The
Plays
of Rosemary
McLaughlin
Full-lengths
One-Acts
Coming Soon!
The Raw and the Cooked: a comedy about ritual sacrifice.
and
The American Moment:
a trilogy about silk strikes, salons and the birth of American
drama.
Staged
Readings performed at Win Atkins Theatre Project, the John
Harms Center and New Jersey Repertory
Company.
World premierewill
be at Drew University's
Kirby Theatre, October 13-16, 1999.
Comedy/drama, One interior set; Casting: Can be done with 4- 7 actors:
2 male and 2 female OR 4 male and 3 female actors.
How do you love thy neighbor once the sofrito
hits the fan? Synopsis
First developed as MFA thesis
play at Rutgers University's Mason
Gross School of the Arts where it was directed by Michael Nash. Its
professional premiere was directed by Elaine Schatzline-Behr at the Chicago
Cooperative Stage. The New York premiere was at WINGS
Theatre, directed by Joanne Sagherian.
Drama, 3 females, 1 male;
1 interior set. Synopsis.
Standing in the Shadows
concerns a critically injured woman’s journey to recover in the midst of
the
power struggle between her parents and her lover.
World premiere was at Wings
Theatre Company. Recent productions include Outward Spiral Theatre,
Minneapolis, a production directed by Elaine Shatzline-Behr that played
in Illinois and Hertsfordshire, England, and the upcoming West Coast premiere
at Lambda Players, Sacramenta, CA, January, 2001.
Review
of Outward Spiral production.
Drama, 5 females, 1 male;
1 interior set.
Synopsis.
| The Second Coming of Joan |
Staged reading performed at Waterfront Ensemble (one-act version) and
the Win Atkins Theatre Project (full-length)
Comedy; two interior, two exterior sets. Cast: Can be performed
with as few as 7 actors.
MAXWELL, a gifted history teacher with a penchant for drag, doesn't
want to tell his conservative boyfriend, ARTHUR that he's getting messages
from a dear, departed Saint, for fear of unsettling their already rocky
relationship. When he learns a
friend of his, a kind and innocent priest, is being blackmailed, he
goes into his "Joan of Arc" mode to defeat the blacklisting/book-burning/power-broking
of CARDINAL HOOLIGAN, SENATOR PORKBELLY and
REV. HELMSLEY PHLEGM and bring peace, justice and tasteful pumps to
the world.
Other characters include: FATHER DENNIS GOOD, a priest who lives up
to his name; MARGO & CECILIA, the madly-in-love neighbors next-door;
SISTER VIVA LAS VEGAS, trades Bingo for blackjack to raise money for her
flock; DR. SAUERBRATEN, runs group therapy for saints displaced in
the 20th century; JEANNE, a housekeeper/reincarnation of Joan of Arc.
Commissioned by the
Unlimited
Potential Theatre Company (Very Special Arts/NJ) for their touring
theatre company.
Comedy; One basic set, interior/exterior; Five women, three men
Comedy. Staged reading performed by Waterfront Ensemble.
Cast: Two female, one male; One interior set.
KAY WINSTON-BRADDOCK-- 30-ish; a sign-language interpreter for the
past two years, she is open-minded, warm-hearted; GEORGIA HOGENTOGLER--
same age; KAY's estranged lover, a psychologist whose Sixties' enthusiasms
are dwindling; CHARLES CARLSON-- late 20's; deaf, African-American;
an aspiring photographer supporting himself as a porter, certain he has
found his muse in KAY. His unannounced, late-night arrival startles
the women into thinking there's a desperado banging at their door, refusing
to identify himself. For KAY it's a potential friendship. For
GEORGIA, a potential rival.
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