August 2011
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July 2011
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Join your besties at the NYIT Awards Nomination...
We love the New York Innovative Theatre Awards and their Nomination Announcement Party is one of the most fun nights of the year. The New York Neo-Futurists will be in attendance (and not covered in food/fake blood/shaving cream/bodily fluids/unknown liquids for once).*
See you there?
Nominee Announcement Party, August 1, 2011
$10
Where: Demo Hall / Carmine St. Center at Our Lady of Pompeii,...
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Twitter plays, part CXXIV
It’s Twitter Plays CXXIV! And in honor of NY’s first week of marriage equality, this week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place at a WEDDING.
Here are your plays, starting with @Casarino’s slippery slope.
2 from @Casarino: P: I pronounce you married. You may now kiss the underage fish. WITNESS: Huh. I guess those anti-gay marriage people were right. ...
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50's Movie Entrance
© 2004 Michael Cyril Creighton
Michael (or anyone) starts at the top of the stage left staircase. There is a burst of very dramatic music, and slowly, Michael walks down the staircase with a huge smile on his face. Halfway down the staircase, he pauses, then continues. He is always looking at the audience. When he finally gets to the bottom of the stairs, he extends his arm towards the audience...
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Twitter plays, part CXXIII
It’s Twitter Plays CXXIII! This week’s assignment: write a 1-tweet play that features MAKEUP. LIES! No! That was last week’s assignment. This week’s assignment was to <u>write a 1-tweet play that features FLYING</u>. Here are your plays, starting with @DrSomething’s Accidental Time Machine.
@DrSomething: Orville: Drat! Still on the ground, but…...
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Eve Ensler Eat My Dust; Vagina, Vagina, Vagina.
© 2004 Molly Flynn
The title is called when the play gets pulled (obviously). Then Molly immediately calls the title and the Go. Everyone in the ensemble shouts out in unison from wherever the happen to be;
Vagina, Vagina, Vagina.
Molly calls;
Curtain
OWN the book!
We put together 225 of our favorite plays from our ever-growing archive of work from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.
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What kept you?
We know you may have had something to do on Friday. Perhaps this guy called
and you had to finish it. Or maybe you had a fancy drinks party. Or you needed to recharge your batteries from a full and productive week. But soon you should join us and get to the theater. How about tonight?
We have 5 new plays (in random order):
Approximately my experience at a Cleveland Indians game against the...
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Neo-Futurists Present STAGE DIRECTIONS OF EUGENE... →
Check out the preview of our upcoming show, The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O’Neill, Volume 1 Early Plays/Lost Plays!
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Twitter plays, part CXXII
It’s Twitter Plays CXXII! This week’s assignment: write a 1-tweet play that features MAKEUP.
Here are your plays, starting with @Giania and the importance of being on time.
@Giania: A: “You’re late! …and you look like you got hit by a truck!” B: “I DID get hit by a tru-” A: “Nevermind, we gotta hurry, MAKEUP!!” @HBnowtweets: PLAYWRIGHT:...
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Gargalesthesia *
© 2006 Marta Rainer N1 holds a feather out at arm’s length. N1: Make your armpit available to me. N2: You’ll torture me. N1: Torture? No need to fear me so. I merely have plans – innocent plans – to lightly touch your armpit with this feather, and perhaps cause involuntary laughter or twitching movements. Maybe not even today. Some people find such scenarios pleasurable. What are you afraid of?...
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Twitter plays, part CXXI
It’s Twitter Plays CXXI! This week’s assignment: write a 1-tweet play that takes place in a DOCTOR’S OFFICE.
Here are your plays, starting with @sylliebee who seems to be on a very excellent healthcare plan.
@sylliebee: Music.Hospital bed w/open curtain,PATIENT in bed w/IV&monitors,DR pulls curtain around*FOOF*PATIENT opens curtain w/DR in bed. Bows. 3 from @Javispa: AL:...
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Knowledge is Power
© 2010 Lusia Strus
Neo 1 and 2 are on either side of the stage. Maybe sitting. Maybe standing. Throughout, Neo 1 gets increasingly unraveled. This is fun to see.
1: Whaddaya know!
2: What?
1: Whaddya know!
2: What do you know?
1: No. Whaddya know!
2: What do I know? I know. What do you know?
1: What do you know?
2: Oh. I know.
1: You don’t know.
2: I know.
1: What?
2: What?
1:...
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