The Best Plays from the Strawberry One-Act Festival Volume Eight

Download or read book The Best Plays from the Strawberry One-Act Festival Volume Eight written by Black Experimental Theatre and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOOTHOLD by Patrick J. Lennon. A goofy Mary Poppins-ish nurse treats a shy man with an ingrown toenail and a broken heart. WRITERS RETREAT by Samantha Ciavarella. Things get messy when youre the subject of your own story. Two friends/lovers/writers realize quickly that they cannot have their cake and eat it too. A SONG A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY by Freddy Valle. A play about an ailment so embarrassing, you wouldnt tell your Mom about it. Say Aahhh. WHERES THE REST OF ME? By David E. Tolchinsky. A screenwriter wrestles with his relationship to Spalding Gray, his psychiatrist father and the classic movie, Kings Row. A dark and funny journey through movies, monologues and mental illness. KIDS THESE DAYS by Rachel Robyn Wagner. Like the Brady Bunch . . . Only with drugs, alcohol, sex, and most of all honesty. HOPELESS, IRRESISTIBLE by Keaton Weiss. Two strangers meet at a mysterious train station in an ambiguous afterlife. Other plays include: HOMECARE by Phoebe Farber, THE EXIT INTERVIEW by Betsy Kagen & MK Walsh, PAULA'S VISITOR by Keith Filangieri and ABRAMOVIC by Kory French. As middle America continues with its economic struggles, a MOMA visiting Midwestern twenty-something tries to understand the monetary value of high-art, grounding his friend in the process.