The following scene is an excerpt from the play Lost and Found by Alyssa Ahle. UNREQUITED LOVE: A young woman who carts around her old crushes in a wagon. SIMON: The young man currently situated in Unrequited Love’s wagon. Provides comic relief. LOST: A young man who attends group therapy with Unrequited Love. Act I, Scene […]
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We ran, fought and climbed up the wrong side of the slide– to bleed from all of God- made joints. The stench was what held us together like mosquitoes over a month-old water puddle. And later, the hot water stung the life out of us through wound openings– and we sang songs in solidarity to […]
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The title reads Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, but it may as well be Ivo van Hove’s The Crucible. Van Hove (A View From the Bridge) has a history of stripping down the language and story of the classics, and he does not disappoint in this production, which is highly redesigned and abstract. He takes Miller’s […]
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When my sister and I were younger, one of our favorite things to do was to perform plays in our living room. We spent most, if not all, of our preparation time digging through piles of overworn and ragged princess costumes and scarves to find what we wanted to wear, and then our performance would […]
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Coldplay had the brilliant idea to turn Game of Thrones into a musical, and now they’re ready to get the original TV cast on board. Although they’re skeptical at first, the actors and actresses are finally convinced. Watch as the Game of Thrones cast, Coldplay, and Liam Neeson come together to contribute a hilarious video for Red Nose […]
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She doesn’t know why he looks familiar until, as he does a soliloquy, she realizes he had tried to sell her a used Taurus last fall at Modern Ford. She’d been interested, but he’d pushed too hard, like Tim at prom. She bought a Jeep instead. He’d seemed surprised when she walked off the lot, […]
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I don’t really want to be doing this, and if I could stop writing this very second I would. It started like this: I was the kid with a grey hoodie slamming the door at midnight. My mandatory seat in class was near the entrance because I was always late, and it took 4 months […]
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(A Play in One Act) Characters: Pooh/Lydia: Sixteen-ish. Dress casual. She is readying for a casual date. Mama/Lisa: Middle thirty-ish to late thirty-ish. Her dress is very casual. Perhaps an evening robe/or sweats as she won’t be going out this evening. Frank: Middle thirty-ish to late thirty-ish. Dress casual. Consistent pronunciation of Lisa’s shortened name is important: Lees. […]
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A Short Play * SETTING: The stage is bare except for an open shoebox center in a pool of light. AT RISE: The actors, there may be as few as two or as many as twenty, stand in a line behind the box. Each steps forward into the light, “reads” a greeting card, and then […]
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