WRW Halloween show Tales From The St. James Infirmary Saturday October 31 – Today! October 31, 2009
Posted by William Spear in >> News, >> Radio Drama, audio theatre, radio play, spoken word.Tags: Cynthia J. McGean, Sam A. Mowry, st james infirmary, willamette radio workshop
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From our friends Cynthia J. McGean, Sam A. Mowry, and the Willamette Radio Workshop:
WRW Halloween show
Tales From The St. James Infirmary
Saturday October 31 from 4 &6 pm
FREE!
McMenamins Kennedy School
5736 N.E. 33rd Ave.
Portland, OR 97211
HALLOWEEN TRICK OR TREATING
Featuring
TALES FROM THE ST. JAMES INFIRMARY
as performed live by
The Willamette Radio Workshop
Trick or Treating from 4:30 ’til 6:30 p.m.;
Live Radio shows at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Free
All ages welcome; kids with adults only.
Bring your kids-in-costume for trick or treating so you enjoy a handcrafted ale, wine or spirit as you wander the halls together! Afterwards (before they get too far into their bags of loot), have dinner at the Courtyard Restaurant, which has a kids’ menu — nothing like a grilled cheese sandwich or a corn dog followed up with candycandycandyyeeahhhh!!!!!
After trick-or-treating, check out two free performances of “Tales from the St. James Infirmary” performed by Willamette Radio Workshop. The shows will begin at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.. Complete information at
The show will stream live at:
Streaming Mix for Radio 23. Listen in at:
Actual start times may vary.
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NaPlWriMo: Off the Pipes October 31, 2009
Posted by William Spear in >> News, >> Playwriting, >> Radio Drama, audio theatre, radio play, spoken word.Tags: William E. Spear, >> Two Plus Plus Productions LLC, Industrial Football League, NaPlWriMo, national playwriting month
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Our entry in the 2009 National Playwriting Month (NaPlWriMo) is Off the Pipes. Summary follows:
Off the Pipes (tentative) is about Frank Curts, a quarterback in the Industrial Football League (IFL). Curts is an accomplished quarterback but has never won the league championship. The closest he got was early in his career but a last second field goal bounced off the goal posts – the pipes, as they are called – and was missed because the kicker was high on crack. Curts will remember this forever.
Many years later, Curts’ career is ending when he’s injured during a pre-season game. The team assumes he will retire and it immediately signs a young player to replace him. Curts announces he intends to rehabilitate his injury and rejoin the team during the season.
The new quarterback rallies the team with a style of football that taps into the strengths and skills of every player. It is no longer Frank Curts and 25 other teammates. Unexpectedly, the new quarterback leads the team into the championship game. Curts watches the season from the sidelines. Privately, he tells friends he could still win any game at any time.
During the championship, with the team losing, the new quarterback is hurt. Curts has one last chance to win the championship which has eluded him. He puts the team in a position to win and in comes the same field goal kicker who, in a crack induced stupor, missed years earlier. Despite Curts’ protests and claims of contiuned drug use, the kicker swears he gave up drugs long ago.
But this is Curts’ last chance to win a championship and he does not want lose again. Does he think the kicker is clean enough to win the game? Will Frank Curts actually believe his teammate is Off the Pipes?
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Pleased to Announce: The Stories of Mayonnaise in My Cake and Other Holiday Delights are Published October 2, 2009
Posted by William Spear in >> News, >> Playwriting, >> Radio Drama, >> Sounds of Selling, >> Two Plus Plus Productions LLC, audio theatre, radio play.Tags: audio drama, mayonnaise in my cake, mayonnaise in my cake and other holiday delights, William E. Spear
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Early in the morning of Thursday 1 October, Two Plus Plus Productions LLC published the short story titled MAYONNAISE IN MY CAKE. It is about an unnamed character who is an academically trained and professionally experienced chef but is invisible around his fiancee’s family, the Clarksons. On Thanksgiving Day he is going with his fiancee to her family for a large meal. Standing on the porch of her parent’s house he realized the following:
The Clarksons, like most families, were a universe unto themselves. Unfathomable, but comically hostile, planets dominated the landscape.”
He seemed destined to remain invisible until he created a memorable impression when he insisted on not putting any mayonnaise in his cake. The ending is enjoyable and one I’d like to try in real life.
However, and in a larger sense, 1 October 2009 was the publication of our anthology MAYONNAISE IN MY CAKE AND OTHER HOLIDAY DELIGHTS. When we announced on 1 January 2009 our intent to publish the anthology, 1 October seemed like an impossibly short amount of time to accomplish the task.
But we had been inspired by dear friends who gave us a one-word mantra: “Believe.” We expanded it into “Believe, Simply Believe” and that became our rallying cry. No matter how late the hour or miserable the conditions of a piece, we kept coming back to “Believe, Simply Believe.” The plays and stories ultimately evolved into representative offerings of their genre.
The original goal of publishing a book was sidetracked due to technology issues – read, crashed hard drive – but we opted for publishing the individual stories. So the content is present even if it must be read in eight separate files.
Work is not done. We will continue our fundraising efforts and building a single book from the eight stories. There are new stories to be written. But along the way, we will continue to “Believe, Simply Believe.”
Details
Mayonnaise in My Cake
http://www.scribd.com/doc/20355424/Mayonnaise-in-My-Cake
Two Plus Plus Productions LLC
(on Scribd)
http://www.scribd.com/two%20plus%20plus%20productions%20llc
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