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The Curse is Reversed* (formerly The Curse of the Bambino)
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Musical
8M, 1F
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Rewritten with a new, happier ending after the 2004 season, this
is the tale of the Red Sox struggle for a World Championship after the
1920 sale of Babe Ruth (The Bambino)
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Premiered at Boston's Lyric Stage in 2001. Subsequent productions
at Stoneham's Theater To Go and Waltham's Hovey Players
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Go here to
visit the official web site of the musical, or click here
to view the PDf of the script
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Resurrection
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Short form
1M, 1F
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Eugene O'Neill once suggested
that man should experience a resurrection a week. How do you suppose
mankind would react? Resurrection is a short play that presents
one possibility.
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The piece premiered simultaneously
in 2005 at both the brown couch
theatre in Chicago and Studio Rep
of Rhode Island, was presented as part of the 2006
Boston Theater Marathon and the Curan
Theater of New York City's Notes from the Underground one-act festival
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Click
HERE
to view the PDF
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Good for Nothing
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Short Form
2M, 1F
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A wild take on reality-based
TV shows
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Produced by several companies
, including The Barn Players of Waltham.
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Brooklyn
Publishing in 2004
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Arnold Nawrocki is Dead
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Short Form
2M
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Two men ruminate over the obituary
of the man who perfected the process of individually wrapping cheese slices
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Premiered at the 2004 Boston
Theater Marathon
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JAC
Publishing & Promotions in 2005
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The Riverbank Code
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Full length
6M, 2F
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Based on the true story of the
people who in 1916 proved in court that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare
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Eldridge
Publishing Company in 2003
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GUILTY!
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Short form
2M, 2F
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The idea for this
play came after Robert Mattson mentioned that one of Patrick Brennan's
plays would be produced at ACME the same year as Good for Nothing.
I joked "knowing Patrick it will probably be another syrupy love story,"
to which Robert replied "yes, but in his story the couple will be forced
to fall in love." I immediately replied "Robert, that's a great idea
for a play."
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JAC
Publishing & Promotions in 2005
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The End
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Short Form
3M, 2F
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A father's impending death affects
his three sons in very different - and life-changing ways
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JAC
Publishing & Promotions in 2005
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Top
of the World, Ma!
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Short Form
2M
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A spoof
of "Outward-Bound" type of programs for executives in which two office
workers find they are the only ones to have survived the day's challenge
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Presented
July 2001 as part of Waltham's Hovey
Players Summer Shorts Festival and was also produced at Maynard's ACME
Theater in 2005
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Brooklyn
Publishing in 2003
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I.P.O.
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Full length
6M, 3F
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On the
last full day of the 1990s we follow a Harvard drop-out who has started
a company, to grab his share of the Internet boom. He battles with his
investor-father, his competitors, his girlfriend, and a myriad of temptations
of the 1990s, while his company rises from nothing (we start with an empty
stage in the morning) to the height of a media-driven frenzy (mid-day the
office is crowded with furniture, reporters, and lawyers) to the inevitable
collapse of the company (as the last lines of the play are spoken, a worker
is removing the desks and chairs.)
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Click
HERE
to view the PDF
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Immaculate Deception
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Short Form
3M
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Pittsburgh natives Harry and Frank return to their boyhood homes
after their father's funeral. There, they learn that the secret their
deceased mother had been hiding from their father - and them.
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Click
HERE
to view the PDF
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Secret Love
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Super Short Form
1M
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The harrowing tale of the the perhaps inevitable result of man's
love for computers
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Click
HERE
to view the PDF
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Seven Stages
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Short Form
3M, 2F
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A collaborative piece, in which one page at a time was written
by eight different playwrights whose only task was to add to the previous
page and set up the next playwright. The writers were, in order:
David, Jerry Bisantz, Robert Mattson, Steven Bergman, Glen Doyle, Melinda
Lopez, Norman Lasca, and Michael Bettoncourt.
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Click
HERE
to view the PDF
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What Would A.R. Do?
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Short Form
2M, 1F
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Also titled, "Maintaining Appearances," it is a spoof on the life
styles of the rich and self-centered
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Produced for the 2003 ACME Theater New Winter Works Festival
in Maynard, MA
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Click
HERE
to view the PDF
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Ice Age
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Short Form
1M, 1F
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When baseball fans learned that Ted Williams, the Splendid Splinter,
was, after death, a frozen popsicle, it begged the question "what will
happened to the greatest hitter that ever lived?" This short play takes
a stab at one scenario
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Produced by the Barn Players of Waltham, MA in 2006
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Published in September 2005 as part of the anthology "Fenway Fiction:
Short Stories from Red Sox Nation," by Rounder Books
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Cinema Verite
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Short Form
3M, 3F
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It's a hot summer day in Boston and four college students ponder
the choices at their local multi-plex, as well as the state of their lives
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Presented in February 2002 as part of ACME Theater New Winter
Works Festival in Maynard, MA.
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Click
HERE
to view the PDF
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The Man Who Saved the World
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Short Form
2M, 1F
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An astronaut returns to earth after deflecting an asteroid that
would have killed all life on the planet. But his reward is a celebrity
that for him is a fate worse than death
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Presented at the Annual Arlington Center for the Arts New
Works Festival in November, 2002
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Click
HERE
to view the PDF
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Upon Seeing God in Dearborn
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Short Form
2, M or F
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Percy is a birthday present on his way to a little girl's party.
Life couldn't be better. But into the mailbox falls Raymond, a PAYMENT
OVERDUE notice, who doesn't share Percy's rosy view of the world and the
mail
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The Barn Players of Waltham produced this piece in 2004
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Click
HERE
to view the PDF
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Marooned
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Monologue
1F
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An astronaut, marooned on an alien world, makes a desperate call
to mission control, while fighting off the abductors who are trying to
control her mind
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