Dave Tucker's One Act Plays

DAVE TUCKER'S

ONE ACT PLAYS

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"Writing, I think, is not always an act of creation. Sometimes I think it's like a poison that inhabits your being, and the only way to get rid of it is to have the pen press deeply and quickly on the empty pages, releasing your darkest secrets." NEIL SIMON

Comedy. 4F, 2M. A tongue-in-cheek look at dating, as Ted attempts to find true love.

Run time: 20 minutes.

One simple set (restaurant interior)

Productions: South Sound Playwrights Festival, 2002.

Suspense. 4F or 3F, 1M. Jill's friend Liza has lost touch with reality and has developed a new world of imaginary friends. While attempting to help her back to sanity, Jill gets a suprise of her own.

Run Time: 20 minutes. Simple set.
Royalties: High Schools $10.00 per performance
Community $15.00 per performance

Productions:

Greenside High School Plays Festival 2004, Johannesburg, South Africa, August, 2004

Minnechaug Regional High School of Wilbraham, MA - Preliminary Round of the Massachusetts High School Drama Guild Festival, February 2004.

Minnechaug Regional High School, Wilbraham, MA, November, 2003

Eldorado High School, Albuquerque, NM, October , 2003

South Sound Playwrights Festival, 2003. (staged reading)

Comedy. 5M. Frank Ferguson has passed away and now his friends must write a eulogy. Aided by an inebriated minister, they take a stab at it, but can't get past the fact there there's nothing good to say about Frank.

Run time: 30 minutes.

Simple set.

Productions:

Seattle Fringe Theatre Festival by Church on Fire, 2003
PlayFair, Phoenicia, NY, 2003
Burien Live Theatre, 2003
Seattle Playwrights Studio (staged reading), 2002.

Comedy. 4M, 3F. Jay and Mac are novelists, facing every writer's nightmare - a fast approaching deadline and a shortage of ideas. As they rush to finish their manuscripts, we are allowed to see the scenes from their novels play before us.

Run time; 30 minutes.

Simple set.

Productions:
South Sound Playwrights Festival, 2003