DOPPELGANGERS
Trailers listed by genre as a prelude to a main performance or as a full length production
DOCUMENTARY
An Enabling Act
Genre: Documentary; Time & Place: Present Day; Dallas, Texas: Set: Minimal; Cast: 1F;1M; Plot: City Secretary and Dallas Police Officer argue over lobby search & scanning of visitors at city hal
Blood Oranges
Genre: Documentary; Time & Place: November 4, 1956; Budapest, Hungary;Set: Minimal; Cast: 3M;1F; Plot: AVH and Russian Osobist police officers interrogate student freedom fighter.
Dementia
Genre: Documentary; Time & Place: Present Day; Dallas, Texas; Set: Minimal; Cast: 2F;2M; Plot: Senior citizens question HUD Director of Facilities about egregious behavior
Suspicious Behavior
Genre: Documentary; Time & Place: 10/16/2012; 265th District Court, Dallas, Texas; Set: Minimal; Cast: 1M;1F (voiceover); Plot: Accused writer petitions court to purge Dallas Police Department detention and report for suspicious behavior
MYTHOPOEIA
Doppelgangers
Genre: Mythopeia; Time & Place: St. Patricks Day; Hartman Theater, Columbus, Ohio; Set: Minimal: Cast: 4F;4M; Plot: Ohio college students on Spring Break role play in a haunted theater
Texas Telemarketing
Genre: Mythopoeia; Time & Place: Future Day; Dallas, Texas; Set: Minimal; Cast: 2F;1M; Plot: FCC officer investigates empath communicator death
SATIRE
The Flagellant
Genre: Satire; Time & Place: Present Day; Dallas, Texas; Set: Minimal; Cast 1M; Plot: A man explains why he's not Jewish
The ICE House
Genre: Satire: Time & Place: Present Day; Immigration and Custom Enforcement Detention Center; Set: Minimal: Cast: 3M; Plot: I.C.E. investigators interrogate ethnic person of interest
The Loon
Genre: Satire; Time & Place: Present Day; Dallas, Texas; Set: Minimal; Cast: 1-M/F;1M; Plot: Playwright and Dramaturg discuss theater submission policy for new work
Plenary Powers
Genre: Satire;Time & Place: Present Day; Dallas, Texas;Set: Minimal;Cast: 1F;2M;Plot: Department of Homeland Security telecenter tracks college student computer use
DOCUMENTARIES (completed full length new works)
FREDONIA, TEXAS;Genre: Documentary; -120' (two acts);Two weeks after the Branch Davidians died at Waco, the City of Dallas began their own purge of an indigent population. Pushed from their native streets, the homeless gathered together under two interstate highways for a final stand.A roman a clef topical docudrama with an Hispanic female lead that parallels the Texas Fredonian Rebellion of 1826-27.This full length, two act, minimal stage set, cast of five (1F;4M), uses the same character names as the original participants in a homeless encampment threatened with eviction.
(Sequel to LES TERRORISTES)**dallastx.swagit.com/play/02152017-542/3;Dramatist address before City Council of Dallas, Texas, on homeless
c. 2016
LES TERRORISTES;Genre: Documentary; - 120' (two acts); The Ohio National Guard, acting under the orders of U.S. Army General Canterbury, shoots thirteen students on the campus of Kent State University May 4, 1970.A roman a clef docudrama that parallels the actual Kent State Shooting of 1970; based on the President's Commission on Campus Unrest (public domain).(Prequel to FREDONIA, TEXAS)
c. 2019
None of the above has been produced, published, or optioned as of viewing date
Available as PDF or hard copy performance ready formatted scripts on request: akolpien@hotmail.com
(work in progress - full length)
See Paris & Die;Genre: Documentary;Time & Place: 1919/1922; Paris, Texas;Set: Minimal;Cast: 5M;1F; Plot: The last lynching in Texas was a side by side burning at the same stake of two Black Sharecroppers
"The play's the thing." William Shakespeare
Trailers listed by genre as a prelude to a main performance or as a full length production
DOCUMENTARY
An Enabling Act
Genre: Documentary; Time & Place: Present Day; Dallas, Texas: Set: Minimal; Cast: 1F;1M; Plot: City Secretary and Dallas Police Officer argue over lobby search & scanning of visitors at city hal
Blood Oranges
Genre: Documentary; Time & Place: November 4, 1956; Budapest, Hungary;Set: Minimal; Cast: 3M;1F; Plot: AVH and Russian Osobist police officers interrogate student freedom fighter.
Dementia
Genre: Documentary; Time & Place: Present Day; Dallas, Texas; Set: Minimal; Cast: 2F;2M; Plot: Senior citizens question HUD Director of Facilities about egregious behavior
Suspicious Behavior
Genre: Documentary; Time & Place: 10/16/2012; 265th District Court, Dallas, Texas; Set: Minimal; Cast: 1M;1F (voiceover); Plot: Accused writer petitions court to purge Dallas Police Department detention and report for suspicious behavior
MYTHOPOEIA
Doppelgangers
Genre: Mythopeia; Time & Place: St. Patricks Day; Hartman Theater, Columbus, Ohio; Set: Minimal: Cast: 4F;4M; Plot: Ohio college students on Spring Break role play in a haunted theater
Texas Telemarketing
Genre: Mythopoeia; Time & Place: Future Day; Dallas, Texas; Set: Minimal; Cast: 2F;1M; Plot: FCC officer investigates empath communicator death
SATIRE
The Flagellant
Genre: Satire; Time & Place: Present Day; Dallas, Texas; Set: Minimal; Cast 1M; Plot: A man explains why he's not Jewish
The ICE House
Genre: Satire: Time & Place: Present Day; Immigration and Custom Enforcement Detention Center; Set: Minimal: Cast: 3M; Plot: I.C.E. investigators interrogate ethnic person of interest
The Loon
Genre: Satire; Time & Place: Present Day; Dallas, Texas; Set: Minimal; Cast: 1-M/F;1M; Plot: Playwright and Dramaturg discuss theater submission policy for new work
Plenary Powers
Genre: Satire;Time & Place: Present Day; Dallas, Texas;Set: Minimal;Cast: 1F;2M;Plot: Department of Homeland Security telecenter tracks college student computer use
DOCUMENTARIES (completed full length new works)
FREDONIA, TEXAS;Genre: Documentary; -120' (two acts);Two weeks after the Branch Davidians died at Waco, the City of Dallas began their own purge of an indigent population. Pushed from their native streets, the homeless gathered together under two interstate highways for a final stand.A roman a clef topical docudrama with an Hispanic female lead that parallels the Texas Fredonian Rebellion of 1826-27.This full length, two act, minimal stage set, cast of five (1F;4M), uses the same character names as the original participants in a homeless encampment threatened with eviction.
(Sequel to LES TERRORISTES)**dallastx.swagit.com/play/02152017-542/3;Dramatist address before City Council of Dallas, Texas, on homeless
c. 2016
LES TERRORISTES;Genre: Documentary; - 120' (two acts); The Ohio National Guard, acting under the orders of U.S. Army General Canterbury, shoots thirteen students on the campus of Kent State University May 4, 1970.A roman a clef docudrama that parallels the actual Kent State Shooting of 1970; based on the President's Commission on Campus Unrest (public domain).(Prequel to FREDONIA, TEXAS)
c. 2019
None of the above has been produced, published, or optioned as of viewing date
Available as PDF or hard copy performance ready formatted scripts on request: akolpien@hotmail.com
(work in progress - full length)
See Paris & Die;Genre: Documentary;Time & Place: 1919/1922; Paris, Texas;Set: Minimal;Cast: 5M;1F; Plot: The last lynching in Texas was a side by side burning at the same stake of two Black Sharecroppers
"The play's the thing." William Shakespeare
