QUIET TORRENTIAL SOUND
Monica, in the first part of the scene, foretells who she's about when she refers to the flowers on the table as being beautiful but past their prime and the vase being precious. Monica couldn't be like Beethoven, a deaf person, she can't feel or see the sound of others or even make the attempt to feel for others. Human intimacy is better for Claire where Monica is unable to feel it and becomes jealous. | by Joan Ackerman |
I THATS ALL OF US SHOULD BE FED
The conversation between the two ladies was weird, because Martha was very unsure of what other people think (she keeps to herself). Sally was a lady that came to visit Martha because of a note that invited her to the house for some food and visit. Martha tells her of a spy that was discovered when she went to investigate a Bobcat sound in the back yard. It was a German soldier who spoke very good English, spent some time with Martha when she was listening to the cat or was it really the soldier who made the sound? | by Eliza Anderson |
THE LAST TIME SAW HER
The dialogue took place in the office of the character named Hunter, who is confronted by one of his employees, named Fran, about a matter that involves a sexual orientation question. She tries to be open about a personal matter but gets too out of hand and back fires. Hunter questions the direction of her openess and turns her off. She leaves frustrated because Hunter pressures her with some questions about what she thinks about her own secretary, because sometimes he looks at his own secretary. | by Jane Anderson |
LYNETTE HAS BEAUTIFUL SKIN
The dialogue took place in the office of the character named Hunter, who is confronted by one of his employees, named Fran, about a matter that involves a sexual orientation question. She tries to be open about a personal matter but gets too out of hand and back fires. Hunter questions the direction of her openess and turns her off. She leaves frustrated because Hunter pressures her with some questions about what she thinks about her own secretary, because sometimes he looks at his own secretary.
| by Jane Anderson |
DRIVE
I thought this play was going to be about a drive-by-shooting in some inner-city neighborhood, but was about a man trying to get out of responsibility by murdering his pregenant wife and framing the murder on a black community. The man searches the inner-city for a place to kill his wife. During the drive, the car radio plays a soap opera that foreshadows what the man could say when he murders his wife and get away with it. | by Neal Bell |
EXECUTIVE DANCE
This play is about two executives enjoying a corporate function and are discussing other means for the corporation to have leisure activities. The dance is a way for executives to discuss goals at a more relaxed level. Some men enjoy dancing with other men while being married to women. | by Joe DiPietro |
BREAKING THE CHAIN
This play is about two people trying convert their neighbor into believing that if she participates in sending chain letters that she could win everything in her dreams. The neighbor stands strong in her convictions, refusing to take part in the ritual, while the two continue to win and push their glory on her. Their friendship is destroyed when the intent of converting the neighbor overshadows their friendship.
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HARD-BOILED
This play is about discrimination, sexism, and realization of who is a good-sport in the corporate world or if alcohol is the answer for revealing the truth between friends. A celebration for a colleague-friend, who of the three colleagues recieved a promotion of jr associate for reasons unknown to her two friends, thoughts on her promotion were revealed later that night at a bar. A colleague splits because his pride of being a man that does not have the job and the other male colleague stays back and tries to keep the party going for the female colleague but soon is pressured into seeing if he is attracted to her like the other colleague had stated about a reason why she got the job. | by Deborah Lynn Frockt
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GO LOOK
The setting is the mountain and forest area, where two people are camping when in the middle of the night the woman wakes up because a noise disturbs her sleep then her imagination of the noise frightens her. She wakes her boy-friend to make him "go look" because she thinks it may be a man or animal that is after her. The two discuss her thoughts, he analyzes her feelings and unconscious, therapy occurrs, then outside a sound distracts them, he leaves with her following to face her fears. | by Christopher Graybill
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A PRIVATE MOMENT
Twin brothers who are attached at the naval try to make (bust a move) a private moment with one or both of the sisters who are sisters of different ages. The brother who's interested explains that his brother is not there with them during the private moment but the sister can't accept that he is not with them, then the brother interrupts to explain that their is someone coming and that he has been at the doorway while his brother and the girl were trying to have a moment alone. The girl's younger sister comes to inform them that the other guests were looking for the twin-celebrities, then at the instance the twin who was out of their body and on guard at the door tried to make a connection with the younger sister. | by Stephen Gregg
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ONE HUNDRED WOMEN
This play is about a relationship between two girl roomates that goes sour when one of them becomes to clingy while the other tries to have a love relationship with a guy named Christian. This girl who is in college, with Kelly, is named Nina, and she has many dreams to save girls from destruction of men. Nina crossed over Kelly's patience and relationship with her boyfriend, Christian, too much that it came down to Kelly telling Nina to stop being her mom and she then moved in with Christian. | by Kristina Halvorson
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POISON
This play is about a husband coming home early one Friday afternoon and finding his wife in bed with his friend and then leaving to and returning from the store down the block to decide on what to do with his wife. The dialogue takes you through a series of confusion on whether he would forgive or kill his wife. The ending is rather stifleing, because the evidence of whether he poisoned them both or if it is figurative, causes the reader to argue the conclusions ending. | by Elliot Hayes
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TWO-PART INVENTION
This play takes place in a bar where a light-salesman meets up with a client that buys 500 hundred bulbs every three months but is treated to a several drinks a visit and some lousy jokes which the client does not like the jokes. Getting towards the end of the visit the salesman tries to cleverly make a sales joke pitch for a new and improved light-bulb that would last longer per day (shifts). The client wants to stick with the same old bulbs in the end but wants another drink. | by Michael Hollinger
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WHAT DID WE DO WITH IT
This play tries to take us into the therapy setting where a father and daughter sort through isssues that are psychologically blocking one of them from continuing with their life in a normal way. Stories are shared to help the audience understand who each character really is but become very tricky to know who is telling the truth about each other because neither show an acceptance to the others story. The daughter does show some unstability but the father does too. This was a tough diagnostical play. | by Brue MacDonald
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BROKEN HEARTS
This was a play that might make you consider filling out an organ donor card, because the action is in a hospital and the characters are three. There is an 18 yr. old who is having a heart transplant and there is a woman who is in a coma from a car wreck, and the 18 yr. old's grandma spirit, who also has met the coma lady at some time while she was floating unconsciously through portal space. The lady in the coma protects the young girl from going through a designated area of no-return plus given her heart to her so she could live a productive life better then before. | by Kevin McLeod
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WHAT WASN'T SAID, WHAT DIDN'T HAPPEN
Just like the title of this play that doesn't give you a clue to where this play might go but has to deal with a business seminar, presenting strategies on reading non-verbal communications and reading between the words. This woman who has been working as an assistent to this business consultant for four years and she wants to know where she ranks in his thoughts (she's thinking lust) and she wants to be more to him then just a co-worker, she aches for him every night but has never confronted him until this time. She tries to see if he is a real person or just a robot-like worker where she could make some sort of connection with his psyche rather than his working persona. Then at the end the man totally wacks out and becomes like a little boy without any one present to wittness. | by Bob Manning |
POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE
This play tries to give a make believable view of how the "graduation theme" song may have been composed. A King interviews a composer about how great a composer he may be for such a task of composing the greatest song for a King. Then at the end the King seems to be sold on the idea that this composer will compose his theme song and then belittle's him more, but asks him to play a sample of his music while he continues on with his work. | by Jane Martin |
STONES AND BONES
This play I didn't know what to think of it, because this play seems really sereotypical of how black people are portrayed on films before today. I didn't like this play although it tried to make a connection of how this culture is trying to let the viewers know where they may stand and how they may be perceived. Its some sort of survival theme running in this play. | by Marion McClinton |
TAPE
This play is like judgement day, where a person has to watch ten thousand film tapes where they see all their lies they told and thought to themselves. The person tries to plead but is told that it is too late. The tape then begins at his childhood days. The person then can no longer prolong the inevitable and continues to watch his life and all his lies. | by Jose Rivera |
LOVE POEM #98
This play did come accross to me like a 50's narration of a detective who discusses thought of clients and suspects. The storyline takes to boy meets girl and boy marries girl, then with the all the burden put on girl and the boy loses job and girl has to do double time as well as raise kids and boy sleeps while all the promises boy makes to girl go out the window. The girl still does not complain because he doesn't treat her worse then other boys. | by Regina Taylor |
THE APPEASEMENT
This play is about two characters who are A and B. A's job is to let go a worker who is no longer needed which is B. B questions the release and the direction of which the others have made as well as B's self. A describes to B how others reacted and let B go. Weird. | by Holger Teschke, Translated by Phil McKnight |
OUTLAWS
This play is about two people who have been tracked down by a posse of some sort and are trying to psychologically get out of the predicament they are in. They discuss it with each other before offering the scenario to the posse, so they stand up and shots are fired. They die satisfied because they fooled them still. | by E.H. Wasserman |
SO TELL ME ABOUT THIS GUY
This play is like an inside joke but is like an inside dialogue because these two characters, where one of these characters tells the other about this guy she is seeing with out telling the rest of us who he is. Then they talk about if he is a slut or not but she that is dating him defends, and then her friend asks, "when", "where", & "how" then she leaves because she has to go pick him up from the airport. | by Dolores Whiskeyman |
HELEN AT RISK
This is taking place in a prison, when a lady takes inmates through a workshop of how to make plaster masks. There is a guard who is very concerned about the safety of the presenter and is very cautious at the movements of each inmate. At the end an inmate talks the guard into wearing the mask he had just made and the guard finally gives into the request ; the inmate then stabs a long wooden paint brush in to the eye hole of the mask then retrieving it from the guard then finishes the paint job with the blood to make a tear on the mask. | by Dolores Whiskeyman |
YOUR OBITUARY IS A DANCE
This play is about a man with AIDS returns to his hometown from Dallas where he used to be a drag queen performer etc. and is consulting with his friend who preaches to him about the neighbor hood and its ridiculous changes. He wants to go tell his mom about the big A word and get comfort but she warns him off the idea and puts on a tape so they can dance instead of write his obituary. She distracted him from his fears and regrets with this dance. | by Bernard Cummings |
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