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MUSE
Productions
SlamBoston, Devanaughn Theatre, Boston, MA
Drama West, Los Angeles, CA
Expanded Arts, New York, NY
"Creating a Scene" Festival, The Playwrights' Center, Minneapolis, MN
Heartlande Theatre One-Act Marathon, Birmingham, MI
Festival of Ten, State University of New York, Brockport, NY
Heartlande Theatre Playscape, Birmingham, MI
Renaissance High School For The Arts, Long Beach, CA
Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Irene Ryan Acting Competition, American College Theatre Festival, Bloomington-Normal, IL
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(The classic scene: CAL sits at a typewriter--all around him, a sea of wadded-up sheets of paper. He types; he reads; he jerks the paper out of the typewriter; he wads it up.)
CAL
I need a muse. Where's my muse? Homer had a muse, Shakespeare, Dante... Reams of paper...editor's forgotten me, my agent's lost my phone number... If I had a muse...
(RON enters, not too swishy.)
RON
You called.
CAL
No, no.
RON
I can leave.
CAL
Wait! Just a brief moment, for clarification.
RON
Anything.
CAL
See, you cannot be--
RON
Your muse?
CAL
Correct. Because all through literary history, when a guy calls for his muse, it's always a girl. See, there were nine muses. They were the daughters of Zeus. There was Calliope--she was the muse of heroic poetry. There was Clio, history; Terpsichore, dance; there was...let's see...
RON
Euterpe, music; Thalia, comic and lyric poetry; Erato, love poetry; Polyhymnia, sacred poetry; Melpomene, tragedy; and Urania, astronomy.
CAL
Astronomy?
RON
They didn't have telescopes back then. They had to make it up.
CAL
They must have some new ones now, you know, for the novel, modern plays, abstract expressionism... I've seen paintings of the Muses! They're always women! Voluptuous, heavy breasted, thick-thighed, long-haired--
RON
When Oscar Wilde called for a muse, who do you think they sent?
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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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