You can see info about my plays on Doollee.com. And on the Small-Cast One-Act Guide Online. You can view my playwriting resume at the bottom of this page.
50 MINUTES / 3 M / 2 F / FLEXIBLE STAGING
Robert von Ritchie Ritchie has somehow angered a Great God. And now the Great God is out to exact revenge. Robert retraces his steps over the past few days to discover where things went so horribly, horribly wrong. It might have been easier if he weren't constantly on his cell phone talking with his now ex-girlfriend Martha, who barely made it into Mensa. A brief satire of modern public etiquette... with music and dance!
PRODUCTION HISTORY
- Staged Reading with Audacity Theatre Lab (January 2010)
- Workshop Excerpt at FronteraFest, Hyde park Theatre, Austin TX (February 2010)
- Staged Reading with Nouveau 47 and Audacity Theatre Lab (December 2010)
55 MINUTES / 1 M / SINGLE SET
CHOP concerns a man devoid of ambition, with a profound sense of isolation from the busy, happy, productive people around him. Through a chance encounter with a mysterious tattooed woman he is introduced to what may be his true calling - a subculture of unique fetishists who enjoy getting their limbs lopped off. As the guy willing to wield the axe and make the chops, he may finally develop a sense of belonging. A dozen (+) characters performed by a single actor.
PRODUCTION HISTORY
- Staged Reading with Outsider's Inn Collective; Seattle WA (October 2008)
- Workshop Reading with Cry Havoc; New York NY (March 2009)
- World Premiere at Out of the Loop Fringe Festival; Addison Water Tower Theatre; Addison TX (March 2010)
- Exclusive Engagement at the College of Santa Fe, NM (April 2010)
- Official Entry in 2010 Phoenix Fringe Festival; Phoenix AZ (April 2010)
- Benefit Performance at the Continental Lofts Gallery, Dallas TX (November 2010)
- Official Entry in the 2010 New Orleans Fringe Festival (November 2010)
- Official Entry in the 2011 Portland Mini-Fringe (April 2011)
- Official "Producer's Pick" at the 2011 Houston Fringe Festival (November 2010)
With Music by Stuart Grant & Lee Holt
40 MINUTES / 3 F / 2 M / SHADOW PUPPET STAGE
Like many stories of Germanic folklore from the Brothers Grimm, Rapunzel is a tale of happiness hard won. Rapunzel is held captive by a wicked old enchantress, brought up in loneliness, parted from her young prince, and must struggle to find her own place in the world before her troubles are overcome. The tale is valuable to children with the timeless message that faith and character will ultimately win out over hardship, and true love will find its happy ending. This hip adaptation of the classic story is told with shadow puppets, witty banter and some funktastic songs.
PRODUCTION HISTORY
- World-Premiere with the Dramatic English Educational Repertory (DEER) Theatre, Hong Kong (October 2006)
- The Peak Galleria/ Dramatic English, Hong Kong (April 2007) Click here for a video clip of an excerpt from this production.
60 MINUTES / 2 M / 3F / SINGLE SET
A man named Alfred is driven to commit an extremely unpleasant act by his devoted love for Claudia, an anesthesiologist. This act leads, in turn, to a life outside the law and on the run. He now comes to the end of his life… Judgment Day. He must come to terms with his past lives and his past deeds, as he prepares to meet his Maker. He does this waiting at a tiki-inspired cocktail lounge somewhere on the edge of life and death. The embodiments of what he could have been and what he was converge.
PRODUCTION HISTORY
- World-Premiere as part of the Sixth Annual Festival of Independent Theatres at the Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas TX. Presented by Audacity Productions (July & August 2004)
- Overtime Theatre, San Antonio TX (April-May 2012)
40 MINUTES / 1 M / 1 F / SINGLE SET
Charles is having one of the worst nights of his life. To make matters worse he runs smack into a certain someone from his past... someone with quite a grudge! A darkly comic tale of a parakeet-murderer and the passive-aggressive woman who loves him.
PRODUCTION HISTORY
- World-premiere at the Weckesser Studio in Santa Fe NM (December 1996).
- Staged Reading with Audacity Productions, Lewisville TX (April, 2000).
- Regional-premiere in North Texas at the Barn Door Theatre as part of the Flower Mound Performing Arts Theatre's First Annual New Plays Festival, Flower Mound TX (May 2003).
- Asian-premiere with DEER Theatre as part of CHEW ON THIS! an evening of site-specific pieces in a diner, Wan Chai, Hong Kong (April 2007).
- Dallas premiere with Audacity Theatre Lab as part of The Festival of Independent Theatres 2009 at the Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas TX (July/Aug 2009).
20 Minutes / 1 M / 2 F / SINGLE SET
Two housewives take a unique revenge on a cheating husband and plan the perfect crime. Beware the machinations lurking in the quiet lives of two suburban ladies. Hell hath no fury...
PRODUCTION HISTORY
- Texas Woman's University; Denton TX; Original One Acts Series (March 2006)
- Staged Reading with DFW Playwrights' Allinace/ Ground Zero Theatre Company; Dallas TX (May 2004)
- Audacity Productions; Dallas TX; (excerpt) Mild Dementia Continuous-Play Variety Hour (November 2002)
- Staged Reading with Square Peg Theatre Collective; New York NY (Feb 2002)
10 MINUTES / 3M / 2F / SINGLE SET
The Unicorn Children won't let poor Rudnick play in their Unicorn Children games. An imaginative retelling of a certain reindeer story.
PRODUCTION HISTORY
- Estranged Bedfellows Sketch Comedy; Santa Fe NM (Feb 1996)
- Audacity Productions/ProgreXssive Arts;" The HO! Show" ; Garland TX (Dec 2000)
- Audacity Productions; Mild Dementia Continuous-Play Variety Hour; Dallas TX (May 2004)
- EndTime Productions; Naked Holidays 2009; New York NY (December 2009)
BRAD McENTIRE Playwright Resume
