Short Plays

Wrote two short plays last week. Haven't written any plays in a while. One is a Christmas play that runs about ten minutes and another is a one woman show, "Tell it to the Coconuts," that runs about half an hour -- the start of what should be a workshop script to expand on and make an hour, hour ten show someday.

It's an idea I've had for over a year and tinkered with, a show I wrote for Liv to do, we tossed around a lot of ideas and how to make it so she could go on the road or perform it, really, anywhere, with a few props and a drop. I was going to have it ready for her birthday in April, before the shit went down.

Now I just felt like finishing it. I sent it to Lovecreek in NY and the Mae West Fest in Seattle...but I really need to find the right actress to work on it with.

Years ago, I did this with Beth Bayless with a one-woman show I wrote in a night called "Big Hairy Dog." I wrote it as an off night show for The Fritz and it did very well, she even performed it at our fundraisers and elsewhere, and then the Mae West Fest did it, it was published by S&K, picked up at other theaters, and she got pissed about it.

What else? Oh yeah, my 10-min. play "Alaska" will be in the North Park Playwright's Fest. I wrote it for this thing last Nov. called "Instant Theater" (write, direct and mount a play in 24 hours) but, like the 48 Hour Film Fest, you can't come up with anything spectacular in that time frame...I since revised it and we'll see if it is any better.