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)
DeWayne Blundell is R.H. and Ana Gonzalez is Skye in CORNER OFFICE SKYE
R.H. has just been promoted. As he finds a quiet spot away from the raucous office holiday party to congratulate himself he finds an other-worldly young woman named Skye. She seems drawn to a man with a good brain in his head. PRODUCTION HISTORY
Nouveau 47 Theatre, Margo Jones Theatre, Dallas TX, As Part of "A Very Nouveau Holiday" (December 2014)
For more info on this play, see posts with tags labeled "Corner Office Skye" ... HERE.
55 MINUTES / 1 M / SIMPLE SINGLE SET Robert J. Roberts has a huge problem with the world. In particular he really dislikes people. All people. One day he becomes the unlikely custodian of a magical goldfish and Mr. Robert's misanthropic view of the world is seriously challenged. Can a person be frustrated into being a better human being?
"McEntire's an expert at swimming solo onstage, charming the audience with sly looks and inventive storytelling." ~ Elaine Liner, Dallas Observer
"The story takes you on a precisely laid out journey through one man’s psyche while making you feel like you shouldn’t be there, listening." ~ Richard Blake, PegasusNews.com
"[McEntire is] like a cross between Seinfeld’s George Costanza and comedian Lewis Black" ~ Nancy Churnin, DallasNews.com
"One of McEntire’s many talents is being able to couch very real meditations on life into extraordinary stories." ~ Kris Noteboom, TheaterJones.com
"A tale of transformation and redemption... very absorbing..." ~ Rob Hubbard, Pioneer Press
Oscar Contreres as Robert and Jeff Hernandez as The Great God in I HAVE ANGERED A GREAT GOD
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 and private interaction... 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)
A-Go-Go [or à gogo] - as much as you like; to your heart's content; galore: i.e. dancing à gogo.
CYRANO A-GO-GO is semi-autobiographical exploration of one restless theatre artist's fascination with the 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. A chance encounter with the script at a suburban public library at the age of fifteen leads McEntire into a wonderful, and sometimes elusive, calling. Mixing the personal, historical and literary into a journey through Rostand's play McEntire puts a funny, warm, insightful spin on the usual coming-of-age one-man show.
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Audacity Theatre Lab/ Shakespeare Dallas, Green Zone Theatre, (June and July 2011)
Teresa Valenza as Katherine and Jeff Swearingen as Charles in ARSENIC & ROSES
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).
Staged Reading with Denton Community Theatre as part of the 2014 Method and madness Playwriting Festival and Competition, Denton TX. Directed by Tashina Richardson. (May 2014)
