Category Archives: Short Plays

This is probably the last play I’ll post, it being Christmas Eve Eve and all. For this play, we were told to write about the proudest moment in our lives.* And to include animals. Originally, this was going to be … Continue reading →

Here’s a major downer for the holiday season. This is essentially a staged version of a very late chapter in a novel I’ll probably never finish. Rape figures fairly strongly into its plot (being based on the multifarious Medusa myths), … Continue reading →

Here’s more delightful crap! Blackbeard’s Delight             Darkness. Sounds of birds chirping. Far below is heard car horns, construction, the muffled sounds of the city. Very occasionally, there may be the distant snap of a … Continue reading →

For this play, we were ordered to write a fan fiction. Or something like that. I don’t really remember. Johannes Cabal and the Grave Urchins A Fanfic of the work of Jonathan L. Howard             We hear rain and anemic … Continue reading →

This is not representative of any specific day I experienced. It’s a combination of a number of experiences. Please forgive the (again) phallocentric nature, but that’s the experience I had. He Opens a Window              Lights … Continue reading →

I think pentimentos are mentioned in The Da Vinci Code. I know they’re mentioned in Futurama’s parody of The Da Vinci Code, and they’re used with far superior poetry and purpose in Christopher Moore’s Sacre Bleu. This play’s a bit … Continue reading →

Here’s some more painfully obvious symbolism. The title is taken from one of Kate’s lines in Countess Bathory, another (longer) play I wrote. Kill My Dreams             Dim light rise on a CHILD sleeping in bed, CS. In the CHILD’S embrace … Continue reading →

An irksome experience on tonight’s ride home on the El prompted me to post this one. We Don’t Need No Education             Lights up on STELLA, sitting on a couch at a party. “Brick In The … Continue reading →

This’n’s a personal favorite. Pennies From Heaven             An enormous crash is heard. Lights up on a street at late morning. Traffic noises abounds, and car horns doubly so. At CS is a huge table: its DSL-most leg has been … Continue reading →

Obviously inspired by the song of the same name. This one needs a lot of work for… whatever it is… but I like the Renaissance and Leonardo and whatnot. Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine* The title of this play, … Continue reading →