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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 an action-adventure drama with leading roles for six (four actors/two actresses).

Mary W. Shelley's Frankenstein

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 leading roles for seven (four actors/three actresses).

IRS vs. Menaechmi

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 leading roles for eight (five actors/three actresses).

Guise of Guys and Gals

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 leading roles for six (four actors/two actresses).

Running Back, Running Back

Performance Pieces Musicals 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).

-- COMING SOON --   Wake the Cook and Light Up the Stove   Wake the Cook and Light Up the Stove is a farce about love at first sight, among the middle-aged.

-- COMING SOON --   Dream, Children   Dream, Children is a medium-length play for seven -- all actors or all actresses or mix thereof as directors-dramaturgs may envision.  Seven students in a boarding school or college dormitory spend a night acting out myths and legends from their "course materials."

-- COMING SOON --   Hello Gallo   Hello Gallo is the book and lyrics for a "chamber musical" -- a play with songs in which two actor-singers and three actress-singers are accompanied by two guitarists and a percussionist.  Helen, a now very old grande dame of the theater -- and matchmaking grandmother -- invites for a weekend to her country house/vacation home Scheherezade, her artistic heir, and a friend, Arminda, and Gallo and Max, her grandson and his sidekick.

This Living on the Road is One True Story   This Living on the Road is One True Story is the book and lyrics for a Country & Western musical revue.

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 very short, comic sketch-piece for one actor or actress.

X-1   A man goes to work in the morning.  X-1 is a long performance poem for a single actor.

Flight into Safety

Wake the Cook and Light Up the Stove

Dream, Children

Hello Gallo

This Living on the Road is One True Story

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

I cordially invite you, and all lovers-of-the-theater, to visit -- and make up your own mind about my work.

Each script is here a single .htm file. At the beginning of each, there's a title page and synopsis, cast breakdown, statement of production requirements, contact information, etc.

Some of these scripts are available through ProductionScripts.com, and some are available in Amazon Kindlebook format at Amazon.com. The melodies for the lyrics of the musicals are by Izzabella -- izzasongs.com.

I welcome hearing from all theater-makers -- professional, student and amateur. I can be reached by e-mail at willow_nts@hotmail.com -- willow_nts@hotmail.com and at willowenplays@gmail.com -- willowenplays@gmail.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, etc. (see the Dramatist Guild's Author's Bill of Rights for a concise summary of the matter).

I last updated this site July 5, 2010.

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

Sincerely,

Will Owen