UPLOADED
At the end of his father’s patience and, more importantly, his father’s financial support, Daniel, a charismatic slacker, needs a lifeline. Sam, his reluctant drug dealer, provides “lines”, of a sort, a new drug cocktail called a “Screwdriver.” Pharmaceutically aided, Daniel, comes up with a grandiose solution to his impending eviction: start a religion. Dragging Sam into his speed-fueled scheme, it seems as if Daniel’s dreams of fame and fortune may actually come to fruition when the beautiful Anikka, a powerhouse of
positivism, enters the picture. Can Sam get his monster back to the lab before someone gets hurt?
2 men, 1 woman 80 minutes with no intermission
Clips from Uploaded on Home page:
BIRDS DO IT
Susan makes what she thinks is a perfectly considered life decision – she doesn’t need sex anymore. But tell that to her husband, Jim, who thinks that the sun rises and sets on his wife. Susan thinks “open marriage” is the solution, but Jim believes it’s really her way of dumping him. He must find away around it and outsmart her, but how? Enter Carey, a beautiful, younger woman who might just make Susan jealous enough to stop this train-wreck – or send the whole thing careening over the cliff. And when Susan meets a young Adonis, her confusion and panic mount. Is she really over sex? Or is it something else?
3 women, 5 men Two-acts Unit Set
Clips from Birds Do It on Home page.
American Suite (in five movements)
A suite of five short plays taking a weather-vane tour around America.
THE CHRISTMAS NAZI - Laurie, in full battle mode, prepares for THE holiday in her upper middle-class Michigan home. Her beleaguered husband, Bob, takes the brunt of it as external and internal forces try to thwart her attempts at reaching perfection.
WEIGHTY MAGIC – Outside of Natchez, Mississippi, Maximillian Tammaford’s Apothecary has remedies for everything that ails you. George, an obese man, is desperate, but is the cure worse than the disease?
THE BEAR – One more night in a bar in West Orange, New Jersey, and this woman has had too many of them. Tonight, assessing her life, she knows she must make a change, but the saxophonist is charming. Should she take one more chance?
P.O.Q. - At a private school steering committee meeting in Los Angeles, four women have an agenda, just nothing to do with the school. As the meeting spins out of control, so do the women.
FLY-OVER – An elderly couple, Dorothy Jean and her husband, Joseph, wait out a tornado in their cellar in Kansas. Not the same since their daughter died, Dorothy Jean’s behavior frightens Joseph, who feels his beloved wife slipping away from him.
5 men, 7 women of various ages and ethnicity (some double casting is possible)
For performance rights for amateur and professional productions, please send inquiries to: lrgordonwriter@gmail.com
Suzanne Quast, Jeff Lorch and Erik Odom in Uploaded. Photo by John Perrin Flynn.
...a wryly observed field autopsy of American gullibility… yet beneath the ripples of such surface humor lie deeper pools of understanding about the balm and damage religion applies and inflicts.” – Stage Raw
Tania Getty and Keith Stevenson in Birds Do It.
A comedy about love, with and without sex...
