Weaving Woolly Mammoths is a full-length
play. The theme of weaving runs through ten scenes in different
times, places, and situations. Like weaving itself, there is different
coloration (comedy, tragedy), depiction (characters), and texture to
each piece. The play can be performed with a minimum cast of seven
actors (with doubling)—five women and two men. Sets can be as minimal
as desired.
Individual
scenes have been performed A 10-minute plays, as follows:
Huma’s Loom—Herring Run ArtsFest, Middleboro, MA (Sept.
2002); “Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Peace &
Justice Theater Festival” in three venues on Cape Cod [June, 2005];
Theatre Cooperative’s ‘Ritalin Readings,’ Somerville, MA [Jan. 2006];
the Boston Theater Marathon [May 2006];
Little Silk Worms—Herring Run ArtsFest [Sept. 2003];
Hair Weave— New England Academy of Theatre’s NEAT Short
Play Festival, New Haven, CT [June, 2005]; “Pubic Reading Series” by The
Regroup Theatre, NYC [Mar. 2006];
Oh, Brother—Herring Run ArtsFest [Sept. 2005];
The Fall of Fall Reeve—Middleboro Public Library [June
2004]; Culture*Park’s 4th Annual Short Play Marathon, New Bedford, MA
[Oct. 2005];
2nd Empress-ions—Ten Grand and a Burger Productions, NYC
[Mar. 2006]
KAZORKIS In Extremis is a full-length play. The play revolves around a family in the process of unraveling on one balmy Spring afternoon. The patriarch of the (Lithuanian-American) Kazorkis family learns that his arch-enemy vindictively intends to close down his salvage yard, putting him out of business. Over the course of the afternoon and evening, in an increasingly comical drunken state, Tony Kazorkis, with his reluctant Vietnamese assistant, plots an unlikely retaliation against his nemesis.
Meanwhile, Tony’s two daughters, Betty and Sonja, have arrived at turning points in their own lives. Sonja is on the brink of divorce with Walter, and Betty may lose custody of her precocious son, Paulie, to her ex-husband, Martin. Walter and Martin are weary of their difficult wives—Sonja, being unresponsive and controlling, and Betty living only for the moment. But the husbands are not much better – Walter is having “a mid-life crisis, by damn” and Martin is angry and vengeful… …and yet it is all rather comedic.
The playwright received a playwriting award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for this play. KAZORKIS IN EXTREMIS has received staged readings in:
Ed Bullin’s NUWorks Program at Northeastern University; and
