ROBERT'S ETERNAL GOLDFISH at the Scranton Fringe

My solo show ROBERT'S ETERNAL GOLDFISH will play at the first ever Scranton Fringe Festival October 3 (@ 6:30 PM) and October 4 (@ 2 PM).

The show concerns a misanthropic man named Robert J. Roberts. He hates the world. He particularly hates people. Pretty much all people. After a series of strange events lead him to become the unlikely custodian of a magical goldfish, Robert's misanthropic views are seriously challenged. Can a person be frustrated into being a better human being?

Playing at The FORAGE SPACE, 310 N WAShington Ave, Scranton, PA 18503

Tickets and info ... HERE

Pics from the 2015 1MPF

Last month, two of my plays were presented by Kitchen Dog Theater as part of the 2015 Dallas One Minute Play Fest. I did the 1MPF last year. I was pleased to contribute it again. I was on the road when the plays were put up with a lot of other great pieces from some other hard-hitting local playwrights. I didn't get to see the production that went up at the Greer Garson Theatre at SMU. I recently got some great pics (a rarity with this sort of thing... someone was on their game). Looking at them, I totally wish I had been there.

A CAUTIONARY COMMUTE

Ryan Lescalleet directed my one-minute play A CAUTIONARY COMMUTE, a sort of musical ode to DFW rush hour absurdity.

Jeremy Schwartz directed my one-minute play RUMBLESHANKS WANTS AN HQ in which my cyborg/ mad genuis would-be world conqueror character Captain Odysseus Rumbleshanks decides where to put his homebase, dropping hint after hint about the suitablenss of Dallas. Schwartz's interpretation was delightfully odd.

Here's the text of RUMBLESHANKS WANTS AN HQ

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RUMBLESHANKS WANTS AN HQ | Brad McEntire © 2015

RUMBLESHANKS

Glenfield, as you know I, Captain Odysseus Rumbleshanks, part diabolical cyborg, part crazed super-genius am setting out to conquer the world. Swiftly followed by the entire universe. All I need is a place to locate my new headquarters.

GLENFIELD

Yes, yes… Where will you situate your homebase, master?

RUMBLESHANKS

Someplace with an affordable cost of living, Glenfield.

GLENFIELD

Yes, Yes…

RUMBLESHANKS

With an expansive interstate system, professional sports franchises,

GLENFIELD

Yes, yes…

RUMBLESHANKS

World class arts and culture, architecture, shopping and tech industry

GLENFIELD

Yes, of course, yes…

RUMBLESHANKS

Some place centrally located in North America. On the vast rolling plains.

GLENFIELD

Yes…

RUMBLESHANKS

A place of big ideas. With a bold history, yes, but an eye on the future.

GLENFIELD

I know the place, master.

RUMBLESHANKS

That’s right, Glenfield…

BOTH

Tulsa.

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DSF wins Special Citation

The Dallas Solo Fest, an arts festival I produce through my theatre company Audacity Theatre Lab, was awarded a special citation from the Dallas-Fort Worth Theatre Critics Forum. Here's an excerpt from the Dallas Morning News:

With multiple awards for The Nance, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Catch Me If You Can, Uptown Players stood out among the wide range of small companies that scooped up awards from the Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum this year. 

While large companies like Dallas Theater Center, AT&T Performing Arts Center, Dallas Summer Musicals and Performing Arts Fort Worth weren’t overlooked, the critics honored gems found in small and less likely venues, from the world premiere of Jonathan Norton's Mississippi Goddamn at South Dallas Cultural Center to shows debuting at the experimental Festival of Independent Theatres at Bath House Cultural Center, the Out of the Loop Festival at WaterTower Theatre and Audacity Theatre Lab’s Dallas Solo Fest at the Margo Jones Theatre in Fair Park.

Special Citations:
To Audacity Theatre Lab and Brad McEntire for bringing quality local and national performances to the second annual Dallas Solo Fest at the Margo Jones Theatre, and for advancing the art of solo performance in North Texas.

So, that was nice. Read the original article... HERE