On opening night, at least, Vega and Villanueva were just scratching that surface. Its characters - human and animal - don’t know whether to cry out or tear each other’s clothes off. Rivera is contrasting arid desert and hot fertility, destruction and desire. 85 PERSON: Ten thousand ATTENDANT: Im afJid so. MPLER TEN-MINUTE PLAYS PERSON: How many A lot ATTENDANT: There are ten thousand boxes. The main limitation of the production, though, is that it runs scared of the sexuality of the script. JOSE RIVERA (1955- ) was bolO in San Juan, Puerto Rico and grew up in a household where the only book was a Bible. And the talking animals (Nicole Adelman and John Byrnes) do so with the right mix of dignity and irony. Stage Partners publishes excellent 10-minute plays - whether you are a student-director, or a theatre looking to produce an evening of short plays, this collection has something for everyone. Despite the small Bailiwick budget, this good-looking show comes with a number of pleasing visual splashes.īoth Vega and Villanueva offer credible performances, alternately aggressive and vulnerable. Graney’s production captures both this quirkiness and Rivera’s understanding of unrequited desire. “I had an affair,” she says to him, teasingly, “with a man named Mohammed.” “You use words,” says the solider to his wife, “the way some people use razor blades and guard dogs.” Each act of this full-length play explores. We asked nine talented playwrights to write a 10-minute play based on his or her unique take on bullying. One of Rivera’s great talents is taking ordinary lines of social interaction and making them sing - and this play is full of such grand elevations. The Find a Play tool, created by Playscripts, Inc., allows theater makers to search our vast catalog of plays by cast size, theme, genre, duration, and more. Designed to be flexible for your evil plans, these plays can be performed in any. We challenged ten playwrights to bring us their funniest takes on the fearsome in this collection of ten-minute plays. He’s still wedded to the Army she feels like the other woman. Playscripts is pleased to offer an Archival Video License for an additional 150 for full-length plays and 75 for one-act plays. But it makes for a consistently evocative and intermittently moving evening.īut the guts of this short two-act play - and its most involving moments - take place once the solider is back. The healthy result - on view at the Bailiwick Arts Center - has its flaws. The script is stranger than anything Graney could think of doing to it, which turns the usual dynamic surrounding this director on its head. “I’m a co-dependent satellite not even confident enough to be a planet,” Rivera’s chatty lunar orb says, complaining that Shakespeare was a bully to call him inconstant. Therein, a cat holds a conversation with a coyote and the moon waxes lyrical on its flaws. So there’s both logic and relief in seeing him paired with Jose Rivera, a writer whose works were penned to float between social reality and dreamscape.įor once, Graney’s concept is not the main story.Īs the title implies, Rivera’s “References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot” is a peculiarly poetic work with little tolerance for the consistent application of dramatic rules. Sean Graney - probably the quirkiest of Chicago’s current clutch of young directors - has a way of turning the most prosaic or realistic script into magic realism, whether it actually merits the transformation.
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