Requirements: 2F, 2M. All four characters are Filipinos and should be played by Filipinos and/or actors who can “pass” for Filipinos. Setting: The living room of a small apartment, somewhere in the suburbs of Manila. Late afternoon, the present. Theme: The role which art plays in a society interested for the most part only in…
Requirements: 2F, 4M Setting: The living room of a small apartment in a university town, somewhere in the Midwest. An evening in early April, the present. Plot: Faculty members in the Department of Religious Studies at a midwestern university take turns hosting meetings in their homes. These meetings are both social and academic in nature. After food and…
Requirements: ?F, ?M Setting: Various locations on Mount Olympus, and occasionally in the world inhabited by mortals. Plot: We are privy to the caprices and the excesses of the gods (in all possible sexual combinations) on Mount Olympus of yore. And then, in the wink of an eye, it’s the 18th Century, the Age of Enlightenment. …
Requirements: 38 parts played by 8 M and 1F (Voice Only). Additionally, Lee’s wife Jane and Allerton’s girlfriend Mary will be represented on stage not by live actors but by life-sized ragdolls. Setting: A bar, a bed-sitting room, a movie-house, and various streets in Mexico City, 1949-1952. Plot: Lee and his wife Jane are American…
Requirements: 2M Setting: Nick’s dormroom, a small carpetted central area containing a bed, a table and chair. Surrounding the dormroom is Jake’s campsite near the turnpike by the Kaw River in Lawrence, Kansas. Morning, Bastille Day (July 14), mid-1990s. Plot: Nick, a student attending summer classes at the University of Kansas, introduces us to the facts and…
Note: This is a collection of eight of my short stories, with an introduction by F. Sionil Jose. It was published in Manila by New Day Publishers in 1982. Except for “Dots and Dashes,” all the stories appeared elsewhere originally, in such journals and magazines as Solidarity, Bridge: An Asian American Perspective, Amerasia Journal, FOCUS,…
Requirements: 3M Setting: Three chairs in Dr. Beatrice’s office. She is a marriage counselor, and the three men talk to her in different combinations–sometimes individually, sometimes in alternating groups of two, sometimes all three together–but Dr. Beatrice herself is never seen or heard. Early August, late 1980s. Plot: Three men, twenty years apart in age,…
Requirements: 14 characters played by 4F, 3M Setting: The action alternates between an office and a classroom in a midwestern university. If possible, platforms and a limbo area can also be used for the various flashback sequences. Plot: David Lee, a Chinese-American writer teaching in the English department at a midwestern university, is at a cross-roads…
Requirements: 35 parts which can be played by 5F, 8M Setting: The bedroom and study of Frank Harris in Nice. Prominently displayed in one corner is a life-size plaster reproduction of the Venus de Milo. For the flashback sequences, there is a limbo area downstage, and also various platforms upstage. Mid-morning, late August, 1931. Plot:…
Requirements: 5F, 1M Setting: A small studio apartment in an old building near Columbia University, New York City. Saturday afternoon, late June, the present. Plot: Something has happened to Charlie Womack, a photo-journalist in his mid-30s. All we know is that he is in the hospital, and that his mother has called an impromptu meeting…