Archive

Volume III: October 10 - December 10, 2008

The Play’s The Thing

Selected Scenes, Spoken & Written, From Plays
by
Members of Times Square Playwrights



DESCRIPTION & INSTRUCTIONS

WE INVITE YOU TO HEAR AND READ SELECTED SCENES FROM ORIGINAL PLAYS WRITTEN BY MEMBERS OF TIMES SQUARE PLAYWRIGHTS AND DRAMATIZED MAINLY BY TSP ACTORS. WE HOPE YOU MIGHT THEN WANT TO EXAMINE AN ENTIRE WORK AND CONSIDER HELPING BRING IT TO PRODUCTION OR PUBLICATION. CONTACT INFORMATION FOR EACH PLAYWRIGHT FOLLOWS THE SELECTIONS. PLEASE SEND US YOUR REACTIONS TO THE SCENES, IF YOU WISH, VIA OUR EMAIL LINK.

TO ACCESS THE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN SCENES IN THIS CURRENT VOLUME, BEGIN BY CLICKING ON A LINK IN THE FOLLOWING TABLE OF CONTENTS.


TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
SCENES SPOKEN & WRITTEN
(Volume III: October 10 - December 10, 2008)

TWO SHORT PLAYS
by

Robert Kornfeld

Pearlwick
A dinner party and a second chance

Cast: Tom Thornton, Mike Jankowitz, Marika Daciuk

Passage In Purgatory
A past that will not stay that way

Cast: Kristen Wiles, Tom Thornton, Joel Horwitz, Sharlene Hartman

Click on this link to proceed:
Introduction to Robert Kornfeld’s Plays

DRUMMERS, DREAMS AND FAMILY MATTERS
A play about a 3-generational, almost normal family
by
Norman Weinstein

Cast: Scott Williams, Sharlene Hartman, Tom Thornton, Marika Daciuk, David Logan, T. Michael Culhane, Mary Murphy, George Trahanis

Click on this link to proceed:
Introduction to Drummers, Dreams And Family Matters

SCHTICK
A comic with a stroke, an angry wife, and a girlfriend yet!

by
Henry Meyerson

Cast: Ange Berneau, Dawn Jamieson, Sharlene Hartmen, Tom Thornton

Click on this link to proceed:
Introduction to Schtick

MISCHELING
by
Rudy Gray

A black in Hitler’s Germany

Cast: Lindsey Richman, Scott Williams, Tom Thornton, David Logan, Mike Jankowitz, Doug Stone

Click on this link to proceed:
Introduction to Mischeling

GEBIRTIG
by
Martin Bard

A Holocaust survivor and a young actor meet on a subway platform.

Cast: Sharlene Hartman, Brian Normant, Tom Thornton

Click on this link to proceed:
Introduction to Gebirtig

THE MAN FROM OKLAHOMA
by
Laurel Lockhart

Can true love come in a ten gallon hat?

Cast: Tom Thornton, Sharlene Hartman, Ange Berneau, Kristen Wiles

Click on this link to proceed:
Introduction to The Man From Oklahoma

THE GREAT MCGWIRE
by
Tom Thornton

McGwire knows you shouldn’t believe everything you think you see, even if your client’s rotten.

Cast: Mike Jankowitz, James Nugent, Doug Stone, Tom Thornton, Norman Weinstein, Scott Wiliams

Click on this link to proceed:
Introduction to The Great McGwire


FOR PHOTOS AND EMAIL CONTACTS OF ACTORS INVOLVED IN THE DRAMATIZATIONS,
SEE HOME PAGE.

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