Tag: Romance

  • But Not For Love

    But Not For Love

    (a wedding comedy/drama in one-act) Eleanor and Ephram, sister and brother, are both getting married on the same day.  And they’re each getting married to a man.  With protesters, policemen and a TV news crew outside the church, inside the couples are split over what their day and their ceremony should mean, to themselves or…

  • Reconciliation (Leave, or The Surface of The World)

    Reconciliation (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…

  • Sex in the Closet (Leave, or The Surface of the World)

    Sex in the Closet (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…

  • Arriving Home Early (Leave, or The Surface of the World)

    Arriving Home Early (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…

  • Letters To The Battlefield (Leave, or The Surface of the World)

    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…

  • Leave (or, The Surface of the World)

    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…

  • 4-Way Crush (Studpuppy)

    4-Way Crush (Studpuppy)

    THE SET UP This is the first appearance of these characters in the play.  They are all in their late teens/early twenties and have just started college.  They have all gone shopping together as a supposedly neutral and safe activity, but Linc and Isobel are at it again.  Linc is openly gay.  Isobel knows this,…

  • To Feel Like You Belong (Studpuppy)

    To Feel Like You Belong (Studpuppy)

    THE SET UP Harris is a flamboyant young gay man in his late teens/early twenties, speaking with Spencer, his friend who is working his way through college walking around the local mall in a dog suit based on a popular cartoon character.  Spencer, while in the costume, cannot speak, so Harris has a captive audience…

  • What You Feel Like (Studpuppy)

    What You Feel Like (Studpuppy)

    THE SET UP Spencer is a young gay man in his late teens/early twenties, who works his way through college by walking around a local mall in a dog outfit, based on a popular cartoon character.  When in costume, it’s hard to see, and he’s not allowed to speak.  During the course of the script,…

  • Heaven & Home

    Heaven & Home

    (a haunted love story in two acts) Byron’s been dead nearly two years but Cian’s still having conversations with him. Cian’s brother, Vince, was Byron’s best friend in life. Haunted by fading memories of Byron, Vince is angered by the visits his brother is receiving, particularly because Vince was a constant presence at Byron’s hospital…