Terence Wimbledon-Greene, bachelor of a thousand names and disguises, has finally decided to give up his wild ways. But when news arrives of his eccentric Uncle Wallace's death, Terence has just twenty-five minutes to get a girl to marry him if he wants to inherit his uncle's fortune.
Unfortunately, the only girls who'll have him believe he's someone else -- and the only one he wants, wants nothing to do with him. In the style of a classic comedy of manners, Wallace's Will is chock-full of mistaken identities, drawing-room hijinks, and ridiculous accents.
First Performed: Hudson High School, Hudson, MA, May 2008 Winner of: Best Play (Freshman Class) and
Best Lead Actor
Best Lead Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Character Actress
Where in the World is Wallace? View Wallace's Will in a larger map
Math for Actors (Short Comedy)
Math meets mayhem when studious Kate agrees to tutor Keith, an arrogant actor who's more interested in Kate than in calculus. He shows up late, he's still in costume, and he doesn't know or care what the angle of inclination is. Answering such burning questions as how many actors it takes to screw in a light bulb, Math for Actors explores the relationship between art and algebra, and finds a common denominator.
First Performed: Gaudete Academy, Hudson, MA, July 2009
Minding the Map of Math for Actors View Math for Actors in a larger map
The French Butler (Short Comedy)
Philip is in a jam. He loves the boss’s daughter, Madeline…and then he went and told the boss. Now out of a job, Philip takes the only position he can find: as a butler for his best friend’s dinner party. (Since servants are invisible anyway, right?) But when Madeline comes as a guest to that party, well, Philip has no choice but to become The French Butler. (Now, if he only knew French….)
An original comedy of manners, The French Butler, together with Wallace’s Will can make up a night full of witty banter and mistaken identities, in An Evening’s Diversion.
GENRE: Short Comedy LENGTH: Short, 40-50 minutes CAST: 4 females, 4 males, (plus crew members, servants, etc.) SET: Moderate: A Victorian drawing room and dining room
Performed: Anathan Theatre, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Spring 1998 andGaudete Academy, Marlborough, MA, July 2002
Charming Princes (Short Comedy)
What happens after the ball?
Cinderella lived the dream: she wore a gown of starlight, she danced with the prince, and stole a (somewhat wet and slimy) kiss. Everything was perfect…really. So what if all Charming talked about was her dress and her hair and her shoes? So what if he has a predilection to preach in aggravating assonance? So what if he couldn’t take a hint, even when it hit him with a six-inch stiletto? He was a prince, and that’s what Cinderella had wished for –
Right?
Fortunately, Fairy Godmother Lilynimble Merryweather is on hand to sort out dreams and wishes. Even if that means that she has to resort to Charming Princes.
Based on the myth of the same name, Cupid and Psyche is a new play in blank verse, examining the relationship between love and desire, passion and death.
When Aphrodite sends her son, Cupid, to kill Psyche - with whom the whole world has fallen in love - Cupid likewise falls under her spell. Unable to kill her, Cupid begs Psyche to demand something of him that will release him. But when she names her price as the death of one half of all lovers, Psyche discovers that the very passion she spurned as monstrous has turned into a monster himself.
An examination of the often temptestuous marriage of love and the soul, passion and reason, Cupid and Psyche is a grown-up play about love, death and redemption. Cupid and Psyche is the first of the proposed Love and Death cycle, which will soon includeThe Rape of Persephone and The Seduction of Adonis.
GENRE: Drama LENGTH: Full Length, 2 hours, 30 minutes CAST: 5 females, 5 males SET: Minimal to Moderate
First Performed: Emerson College, Boston, MA 2009 Directed by:Brenda Huggins
Awards:
Cupid and Psyche finished as a Semi-Finalist in the 2009 Princess Grace Foundation Playwrighting Awards
In Memoriam (A Drama in Four Acts)
Braedon Sinclaire is living his memory over and over and over and over again...
Of the night he found his best friend and his wife in bed together...
Of the night he went up the stairs and killed them both...
Of the night he killed himself...
And of the day it all changed.
In Memoriam examines when free will meets fate, when sin is confronted with grace, and when we realize that we have done before...does not have to define who we may be.
GENRE: Drama LENGTH: Full Length, 2 hours CAST: 3 females, 2 males SET: Moderate
One Nation Under God is a short performance piece, written originally to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. and his call to true liberty and justice for all.
Interweaving text from The Pledge of Allegiance, the "Star Spangled Banner," Psalm 23, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and “Amazing Grace,” One Nation paints a diverse picture of what the United States is – and what we strive to be.
Although originally conceived as a live performance, One Nation has since been incorporated with multimedia, which allows the director and cast to add a deeper layer of personal meaning to the piece.
Performed: Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, Marlborough, MA, 2003 and Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, Marlborough, MA, 2004 and Hudson Catholic High School as part of The Seven Ages of Man, Hudson, MA, December 2006 and Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, Marlborough, MA, 2003
Supermarket Soliloquies (Absurdist Comedy)
Rebecca is having an affair. Oh, not with another man – she loves her husband Mark. Really! She’s having an affair…with the International Food Aisle. You see, it’s just that ever since the baby came…
(BEEP! Message from Mark: Becky. C’mon, pick up Becky!)
…it’s getting harder to sleep…
(BEEP! FIVE MESSAGES FROM MARK: Becks, it’s me. He keeps crying. Come home, Becky.)
…and all she wants is to get away from it all, to remember what she was like, what they were like, before…
(BEEP! TWELVE MESSAGES FROM MARK: Becky! The baby should not be blue!)
...and sometimes crème brûlée makes everything just a little better.
GENRE: Short Comedy (Absurdist) LENGTH: Short, 15-25 minutes CAST: 2 female, 1 male SET: Minimal
Workshopped: Gaudete Academy, Bolton, MA, July 2009
King Frederick doesn't believe in love. Which makes finding a bride a little difficult. So Fred decides to pursue the shrewish, neighboring Princess Cassandra. But when she spurns him in front of everyone, her father makes the decree that whatever man next comes to the castle - be he peasant or lord or fool - so long as that man has no bride, Cassandra will be his bride!
Overhearing this, Fred decides to disguise himself as a minstrel and get himself conveniently "caught" and "forced" into marriage. But once the charade begins...it's hard to stop. And that can be dangerous, especially if you're really the king.
Full of great old fashioned musical songs, King of Fools proves that sometimes only a fool can rush in.
With all new songs, originally orchestrated by Edward Marcus, including:
Joe Smith, P.I. is facing his toughest case yet. The dame that just came in says she's his wife - but he doesn't remember her. Now armed with a picture of this guy (who looks suspiciously like himself), Joe Smith sets out to find out just where he's gone.
Spoofing classic Film Noir tropes, Pink Noir follows Joe Smith - both in the present day and in flashbacks - to find out that sometimes following your dreams can wind up in a nightmare.
With all new songs, perfect for saxaphone and honkeytonk, including:
On the eve of her 16th birthday, Clara Silberhaus is caught between the worlds of childhood games and elegant adults. But when Clara’s world is shattered with the news of Napoleon’s impending invasion and her own father’s death on the front lines, she seeks answers from the mysterious Uncle Drosselmeier, who shows her that the only way to follow your dreams is to have the courage to face your reality.
Incorporating highlights from Tchaikovsky’s immortal score, Nutcracker ~ The Story in Dance reimagines the beloved holiday tale as a coming-of-age fable, told through dialogue, song, and dance.
With original lyrics to Tchaikovsky's songs including:
Once Long Ago and Far Away (Christian and Dmitri) - The March
When You Are Seventeen (Clara and Sophia) - Waltz of the Flowers
The Shadow, a notorious criminal, thief and lothlorio, has been terrorizing the French countryside...but he never expected to have his own heart stolen away by Mireille, the daughter of one of the merchants the Shadow particularly loves to plague.
But on the road to set things straight, the Shadow must confront his own shadows - particularly the identity of the Gypsy, who offers him a bearskin coat with pockets full of neverending wealth, in exchange for a little thing like his soul....
The Opera-Ballet, Bearskin, is told entirely through either song or dance. Using two men to play the Shadow, and two women to play Mireille (one as the Body/Dancer, one as the Soul/Voice), Bearskin revolutionizes the way we look at musical theatre and ourselves.
With all new songs, including:
Bonjour, My Name is Firmin (Firmin and Company)
Mireille's Lament/I Can Break Free from this Dream of His (Mireille's Voice)
I Can Show You How to Love (Gypsy and Mireille's Voice)
The Tango (Instrumental)
Come Back to Me/The Daughter of the Man that I Have Stolen From (Gypsy and Shadow's voice)
Mercy (Mireille's Voice)
You Came Into My Life (Both Mireilles and Both Shadows)
The Drums Beat from Afar (Company)
Lamb of God (Soldiers)
And Now What Shall I Do? (Shadow's Voice)
The Letter Writing Quartet (Both Mireille's and Both Shadows)
Desolation/Kyrie (Shadow's Voice, Angels and Gypsy)
My Dear Old Friend (Gypsy)
Man Without a Face (Shadow's Voice)
Hiding Beneath a Willow Tree (Mireille's Voice and Body)
Come Back to Me Reprises (Gypsy and Shadow's Voice)
O Heart, I See Him Everywhere! (Mireille's Voice)
Sing Me a Song, Love (Flipote, Florette and Company)
Sing Me a Song, Love Minor Reprise (Flipote, Florette)
Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas play is brought to life in this new adaptation that puts the caroling back into A Christmas Carol.
Running only an hour long, this version of Scrooge’s ghostly Christmas Eve is perfect for community theatres playing to the young and old alike.
Audiences are encouraged to enter into the songs, thus becoming part of the beloved holiday tale. With carols that emphasize blessing, with a richer look into Ebenezer’s past, and with just a little bit of Christmas magic, we can truly exclaim with Tiny Tim, “God bless us, every one!”
Christ’s Passion from Palm Sunday to His entombment is retold through song, dance and dialogue, incorporating new and traditional music (in English, Hebrew, Latin and Greek) with text from all four Gospels, to invite the audience to ponder anew the mystery of God’s love for us.
Performed in modern dress, with room for each church to put their own musical and aesthetic stamp on the work, The Passion Play is a beautiful masque perfect for church groups looking to give back to their community.
GENRE: Short Dramedy LENGTH: Short, 50-60 minutes CAST: 29 Scripted roles; 5-10 females, 8-10 males, 14-17 either SET: Minimal
Performed: LifeTeen Marlborough, MA, St. Mary's Parish, Lent 2000 and Hudson High School, Hudson, MA, Lent 2003 and St. Michael's Parish, Hudson, MA, Lent 2006 and St. Michael's Parish, Hudson, MA, Lent 2007
(c) 2003-2010
Updated 26 April, 2010
All Rights Held by the Author.
No part of these pages may be used or copied without express permission of the author.
Terence Wimbledon-Greene, bachelor of a thousand names and disguises, has finally decided to give up his wild ways. But when news arrives of his eccentric Uncle Wallace's death, Terence has just twenty-five minutes to get a girl to marry him if he wants to inherit his uncle's fortune.
Math meets mayhem when studious Kate agrees to tutor Keith, an arrogant actor who's more interested in Kate than in calculus. He shows up late, he's still in costume, and he doesn't know or care what the angle of inclination is. Answering such burning questions as how many actors it takes to screw in a light bulb, Math for Actors explores the relationship between art and algebra, and finds a common denominator.
What happens after the ball?
Based on the myth of the same name, Cupid and Psyche is a new play in blank verse, examining the relationship between love and desire, passion and death.
Braedon Sinclaire is living his memory over and over and over and over again...
One Nation Under God is a short performance piece, written originally to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. and his call to true liberty and justice for all. 
Rebecca is having an affair. Oh, not with another man – she loves her husband Mark. Really! She’s having an affair…with the International Food Aisle. You see, it’s just that ever since the baby came…
