Tag: Dramatic
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Showers (Leave, or The Surface of the World)
THE SET-UP This is the first scene in which Jonas appears. It follows Anne’s speech which opens the play, and the two scenes which follow – one with Anne, Seth and Nicholas; and one with Nicholas and Tyson. All are available here online under the titles Graveside Thoughts Letters to the Battlefield Crossword Seth is…
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Crossword (Leave, or The Surface of the World)
THE SET-UP This scene is the first in which Tyson appears, immediately following Anne’s speech that opens the play, and the scene with Anne, Nicholas and Seth which follows that – showing their process of writing coded letters to maintain contact, available here online under the titles: Graveside Thoughts Letters to the Battlefield Seth is…
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Letters To The Battlefield (Leave, or The Surface of the World)
THE SET-UP This is the first time these three characters appear onstage together, in a scene immediately following Anne’s monologue which opens the play, available here online under the title Graveside Thoughts Seth is a young Marine serving during wartime. Nicholas is his civilian longtime companion who waits back home. In addition to the strain…
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The Baked Potato Speech (Leave, or The Surface of the World)
THE SET-UP Seth is a young Marine serving during wartime. Nicholas is his civilian longtime companion who waits back home. In addition to the strain on their relationship caused by distance and absence, they must hide their love for one another behind code words and secret identities because of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy…
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The Only One (Leave, or The Surface of the World)
THE SET-UP Seth is a young Marine serving during wartime. Nicholas is his civilian longtime companion who waits back home. In addition to the strain on their relationship caused by distance and absence, they must hide their love for one another behind code words and secret identities because of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy…
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He’s Slipping Away (Leave, or The Surface of the World)
THE SET-UP Seth is a young Marine serving during wartime. Nicholas is his civilian longtime companion who waits back home. In addition to the strain on their relationship caused by distance and absence, they must hide their love for one another behind code words and secret identities because of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy…
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Graveside Thoughts (Leave, or The Surface of the World)
THE SET-UP This is the speech that begins the play. Read on… “If I’d done everything I could, everything I should, this boy wouldn’t be in the ground.” (A gravestone. ANNE, a woman in her 50s.) ANNE This isn’t my grave. There are days I wish it was. Days I think it should be. A…
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Leave (or, The Surface of the World)
(a drama of “don’t ask, don’t tell” in two acts) Seth is a young Marine serving during wartime. Nicholas is his civilian husband who waits back home. In addition to the strain on their relationship caused by distance and absence, they must hide their love for one another behind code words and secret identities because…
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The Nightmare (Studpuppy)
THE SET UP Harris, a flamboyantly gay young man in his late teens/early twenties, has just gotten the brushoff from Linc, a handsome athletic young gay man who simply looked right past him – right over to Harris’ friend Spencer, in a dog suit. Granted, the dog suit is a life-size recreation of a popular…
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You Could Do Better (Studpuppy)
THE SET UP Diana is trying to diffuse an awkward situation at the same time that her friend Harris is trying to convince her that it is a situation she doesn’t need to be in. Diana is a closeted lesbian who has not yet come out to her friend Isobel, a girl whom she met…