Dramatic Shorts

James Quince

Description

Dramatic Shorts is a collection of new theatrical writing allowing new playwrights to showcase their creative talents. It includes various monologues, duologues and short plays from around the world.

Informations

• Publié par: Andrews UK
• Date de parution: 25 août 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781783336654
• Langue: English

Extrait

DRAMATIC SHORTS
Volume 2
James Quince




First published in 2016 by
AG Books
Digital edition converted and distributed by
Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
© Copyright 2016 James Quince
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All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.



Introduction
Dramatic Shorts is a theatrical writing platform showcasing new work from various playwrights ranging from “aspiring” to “established”. The platform, created by James Quince, allows writers wishing to publish their work, for the theatre, can do so to get their talent recognized and seen by many people from the general public to theatres and industry professionals. The book contains various amounts and varieties of monologues, duologues and short plays by different writers in many different styles, lengths, genres and subject matters. The reason why Dramatic Shorts was created is so that more theatrical writing talent can be published and seen, due to the fact that submitting plays to theatres and theatre companies can be very competitive and only a certain percentage succeed. Dramatic Shorts aims to give writers a fighting chance in this competitive industry.
“The idea for this platform pretty much came from the need for more exposure for writers. I’ve come across many talented writers and they all have one thing in common: the difficulty to get noticed nowadays. As I’m a writer myself, I notice this difficulty. Writers will most likely have shorter pieces such as monologues and individual scenes already written but don’t count for much since most theatres and theatre companies only want full-length plays, and so they just get left in the “bottom draw” so to speak. However, I’ve also noticed that those individual pieces still portray the talent of the writer: showing amazing potential for narration, characters, stories and so on, and then I thought “why not put these short pieces on show? They clearly credit the writer!”. Then came Dramatic Shorts! Plus, I firmly believe that these monologues, duologues and short plays could potentially develop into much bigger productions, therefore, creating many performance opportunities!” – James Quince, Founder, ‘Dramatic Shorts’.




Monologues, Duologues and Short Plays featured in ‘Dramatic Shorts: Volume Two’ may contain bad language and mature themes.



The Writers
James Quince
James Quince is a British actor, comedian and writer. In 2012, he graduated from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK with a BA (Hons) Drama degree. In the same year, he created and put on a comedy sketch show that featured in the Camden Fringe Festival. James is one half of a comedy duo called ‘Fans of Comedy’ and mastered his skills in Comedy Writing and Performance while taking part in Soho Theatre’s Comedy Lab in 2014; co-writing and co-starring in two comedy sketch shows at Soho Theatre in London. He currently writes for the comedy show ‘NewsRevue’ in London and has contributed comedy sketches in a Cambridge comedy sketch show called ‘It’s All Geek To Me’. He trained as an actor at the Identity School of Acting in London.
Grant Foxon
Born in Shrewsbury, England, UK, Grant Foxon has been writing stories for as long as he can remember. In 2011, his radio drama ‘Autolysis’ was broadcast too much acclaim. He currently writes regularly for the revue shows ‘NewsRevue’ and ‘The Treason Show’. He has also written for radio and stage, and his two-hander play ‘The Waiting Room’ is featured in this edition of ‘Dramatic Shorts’.
Cynthia Morrison
Cynthia Morrison is a graduate of the Burt Reynolds Institute for Film and Theatre in Florida, USA. Her academic degrees major in Law and Theology. She is a writer, stage combat director, independent film producer and an award-winning playwright. Her works tend to lean towards historic content and also specializes in works that speak against the suppression of women.
Bill Johnson
Bill Johnson is a produced playwright, optioned screenwriter, and has read manuscript submissions for a literary agent. For many years he was a board member of the Northwest Playwrights Guild. His play ‘The Baggage Handler‘ won best of festival in the ‘Stage This! Festival’ in New York. ‘Pre-Life, Pre-Nuptial’, about a couple arguing about a pre-nuptial agreement before they are born, was produced in New York and Oregon. Other short plays produced include the award-winning ‘The Baggage Handler’ (“Best Ten Minute Play” winner). Produced full-length plays include ‘Yours, From the Heat of My Heart’ and ‘In Our Image’. Bill is the author of ‘A Story is a Promise’ and ‘The Spirit of Storytelling’, a workbook that explores how to create dramatic, engaging stories; and web master of ‘Essays on the Craft of Dramatic Writing’, a site that explores principles of storytelling through reviews of popular movies, books and plays, www.storyispromise.com .
Robert Luxford
Robert Luxford is an actor, writer and filmmaker, and has worked in the industry for several years. His acting credits in TV, stage & features include: ‘Sweet Marshall’, ‘The Restless Years’, ‘Carousel’ and ‘Running on Empty’. Among his writing credits are full-length plays: ‘The Coven’ (which he wrote and produced as a feature), ‘The Bold and The Reckless’, as well as features such as ‘Twists of Fate’. He has also produced two video documentaries, ‘Guardians: Angels on Patrol’ and ‘Little Army Big War’, and was co-writer and co-director for a TV pilot called ‘Real World’. He was co-producer and co-writer for ‘I Dream of Johnny’, a political musical satire. His six published works include ‘Angry Dreams’, ‘The Coven’, and ‘The Unexplained Files’.
Stewart Permutt
Stewart Permutt won an Edinburgh Fringe First award for his play ‘Real Babies Don’t Cry’. Other credits include: ‘Unsuspecting Susan’ starring Celia Imrie at The Kings Head and 59 East 59 theatres off-Broadway, Philadelphia, Stuttgart and Edinburgh. ‘Many Roads To Paradise’ at The Finborough and Jermyn Street theatres, ‘Love And Lust In Lewisham’ (Camden Fringe) and the book for ‘The Genius of Gershwin’ at The Kings Place.
Carole Boyer
Carole Boyer trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was a professional actress for 25 years. She had plays broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and World Service, some done in the theatre and on television, one of which, ‘The Diary of Rita Patel’ was BAFTA nominated. Carole also has a children’s e-book on Amazon, ‘T’ang’, illustrated by Gita Gyorffy.
Ralph Jones
Ralph Jones is an award-winning journalist and a not-quite-yet-award-winning comedy writer. In 2014, he won ‘Feature Writer of the Year’ at The Guardian Student Media Awards, and he has written for a range of titles including ‘New Statesman’, ‘Vice’, ‘New Humanist’, and ‘Observer New Review’. As a comedy writer and performer, he is part of ‘The Awkward Silence’, a sketch group with whom he has been shortlisted for a ‘BBC Writer’s Prize’ and nominated for a ‘Writers’ Guild Award’.
Talon
An ESL teacher, a childcare worker, and a poet for most of his life, Talon has been gathering stories from places as near and distant as Chicago and Pasadena, Brazil, Somaliland, Haiti and Honduras. He has published poetry under his real name and was nominated for a ‘Pushcart Prize in Poetry’. He is now adding playwriting to his work of poetry and fiction. An explorer more than a traveller, he writes about the intersections of religion, culture and human behaviour.
Steven Barry
A playwright and poet. Recently graduated from The Open University with an Honours degree in English Literature. His first play ‘Talk to Frank’ debuted in the Camden Fringe in 2012 and has since gone on to be developed into a television series with the trailer and pilot episode shot by ‘Bielecki & Bielecka’. ‘Eileen’, inspired by his Granddad Tom Wolfe’s poetry was originally posted on Descent’s website as a playella. Various poems have been published online. They have been included in The Bar None Group, the Kings Cross website and posted on the blog of New York graffiti artist ‘DEATH’.
Natalia Povalyaeva
A writer, graphic artist/book illustrator, and a professor of English Literature at BSU (Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus). She has authored four collections of comic Neo-Victorian short stories (written in Russian and illustrated by the author) published as e-books. In 2012, she won third prize for her Ghost Stories collection in the New Children’s Book Literary Competition, run by the leading Russian publishing house for children’s literature ROSMAN Press. She has two short plays published in ‘Dramatic Shorts: Volume One’.
Alexandra Ogando
Born and raised in Nottingham, UK, Alexandra lived in the city until 2011, when she left to study for a Drama and Theatre BA Honours degree at Bath Spa University. It was there during her final year of university that she directed and staged her first piece of original writing entitled ‘Balloon Woods’. Since graduating from university, Alexandra has had an extremely wide and varied history of employment and is currently based in Plymouth, working as a practitioner and fac