"Saturday with Martin" in TnT Anthology, Coming out in March

Below is the official press release for "Short Plays to Long Remember," which includes "Saturday with Martin," originally presented by Blue Coyote with George Hosmer and Brian Fuqua. I'll keep you posted on more details as we get closer to reading events in March.






NEW RELEASE from TnT CLASSIC BOOKS
SHORT PLAYS TO LONG REMEMBER

Compiled and edited by Francine L. Trevens due out in March

An eclectic anthology of plays ranging in playing time from seven minutes to over forty minutes. They cover the full gamut of styles and subjects, from atheism to zen, from actual incidents to zoological impossibilities, from aesthetics to zeitgeist, from apathy to zealotry. The 27 play collection has works from 14 authors, including Jane Chambers, among whose many awards in the seventies were Connecticut Educational TV. Award, Eugene O'Neill fellowship, National Writer’s Guild Award, and in the eighties, L.A. Drama Critic’s Circle Award, a Proclamation from L. A. for Outstanding Theatre and Fund for Human Dignity Award. First play in the book is by Doric Wilson who won the 2007 IT Award for Artistic Achievement; and in 2009, the ATHE Career Achievement Award for Professional Theatre. Its other award winning authors are, Perry Brass, Michael Devereaux, Paul Dexter, Victor Gluck, (noted lecturer on theatre and an esteemed theatre critic), David Brendan Hopes, David Johnston, David J. Mauriello, Sidney Morris, William F. Poleri, Daniel P. Quinn and George Zarr, a noted radio drama expert.

Designed for colleges, universities, libraries and theatres seeking short plays, SHORT PLAYS TO LONG REMEMBER ISBN 978-1-886586-14-7 $16.95 retail, pre-publication orders accepted now directly from publisher. Email tntclassics@aol.com.

SHORT PLAYS TO LONG REMEMBER will be featured in the Greater New York Independent Publishers NIFTY AFTER FIFTY program at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Square March 22. Selected gay plays from the anthology will be in a 2nd Tuesday program on April 12, called 4 PLAY and featuring 4 plays and authors, at the Center on 13th Street.

Vision Quest at Observatory

My friend Pam's show, opening this weekend in Brooklyn! If you don't follow her blog, you're a chump.

And Remember...

If you're having a bad day. It could be worse.

You could be in the clutches of Eclipso.

2 AM in LA

The short film "2 AM," with James Dumont and Lisa Goodman, directed by Barbara Tarbuck, will be shown in LA Wednesday Jan 6. Details below.

El Cid Short Film Night Wednesday January 6th -- Timeline

8:00pm Pre-Show Cocktail mixer/Dinner party ($8 Cover)
9:00pm Show

El Cid (Silverlake)
4212 W. Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles 90029

Very excited about this, as Lisa and James have been relentlessly promoting. "2 AM" is based on my short play, "A Phone Call from Washington State, Late at Night," with a screenplay adaptation by myself and Barbara. The whole project was excellently done, and I'll love it if any LA friends can go see it and give a report back.

"I Was a Friend of Harry Lime."

What to say about this movie? This print looks fabulous. Every shot is genius.

The ferris wheel at the park, where they have their meeting. Trevor Howard and his crisp delivery – “I don’t want any more murders in this case, and you were born to be murdered.” The scene in the children’s hospital in Vienna, with the unseen victims of Harry Lime. “It got meningitis. They gave it some of Lime’s penicillin. Pity, isn’t it?” with the creepy, smiling nuns floating around cheerfully, ministering to these unseen things. Greene’s moral universe where if you murder people you never see, it doesn’t count does it? Kind of like today’s predator drones. The brilliantly overlapping dialogue in the ferris wheel. The first shot of Lime, cat between his feet. (“He only liked Harry.”) The crease of his pants just so, hitting the right mark on the shoes. A man dead for two weeks and his pants are still faultlessly pressed. His hail-fellow well met cheery dialogue, covering up his murderous eyes. The last shot, Anna Schmidt walking down the road, Joseph Cotten off to the left, leaves falling as she walks past without acknowledgment. Even after his act of heroism, he can’t get a date. That cloying bouncy zither music punctuating the action – the most counter-intuitive music choice ever for a film, up there with Duke Ellington’s score for “Anatomy of a Murder.” The music is so intrusive, it’s practically another character, and yet somehow perfect.

Kapow

My review of the Brick Theater's "Evolution", part of Fight Fest, is up on NYTheatre.com.

Last Reviews Before Closing

All the reviews are in from Busted Jesus Comix in London, which closed on Saturday.

Four stars here.

QX Magazine here.

And The Stage here.