DARK
LADY
10
min. 1 F, 1 M.
16th
CENTURY
DARK
LADY WRITES LETTER TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
Produced
by Hassberry Theatre Comp.
First aired during Big Apple Short
Radio Drama Festival on
See:
See also WGAE web, program 6:
Dark Lady monolog included in ”New Audition Scenes And Monologs From Contemporary
Playwrights” edited by Roger Ellis (Meriwether Publishing Ltd, Colorado
Springs, Colorado, 2005) See:
MISS MOONLIGHT
5min.
1F, 1M
Produced
by Hassberry Theatre Comp.
[First
aired during Big Apple Short Radio Drama Festival on
See WGAE web, program 11:
COUNTER SCRIPTS FOR
VERDI AND PUCCINI
NOT
MUSICALS!
(unless the director wants to turn them into musicals)
A cycle
of 8 short plays that include short (recorded) musical fragments from Verdi and
Puccini. They are independent plays, may be performed separately or a
few of them together. They have nothing in common, besides their musical
background based on famous operas. They make sense even with no music at
all.
1.
JESTER'S DAUGHTER.
Seriocomic. Needs musical
fragments from RIGOLETTO.
12
min. 1 F, 1 M
A famous soprano is in love with a
lyrical tenor. They sing together in "Rigoletto". She thinks the plot
of the melodrama is stupid, but loves Verdi's music so much that she feels
identified with the character she embodies. How does her creative imagination
affect her real love affair with the tenor?
2.
THE BALANCE.
Drama. Needs musical
fragments from THE TROUBADOUR.
20
min. 3 W, 1 M
15th century,
A year has passed since Manrico's
execution and Leonora's suicide. The Count of Luna feels guilty and would like
to switch identities with Manrico the Troubadour, the very man he has killed.
Would such an attempt prove possible?
3.
THE SPECTATOR
Drama. Needs musical
fragments from LA TRAVIATA.
35
min. 3 W, 2 M
A woman of 50 attends a
performance with LA TRAVIATA at the Opera Theatre in Tel-Aviv. She follows the performance
and at the same time she recalls events from her youth in Bucharest, during the
time when she and her lover used to attend opera performances. A play about love and marriage, on the background of Jews'
emigration from
4.
THE EIGHTH GATE
Fairy. Needs musical
fragments from AIDA.
30
min. 2 W, 3 M, 1 any genre
+ a group of dancers which may be children or puppets.
Aida's and Radames's underground
journey along the ancient Egyptian way to reincarnation. A
parody of the ancient "Book of the Dead". Humorous
and optimistic.
5.
THE AWAKENING
Farce. Needs musical
fragments from LA BOHEME.
2o
min. 2 W, 5 M, 1 any gender
An
alternative end for Puccini's "LA BOHEME", imagined by a Hindu
physician who comes at Mimi's deathbed.
6.
THE STARS ARE SHINING.
Drama. Needs musical
fragments from TOSCA.
15
min. 2 W, 4 M
Before the third act of TOSCA, the
tenor William Loredale receives a letter from a woman spectator. The letter
explains what happened many years ago when they were teenagers and they parted.
The lady is going to leave before the performance ends, at a certain moment
when the libretto bears a special meaning for her.
7.
THE BUTTERFLY
Drama. Needs musical
fragments from MADAM BUTTERFLY.
45
min. 2 M + 5 puppets (or pantomime actors)
A middle-aged man and an old man
meet on the ruins of Nagasaki, a short time after the atomic explosion of 1945.
The former is Madame Butterfly s son, 40 years after his mother s suicide. The
latter is a retired cook and innkeeper. What brings them together? Will this
meeting become so meaningful for both of them as to enrich their souls and
their lives?
8.
THE HAZE FLOWER
Fairy. Needs musical
fragments from TURANDOT.
40
min. 1 W, 4 M, 1 any gender
Puccini is dying in a clinic in
Brussels (in 1924), with the last pages of his manuscript in his hands. Just
before dying, he has a vision in which princess Turandot appears as his lover.
The three Chinese ministers challenge him into a half serious, half humorous
conversation about reincarnation, love, Tao
philosophy.
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Copyright
Luiza Carol 2003
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