FronteraFest is a five-week long performance festival that ScriptWorks co-produces with Hyde Park Theatre annually. We commission four pieces for the Short Fringe, which appear weekly on Weds. nights. Every year, several of our members are involved in FronteraFest. Here are the members who are taking part this year:
FLING SALON November 2o, 2011 @ 5:30pm State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave. The November Salon will be the culmination of our Weekend Fling where members write 10-minute plays using three arbitrary ingredients over 48 hours. We'll be reading these freshly-inked mini-masterpieces in a Salon that is open to the public.
The Play Formerly Known as Larius Likler (working title) by Aimée Gonzalez Sunday, October 30th at 6:30pm HYDE PARK THEATRE, 511 W. 43rd St. (PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION) The Liklers are in a pickle. Parson Likler suddenly finds himself a single dad to his son Larius, an apsiring serial killer, his daughter Molly, a waitress attempting to fake obesity, and his youngest daughter Beluga, a middle schooler in love with a hairy older man. The family clumsily feels their way through this new life until a phone call changes everything.
MORPHINE by Gary Swaim Monday, October 17 at 7pm ArtCentre Theatre in Plano 5220 Village Creek Drive (map) Plano, Texas 75093 MORPHINE Dr. Benjamin has undergone heart surgery and finds himself in the predicament of acquiring almost everything the hospital has to give him in the way of other illnesses, resulting in a 6-month hospitalization and a 54-day coma. During his hospital stay, he encounters himself through morphine-induced hallucinations and the actions of his family and friends. Comedy meets philosophy. (based not all so loosely on my personal experiences in 2006)
KINDERMAN'S WAKE by George Obermiller Sunday, September 25 at 6:30pm State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave. (map) KINDERMAN'S WAKE The truth comes from an unlikely source, when a crotchety south Texas rancher is awakened from the dead by an illegal alien and spends one more night on earth, or hell--he can't tell which, in order to reconcile with his dysfunctional family and solve a sixty year old mystery.