Moral Support

Moral Support is a naturalistic family drama, autobiographical in detail, that mixes elements of poetry and surrealism with a very real and devastating portrait of a troubled family and the demands of love. It is a full-length play with a cast of four.

Production History

Moral Support first had a staged reading at Medicine Show Theatre, NYC, on April 30 and May 1, 2018, directed by Félix Gardón, with Richard Keyser, Cynthia Shaw, Nora McCarthy and David A. P. Brown. 

During re-writes, Moral Support had a staged reading at Polaris North theater artists cooperative, directed by Rose-Marie Brandwein, with Tyler Kent, Diane Tyler, Carla Torgrimson and John L. Payne, on October 16, 2018.

A scene was showcased at Sidewalk Café, directed by Félix Gardón and featuring Cynthia Shaw and Richard Keyser, on December 6, 2018, in the Prose/Pros reading series, hosted by Elinor Nauen and Martha King. 

Moral Support opened an eight-performance premiere production run at Medicine Show Theatre on February 21, 2019, directed by Félix Gardón, with Richard Keyser, Cynthia Shaw, Nora McCarthy and David A. P. Brown, stage manager Brie Mann-Hernandez, costumer Janet Mervin and lighting designer Patrick John Ashcroft.

Women’s Mysteries

Women’s Mysteries is a full-length verse play set in archaic Greece, as history emerges from myth that resonates with contemporary concerns. Based on a story in Plutarch’s Life of Solon, the play is rich in poetry and lively in action. Dramatic scenes include a scene of wrestling exercises enlivened by political unrest; a confrontation with the Delphic Oracle; a march and convocation of women; a “mad” poet’s outcry for war; secret rites of the women’s mysteries at Eleusis; and a battle. 

Production History

The prologue and first scene, directed by Kevin O’Brien, were performed at La Mama Theater, NYC in the St. Marks Poets Theater Festival in 1990.

The entire play had a staged reading at Medicine Show Theatre in June 2015.

Another staged reading, directed by Rose-Marie Brandwein, took place at Polaris North in NYC in June 2019, with Allan Brown, Elizabeth Caruso, Eric Diamond, Meliora Dockery, Albert Insinnia, Emil G. Keller, Cam Kornman, John L. Payne and Carla Torgrimson.

The Furies

The Furies is a collection of related, produced plays that challenge in dramatic verse the mythic sources of war and the tragic cycle. What starts in jest and hope becomes tragic and then deeply personal.

Prologue: Prehistory sets the stage at the dawn of history, in theater and theory. Agamemnon, King of Cars is a comic goat song. Electra turns the foretold stories on their head, as Electra and Orestes refuse their parts, leading to new tragedy. Lincoln in Queens is a tale in which Lincoln commands a contemporary poet to go in search of the fabled Furies, to free them and abolish war.

These pieces, produced separately over the years in small venues in New York, are brought together here for the first time as a unified series. 

Publishing

The Furies was published by The Operating System in 2017. It is available on Amazon.