The 2024 – 2025 Media Events
Our MONOLOGUE-to-FILM and RADIOPLAY projects for the Season
Monologues this season explore new ground. While essentially monologues, most of them include other cast members. And they have a wildly full range of moods. They are being posted starting June 2nd to our servers; follow our Facebook and Instagram feeds to be the first to know! And check this page often.
PORTUGAL – written & filmed by Billy Luce Jr.
At about 5 minutes, we think it just ‘about’ stretches the patience of the patrons they run into after their last trip to Portugal. Setz Retzlaff and Kory Merten portray the excitable travelers in this masterpiece of nearly simultaneous monologues. Could you get a word in edgewise? Let us know.
SEATING and Other Arrangements – by Barbara Kahn
In a Long Island commuter station just after the evening close, an encounter happens which might stretch your suspension of disbelief – Unless you’re a New Yorker.
Love Lost – by C. B. Murray IV – a film by Leonard Joseph
An epic video-poem with wide ranges of emotional reminiscence. The author is presented narrating in many outdoor settings that at once isolate us, while underscoring the emotions of the moment. A tour de force of what happens when souls briefly touch.
Performed by author Charles Bernard Murray, and filmed by videographer Leonard Joseph, this is a 6-minute essay on pure love and surety of faith overcoming the ravages of aids.
Our RADIOPLAYS this season are all Shorts, but ‘novellas’ which really pack a punch. Some started out in our short-play developmental contest winners this season, and some were adapted just for this presentation.
Comfort and Joy – by Dana Leslie Goldstein
Every few years, Christmas and the first night of Hannukah fall on the same day. This can be a problem for interfaith families. A beautiful treatment of a very practical problem in relationships today.
The Cocktail Bench – by John Harney
An elderly man confronts a young college professor who has taken lithographs from the trash outside his house in Washington, D.C. The lithographs belonged to his husband, who’s been institutionalized with dementia. A true microcosm of a world caught in the act of changing!
Carter – by Alex Bernstein
On a Winter Holiday Morning, a grandmother speaks words of a kind of wisdom to her daughter. She merely wants to know if her grandson is, somewhat, enchanted?