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The Senior Theatre Resource Center |
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Take a look at the plays written by Doug Stewart. You’ll enjoy the plot, characters, fun and insight he brings to his plays.
4 Men and 6 Women This a warm and humorous script of a 50th high school reunion. The colorful group returns to a small Midwestern farm town along with their pasts and their futures. Against a background of Big Band music, the one act is successful as readers theatre or as a staged production. It makes for quite an evening! 3rd Place Winner, Oklahoma Community Theatre Association New Play Contest! I’m 72 and have been dabbling in all phases of community theatre for 20 years, but this is the first time I’ve gotten goose bumps delivering lines during rehearsals and bringing teary eyes to fellow thespians. Joan Alice Hall Read how Bill Frankeberger staged “Reunion” “We had a wonderful show with “The Reunion at Mt. Sanguine.” People said it was our best show ever! Here’s how we did it: The early-arriving audience members were taught the fight song; so at beginning of show did slide show, then the fight song. It went over so well. The costumes were clothes you’d wear if you were attending a reunion. \ We have a small stage so in the restroom scene, the men were on one side and the men on the other. We added signs, “Boys” and “Girls,” to delineate the areas. Actors faced the audience, pretending to be primping in the mirror. We used songs to cover with the slide projection screen was rising. We deleted the blackouts and just transitioned from scene to scene. It kept the play moving along smoothly. The show ran 102 minutes including a 15-minute intermission, just the perfect length! What a great show! We loved it and the audience loved it! Bill Frankeberger See the intro slide show used before the performance Contact us for reduced price cast copies WAITING FOR DR. HAMLETT 12-15 minutes. 6 men, 4 women. This delightful romp takes you through the medical morass of Dr. Hamlett’s Padua City waiting room, as ten zany characters collect and distribute Shakespearian quotes as though picking daffodils on a bright Spring morning. This imaginative short comedy is fun for casts and audiences of all ages, giving everyone involved a wonderful opportunity to “Brush up your Shakespeare, start quoting him now!” $15.00 IN RUMI’S FIELD 12-15 minutes. 3 characters, any gender The Persian poet Rumi said it, nearly 700 years ago, “Out beyond the ideas of right and wrong, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” This short play gives us an on-site view of what can happen in that field when two disparate cultures meet, shortly after 9/11. Ideal as a discussion-generator on cross-cultural issues. Click here to read a FreeView of the play $15.00 THE MAGAZINE 12-15 minutes. 4 men, 2 women Who knows what occurs around us while we sleep - even on a park bench? In this moving comedy, a napping Elroy is completely oblivious as five complete strangers engage in a spirited cross-generational debate above his sleeping form regarding the value of history’s hard-earned lessons. $15.00 |
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ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center We help older performers fulfill their theatrical dreams! Copyright 2012 ArtAge Publications. All rights reserved. |