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FALLING
Published in More Scenes and Monologues From The Best New Plays, ed. Roger Ellis, Meriwether Publishing, Colorado Springs, CO, 2007
Productions
Playwrights' Circle, Palm Springs, CA. Winner, Palm Springs National Short Play Festival.
Golden Thread Productions, ReOrient Festival, Theater Yugen, San Francisco, CA, and Ashby Stage, Berkeley, CA
Santa Cruz Arab and Middle-Eastern Theatre Festival, Mosaic Theatre Group, Santa Cruz, CA
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Illusion Theatre, The Nine Eleven Plays, Minneapolis, MN
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Drama Academy, Mumbai, India
Vital Theatre Company, Vital Signs 9, New York, NY
Herring Run Arts Fest, Middleboro, MA
John P. Stevens High School, Edison, NJ
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Falling is easily the most poetic of the showcase. Spare, clean, and evocative… Two characters, Reina and Zaki, are in free fall, suspended in the air and in time. Within a dreamy banter, they may discover a great secret of life. Simplicity allows Borden the ability to imply and build on the understood and unsaid. Desert Post Weekly
Falling manages to extract meaning from 9/11 with humor and without mawkishness. San Francisco Bay Guardian
William Borden’s dreamy "Falling," is an improbably delightful dialogue between a Jew and
a Muslim during their 10-second fall from the World Trade Center. The short drama is curiously compelling in its implications. Santa Cruz Live
Falling, by William Borden, is a kind of meditation on 9/11. In it, a Jewish woman on the first day of a new job and a Muslim man on the final day of an old job find each other as they jump out of a window high up in the World Trade Center. What do they think as they fall? What might they say, or want to say? Borden writes movingly on the combination of things, trivial and momentous, that might run through someone's head during their final seconds of life. Falling is very short-—almost as fast as the actual fall from the top of the twin towers would have been-—but makes a strong impact. Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway
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FULL-LENGTH PLAYS
DON'T DANCE ME OUTSIDE
Butch, a novelist, and Ardis, an architect, begin an affair. They reveal their pasts, fantasize their future, call their spouses, fight, risk, and love.
MANY WORLDS
Maggie has to tell Axel that she has terminal cancer, as Axel explains the "Many Worlds" theory of quantum physics, and from time to time "other worlds" open up, some involving Maggie's husband.
TAP DANCING ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
A college professor who wants to run away from home gets his chance when he and his wife are visited by a would-be shaman, a runaway mother, and a hippy.
MEET AGAIN
A romantic comedy that takes a playful, sexy look at reincarnation. "Insightful and delightfully wacky," Jason Fogelson, New York Shakespeare Festival.
GOURMET LOVE
How long can Sally and Arnie keep their affair from their spouses, who are having an affair of their own?
BLUEST REASON
Lewis and Clark air their conflicts and hire a pregnant guide.
TEN-MINUTE PLAYS
GUNNING FOR LIFE
An old man's lust for life confronts his terminal cancer in an unusual comedy with a poignant ending.
DUET FOR VIRTUAL PARTICLES
A man wonders if he's an alien. A woman wonders if she's too tall.
DIRTY LAUNDRY
A woman wearing only a raincoat gives a would-be writer something to write about.
QUARKS
A man and a woman meet at a singles bar. His "Take off your panties," gets unexpected results.
SOMETHING LIGHTER
A couple finalize their divorce. Or do they?
THE BLUES STREET JAZZ CLUB REHEARSES
The loves of five would-be musicians intertwine like strands of music, improvised and unpredictable.
LUNCH
Should Bob and Bella tell their spouses they know their spouses are having an affair?
RECOGNITION
Two high school sweethearts, with their spouses, meet for lunch after 25 years.
HANGMAN
A condemned man must build his own gallows. He helps his executioner write a poem.
ONE EVENING IN PRAGUE
Albert Einstein, an up-and-coming physicist, meets Franz Kafka, a little-known author, .
FALLING
The thoughts of a Jew and a Muslim who fell from the World Trade Center the morning of September 11, 2001.
MUSE
Cal, plagued by writer's block, calls for a muse. He gets Ron.
THAT GUY FROM THE BERGMAN FILM
It may be Cassy's last day, but she hasn't lost her sense of humor as her family gathers around.
THE ALIEN HYPOTHESIS
If Larry is an alien, as he suspects, why haven't the aliens told him?
JUMPING
A man and a woman rejected by love fall in love before one jumps into the ice-covered Mississippi and the other jumps into the praxis of politics.
LEDGE
Mary could jump and end it all if Tom, who also wants to jump, would get out of her way.
ONE-ACT PLAYS
GARAGE SALE
Warren's starting over. He's selling everything.
PATRIOTS
Two men talking--terrorists or undercover agents?
I WANT TO BE AN INDIAN
A white liberal who wants to be an Indian gets his chance.
APPLES
A deconstructed Garden of Eden where Adam finds Lilith, and Eve and Satan reach an understanding.
COCKTAILS, DINNER
Should Sally and Arnie tell their spouses about their affair? Or will it spoil dinner?
IT'S SO WOWOO
Larry wonders if he's an alien. If he is an alien, why haven't the other aliens told him?
HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW
A teenager wonders if a homeless man is really Jesus.
AFFAIRS OF RECKLESS HONOR
Six women re-enact the duels of an earlier age
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