Lost Oasis at Another Country

Another Country productions, run by Lyralen Kaye, who also produce the SlamBoston play slams, is doing a fundraiser May 18 and 19, and they will include a production of my one-act play, Lost Oasis.

This is a play with an important history for me--it was one of the plays in Theatre in the Wild, which was the inaugural production for Chameleon Stage in 1993 (a theatre I helped start and which is still around today) in Evergeen, Colorado. It was my earliest foray into site specific work. (It's also my first and only play to be done in NYC's Central Park.)

In a fun twist (or sad commentary on how we never throw things away), I just delivered the tent that was used in the original production to my director tonight (Art Hennessey--very glad to have a chance to work with him), for use in the the May production.

It's especially gratifying to see a play produced after 16 years and feel that it still holds up.

Here are the details for the show:

What -    The Factory Theatre & Another Country Productions present…

Best of the Best, Playwrights of Another Country Productions

 When -   Monday May 18 & Tuesday May 19 @ 7:30pm

Where -  The Factory Theatre, 791 Tremont Street, the South End

 Tickets - $15

Box Office –617-933-8600: www. Theatermania.com.com, search: Factory Theatre

Points off the board

Guess I spoke too soon about Lost Oasis getting another shot at the NYC audience. Turns out there was a scheduling problem, so it won't be part of the undergroundzero festival after all. Too bad--it seems like a good festival. You win some, you lose some I guess.

I don't have much scheduled, production-wise, for the rest of the year. There's a staged reading of Pieces of Whitey on August 16th, at the Cambridge Public Library (Central Square branch), and then after that dead silence. I know something will come up, but the quiet times are always a bit unsettling.

Good News: Lost Oasis gets another chance

This Saturday is the last day for Lost Oasis in Central Park, but I found out today that it looks like the show will get a reprise in the undergroundzero festival, in NYC, on July 28, at 3pm. I'm not sure of the exact location yet. All reports are that the show is going quite well, and I'm glad it'll be able to continue a little longer (assuming the actors can all do it, etc.).

Good News: Lost Oasis in Central Park

I just got a signed contract for my one-act play, Lost Oasis, to appear for 16 performances in June in New York, in Central Park. I don't have all the details yet, but it'll be produced by Ciona Taylor productions.

This is a script that I wrote for my theatre company, Chameleon Stage, in Colorado, quite a few years ago, for our initial site specific series, Theatre in the Wild. It's a play that I've always enjoyed, but I really haven't sent it out (it can be done inside, but it's best performed outdoors) (and thus it hasn't been produced). This seems like a good match for it. I hope I'll have a chance to get down to NYC to see it. There's just something cool about saying, "my play will be produced in Central Park."