ART MEETS SCIENCE AT THE THEATER FIRST ANNUAL FLASH PLAY FESTIVAL FEATURING PRINCE RUPERT'S DROP. Bar THIS EVENT HAS ENDED.
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DEATH IN A BEULAH BOX
By Barbara J. Wells. Directed by Jason Smith
World Premier November 4th, 2015 at Berger House Theatre, 6205 N. Sheridan, Chicago, IL. For tickets, directions, seating, dates, times, phone #, etc.
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Featuring: Kimberly Banks, Jeff Broitman, Basha Evans, Watson Swift
Resident Stage Manager: Jess Koster
Resident Set and Lighting Designer: Pat Henderson
What draws three people to a dangerous place where they grew up? DEATH IN A BEULAH BOX is a pressure cooker of the psychological wounds of racism, and how African-Americans' choices over healing those wounds, or not, pit them against each other.
This is a recorded of the trailblazers, the first in the world to bring new fantasticals to the stage.
DEPTARTMENT OF FEARS AND PHOBIAS by SEAN MARGARET WAGNER WINNER OF FLASH PLAY FESTIVAL***********
Congratulations.
IF COPYRIGHTS WERE LIKE PATENTS by NEAL S. REYNOLDS
NO ZOMBIE LEFT BEHIND by MOLLY CAMPBELL
PATENT 787,412 by J. M. EISENMAN
PSEUDO-HUMAN RESOURCES by REX MCGREGOR
THE OFFER by BELLA POYNTON
THE TEARS OF JACK by TIMMOTHY J. HOLT
TICK TOCK by LEONARD FRANKS
TRANSMUTATION by MICHELLE BOEDECKER
MULTI-GEN by JOHN R. FISHER
FESTIVAL RUNS FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY JULY 11 - 13 SHOW TIMES: FRI AND SAT 6:00-11:00pm
6:00 Department of Fears and Phobias; No Zombie Left Behind; Exit 34
6:30 Meet Me On the Ceiling
15 min INTERMISSION
7:30 Multi-Generation, Reunion
15 min INTERMISSION
8:00 10,000 Years from the Year 2,000; 15min INTERMISSION between Act One and Act Two
15 min INTERMISSION
9:45 28 Degrees Centigrade; Transmutation; Tick Tock; First Contact; Pseudo-Human Resources; The Offer; Tears of Jack; Patent 787, 412; If Copyrights Were Like Patents
SHOW TIMES SUNDAY NOON TO 6PM
12:00 Department of Fears and Phobias; No Zombie Left Behind; Exit 34
15 min INTERMISSION
12:30 Meet Me On the Ceiling
15 min INTERMISSION
1:30 Multi-Generation; Reunion: Transmutation; Tick Tock
15 min INTERMISSION
2:30 10,000 Years from the Year 2000; 15 min INTERMISSION between Act One and Act Two
15 min INTERMISSION
4:30 28 Degrees Centigrade; Pseudo-Human Resources; The Offer; First Contact; Patent 787, 412; If Copyrights Were Like Patents
CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED: BEST MOUSTACHE, BEST COLORFULLY DRESSED, BEST FLASH PLAY
ESTIVAL INSPIRED BY Da Vinci (helicopter); Artist Michelangelo (anatomy); Writer Rodenberry (cellphone); Actress, Hedy Lamarr and Composer George Antheil (frequency-hopping spread-spectrum technology, in torpedoes, in your cell phone); PRINCE RUPERT'S DROP (you know it as the tempered glass in your car that prevents you from being sliced up in case of an accident). Art inspires science. In honor of the 'drop' write a play.
I suspect that this is the first profit-sharing playwright new play festival. If you join the experiment...your $10.00 investment/submission fee helps pay stipends for actors, designers, techs, theater rental and creates a future possibility. It is also an experiement in discovering a new financial system for playwrights. If you're a freelance playwright you're an entrepreneur. The majority of us don't know beans about the process a play must take from start to finish. This cripples our ability to become professionals, our ultimate goal. What we know is that the best play is just a lottery participant. We may never know that best play. It was after all submitted with 400+ other plays. My logic dictates the process was overwhelmed. In this world of everybody can write and submit a play how do professional playwrights distinguish themselves. You've gotta do it yourself, with a few other playwright friends. Attach yourself to a director, designers, techs. We're hoping we have the answer. This festival is working on a philosophical and financial model that so far is working out.
This system looks like this. Responsibilities financially are divided, playwrights' goal is to put in the least: Playwrights $ + grant$ + crowd funding $ (like Kickstarter) + submission fees $+tickets $ ..... (to be completed when all debits and credits are tallied)
DEPTARTMENT OF FEARS AND PHOBIAS by SEAN MARGARET WAGNER WINNER OF FLASH PLAY FESTIVAL***********
Congratulations.
IF COPYRIGHTS WERE LIKE PATENTS by NEAL S. REYNOLDS
NO ZOMBIE LEFT BEHIND by MOLLY CAMPBELL
PATENT 787,412 by J. M. EISENMAN
PSEUDO-HUMAN RESOURCES by REX MCGREGOR
THE OFFER by BELLA POYNTON
THE TEARS OF JACK by TIMMOTHY J. HOLT
TICK TOCK by LEONARD FRANKS
TRANSMUTATION by MICHELLE BOEDECKER
MULTI-GEN by JOHN R. FISHER
FESTIVAL RUNS FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY JULY 11 - 13 SHOW TIMES: FRI AND SAT 6:00-11:00pm
6:00 Department of Fears and Phobias; No Zombie Left Behind; Exit 34
6:30 Meet Me On the Ceiling
15 min INTERMISSION
7:30 Multi-Generation, Reunion
15 min INTERMISSION
8:00 10,000 Years from the Year 2,000; 15min INTERMISSION between Act One and Act Two
15 min INTERMISSION
9:45 28 Degrees Centigrade; Transmutation; Tick Tock; First Contact; Pseudo-Human Resources; The Offer; Tears of Jack; Patent 787, 412; If Copyrights Were Like Patents
SHOW TIMES SUNDAY NOON TO 6PM
12:00 Department of Fears and Phobias; No Zombie Left Behind; Exit 34
15 min INTERMISSION
12:30 Meet Me On the Ceiling
15 min INTERMISSION
1:30 Multi-Generation; Reunion: Transmutation; Tick Tock
15 min INTERMISSION
2:30 10,000 Years from the Year 2000; 15 min INTERMISSION between Act One and Act Two
15 min INTERMISSION
4:30 28 Degrees Centigrade; Pseudo-Human Resources; The Offer; First Contact; Patent 787, 412; If Copyrights Were Like Patents
CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED: BEST MOUSTACHE, BEST COLORFULLY DRESSED, BEST FLASH PLAY
ESTIVAL INSPIRED BY Da Vinci (helicopter); Artist Michelangelo (anatomy); Writer Rodenberry (cellphone); Actress, Hedy Lamarr and Composer George Antheil (frequency-hopping spread-spectrum technology, in torpedoes, in your cell phone); PRINCE RUPERT'S DROP (you know it as the tempered glass in your car that prevents you from being sliced up in case of an accident). Art inspires science. In honor of the 'drop' write a play.
I suspect that this is the first profit-sharing playwright new play festival. If you join the experiment...your $10.00 investment/submission fee helps pay stipends for actors, designers, techs, theater rental and creates a future possibility. It is also an experiement in discovering a new financial system for playwrights. If you're a freelance playwright you're an entrepreneur. The majority of us don't know beans about the process a play must take from start to finish. This cripples our ability to become professionals, our ultimate goal. What we know is that the best play is just a lottery participant. We may never know that best play. It was after all submitted with 400+ other plays. My logic dictates the process was overwhelmed. In this world of everybody can write and submit a play how do professional playwrights distinguish themselves. You've gotta do it yourself, with a few other playwright friends. Attach yourself to a director, designers, techs. We're hoping we have the answer. This festival is working on a philosophical and financial model that so far is working out.
This system looks like this. Responsibilities financially are divided, playwrights' goal is to put in the least: Playwrights $ + grant$ + crowd funding $ (like Kickstarter) + submission fees $+tickets $ ..... (to be completed when all debits and credits are tallied)
LIST OF PRE-SELECTED PLAYS by playwrights whose readings earned them the opportunity to workshop their plays for seven days with directors, designers, techs, and (3)culminating performances. "MEET ME ON THE CEILING" , one-act fantasy by LAURA FORCE SCRUGGS. Directed by EMMI HILGER "EXIT 34", "REUNION", "28 DEGREES C", existential horror, ghost/morality drama, sci-fi drama, 10 minute plays by J. WEINTRAUB. Directed by DEREK GARZA, Assistant Directed by Jason Boat "FIRST CONTACT", sci-fi comedy, 20 minute play by LEONARD FRANKS. Directed by DEREK GARZA, Assistant Directed by Jason Boat "10,000 YEARS FROM THE YEAR 2000"*, full-length world-building sci-fi, by BARBARA J. WELLS, Directed by LAURA J. NASH THANKS FOR BELIEVING IN US: Chicago Dramatists Theatre www.chicagodramatists.org Jeff Stanley, Graphic Designer www.twentytwocreative.net Bughouse Theater is: a collection of artists, actors, writers, and filmmakers creating a new venue for themselves and their city. A dedication to the enrichment of the community through art and the enrichment of art through the community. A private non-profit. facebook: 'Like' us and share on facebook: flash play. Tweet: #wells_play *This play is partially funded by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council |
CONTESTS:
BEST FLASH PLAY. Audience votes for favorite flash play and advances a playwright's career BEST REAL OR FAUX MOUSTACHE. Tip: see playwright J. Weintraub's moustache on our ABOUT page MOST COLORFULLY DRESSED. Tip: see playwright Laura FORCE Scruggs on our ABOUT page PRIZES: Handmade dolls by costume designer Michael Spear, handmade leather bags by playwright Barbara J. Wells and Michael Spear. Best flash play wins: see bottom of ABOUT page CLOSED
Submission Requirements for Flash Plays PUBLISHED PLAYS NOT ACCEPTED Running time: Four minutes, not more or less. We seek plays that challenge the typical. We want plays that take chances. Plays that 'go where none have gone before'. Monologues welcome. So playwrights channel your Prince Rupert's Drop or you may call it a teardrop, a wormhole, a tadpole, sperm, Rupert's balls, Dutch tears. Play may be specific or general but should be inspired by PRINCE RUPERT'S DROP or the theme "art meets science at the theater". And that reference may be vague or hinted at. MUST SEE VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe-f4gokRBs WE WILL ACCEPT PLAYS THAT ARE OFF THE THEME, BUT ADHERE TO THE GENRES. Cast size: May not exceed three; actors: 2 females and 1 male. Set: Hint of multilevel cave, two chairs and a table on which sits a water filled aquarium, in it is a Prince Rupert's Drop. You may win the opportunity to have one exploded as part of your flash play. (TIP: Check out Italy's Matera nine thousand year old caves, now, swank with breathtakingly fab hotels and residences. Think of them ten thousand years from now with even more design swagger and comfort. In other words, forget the muddy, stalagmite cave images. This is the set for a full-length play that will premiere at the festival. You can take advantage of the set or you can totally ignore the set. In any case, the set will be minimal) No special lighting, sound, costumes, make up, or music. No musicals. Collaborations are accepted. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Maximum three submissions will be accepted for one $10.00 USD fee, which offsets festival's costs. Make check or money order out to Barbara J. Wells, artistic director. On memo line write, AMSATT. Submit fee with hard copy of script(s). Mail to: AMSATT/ Barbara J. Wells, Artistic director, 4040 N. Oakley Av, #321, Chicago, Illinois 60618 . Email script(s) in pdf to becarefulofwhatyouwish4@gmailcom Use email icon in top right-hand corner. List play(s) submitted. Cover page: title, contact info, brief synopsis, character breakdown, a one sentence statement that tells the audience something you want them to know about your play. You'll receive an email confirmation when all requirements have been met. Scripts will not be returned. WINNERS AND LOSERS will be emailed. Please do not query about scripts. Notifications to selected playwrights will be emailed in June. THIS PROJECT IS IN NO WAY CONNECTED TO CHICAGO DRAMATISTS THEATRE. HELPFUL TIPS TO WRITING A FLASH PLAY We're looking for character driven plays. Plays with all the classic elements. The limited running time forces some of these elements to be hinted at. NOTE: Plays will be chosen by director. (c) by Barbara J. Wells 2014 |