“Damsel Not in Distress”
Radcliffe Creek School in Chestertown, Maryland produced nine of my short plays in May — two ten-minute scripts and seven that run about five minutes. Of note: One of those 10-minute plays is “A Vampire Soap Opera,” which I wrote in 2010 as part of the annual 24-hour play festival Overnight Sensations in Roanoke, Virginia produced by Hollins University and Mill Mountain Theatre. I’ve participated in maybe a half dozen of those festivals; each time I try to write a script that I think will have a life beyond that particular festival. This, though, is the first time I’ve actually had one of those scripts go on to a second life.
More photos below.
“Sometimes Elephants Die Standing Up” in Peeskill, New York
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on June 8, 2018
Peeskill High School in Peeskill, New York produced my 10-minute play SOMETIMES ELEPHANTS DIE STANDING UP on June 4, 2018. Terry Sandler shares these photos.
Two circus workers try to monetize a dead elephant.
Hilarity ensues.
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Video from the 2018 Gone in 60 Seconds Festival in Leeds, UK
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Video on June 8, 2018
I had two pieces in the 2018 edition of the Gone in 60 Seconds Festival of one-minute plays in Leeds, Great Britain: THREE POSSUMS AT THE BAR and MERMING. The former comes up at the 42:41 mark, the latter at 57:35.
