Plays

Removal (119 pp.)

A drama about a spirited eighty-six-year-old welfare recipient, grinding bureaucracy, and the rights of individuals to live and die where they choose.

 

The Tricolored Roof (90 pp.)

A comedy about two young brothers “stuck on a bare roof”  after their hot-tempered carpenter father leaves them with orders to finish the job by high noon “or else.”  What to do when they discover that the lumber company has delivered the wrong colored shingles?

 

Realometers (28 pp.)

The commercial failure of Henry David Thoreau’s first book – and Thoreau’s clash with his neighbors in Concord, Massachusetts.

 

Two Suits in One Act (40 pp.)

During her famous 1934-35 lecture tour of America, expatriate author Gertrude Stein makes an unscheduled stop at a fledgling business college in Manchester, New Hampshire, gives an off-the-cuff talk, and reveals far more than she ever intended.

 

Ice Dreamers (127 pp.)

While under the stress of organizing his second expedition to Antarctica, highly self-disciplined Captain Robert Falcon Scott meets and falls desperately in love with the flirtatious, bohemian sculptor Kathleen Bruce, then finds himself competing with another male suitor also determined to win Kathleen’s affections.

 

Dancer on the Floor of Heaven (90 pp.)

In a pre-dawn raid of a tenement house on the corner of a red-light district in Chicago, poet Maxwell Bodenheim seeks to rescue Peggy Grace, a young actor and ballet dancer, from her homicidal landlady.

 

Production History Since 2000

 

Dancer on the Floor of Heaven (full-length drama) - November 2010

Staged reading at Southern New Hampshire University

Manchester, NH

 

The Tricolored Roof  (full-length comedy) - April 2009