#shortplay

[extrusivethoughts]

Recording of my play For One Night Only from the East London Theatre Collective's New Works Festival 2023.

 For 1 Night Only by Avouleance (they/them)

 Directed by Sebastian Wie Murphy (he/him)

 Staring Jessy Johnson (they/them) and Poet The Jules (they/them)

 Original Song 'Anachroclasm' by Jessy Johnson 

 Video by Sabrina Kelleher (she/her)

[galaxy-bunbie]

Bandit Flapper

A small Short-Play that I wrote for a School Project. ALL RIGHT RESERVED TO ME. If anyone is at all interested in this piece contact me on Twitter Galaxy_Bunnie or even on here!

THE BANDIT FLAPPER

BY: Karina Cabrera

CAST

HELEN

COP

JAMES

AGATHA

HELEN is at a table her hands cuffed together, around her is darkness and the chair across from her is empty. She's there in the darkness for a while, tapping her foot and fiddling with the cuffs. Moments pass and HELEN stands up holding the cuffs on one of her fingers, throwing the cuffs to the ground she smiles, turning her chair to look at the audience.

HELEN: I remember the first job I went on, like it was yesterday. It runs through my mind everyday, and honestly makes me smile a little bit more each and every time. It was a fun time, I was young, and swift. Was never going to be caught at that age, plus I'm sure I could have played my way out of any trouble. Actually to hell I think I did. Ha, yeah I remember it now that little cop, he really did try to follow my tail. Was close! Real close, but luckily I am an actress honestly, could likely beat Olive Thomas in the audition rooms. But regardless I looked at the fuzz straight in the eye giving him my best doe eyes and pouty lip. Look, watch.

The lights start to shift as the table is taken out by what seems to be movers, then HELEN is there in the dark as city noises surround the space. In the back there are silhouettes to show that she is in the city of some sort. A mover comes out and throws HELEN a trench coat and duffle bag, which she quickly puts on trying to hide the bag in the process. 

COP: Hey you! Stop what you're doing!

HELEN: Oh please sir, can you point me in the right direction? I seem to have gotten lost. I'm new to town and keep forgetting the location of the Miss Agatha's Hotel? We call her Miss Aggie though. 

COP: Oh uh, I see. I'm sorry mam I think I confused you for someone else, so uh well you see just down that street right there, you're going to keep walking until you see the big ol sign that says Main Street. Once there you should be in the home stretch as Miss Aggies hotel is the big ol red building on Main. Ya can’t miss it. 

HELEN: Oh thank you so much sir! I am forever thankful for your help. Is there anything I could possibly do to repay you?

COP: O-Oh no mam, you don't need to do that. I'm just here protecting the citizens of the city and making sure a pretty woman like you gets home alright. Will you be ok walking back to Miss Aggies by yourself?

HELEN: Oh don't worry. I think I’ll be able to manage. Thank you sir, I hope you have a nice night. You've been real. Help.

HELEN starts to make an exit but as she exits the bag drops from her coat.

COP: Oh, mam you seem to have dro-

HELEN: Thank you sir, I am so sorry I guess I must be really clumsy. Well, thank you again sir-

COP: Hold on mam, I am so sorry, but you see just a few blocks from here there was a robbery-

HELEN: Excuse me sir! You're accusing me of robbing a bank? I think you need a pair of glasses sir, I could never do that. I am practically a mere little lady.

COP: Oh, well um I am sincerely mam. I guess perhaps I am in the wrong, well, here you go. You should be on your way. The sun seems to be setting and this town is sadly mighty dangerous at night. Even if we do try to keep it as safe as we can, especially for little ladies li-

HELEN exits, and finally COP realizes that she is gone. He looks around a bit as if looking for her when JAMES runs on stage catching his breath.

JAMES: Did you catch her? She ran this way the Flapper that robbed Newman's bank. Hey, Hey look at me buddy where you looking off to?

COP: Oh detective James, I am sincerely sorry I didn't see you there. I am so sorry sir uh what were you saying just now?

JAMES: Jesus h christ Harold, look up at me and stop bowing your head. You looked like a dog looking after a bone just now. Now look at me and tell me did you see if that Flapper passed by here?

COP: No sir, just a little lady, I was uh looking to see where she went off to. See the sun is setting and it could be a mighty dangerous time for-

JAMES: Harold, I don’t care about that, did you check the lady over? Right not every lady who isn't accompanied by a friend or man is a suspect. So please tell me. Please. That you at least did a search on her or any bags she had.

COP: Well, uh you see sir. She was uh just a little la-

JAMES: Harold! I don't care if she was a little lady, if she wouldn't have been able to do it. Dear god every woman we searched today has said that because guess what genius. These ladies know how to play us, act all sweet and innocent, make us lower our walls. Do you hear me Harold?

COP: U-uh yes sir I. I understand I am sorry I will make sure to search any suspect well next time, uh real well.

JAMES: Good, now at least tell me you were able to confirm that she wasn't wearing what the suspect wore.

COP: Uh, w-well

JAMES: Jesus Christ Harold! You did not. Please tell me that you know that the lady wasn't wearing a flapper dress or so god. If I have to do more paper-

COP: Well uh, you better get that pen ready and b-buckle up sir.

JAMES: God dammit Harold, you son of a- god you're so dumb. Ok whatever its fine, do you know where this lady may have gone? I guess I’ll do your job since your fired.

COP: Oh well you see she went to Miss Agatha- Wait fired?

JAMES: Yes, fired Harold. Now, you are free to go and get out of the way of my work am I clear? (beat) Harold. Am. I. Clear?

COP: U-Uh Y-Yesir.

JAMES: Good

JAMES exits quickly following the direction that HELEN went off in, COP is there looking around for a moment.

COP: God Dammit.

COP exit. The scene starts to change showing the sunset, and we see the city line start to switch to one main building. There is the sound of the bell and doors opening and finally, the lights come up on what seems to be an inside setting. Specifically the lobby of Miss Agatha's hotel. There is a counter and behind it a door. HELEN enters.

HELEN: Ohhhhh Momma. I'm home! Momma? (beat) Oh miss Aggie! Agatha. Oh my god.

HELEN walks over to the counter and spots a bell. She reaches out and starts to ring it continuously with the next line.

HELEN: Oh Momma. Wake up lil Hel is home. Oh Momma Aggie. Miss Aggie. Agatha my Banana Mama. Miss Aggie the mega Ba-

AGATHA enters from the door, HELEN didn't see her and continues until AGATHA places her hand over HELENS stopping the ringing.

AGATHA: Every day you make me regret checking you into this hotel more and more. Now must I remind you. You don't have the right to call me Momma if you don't pay rent. An certainly not the right to call me Aggie or Agatha, or Agatha my-

HELEN: But I do got rent, see.

HELEN places on the counter the bag that had dropped earlier. HELEN also starts to shrug off her coat revealing a flapper dress underneath.

AGATHA: Helen put that damn jacket back on, I don't want people seeing a floozy in my Hotel Lobby. Now let's open this up. Oh goodness! Helen darling this is a nice haul. 

HELEN: Yeah, yeah. Now, how much more time will that buy me Momma. Please tell me you can do me a lil favor.

AGATHA: Of course, I can. That is after you put that damn jacket on.

HELEN: Oh Momma, you don't mean that come on. That jacket is just so itchy and it's hot. See look! My curls are falling out because of how hot it is.

AGATHA: Oh Helen put that damn jacket on, quickly now. Someone’s walking up to the building.

HELEN: Oh Shit. 

HELEN quickly grabs the jacket and moves to behind the counter and tries to go into AGATHA’s room. As the door opens and JAMES walks in, HELEN quickly ducks instead leaving AGATHA and JAMES there alone.

AGATHA: Well hello officer, I'm sorry but I didn't know if you saw the sign outside or not. But this is Miss Agathas Hotel for working girls. I believe it said loud and clear on the door sign “NO MEN: Unless accompanied by a Tenant. So I am sincerely sorry but you're going to have to turn around officer. Unless perhaps, you came to speak to me in which I’ll gladly have the plea-

JAMES: Ok. Mam that's enough. I am here strictly on business-

AGATHA: Now. Now! Hold up there. That is not the type of hotel that we are running-

JAMES: Excuse me Agatha. Um if I may speak so frankly but I am here just wondering about an inquiry on a young woman who's a suspect of a bank robbery a few blocks over.

AGATHA: You’re suspecting one of my girls? Heaven forbid! My girls each came from a harsh broken background. Then they came to me like little puppies in the rain. Sad, Lonely, with no roof over their heads either and no job to help support them. Well, I'll tell you, Miss Agatha. That's me: helped them get back on their feet and find them all a good little working job.

JAMES: Mam, I am just wondering if perhaps any of your tenants are a flapper-

AGATHA: Oh my heavens no! They are so modern, loud and if I dare say a whole lot of Floozys. I don't have a single Flapper here in fact oh look there is my favorite tenant right now. If I dare say she is the cream of all the crop here in Miss Agatha's hotel.

From the section that leads further into the hotel comes HELEN she is dressed in business attire with a hat on her head. But that didn't hide the fact that her hair was also a very different color, but it was still HELEN with the way she carried herself. 

HELEN: Oh Miss Aggie! I'm heading out now for the day. It seems the Office needed me to come in today as Mr. Langston’s other secretary got sick. I hope she is fine, poor girl catch-

AGATHA: Now, now Helen dear. Didn't you learn any manners? Right before you is a fine officer gentleman. He's here to ask a few questions of our tenants. Since you're the first to come down, how about you tell this fine gentleman what you were up to hmmm?

HELEN: Oh now Miss Aggie you know it's embarrassing but if you really insist. You see officer I was working upstairs on my needlework, 

JAMES: Yes well, I'm sorry to ask you mam. However I must say your makeup is very modern for a office job perhaps you should cha-

HELEN: Now now Mr. Officer. Every woman has their preference, and that was extremely rude. So I must say, I believe you owe me something hmmm? Perhaps I should know your name since you know mine. Plus you also just rudely insulted my makeup, which in my defense is the style.

JAMES: Yes, I guess you're right. But you must tell me your full name as well, so I can take you off the list of suspects. 

HELEN: Of course. So you first?

JAMES: James, James Blakely.

HELEN: Helen Debois.

BLACK OUT

[destyni-is-me]

thanks for tagging me, @novaae!! I haven't done one of these in awhile lol

Last song: Skeleton Appreciation Day in Vestal, NY (Bones) by Will Wood and The Tapeworms

Last Book: The Auctioneer by Joan Samson

Last Movie: Frailty

Last TV Show: Abbot Elementary

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Sweet, but I am a known spicy enjoyer as well

Relationship status: single

Last thing I googled: Types of sheer fabric

Current obsession(s): I don't think I have anything I could classify as an obsession at the moment

Looking Forward : this semester is almost over! I am excited to share my poetry project with my class and then to just chill for a couple months before the next semester starts lol

Tagging: @pendragonshoard @nomisupernova @geode-to-joy and @ramaque

[graciewritings]

DirectFest 2024: “Fictionistas” by Mark Saunders

Directed & Primarily Designed by Gracie Ridings

📸: Joseph Howard @joes_photos_04 on Instagram

[ewanchung]

I'll be performing some online theatre again with @neoensembletheatre in a sweet and poignant short play in this show of shorts this Sunday, 26th February, at 2 pm PST. The pieces cover a wide range of topics. Please log in and check it out if you're able! More information at www.neoensembletheatre.org. #Zoom #OnlineTheatre #ShortPlays https://www.instagram.com/p/CpBCa2GP-OF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[recurse-game]

Feel free to not answer this one if you consider it spoilers, but I pocked around some of the writing files and it mentioned something about a “longplay video.” Has this been released/ will be released?

Sort of answered in the FAQ, I’ve decided to hold off on doing my own longplay for time reasons, but several folks on youtube and other platforms have uploaded great playthroughs!

As for that juicy tidbit you might have noticed in the script… I MAY upload an “extremely-shortplay” sometime that accomplishes the same goal. But I want to give folks some time to poke around on their own first.

[laxmansinghsworld]

🥺P80 This girl can't speak, like my daughter #cdrama #drama #shortplay #...

[vergess]

Huh.

This seems like a fixable issue, but I'm not quite sure where to start...

It is eerily reminiscent of the issues indie authors have getting read instead of ignored (group one) or put on a shelf (group two). I wonder if some of the techniques used to mitigate that could be helpful?

Some big ones authors use are review copies (free in exchange for your feedback, maybe called playtesting or similar in this context?), book clubs, and libraries.

I wonder if there isn't perhaps a way you could... maybe... donate a review copy to local universities with commons/game areas?

Or perhaps there's space in the marketplace for some sort of walk-up Grindr for TTRPGs that would let you join one-shot or shortplay groups via... voice chat? Online? Like the way they do it at conventions, but a big public online space for group finding.

Or, well, you know. Like a library. But it's for TTRPGs, and offers sale links to the PDFs as you play them. Maybe for free in exchange for review, maybe for subscription?

I genuinely DO NOT know FUCK ALL about the TTRPG scene to be clear. These things may exist already?

But from an outside perspective... I think this problem can be addressed from the authorial side in ways similar to book publication. Like, it's definitely the same shape, scale, etc of problem.

Imo the problem with being an indie TTRPG creator rn is that it’s REALLY hard for your game to actually get played because sometimes it feels everyone is either one of those “D&D is universal, thanks to homebrew D&D can do ANYTHING” ppl who legitimately think there’s no point to ever playing anything other than the ampersand game and will never even think to look at anything that isn’t 5e, OR an indie addict who’s so much into exploring new stuff that they have a massive backlog of at least a couple hundred games they want to get to run/play someday but never get the chance.

The first group will categorically reject your game, the second group will download it, read through the rules, and then leave it to rot for years among the increasingly massive sea of TTRPG PDFs clogging their hard-drive (and maybe borrow a couple of cool mechanics from you if you’re lucky).

This isn’t an “everyone but me sucks” post btw, I’m EXTREMELY guilty of the second thing. 

[therabbitholestories]

Come and Watch Fun Fast Feb Fest 2021 Short Play Festival

Valentine’s Day is approaching and TeamTheatre is ready to celebrate with you at Fun Fast Feb Fest 2021!

Fun Fast Feb Fest was created in 2020 with the aim of giving visibility to new voices in the international playwriting landscape. TeamTheatre is determined not to let the pandemic stop us from reprising it: each play will be produced and professionally videotaped with the help of TeamTheatre, and will be broadcasted via Zoom on February 14th and February 15th at 6pm EST. Our 2021 edition has received an overwhelming amount of submissions, and it was extremely challenging to pick the 6 plays that will perform on February 14th. Among these pieces, 3 will be selected - through audience vote - to pass onto the finals on February 15th for a chance to win the award for “Best Production”. Other awards will be given as well such as “Best Script” and “Best Performer”.

Out of more than fifty submissions, TeamTheatre selected the following works: "Radio Hour" by Laurel Andersen, "White Boots" by Regina Carregha and Mouna Soualem, "Whatever Here Is" by Herbert Benjamin, "DEAR" by Madeline Conway, "Things Are Going Swimmingly" by Nadine Dinc and "Welcome, You Are Dead" by Russell Legaspi.

Join TeamTheatre’s virtual stage on February 14th and February 15th for an evening of love and art!

DATES: 

Feb. 14: 6pm EST 

Feb 15: 6pm EST

Tickets: $10

Ticket link: https://www.eventbrite.com/.../funfastfebfest2021-tickets...

For more Information please email nycteamtheatre@gmail.com

[fromtaletotale]

'Two Men Exit The Bar' - Challenge 3.25

‘Two Men Exit The Bar’ – Challenge 3.25

A very simple brief, a very simple play. We were tasked with creating the title of the play before writing it and being inspired from that, or to write the play and then create a crafty title within. Seeing as I usually work with the latter, I asked my pals for a title suggestion and Sean Richards-Mulzac (https://m.twitch.tv/bean1up/profile) got in there first with Two Men Exit The Bar. So. Here…

[46ten]

Actor: Allen Connor, 1924′s shortplay Alexander Hamilton. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348523/, part of the Chronicles in America photoplays from the Yale series. 

It seems he played Hamilton again in 1940. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344822/?ref_=nm_flmg_c_1_act

Edited to add: the film seems to be based on Henry Jones Ford's Washington and His Colleagues (1918), published by Yale University Press. But Ford was also the author of Alexander Hamilton (1920), published by Scribner's. And oh boy, that last one is a doozy. One can see the full 1890s-1920s love affair for AH in that one. It also has all kinds of details that one cannot help but wonder if this is family lore being passed down and recorded (descriptions of Rachel Faucette and James Hamilton's relationship, among them), or if this is entirely made up.

A picture of an unknown actor who played Lt. Colonel Alexander Hamilton in a play sometime in 1959

[ashalen-infinity]

One year ago today... 😭😭❤️ #Halifax #plays #screenwriters #bleedinghearts #theatrenerd #theatre #halifax #halifaxtheatre #artgallery #2017 #bestdayever #ninecompositions #art #interactionswithart #trip #plays #novascotiawriters #screenwriter #play #memories #writing #shortplay #year #accomplishment #remember #maudlewis #painting #novascotia #screenplay #screenplaywriter #nostalgia #flowers #painters https://www.instagram.com/p/BqSvjhmgZNu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=iqof9xwobc3g

[tothennthpower]

This Thursday, May 13th at 8pm, I'll be participating in the 202nd reading in the #lafayettesalonseries. Click on the website link for more details. #Repost @lafayette.salon (@get_repost) ・・・ “I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.” — Shel Silverstein No. 202: Shel Silverstein Shorts (THE SHEL MUST GO ON), 13MAY21@8pm www.lafayettesalonseries.com #shelsilverstein #shortplay #virtualreading #tablereading #stagedreading #zoomtheater #actor #actorslife https://www.instagram.com/p/COwitQ-jpVM/?igshid=dfsxyyjordtx

[thefeministbibliothecary]

You can now read our full Lite Reads review (link below/through the main page kink in the bio) of A Sunday In the South by Georgia Douglas Johnson. This one act play was our first time reading a play as part of Lite Reads, and it was chosen especially with Black History Month in mind. This anti-lynching play is from c. 1925 and is deeply emotional. I personally thought it was great, and very different from much of my play reading experience. Let me know in the comments what you thought! You can find our new selection tomorrow! https://wp.me/p9KSXu-Jo #LiteReads #shortstoryclub #plays #oneactplay #shortplay #reading #BlackHistoryMonth #bhm #blackhistorymonth2021 https://www.instagram.com/p/CLRB1tHA9AC/?igshid=lpx8k350465p

[laxmansinghsworld]

😢P8 This girl can't speak, like my daughter #cdrama #drama #shortplay #s...

[atomazos93]

Character shot: Craig super fan of Streak and his wife Marion. #slicemyhearttopieces We’ll be at ARKfest 24-25 March, Heat 5. Book Tickets. www.arktheatremelb.com I’ve been having so much fun playing this sap. 🎭👌🤙🏼 #arkfest #comedy #theatre #shortplay #superfan #streak #slicemyhearttopieces #actorslife #actor #performer