Are you looking for one-acts or full-length plays? I have several. Breakdowns follow. If you see something you would be interested in reading, email me and I can send as an email attachment. My abridged resume is at http://www.geocities.com/ljstockham/Mypage.html - http://www.geocities.com/ljstockham/Mypage.html
Thanks, Linda Stockham, mailto:ljstockham813@yahoo.com - ljstockham813@yahoo.com .
ONE-ACTS
Title: Arctic Quest
Logline: An American physician is humiliated by his 1900 ill-fated attempt to fly to the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon.
Genre: Historic drama.
Character: 1 male. (There is a second version with the addition of 4 minor roles.)
Set: 1, bare stage with scrims, with wreck of hydrogen balloon.
Running Length: 25 minutes.
Copyright ? 2001.
Production History: 1 staged-reading (San Bernardino, California), directed by Dr. Amanda Sue Rudisill, Professor of Theatre Emeritus, CSU San Bernardino.
Publication: Smith & Kraus? The Best Men?s Monologues, 2001.
Royalty Fee: None for educational institutions, including outreach programs through art galleries and museums.
Title: Crossing Bells
Logline: A former stripper owns and operates a small art gallery where no painting is for sale.
Genre: Contemporary surrealistic drama.
Characters: 3 female.
Set: 1, a rural train station converted into an art gallery.
Running Length: 10 minutes.
Copyright ? 2002.
Production History: Aldephia Cable Entertainment (in production). Richard Tirrell, director and producer.
Title: Goddesses of the Western World
Logline: Six senior citizens reminiscence about their past.
Genre: Contemporary drama.
Characters: 6 female, 1 male.
Set: 1, sunroom.
Running Length: 35 minutes.
Copyright ? 1996.
Production History: 1 radio production (KSFU-FM, San Francisco, California); 3 staged-reading (San Bernardino, Rancho Cucamonga, and Palm Springs, California); and recent (2004) production in Perth, Australia.
Publication: ScriptCircle, and Smith & Kraus? The Best Stage Scenes, 1998.
Available online at: http://www.scriptcircle.co.uk/script.php?t=O&id=7
Title: Golden Elliott
Logline: A deeply troubled Vietnam War veteran must finally confront the truth about how the brutality of that war changed forever his idealized childhood friendship.
Genre: Contemporary drama.
Characters: 2 female, 1 male.
Set: 1, service porch.
Running Length: 35 minutes.
Copyright ? 1994.
Production History: 3 stage productions (2 in Los Angeles, California, and 1 in Forfar, Scotland), workshop (Galway, Ireland), 1 radio production (KFSU-FM, San Francisco, California), 1 stage reading (San Bernardino, CA), and 1 theatre arts department student production (Conestoga College, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada).
Publication: Smith & Kraus? The Best Women?s Stage Monologues, 1997.
Title: On the Amazon
Logline: A Scottish explorer and his American bride spend their honeymoon on the Amazon River but with a tragic result.
Genre: Historic drama.
Characters: 1 male, 1 female.
Set: 1, deck of riverboat.
Copyright @ 2002.
Production History: Not yet produced.
Royalty Fee: None for educational institutions, including outreach programs through art galleries and museums.
Title: The Victorian Traveler
Logline: A Victorian spinster defies convention.
Genre: Historic drama.
Character: 1 female.
Set: 1, bare stage with scrims, with easel, canvas, and other sundry painting needs.
Running Length: 40 minutes.
Production History: 3 staged-readings (San Bernardino and Yucaipa, California).
Publication: Smith & Kraus? The Best Women?s Stage Monologues, 2000.
Royalty Fee: None for educational institutions, including outreach programs through art galleries and museums.
Note: There is a revised version of this play, combining material from On the Amazon along with addition of minor roles to relax the 40-minute monologue. Ideal for university theatre department festival.
TWO-ACTS
Title: Desperate Means
Logline: A man with unreal expectations, pressures over time, declining health, and a confrontation with an estranged wife, makes a tragic decision.
Genre: Contemporary drama.
Characters: 4 male, 3 female
Set: 1, living room in an older condominium
Running Length: 95 minutes
WGAw Registration 2004 (#: 1013784 ), Copyright ? 1993
Production History: 1 staged-reading (Los Angeles, California).
Title: Divorce Sale
Logline: A group of neighbors hold a s?ance to contact the deceased husband of a ditsy mother-in-law.
Genre: Contemporary comedy. (Ideal for community theatre and dinner theatre venues.)
Set: 1, double-car garage.
Characters: 7 female, 3 male.
Running Length: 90 minutes.
Copyright ? 1994, 1993.
Production History: 2 stage productions (Dalby, Australia, and New York City, New York), and 2 staged-readings (San Bernardino, California). Play is also in circulation through the California branches of the American Association of University Women.
Publication: Aran Press, Inc. (All rights reserved by the playwright, including stage performances and royalties.)
Title: Perfect World
Logline: An unexpected New Year?s Eve caller disrupts the seemingly perfect life of a successful Broadway actress.
Genre: Contemporary drama.
Characters: 7 female, 4 male.
Set: 1 set, living room.
Running Length: 90 minutes.
Copyright ? 1998.
Production History: 1 stage production (Los Angeles, California).
Publication: ProPlay, Canada, and Smith & Kraus? The Best Men?s Monologues, 1999.
Available online at: http://www.singlelane.com/ - http://www.singlelane.com/ proplay/perfectworld.html
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