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The purpose of this site is to present my works for the theater to all who may be interested in staging them.

My plays should most interest those intent on creating, for the members of an audience, an experience-at-the-theater that includes the dimension that only poetry performed can convey.

The scripts of my plays are on-line here: www.willow-n.com

I cordially invite you, and all lovers-of-the-theater, to visit, and consider my work.

My plays should, in addition, interest all who share the conviction that comedy and poetry, in our time's global idiom, English, can thrive together onstage. The plots of the plays -- replete with mistaken identities, disguises, chases, and crossed lovers -- work with the stock set-ups of comedy. This should make my plays of interest also to all who share the conviction that the unabashedly theatrical sells tickets, keeps people in their seats to find out what happens, and prompts them to tell their friends to come see the show too.

In the boxes below, on the left is a blurb about each play, and on the right is a link to the script. Each play is published here in a single .htm file. All begin with a presentation of key information about the work -- synopsis, cast breakdown, production requirements, etc.

Inquiries are most welcome from English-speaking theaters -- professional, student and amateur -- from everywhere on the globe.

I can be reached by email at willow_nts@hotmail.com -- willow_nts@hotmail.com.

I am a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, and professional productions must adhere to Dramatists Guild standards relating to respect for intellectual property rights, payment of royalties, etc.

Downloading these works implies accepting the terms of the copyright acknowledgement -- that the author owns hizer own work etc. (see the Dramatist Guild's Author's Bill of Rights for a concise summary of the matter).

This site was last updated Saturday 1 March 2008.

Thank you. I am much obliged to you for whatever time and attention you give my work.

Sincerely, Will Owen

Mary W. Shelley's Frankenstein

Mary W. Shelley's Frankenstein is an adaptation for the stage of Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein. Mary W. Shelley's Frankenstein is a melodrama with major roles for six (four actors/two actresses).

Mary W. Shelley's Frankenstein
MWSF

IRS vs. Menaechmi

Long lost identical twin brothers...identical twin sisters, one married to one brother...mistaken identity!...love!...marriage!...tax policy!... IRS vs. Menaechmi is a full length comedy with major roles for seven (four actors/three actresses).

IRS vs. Menaechmi
IVM

Guise of Gals and Guys

Ambitious socialite's "A-list" party guests recruited from middle class neighbors -- in disguise -- under the direction of screwball image consultant...and falling in love puts to flunking test the agreement of three friends to give up partying and women to devote themselves for a time to higher things in life. Guise of Guys and Gals is a full-length comedy with major roles for eight (five actors/three actresses).

Guise of Guys and Gals
GGG

Running Back, Running Back

All-star running back quits college team on eve of big bowl game and leaves for parts unknown...followed by reporter for gossipzine determined to get the real story -- by not giving herself away as a reporter -- and athletic department flunky determined to bring him back for the big game...rebellion, deception and love on the road in the American South. Running Back, Running Back is a full-length comedy with major roles for six (four actors/two actresses).

Running Back, Running Back
RBRB

Performance Pieces/Short Plays

-- COMING SOON -- Flight into Safety Flight into Safety, about a man, a woman and a newborn fleeing murderous persecution, is a medium-length play for an actor and an actress (and a baby, or facsimile thereof).

Big Thicket   Big Thicket, which is drawn from a true story, is a short play for two actors, one black, one white.

Acting Class   A director and an actor and actress work on a play about Adam and Eve.  Acting Class is a short play for three.
Pearly Gates   Taking the call from up above prompts a last-ditch effort to negotiate a way so you can take it with you.  Pearly Gates is a monologue piece for one.
X-1   A man goes to work in the morning.  X-1 is a performance poem for a single actor.

Flight into Safety
FIS

Big Thicket
BT

Acting Class
AC

Pearly Gates
PG

X-1
X-1

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