March 2012
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Twitter plays, part CLVII
It’s Twitter Plays CLVII! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that features 3 SPEAKING ROLES & takes place in a KITCHEN.
Here are your plays starting with @kwarnocknyand a special episode of CHOPPED.
@kwarnockny: A: What’s in the colander in the sink? B: Toss ‘em in…Let me…oops. Sorry. C: Tonight’s entree is mushrooms with Dawn. ...
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A play that tries to be remembered
©2010 Jacquelyn Landgraf
Before GO, JL chooses an audience member to sit next to her
JL: Have a mint: It’s good for your memory. Both ladies eat a mint I want you to please memorize this play and then you will attempt to repeat it exactly as you remember it.
While talking, JL draws fireworks on a dry-erase board.
-September 21 was World Alzheimer’s Day. (alt. line for 2011: Today alone,...
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Now is the time to drunkenly donate to a RocketHub... →
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Twitter plays, part CLVI
It’s Twitter Plays CLVI! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that features a BANANA.
Here are your plays starting with @EricSWatwith the first round of the TSA Cycle.
@EricSWat: “I’m sorry sir you cant bring any fruits across the border…and brandishing it like a gun…sir. Sir!” BANG BLACKOUT @DrSomething: 1 (into banana): Yes, It’ll be...
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Therapism
© 2010 Therapism Jeffrey Cranor
[Eevin center in a chair, facing forward. Jeffrey up right in a chair, facing Eevin. Ryan in the house with flood light. Jeffrey has a pad and pen. Other Neos are backstage.]
Jeffrey: Tell me. What upsets you?
Eevin: Lots of things. People. Confrontation. Being misunderstood.
Jeffrey: [making large doodling marks on pad] Uh huh. Yes. I see.
Eevin:...
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Twitter Plays, part CLV
It’s Twitter Plays CLV! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play featuring a BURGLAR.
Here are your plays starting with @lessthankylewho grasps current news better than most.
@lessthankyle: [politician on stage]”I’m a politician”[does little dance, wags finger]”ha ha, seriously, go fuck yourselves”[poops in bucket of $$] @katrinagulliver: A:...
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Full of IT: Othernesses →
“I decided long ago that I like to see race or ethnicity in a title. Love it. It lets me know that I am in for a ride. I believe that - for better or worse - we are bound by race in this country.” Neo-Futurist Alum Kevin R. Free on Othernesses for NYIT Awards Blog.
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White Bred
Erica Livingston © 2010 Erica sits in front of the block with a mayonnaise sandwich. The florescent lights are on. Erica: Recently I was asked to cry over a mayonnaise sandwich. Neo 1: Treat it like Chekhov. Erica: That’s what the casting director actually said. Erica: I tried. (She tries) I tried thinking of terrible things, my insecurities, my failures, the loss of my grandfather. I was...
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“As in every other New York Neo-Futurists show I’ve attended, I laughed for...”
– Bess Rowen: “Thank You, Slamdance”: The New York Neo-Futurists and Their F.U. (a.k.a. The Fair Use Show)
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New York Neo-Futurists to Premiere YOU ARE IN AN... →
It’s coming!
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Twitter Plays, part CLIV
It’s Twitter Plays CLIV! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that features CONFETTI.
Here are your plays starting with @jadeshadeand the surrealists’ New Year.
@jadeshade: UNSEEN GROUP: “5! 4! 3!” JIM psyched in rafters w/confetti. “2! 12!” J frowns. “18! A Million! ?!” J angry, drops confetti. “Booooo!” 2 from...
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Polar Bears
© 2011 Dan McCoy During the first part of the speech, Dan will take a bucket of cold water, already filled with one bag of ice, and add another bag. He will then move a stool or block out into the aisle next to the AM he selects to take the plunge with him, and set the bucket on that stool. DM: I have a love/hate relationship with holidays, New Years Eve in particular, but also any day...
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10 new plays! (esoteric)
I’d be lying if I said it was going to be an easy time this weekend for the audiences at Too Much Light. We will require some effort from you. We added 10 plays, a couple of them involve the audience (one of them in a fairly antagonistic way); more than a couple are completely non-narrative and head-slappingly odd; and I aver that this current menu (while not a top-ten all-time grossest...
