UPDATE!!! BAD NEIGHBORS : informal staged reading at The Odd Duck Studio
1214 10th Avenue Seattle, WA 98122
On Wenesday 12/12/12 8-9:30
a "staged reading" is actors with music stands and scripts.
DIRECTED BY REBECCA GOLDBERG
Feedback requested!
with the talents of Amber Zipperer, Glynis Mitchell, Ryan Sanders and Telisa Steen
BAD NEIGHBORS
A domestic heavy metal play. Set in Seattle in the 1990's, BAD NEIGHBORS explores friendship, parenting, drug addiction and the limits of being neighborly in the late 20th century.
A domestic heavy metal play. Set in Seattle in the 1990's, BAD NEIGHBORS explores friendship, parenting, drug addiction and the limits of being neighborly in the late 20th century.
I hope you can all come out and hear this play read, I'm eager to hear how it sounds and if the characters have emotional connections to each other. It is tricky to dramatize an episode of your life; the real events seem already to be fraught with so much drama and pathos that i needed only to record them accurately. But it doesn't seem to work that way with playwriting; there is a real skill in making the mundane exciting and keeping your own judgements and memories of "how that was" to a minimum. Just because "it really happened that way" doesn't mean it will be interesting to watch or hear. Writing this play was a real exercise in keeping myself out of the story so the characters can tell theirs.
Here is an entry from my WRITING PAGE after the first reading of Bad Neighbors in 2010. Before the year is out I want to do another reading of it. Maybe at the Rendezvous (again!)
*I've finished my play BAD NEIGHBORS!
Last weekend my fabulous theater cohort Lori Stein hosted a play reading group at her house and one of the plays we read was B.N., it was very exciting. Instead of having scene/act divisions in the play, I'm trying to use music as transition. So i cobbled together a c.d. of 10 second snippets of Metallica songs to play between scenes. Well.... Louise did a valiant job, but i think the c.d. player was against the whole project from the beginning. But I still think it's a cool idea. It is definitely a heavy metal play.
I was spending a lot of time trying to fit this 50-ish minute play into a structure that it didn't want. Another theater/playwright friend, Persephone, suggested i remove the structure and that is exactly what it needed.
*I've finished my play BAD NEIGHBORS!
Last weekend my fabulous theater cohort Lori Stein hosted a play reading group at her house and one of the plays we read was B.N., it was very exciting. Instead of having scene/act divisions in the play, I'm trying to use music as transition. So i cobbled together a c.d. of 10 second snippets of Metallica songs to play between scenes. Well.... Louise did a valiant job, but i think the c.d. player was against the whole project from the beginning. But I still think it's a cool idea. It is definitely a heavy metal play.
I was spending a lot of time trying to fit this 50-ish minute play into a structure that it didn't want. Another theater/playwright friend, Persephone, suggested i remove the structure and that is exactly what it needed.
new logo! designed by Cody Lewis
Coming up....
The Deadliest Instruments
a modern vaudevillian drama
by Kirsten McCory
at The Triple Door, Seattle
August 20,21,22 2012
Synopsis: Blanche and Buck are a new couple in love and about to embark on a new life together since he has served his time in prison and given up on a life of crime. Then Buck's younger outlaw brother Clyde brings chaos and death into their lives.
Based on the historical facts of Blanche Barrow's time with Bonnie Parker and Buck and Clyde Barrow, this short play deals with finding and losing love, familial obligations and those most deadliest of instruments, our own hearts.
Check out the D.I. blog! HERE
a modern vaudevillian drama
by Kirsten McCory
at The Triple Door, Seattle
August 20,21,22 2012
Synopsis: Blanche and Buck are a new couple in love and about to embark on a new life together since he has served his time in prison and given up on a life of crime. Then Buck's younger outlaw brother Clyde brings chaos and death into their lives.
Based on the historical facts of Blanche Barrow's time with Bonnie Parker and Buck and Clyde Barrow, this short play deals with finding and losing love, familial obligations and those most deadliest of instruments, our own hearts.
Check out the D.I. blog! HERE
VILLAINS THEATER Presents
"HAVE YOU SEEN US?"
call i95 - BUMS for information
We have been rehearsing diligently and have performances scheduled for late January at the Rendezvous' Jewel Box Theater Specifically, January 21st, 23rd & 27th . Put it on your calender, NOW.
Updates coming soon.
written & directed by John Leith
starring Ryan Sanders, Morrie Bills, Tom Spangenberg and Kirsten McCory
"HAVE YOU SEEN US?"
call i95 - BUMS for information
We have been rehearsing diligently and have performances scheduled for late January at the Rendezvous' Jewel Box Theater Specifically, January 21st, 23rd & 27th . Put it on your calender, NOW.
Updates coming soon.
written & directed by John Leith
starring Ryan Sanders, Morrie Bills, Tom Spangenberg and Kirsten McCory
RIDING THE BULL by August Schulenburg
Geb Brown as G.L. Jen Smith Anderson as Lyza in RIDING THE BULL
I'm co-producing, designing the costumes and taking photos for a stream-of-consciousness slideshow that will play in this production of the new play, "Riding The Bull". The photos I'm obsessively taking will become "The greek chorus of the show," as director Richard Buckley says. (see my "photography" page!) We just met the other night with Owen who will put everything together! And I still have more photos to take....
Tickets on sale NOW at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/184991
RIDING THE BULL plays July 22 - August 13th
produced by New Amerikan Theater
*******We actually got some great reviews for this production, it turned out to be a really swell piece. You can read something about it at
www.new-amerikantheatre.weebly.com
Tickets on sale NOW at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/184991
RIDING THE BULL plays July 22 - August 13th
produced by New Amerikan Theater
*******We actually got some great reviews for this production, it turned out to be a really swell piece. You can read something about it at
www.new-amerikantheatre.weebly.com
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Crow Willow by Jacqui Beck
A Crow's Story
a radio play
*A live stage version of this radio play was a finalist for Bumbershoot 2011.
I will be auditioning voice actors for a production of this radio play and others I've written for an "EVENING OF MYSTERY" recording project.
if you're interested in this project contact me: kirstenmccory@gmail.com
Synopsis:
What did the Crow see?
Young Billy Wagner has been digging in the yard again, but this time he's found something different - a man, "buried in the dirt like a treasure". His older brother, an angry teenager named Juan (also known as Johnny), and his friend Frankie have also seen the body. And they've seen the mounds. Will the boys unearth the bodies and discover their secrets?
Listen to the Crow, for he must tell his tale.
a radio play
*A live stage version of this radio play was a finalist for Bumbershoot 2011.
I will be auditioning voice actors for a production of this radio play and others I've written for an "EVENING OF MYSTERY" recording project.
if you're interested in this project contact me: kirstenmccory@gmail.com
Synopsis:
What did the Crow see?
Young Billy Wagner has been digging in the yard again, but this time he's found something different - a man, "buried in the dirt like a treasure". His older brother, an angry teenager named Juan (also known as Johnny), and his friend Frankie have also seen the body. And they've seen the mounds. Will the boys unearth the bodies and discover their secrets?
Listen to the Crow, for he must tell his tale.
Finding Charleston
a radio play
Broadcast on Shoestring Theater, KUSF FM 90.3
San Francisco
Synopsis:
Katie and Brad are going on a romantic honeymoon to the American southwest when Katie discovers something about her new husband; that he is obsessed with finding a "real" ghost town. Every dream has a price and this one is about to get very expensive. Discover the mystery that lies beyond the ancient adobe walls.
a radio play
Broadcast on Shoestring Theater, KUSF FM 90.3
San Francisco
Synopsis:
Katie and Brad are going on a romantic honeymoon to the American southwest when Katie discovers something about her new husband; that he is obsessed with finding a "real" ghost town. Every dream has a price and this one is about to get very expensive. Discover the mystery that lies beyond the ancient adobe walls.
American Complacency Project
a site-specific dramatic haunted house
uhhh, still not sure what this is about....I do know that is about drug culture and what our American, late 20th century generation has to do with it. Ok ok, it's about Generation X!
????
a site-specific dramatic haunted house
uhhh, still not sure what this is about....I do know that is about drug culture and what our American, late 20th century generation has to do with it. Ok ok, it's about Generation X!
????
