Photos from “The Ballad of Alejandro Lopez” in New York
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on June 27, 2013
The cast of “The Ballad of Alejandro Lopez” takes a curtain call.
The Barefoot Theatre Company in New York held a staged reading of my full-length script “The Ballad of Alejandro Lopez” on June 17, 2013 at the historic Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan. (Historic because it’s a stage where Edward Albee and Sam Shepard have also had some of their works debut.)
More details on the show here.
Here are some photos, courtesy of Barefoot. Read the rest of this entry »
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.
One of my short pieces included in festival of “subversive” works
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized on June 7, 2013
I guess I’m officially a subversive.
One of my short pieces has been accepted into this year’s “Subversive Shorts” show at the Subversive Theatre Collective in Buffalo, N.Y., a theatre whose motto is “Ten Years of Fightin’ the Man.”
My piece is “A Woman’s Word Versus A Machine,” a dark science-fiction piece in which I channel my inner feminist.
The festival is June 13-July 7, with different shows on alternating nights.
One of the other playwrights featured in the show is the acclaimed Rich Orloff, so I’m in quite good company.
This is the second time I’ve had my work included in the Subversive Shorts. In 2009, the theatre produced my ten-minute script “The Beautiful Ogre and Other Fairy Tales.”
Here are descriptions of both:
A WOMAN’S WORD VERSUS A MACHINE
A dark, serious piece about rape. A woman alleges she was assaulted by her household robot. But the company claims it was not a fault of product design. Cast: Two — one male, one female. Running time: Five minutes.
• Staged reading at No Shame Theatre, Roanoke, Va., spring 2012.
THE BEAUTIFUL OGRE AND OTHER FAIRY TALES
A father reads his daughter a fairy tale as a bedtime story — which the characters begin to act out. The girl doesn’t like how the story is going — no strong female role models, for instance — so she changes it all around. This is the result. Cast: Five — three males, two females. Running time: Eight minutes.
• Produced by the Paw Paw Village Players, Paw Paw, Michigan, Feb. 15-16, 22-23, 2008.
• Produced by Youth Education on Stage Summer Shorts, Williston, North Dakota, June 24-26, 2008.
• Produced by Subversive Theatre, Buffalo, N.Y., various nights between May 2-17, 2009.
• Produced by Play’n’Well Players, Plainview, Michigan, last weekend of May 2009.
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.
Three scripts to be produced in the Gone in 60 Seconds Festival, UK edition
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions on May 31, 2013
I will have three scripts produced next month in the U.K. edition of the “Gone in 60 Seconds” Festival of one-minute plays.
I already have one script slated for the U.S. version, which will be June 7-8 at Brooklyn College in New York. That script is “Fishing for Men.”
The U.K. version will be June 8 at the Viaduct Theatre, Dean Clough, Halifax, Great Britain.
Here are the three scripts that will be done:
THIS IS THE CAPTAIN SPEAKING
An airline pilot addresses his passengers, warning them of some danger ahead. Is he suicidal? Cast: One male.
THREE TREES TALKING
Three trees contemplate the question: If they were human, what kind of human would be they? Cast: Three, non-gender. Running time: One minute.
THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD
A man tries to compliment his girlfriend and promptly gets in in trouble, and his clarifications only make the matter worse. Cast: One male, one female. Running time: One minute.
“This is the Captain Speaking” and “The Whole Wide World” have previously been done as staged readings at No Shame Theatre in Roanoke, Virginia.
Video: “Lady Macbeth’s Lament” at Liminal alternative artspace
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized, Video on May 22, 2013
At the season finale for the reading series at the Liminal alternative artspace, I lucked out. Organizer Cara Modisett had multiple students interested in reading/performing, and I had multiple pieces available.
Here’s Chantel Wilson, a student at Community High School of Arts and Academics, performing a staged reading of my short piece, “Lady Macbeth’s Lament.”
This was on May 21, 2013 in Roanoke, Va.
Here’s my official description:
LADY MACBETH’S LAMENT
The ghost of Lady Macbeth laments that Shakespeare never gave her a name. Cast: One female. Running time: Three minutes.
I also explored the question of my Lady Macbeth doesn’t have a name in my one-act, “Macbeth, the Prequel.” You can find video of a production of that script here.
Video: “The Misunderstood Muse” at Liminal alternative artspace
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized, Video on May 22, 2013
Eric Sutton and Ashley Meador perform a staged reading of my short piece “The Misunderstood Muse” at the Liminal alternative artspace in Roanoke, Va., on May 21, 2013.
The Liminal is attached to Community High School of Arts and Academics, where Eric and Ashley are students. The space hosts regular readings, often tied in with the school’s curriculum. This was the season finale and was an “open” reading.”
Of note: Whenever I find myself lacking an idea, I try to write a “muse” piece. Let’s just say I have a lot of “muse” pieces now!
Here’s my official description:
THE MISUNDERSTOOD MUSE
A muse takes offense at her writer because he’s changed her idea. They fight, she leaves and gets her revenge. All in three pages. Cast: Two — one male, one female. Running time: Three to five minutes.
