May 2013
3 posts
Twitter plays, part CCXII
It’s Twitter Plays CCXII! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place in MANHATTAN. Here are your plays starting with our very own @NYNeoJoey who learns us all in the art of compelling stage directions. “The Death of a Lenape Chief”Chief: Guys! We’re going to Jersey! AND…check out these beads! Guys?Guys?*murder*#tp212 — Joey Rizzolo...
May 17th
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Twitter Plays, part CCXI
It’s Twitter Plays CCXI! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place in a CIRCUS. Here are your plays starting with @TheGonzalez. You must wait at least 30 minutes after eating before going into space. CAPTAIN DAVE: Bro, seriously, can you not wait until I leave for my spacewalk before eating all that damn steak? LOU:(Scowls. Burps.) #tp211 — Marian Gonzalez...
May 10th
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Twitter plays, part CCX
It’s Twitter Plays CCX! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place in a CIRCUS. Here are your plays starting with @MarielMatero and the importance of disclaimers. WATCH OUT FOR THE ELEPH- #tp210 — Mariel Matero (@MarielMatero) April 30, 2013 @nyneofuturists #tp210 (backstage)clown: I wish she was more flexiblecontortionist: (with her feet behind her neck) I...
May 2nd
April 2013
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Apr 26th
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Twitter Plays, part CCIX
It’s Twitter Plays CCIX! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that has something to do with WEATHER. Here are your plays starting with @littlebirdwords who gets really real. (Two people enter, sit. Ten minutes of silence.)1: So it’s um, awful sunny outside, huh?2: Yeah, we never should’ve fucked.#tp209 — Havilah Imfeld (@littlebirdwords) April 24, 2013 ...
Apr 25th
Twitter Plays, part CCVIII
It’s Twitter Plays CCVIII! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place in an AIRCRAFT. Here are your plays starting with @ShaneStraw who knows how to travel. Man sits between two sleeping drooling armrest hogs. Mutters to himself for two and a half hours. Curtain. #tp208 — Shane Strawbridge (@ShaneStraw) April 16, 2013 1: Is it always this hot in zeppelins?...
Apr 18th
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Twitter Plays, part CCVII
It’s Twitter Plays CCVII! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place on a BALCONY. Here are your plays starting with @chaosownsyou and a production by Surveillance Theater Company. @nyneofuturists Man in his 30s enters balcony smoking a cigarette.[takes a drag][exhales][chuckles] Man: I should be in a play.#tp207 — Jorge Luis André (@chaosownsyou) April 10,...
Apr 11th
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Twitter Plays, part CCVI
It’s Twitter Plays CCVI! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place in a NEWSROOM. Here are your plays starting with @Jeremy_Gable who should have been chosen by DC over Orson Scott Card. (Lights up on Daily Planet. A sign reads “Casual Friday”. SUPERMAN enters, sits at desk, starts working. Everyone freaks out. Bows) #tp206 — Jeremy Gable (@Jeremy_Gable)...
Apr 3rd
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March 2013
4 posts
Twitter Plays, part CCV
It’s Twitter Plays CCV! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that features AN APOLOGY. Here are your plays starting with @slimebeast and the real problem with electronics in movie theaters. Announcer: Please turn off all mobile devices. — Predator Drone drops from the ceiling with a crash. #tp205 — Christopher H Wolf (@slimebeast) March 27, 2013 J: Take my hand....
Mar 27th
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Twitter Plays, part CCIV
It’s Twitter Plays CCIV! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that features AN APOLOGY. Here are your plays starting with @stevenberkowitz and my morning mirror routine. M: *If* I have offended… If I have *offended*… If *I* have offended anyone- [knock, D peeps in] D: Sir? They’re ready for you. #tp204 — Steven Berkowitz (@stevenberkowitz) March 19,...
Mar 21st
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Twitter Plays, part CCIII
It’s Twitter Plays CCIII! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place at an UNDERWATER SHIPWRECK. Here are your plays starting with @theatrejunkiehm and pretty much my reasoning for staying by the bar at clubs. A: How romantic to be a plankton-nibbled skeleton at the bottom of the sea! Dance with me darling! B: I would but I’ve lost my feet. #tp203 —...
Mar 13th
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Twitter Plays, part CCII
It’s Twitter Plays CCII! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that features a STATUE. Here are your plays starting with @DonnettaLavinia and my biography. @nyneofuturists An excerpt: The Stupid Man & The Statue. The Stupid Man enters “Hello. Hello? Heellloooo!!!” (Pause) “Jerk.” He exits #tp202 — DonnettaLaviniaGrays (@DonnettaLavinia) March...
Mar 7th
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February 2013
4 posts
Twitter Plays, part CCI
It’s Twitter Plays CCI (201)! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place in a BAR. Here are your plays starting with @catherineblakes and a play about – wait. Where is ‘A’….? #tp201 B: ID please. C: I don’t have it one. B: Then you’re not a person who can drink booze. C: But I’m right here! B: Nope. Not a person. — Catherine...
Feb 28th
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Twitter Plays, Part CC (200!)
It’s Twitter Plays CC (200)! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that features a BLIND DATE. Here are your plays starting with @sasimons’s romantic comedy with twist ending (no spoilers). [At rise: a bear and a salmon in an Arby’s] BEAR: So THAT’s what Bob meant when he said you were a “catch!”[Clowns eat everyone] #tp200 — Seth Simons...
Feb 21st
Twitter Plays, Part CXCVIII
It’s Twitter Plays CXCVIII! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes features a BIRD OF PREY. Here are your plays starting with @eekshecried’s invasion of my dream journal. Marco looked to the sky. “I’m ready,” he whispers. A shadow, small but growing. Talons the size of cars take him gently up off stage. #tp198 — Erin Keane (@eekshecried)...
Feb 13th
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It’s Twitter Plays CXCVII! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes features a BLIMP/ZEPPELIN. Here are your plays starting with @ThatsDaveWithaD who brings The Humanity. @nyneofuturists CAPT: We’re losing altitude, please strap in for a crash landing!*Blimp gingerly floats to ground over next 2 hours. #tp197 — David John (@ThatsDaveWithaD) February 5,...
Feb 6th
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January 2013
4 posts
It’s Twitter Plays CXCVI! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place in a SNOWSTORM. Here are your plays starting with @truechandra and how I’d like to go. GRACE (woman in her 80s) lays in the snow, sweeps her legs &arms fast creating a snow angel. She giggles. “Ready to join the others!” #tp196 — chandra thomas (@truechandra) January 29,...
Jan 30th
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Twitter plays, part CXCV
It’s Twitter Plays CXCV! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that features a FARMER. Here are your plays starting with @RedJakiBlue and a hi-ho-a-derry-o, indeed. A wife looks out the window. Her husband sways gently to the music from his headphones. The wife sighs. The farmer’s in Adele. #Tp195 — jakisbrain (@RedJakiBlue) January 15, 2013 FARMER: My mom thinks I need...
Jan 16th
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THIS BEARS EXPLAINATION (2012 Longest Running TML...
© 2012, Jeffrey Cranor Neo 1 enters, holds up some complex chart. Neo 2 enters, holds up a sign that reads: “This Bears Explanation” Neo 3 enters and clears throat. Beat. Neo 2 underlines “Bears” and draws an apostrophe before the “s.” (“This Bear’s Explanation!” get it?) Neo 3 dons a bear mask. Neo 3 growls and makes large open-palmed...
Jan 10th
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Twitter plays, part CXCIV
It’s Twitter Plays CXCIV! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that features an ALLIGATOR. Here are your plays starting with @rebeca who pretty much gets me. Alligator: I want to be a submarine. Psychiatrist: Is it not enough for you to be a talking alligator? #tp194 #NeverSatisfied — Rebeca C. (@rebeca) January 8, 2013 @nyneofuturists Ass:Aw, there’s an...
Jan 9th
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December 2012
4 posts
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Dec 20th
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Twitter plays, part CXCIII
It’s Twitter Plays CXCIII! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that features YODELING. Here are your plays starting with @Jah_Schwa who… well… nails it, I think. BOYFRIEND: Honey, it’s time I met your parents. GIRLFRIEND: You want to meet my old man? BOYFRIEND: Sure, and YOUR OLD LADY, TOOOOO!#tp193 — Jah Schwa (@Jah_Schwa) December 18, 2012 A:...
Dec 19th
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Twitter plays, part CXCII
It’s Twitter Plays CXCII! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place in a CASINO. Here are your plays starting with @AtticScripts and a lucky lucky day. @nyneofuturists #tp192 1:today’s my lucky day 2:havnt seen the sun in 36 hrs 1:yestrdy’s my lucky- 2:tomorrow 1:tomorrow’s my lucky- 2:sure — Joseph Frost (@AtticScripts) December 12, 2012 ...
Dec 12th
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Twitter plays, part CXCI
It’s Twitter Plays CXCI! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place on A ROLLER COASTER. Here are your plays starting with @brtnlewis and the Johnny Got His Gun of roller coaster stories. @nyneofuturists “Help,” begged the roller coaster. But no one came. Because roller coasters can’t talk. “Oh well,” it thought. #tp191 — Barton...
Dec 5th
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November 2012
4 posts
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Twitter plays, part CXC
It’s Twitter Plays CXC! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place on AN AIRPLANE (difficulty: no snakes). Here are your plays starting with @slimebeast and a Seascape sequel of sorts. Bosco: Wow, this is roomy! Ted: Hey, peanuts! Both crawl over bloated, motionless corpses before scuttling back out to ocean floor. #tp190 — Christopher H Wolf (@slimebeast)...
Nov 28th
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Twitter plays, part CLXXXIX
It’s Twitter Plays CLXXXIX! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place in THE JUNGLE. Here are your plays starting with @HeatherMeyer2 and the origin of a classic. FRED: Meat. Meat. Meat. Finger. Meat. Meat. Meat. UPTON SINCLAIR: Excuse me, do you have pen I can borrow? #tp189 — Heather Meyer (@HeatherMeyer2) November 20, 2012 1: “Is this Spring...
Nov 21st
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Twitter plays, part CLXXXVIII
It’s Twitter Plays CLXXXVIII! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that features a PRECIOUS JEWEL. Here are your plays starting with @Emperor_norton with good news/bad news. DR: The results are in. MAN: Lay it on me, Doc! D: Your heart is a lump of coal… M:WHAT? D: I think its hardening into a diamond.#tp188 — Ashley Naftule (@Emperor_norton) November 13, 2012 ...
Nov 14th
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Twitter plays, part CLXXXVII
It’s Twitter Plays CLXXXVII! And before we are fully back from Sandy. We missed you guys last week. This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that features a MURDER. Here are your plays starting with @newageamazon and the crime of the century. @nyneofuturistsHer: We need to solve the murder of the English language.Him: w/e nobodi wuz usin it.Her: Case closed. #tp187 —...
Nov 7th
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October 2012
5 posts
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Twitter plays, part CLXXXVI
It’s Twitter Plays CLXXXVI! And before we start, we got this fantastic tweet: @nyneofuturists I’m turning one of my twitter plays into a full length.Thanks for the inspiration. — Kate Mickere (@katemickere) October 22, 2012 Yes! So, this week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that features GIBBERISH. Or, as @BostonCourtput it: “so basically you’re asking us...
Oct 24th
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Oct 20th
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Twitter plays, part CLXXXV
It’s Twitter Plays CLXXXV! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that features a PSYCHIC. Here are your plays starting with @HeidiHandelsman and the woes of psychic dating. @HeidiHandelsman: Psychics on a first date. They meet. Look into each other’s eyes. PSYCHIC 1 slaps PSYCHIC 2 in the face. Both weep. “Check please.” @rjgore3: 1: Excuse me. 2:...
Oct 17th
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Twitter plays, part CLXXXIV
It’s Twitter Plays CLXXXIV! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place IN THE FUTURE. Here are your plays starting with @DrSomething who needs to give the time machine a little more gas. @DrSomething: A (exits time machine, sees B in shiny space suit):How far into the future did I travel? B:Halloween.You probably have library fines. 2 from @ThatsDaveWithaD:...
Oct 10th
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Twitter plays, part CLXXXIII
It’s Twitter Plays CLXXXIII! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place in ATLANTIS. Here are your plays starting with @thebaronessa and a very special stove. @thebaronessa: POSEIDON: Who left the stove on? NYMPH: The phone rang! POSEIDON: You could’ve burned the conch down! NYMPH:Don’t be so “greek drama” @ArmyofWomack: COUPLE IN HOTEL...
Oct 3rd
September 2012
8 posts
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Twitter plays, part CLXXXII
It’s Twitter Plays CLXXXII! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes features FACIAL HAIR. Here are your plays starting with @lessthankyle and a stage direction that would have kept me on stage until my late 20s. @lessthankyle: [A child is on stage. He may not leave until he becomes a man.] @mightytoycannon: A: That’s quite a beard you have. B: Would you like to...
Sep 26th
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Dirty Laundry Aired Fondly
Dirty Laundry Aired Fondly  © 2011 Ryan Good At Go, KATE grabs a laundry hamper hamper that has one item of clothing from each of the current cast in it. They approach an audience member and ask them to pick on item from the basket. Whoever the owner of the selected item is then does this play. All other neos exit. Selected neo comes to center and tells the brief story of the significance of this...
Sep 25th
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Twitter plays, part CLXXXI
It’s Twitter Plays CLXXXI! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place in HELL. Here are your plays starting with @BethOnePage and a commuter in the afterlife. @BethOnePage: A: Welcome to hell, a place of untold torment and dread! There is no escape! B: Thanks. Do you validate parking? @BrooklynJuggler: In hell, Chad goes to get coffee, but there is only decaf....
Sep 19th
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The Monster at the End of this Play
© 2011 Adam Smith Adam onstage talking to audience. He has a flashlight in his pocket. At the end of the play, a box monster will appear. The monster will be 4 pieces of cardboard on poles. The head will be at the top, with a body attached by rope or string on one pole, then arms on the other poles. ADAM. What did you do? did you not hear it? There’s a monster at the end and you’ve brought me...
Sep 18th
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Twitter plays, part CLXXX
It’s Twitter Plays CLXXX! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place in/around a TREE. Here are your plays starting with @iammrbubs who seemed a bit disappointed that the assignment was not evil enough. @iammrbubs: After feasting on flesh and fire, Cthulhu then ate a tree. He felt meh afterward. Because it was a tree. @ZTimmyCaldwell: T: I think we should call...
Sep 12th
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Sadly, this is an argument.
Sadly, this is an argument.  (c)2010 roberta colindrez Neo 1: The debate fires on in this country as people across America- most of whom have never ever once in their lives stepped foot in New York City- question the Islamic cultural center which includes a prayer room that is set to be built somewhere kind-of near ground zero.  Neo 2 enters in a fury, demanding answers.  Neo 2: What the hell?...
Sep 11th
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Twitter Plays, part CLXXIX
It’s Twitter Plays CLXXIX! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that features a LARGE CROWD. Here are your plays starting with @YangHoff, who seems all set for tonight’s start to the NFL season. (Go Giants! That’s a team in NY, right?) @YangHoff: {Indy/Colts Game Day/A Crowd} F1: Go Colts! F2:Go Blue! JimIrsay: (Incoherantly Tweeting) PatsFan: Go Broncos!...
Sep 5th
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Three Nights in Paris
Kate Jones © 2012 Bed and pillows are taped out on the house right wall, near the pillar in the second row. Nicole stands next to the pole, Dan stands to Nicole’s left; both are holding a blanket up so that it looks like they’re in bed. 1: This tape represents the dimensions of a normal full sized mattress. 2: I am [approximately] his size. 1: And I am [approximately] her size. 2: A bed of this...
Sep 4th
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August 2012
10 posts
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FAQs: Twitterplays
What are Twitterplays? Every Tuesday morning, we post an assignment on Twitter (@nyneofuturists) for our followers to write a 1-tweet play that…. Sometimes the prompt includes a prop or character to feature, sometimes a sound effect or stage direction, sometimes a setting.  Can we read these plays? Yes! On Wednesday, we post the previous day’s Twitterplays on this blog. Search for...
Aug 29th
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Twitter plays, part CLXXVIII
It’s Twitter Plays CLXXVIII! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that features a TRASHCAN (difficulty: no ENDGAME). Here are your plays starting with @SpaceCraftNYC and BLUE MAN GROUP 2: INTROVERSION BOOGALOO. @SpaceCraftNYC: (Three Blue Men stare at an upturned trashcan. For an uncomfortably long time. Curtain.) @TheWoosterGroup: [1 and 2 at a house. 1 finishes banana,...
Aug 29th
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For Troy Davis or Black Men Like Brownie Bites For...
©ricardogamboa2011 Stage is black. MEG is in a spotlight near the clock. Taped against the wall, above her, is a placard reading “American Justice System” and holds a tub of brownie bites. She bites into a brownie bite and then throws it on the floor. She repeats this task. The spinny doors are open, revealing CECIL in a chair, back to audience. He is illuminated by a cliplight, hopefully...
Aug 28th
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Aug 27th
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Twitter plays, part CLXXVII
It’s Twitter Plays CLXXVII! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place in a SNOWSTORM. Here are your plays starting with @sylliebee and a basic lesson in meteorology. @sylliebee: [snowing]A: I love snow! B:When I was 5 my sis told me it was God’s dandruff. A:[laugh]Gross! [A&B exit]GOD:Ha! [scratching noises] @cutbackdropturn: Jim: I feel lost. Mom:...
Aug 22nd
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Aug 15th
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Twitter plays, part CLXXVI
It’s Twitter Plays CLXXVI! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that features an [IMPOSSIBLE STAGE DIRECTION]. Here are your plays starting with @TheWoosterGroup and maybe the impossible-est of impossible? @TheWoosterGroup: Fan:”Justin, could you come over here and write a really great song?” / Justin Bieber: “Sure.” [He does] @sgnp: (MANAGING...
Aug 15th
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Aug 13th
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Twitter plays, part CLXXV
It’s Twitter Plays CLXXV! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that features an EARTHQUAKE. (NOTE: This assignment was put out before yesterday’s Southern California earthquakes. There seem to be no major injuries out west, and for that we are glad.) Here are your plays starting with @Blueskyfox and a big reveal. @Blueskyfox: (Helen Keller&Anne Sullivan,sitting...
Aug 8th