Video: Somewhere Tonight, The Last Washington Senators’ Game Plays On
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized, Video on July 18, 2017
Keith Thompson directed this script of mine at the Short Attention Span Festival in Chestertown, Maryland, June-July 2017.
SOMEWHERE TONIGHT, THE WASHINGTON SENATORS LAST GAME PLAYS ON
The last game the Washington Senators played – in 1971 – ended in a forfeit, when fans ran out onto the field and one of them stole first base. Now, on the night before a new Washington baseball team takes the field in 2005, the man who stole that base is trying to return it, and gets arrested. He tries to explain to the cop why the base is haunted. Cast: Two males.
Photos from “They Always Blame The Snake”
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on July 12, 2017
Here are photos from THEY ALWAYS BLAME THE SNAKE, my entry in the 2017 edition of OVERNIGHT SENSATIONS, the 24-hour play festival sponsored by Hollins University and Mill Mountain Theatre. My prompts: The reptile house, a farce, and the theme “do you trust them or do you not want to suspect them?”
Claire Hilton is the paranoid chameleon who wonders why the new arrival, the snake played by Bonny Branch, is in pain.
The result: Two bumbling criminals break into the reptile house, having tried to smuggle cocaine into the country in the belly of a snake shipped to the zoo. Instead, they find a DEA agent inside.
These photos come courtesy of Dan Smith and Susan K.
More photos and details below.
Claire Hilton, the chameleon, talks to Janemarie Laucella, the iguana.
Amanda Mansfield makes a fantastic, and grumpy, turtle.
Neil David Siebel and Stephen Baltz as our two bumbling criminals.
We move toward the climactic scene.
MY OVERNIGHT SENSATIONS HISTORY:
2007: “Stuck on You,” a farce about a glue gun gone bad at a prom.
2010: “A Vampire Soap Opera,” which is pretty much what it sounds like.
2011: “Strong As a Bull,” a horror piece about steroids and baseball — in the 1800s.
2012: “The Keys To the Universe Next Door,” a science fiction horror story about a woman trapped in an alternative universe.
2016: “The Zookeeper’s Arm,” about a murder in the zoo.
More from 2017:
Preparation and such explained here.
Plus:
More photos of the whole process.
Rehearsal and production photos from the Hollins Playwright’s Lab
More photos from Dan Smith
Some of the responses I got:
“Your play was my favorite.”
— Celie H.
“Loved your piece.”
— Sherilyn L.
Photos from Overnight Sensations 2017
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on July 11, 2017
For the sixth time in ten years, I was invited to take part in OVERNIGHT SENSATIONS, the 24-hour play festival that Hollins University and Mill Mountain Theatre produce each summer in Roanoke, Virginia. (If you’re a stickler, it’s the sixth time in 11 years, because the event skipped one year when the theatre was under renovation.)
Here are some photos of how it went down.
Packed for the adventure.
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Photos from “A Small Problem Down The Street” in Kitchener
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on June 28, 2017
My short play A SMALL PROBLEM DOWN THE STREET was featured in this year’s Asphalt Jungle Shorts festival, an annual walking-tour festival in Kitchener, Ontario. Here’s how it went down, thanks to photos from director and producer Paddy Gillard-Bentley:
A man approaches a construction site.
A conversation ensues about why the street is blocked.
More conversation.
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Review: “Clever bit of historical whimsy”
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Reviews, Uncategorized on June 28, 2017
My 10-minute play SOMEWHERE TONIGHT, THE WASHINGTON SENATORS’ LAST GAME PLAYS ON — now playing at the Garfield Center in Chestertown, Maryland — got a nice mention in a review in the Chesterown Spy.
The full link is here but these are the key passages:
“Jim Landskroener plays a baseball fan who’s been arrested for breaking and entering by a local cop, played by Paul Cambardella. The fan unfolds his story, revealing how the legacy of the woeful Senators last game – which was interrupted in the 9th inning by fans rushing the field to grab souvenirs – lingers on. It’s a clever bit of historical whimsy, and Landskroener does his usual fine job of bringing the character to life.”
And:
“My particular favorites this year were “Singing in the Shower,” “The Philosophy of Dogs” and “The Last Washington Senators’ Game,” along with “Rosa’s Eulogy” from the one-minute plays, but others may be more to your taste.”
“It’s Real To Me” in New Jersey
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on June 24, 2017
From the program.
IT’S REAL TO ME
A doctor devises a way to transplant memories from one person to another. It’s a form of therapy, a way to give one person’s surplus happy memories to those who have suffer from depression or some traumatic incident. But when one woman gets a memory transplant to overcome her depression, something goes wrong. She wakes up with a memory of killing someone. It’s a repressed memory that the donor had given away. A dark, serious piece. Cast: Nine: Four female, one male, four non-gender. With option of adding a tenth, non-gender, character with two lines. Running time: 30 minutes.
Photos from “The Other Side of Oz” in Michigan
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on June 24, 2017
Toto and Dorothy.
