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- DON JUAN by Juan Ramirez, Jr. performed by the Quarantine Players
About the Play
Juan has proposed to Francesca, but she’s unsure of his true commitment. Francesca decides to use a grad school film exercise as an excuse to meet his exes and find out everything there is know about her prospective fiancé. In doing so, she uses the audiences as a sounding board to gain insight
Playwright: Juan Ramierz, Jr.
Director: Scott OlsonProducer: A.J. Campbell, Quarantine PlayersAhmad Maaty as Wren
Keekee Keniya Funches as MaryLeslie Ann Ross as IslaAwet Teame as FrancescaRicardo Padillo as JuanNaomi Marie as QuinnCHARACTERS
FRANCESCA. She is a woman between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five. She is currently attending film school and is dating Juan. She is smart, inquisitive and yet naïve. She yearns to understand love.
JUAN. He is a man between the ages of thirty-five to fifty. He is a hotel owner and has fallen in love with Francesca. He is wise, a bit traditional and is finally ready to settle down.
ISLA. She is a woman between the ages of thirty-five and fifty. In the hotel business, she strives for nothing less than perfection. She is resilient, cold and wanders the world like a predator.
MARY. She is a woman between the ages of thirty and forty. Unfortunately, she is still in love with Juan. She is a desperate romantic who is brave enough to face her feelings and rejection.
WREN. He is a man between the ages of thirty-five and forty-five. He is about to be married soon and yet cannot shake off that time with Juan. He needs closure and he will get it today.
QUINN. She is a woman between the ages of thirty-five and fifty. A family hardship has spun her life for the worse and now she has returned for a possible chance at redemption. She is the one that got away.
About the Playwright
Juan Ramirez, Jr. is an internationally produced, award-winning playwright and screenwriter, actor and director. Whether writing about larger-than-life characters with relatable problems or relatable characters with larger-than-life problems, his work seeks out the truth. If you ever want to learn about yourself, the journey must be as important as the answer.
He is a Dramatist Guild member, a 2020-2021 Dramatist Guild Fellow, founder of The PlayPen collective, R and R Production with his fiancée Cristy Reynoso, an NYC LatinX Playwright Circle Member, an ATG PlayLab member, a producing member of The Bronx Repertory Company, a film assessor, a script reader and has taught classes in various art disciplines from improv to screenwriting. He has taught at juvenile detention facilities, gifted student programs, and workshops.
He received his B.A. from Lehman College and his MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch.
You can find his work on Stage Agent, New Play Exchange, and Amazon self-publishing. He also has monologues on MonologueBank. His Patreon site will launch in 2020
1 hr 38 min - CSI: GRANDMOM'S HOUSE by Martin Heavisides performed by Quarantine Players
Everyone's a suspect in the brutal murder at close quarters of Aurora Printemps, familiarly known to one and all as Grandma. The lead detective sometimes sports a tail, as does her most recent--or was he the most recent--paramour? Her granddaughter Red Rida loved her, hated her, wished her dead, but has an alibi no weaker than any of the others. Will this be sorted or will it join the 63% of cases that go into permanent cold case status?
Playwright: Martin Heavisides
Director: Sophia Menconi
Producer: A.J. Campbell
Roles:
Lori Brooks as Red Rida, a woman with a strangely conflicted relationship with her vivacious grandmother before her untimely death
Scott Olson as Albert Skillset, a gifted police detective, but is he concealing a tail in his trousers?
Edsal Romero as Tony Pitchblende, Albert's second in command and friendly rival (in love as well as police work?)
Tamar Peters as Karina Patrimoine, Tony Pitchblende's partner
Leslie Anne Ross as Supervisor Judy Turenne, leading the investigation
Mikayla Trimpey as Natalie Would, barmaid, acquainted with police and suspects alike
Tori Clay as Piotr Sergieivich Koslov, a recent immigrant from Russia with ongoing secret ties, Red Rida's husband
Adam Venrick as Raoul DeBunstrup, Aurore Printemps' (Grandma's) lover of record at the time of her brutal slaying
About the Playwright Martin Heavisides
Martin Heavisides is the author of ten full length plays, one, Empty Bowl, published in The Linnet's Wings and given a live reading by Living Theatre in New York), two one-acts and a good number of ten-minute plays; short stories, flash fiction, poetry, which has been published in Sein Und Werden, The Linnet's Wings, FRiGG, Mad Hatter's Review, Pure Slush, Journal of Compressed Creativity among other highly discerning publications. He has published one novella-length collection of interlinked flash fiction and poetry, Undermind. He is becoming a regular at Storefront Theatre’s Sing for Your Supper.
Website: http://theevitable.blogspot.com
Twitter: Martin Heavisides
1 hr 29 min - FAT MUSLIM GIRLS by Ken Kaissar performed by Quarantine Players
When risqué photographs of college students are found in a professor’s desk, one professor, outraged by the lack of action, is determined to see justice served. She mobilizes the faculty, writes letters, and gives interviews to keep the story alive. But she fails to take two major details into account: all of the photographed students are overweight, and all are of Middle-Eastern descent. The public becomes less concerned with justice for one student and more concerned with body shaming and threats of global terrorism.
About the Playwright, Ken Kaissar
He holds a BFA in directing from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University. He teaches playwriting and theatre history at Rider University and Stockton College
About the Quarantine Players
The Quarantine Players are a group of directors, playwrights, actors, and technicians from all over the U.S. who have gathered to keep the ghost light on for you. We work to create weekly podcasts of new and classic plays so you can get your theatre fix!
Director Amy Kaissar
Producer: A.J. Campbell
Edgar: Spencer Dooley
Zayna: Tarnim Bybee
Claire: Brenny Rabine
Diane: Taifa Harris
Tom: Danny Vaccaro
Pat: Kenny Boys
Murray: Scott Olson
News Anchor: Laura Giknis
2 hr 52 min - DIVANALYSIS by C. Stephen Foster and Carey Scott Wilkerson performed by Quarantine Players
An informal lecture where the diva is deconstructed using Bette Midler, Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland and Karen Carpenter as examples.
Parody meets fashion show in this high-concept drag fantasy from C. Stephen Foster and Carey Scott Wilkerson. A professor with too many ideas delivers a lecture on the metaphysics of the Diva only to have his spotlight dimmed when the very Divas from his analysis materialize to set the record straight...more or less.
Directed by Scott Olson
Produced by A.J. Campbell
Tori Clay as Professor
Cait Kiley-Klimowski as Bette Midler
Eugene Ebner as Darling (Liza's assistant/life coach)
Sara Jones as Liza Minnelli
Sarah Mackenzie Baron as Karen Carpenter
Judy Lewis as Judy Garland
by special arrangement by Black Box Theatre Publishing Company
Produced with special arrangement by Black Box Theatre Publishing Company
To Support this production and the other plays that we produce, please use https://cash.app/$QPlayers Contributions are not tax-deductible.
1 hr 6 min - An interview with Playwright Monica Cross and zoom reading of "Growth in Isolation"
About Growth in Isolation
Kallie and Ryan have spent the last five months apart. Ever since Kallie moved across the country for a new job, Ryan has been struggling with the changes brought on by being alone. Ryan has sent Kallie a peach he has grown himself, and they finally have a chance to Video Chat, but things do not go as smoothly as either hope. This ten-minute play designed for video performance asks the question: how much of a change is too much for a relationship to withstand? Written for the Quarantine Playwriting Bake-Off, Round 3.
Starring: Zach Hanna, Juliana Lind, and Austin Hendricks reading the stage direction
About Monica Cross
Monica Cross is an actor, director, and playwright located in Gainesville, FL. She earned her Masters of Fine Arts in Shakespeare and Performance from Mary Baldwin College (now Mary Baldwin University) in 2013, where she took her first playwriting class with Professor Todd Ristau. She has had several short plays produced at festivals across the United States, and self-produced her one-act play, “Cyrano on the Moon” at the Tampa International Fringe Festival in 2017. The Red Dice Collective then produced “Cyrano on the Moon” at the Minnesota Fringe Festival in 2018. Wonder of Our Stage, Monica's first full-length play, was winner of the 2018 Players New Play Festival in Sarasota, FL, and went on to be included in their Summer Sizzler's Series in 2019. She is also the recipient of the 2019 John Ringling Towers Individual Artist Award for Performing Arts, and a fellow at the Hermitage Artist Retreat. Member of the Dramatists Guild. Monica Cross: https://newplayexchange.org/plays/1020177/growth-isolation | https://twitter.com/theroaringgirlQuarantine Players are a group of directors, playwrights, actors, and technicians from all over the U.S. who have gathered to keep the ghost light on for you. We work to create weekly podcasts of new and classic plays so you can get your theatre fix! https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers
23 min - TARTUFFE! performed by Quarantine Players
We'll leave the Ghostlight on For You. This week's reading is a classic, "Tartuffe" written by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, AKA “Molière” It is about a pompous religious faker who tries to seduce the wife of a man who helped him. There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that Tartuffe will be making an appearance at the RNC this week.
written by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, AKA “Molière”
DIRECTOR
Jessie Roberts
Cast
Madame Pernell – Judy Lewis
Orgon – Adam Ressa
Elmire – Heather Plank
Damis – Kevin Walker
Mariane – Christine Yannarell Tankersley
Cleante – Jon L. Roberts
Tartuffe – Tom Flatt
Dorine – Shayne Gardner
M.Loyal/Police Officer – Helen Bard-Sobola
Valere – Kerri Alaina Peters
2 hr 1 min - ANIMAL CONTROL by Chandler Hubbard performed by Quarantine Players
The Quarantine Players is a group of playwrights, actors and directors who meet once a week to read new plays and classic favorites. To watch the video recording of this production go to: https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers
ANIMAL CONTROL takes place in a small town Animal Control Bureau. Kim Hawkins has been promoted to Animal Control chief and finds the pressure of the job and the animal euthanasia duties particularly onerous. Day in and out she deals with issues like animal cruelty, abandonment, and negligence. The play opens with the Bureau's teenage receptionist Corrine Lowell (Journey Entzminger) slouching in her chair, playing with her cell phone, giving Chief Hawkins much attitude, which the chief is too flustered to combat.
The play revolves around Don Stanley's dog, Bailey, a Pit Bull. The Bureau has had many complaints of Bailey being out of control and attacking other dogs.Marc Hanson comes in to lodge a complaint that Bailey has attacked his dog Winnie (short for Winston (like Churchill)), a Goldendoodle.The chief calls in Stanley and confrontation ensue. A Ms. Smith later comes in and makes a similar complaint that Bailey has attacked her cats often with no governmental action. Stanley reveals that Bailey was raised to be a "Bait Dog," used to be a sparring partner for prize fighting dogs. Bailey has in fact been horribly abused by everyone but Mr. Stanley. He just cannot control Bailey. At the play's tragic end, he admits that Bailey may be a "bad" dog.NO. THERE ARE NO BAD DOGS. Or children. Just bad parents.Written by Chandler Hubbard
Directed by Chelsea BurkeKIM- Katrinah Carol LewisCORINNE- Nancy CollieMARC- Adam TurckDAN- Aaron OrenskyPATTY- Addie Barnhart1 hr 59 min - LULU Part One by Frank Wedekind performed by Quarantine Players
Frank Wedekind
The German dramatist, cosmopolite, and libertarian Frank Wedekind (1864-1918) was a foe of middle-class hypocrisy and a moralist eager to reform the world through sexual emancipation.Frank Wedekind was born Benjamin Franklin Wedekind on July 24, 1864, in Hanover, Germany. After working as a freelance journalist, an advertising copywriter, and a secretary for a circus, and spending long sojourns as a painter in England and France, young Wedekind moved to Munich, joining the staff of the satirical magazine Simplizissimus, in which his first political poems appeared. He remained in Munich until his death, occasionally making guest appearances in his own plays, giving public readings, and reciting and singing his ballads in a famous cabaret called Die Elf Scharfrichter (Eleven Executioners).About the Play.In a Prologue, the characters in the drama are introduced by an ‘Animal Tamer’ as if they are creatures in a traveling circus. Lulu herself is described as “the true animal, the wild, beautiful animal” and the “primal form of woman”.When the action of the play starts, Lulu has been rescued by the rich newspaper publisher Dr Schön from a life on the streets with her alleged father, the petty criminal Schigolch. Dr Schön has taken Lulu under his wing, educated her and made her his lover. Wishing however to make a more socially advantageous match for himself, he has married her off to the medic Dr Goll.In the first Act Dr Goll has brought Lulu to have her portrait painted by Schwarz. Left alone with him, Lulu seduces the painter. When Dr Goll returns to confront them, he collapses with a fatal heart attack.In Act Two, Lulu has married the painter Schwarz, who, with Schön’s assistance, has now achieved fame and wealth. She remains Schön’s mistress, however. Wishing to be rid of her ahead of his forthcoming marriage to a society belle, Charlotte von Zarnikow, Schön informs Schwarz about her dissolute past. Schwarz is shocked to the core and “guillotines” himself with his razor.In Act Three Lulu appears as a dancer in a revue, her new career promoted by Schön’s son Alwa, who is now also infatuated with her. Dr Schön is forced to admit that he is in her thrall. Lulu forces him to break off his engagement to Charlotte.2 hr 49 min - BUTTERFLY WALTZ by Pamela Jafari performed by Quarantine Players
Welcome to the Quarantine Players
We are a group of playwrights, actors, and directors who meet once a week to read plays together. Tonight we are reading Butterly Waltz by Washington, DC playwright, Pamela JafariPlease take a minute to support the actors in this performance please visit https://cash.app/$pjafariwrites to make a contribution, all amounts are appreciated.
Trigger warning:
This is a story about domestic violence in a ten-year lesbian marriage and takes place here in the close-knit queer community of DC. There is profanity, references to rape, alcohol abuse, and derogatory references to a transgender character in the story.The story is complex and unflinching. It is about the lies we tell ourselves to make unbearable situations bearable.
We talk about the power of theater to invoke empathy and connection but then ask playwrights to dumb it down or change the stories so people will "like it"
One of the benefits to our Quarantine Players process is that we can take the entire story as is to the audience as the playwright conceived it. No comprises, no infringement, no happy endings needed here.
Pamela Jafari is a DC-based playwright who marries modern-day content based storytelling with traditional theater's masked Greek chorus. The chorus, in this case, will represent the competing aspects of the emotional state of the abuser because the abuser is disconnected from her emotions.
There are three characters in this greek chorus Anger, Bitter and Lonely. If this were an on-stage production, we would have each character wearing a mask that would suggest the emotion. You can tell that the characters are speaking in the chorus because they have broken sentences and blurt words out.
Let's meet our characters
-Veronica Browne-Barnes / Paula
-Myrrh Cauthen /Doc Alexander/Jeri/ Lonely
- Kee Kee Funches/Valerie/ Anger
- Andrea Sanderson/ Gloria/ Bitter
- Beverly "Chocolate" White/ Mynite
Reading Stage Direction: Jesse Roberts
Playwright: Pamela Jafari
2 hr 15 min - LEDGENDS AND BRIDGE by Stephen Foster performed by Quarantine Players
Ladies and laddies and sugar daddies, Quarantine Players presents Joan Crawford, Bette Davis and Judy Garland! In a comedy laugh-fest of old Hollywood glamour. "Legends and Bridge is "Feud" meets "End of the Rainbow" . It's the imagined story of Joan Crawford inviting Bette Davis and Judy Garland to live with her to work on their comeback film. They agree all eager beaver until they see what project she has in mind. Toss in Tennessee Williams and a YOUNG boy toy and you got a card game filled with Hollywood backstabbing!
Chelsea Burke, Director
CAST
Lily Mercer as Joan CrawfordJudy Lewis as Judy GarlandGayle Grimes as Bette DavisAdam Turck as MadisonD. Scott Graham as Tennessee WilliamsBlack Box Theatre Publishing Company arranged special performance rights for us!
https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers/videos/310064470137169/
#bettedavis #judygarland #joancrawford #tennesseewilliams #theater #onlinetheatre #hollywood #feud
2 hr 1 min
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