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minute plays and monologues along with a rollicking two act farce.
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For
a limited time we are offering "The Real Problem," "Under
The Balcony" and "Cindy & Julie" for a combined
price of $25.
Normally
you'd have to purchase each of these plays separately. With this
offering you save $5 off the total price. These three plays make
up a comedy trilogy featuring Shakespeare's "Juliet."
Also,
for a limited time we are reducing the royalty rate if all three
plays are produced as a single production.
Winner - East Division
All England Theatre Festival
"Best Comedy"
In a land where "beauty is only skin deep - thank God"
a "woman of a certain age" takes drastic action when she learns
that she's been surpassed in the looks department by her sexy stepdaughter
as the tales of "Sleeping Beauty" and "Snow White" get rolled into
a 90210 facelift.
"Went
down a storm." Corofin Dramatic Society, Ireland
A slovenly and indecisive Hamlet, a marriage bent Ophelia,
an oversexed Gertrude, a power hungry Claudius and a revenge seeking
Ghost let their hair down to Elsinore's hippest hair dresser.
Winner - "2007 All-Ireland
One Act Play Competition"
Winner -2009 Adjudicator's Prize
Rosebowl Drama Festival - Cyprus
Winner - "Most Original Contribution" 2008 Cork, Ireland Youth
Drama Festival
Winner - "2008 Macra Na Feirme National Drama Finals" -
Ireland
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"'Recontrahamlet,' the comedy that Shakespeare did not write...reaches
its highest point in the sequence 'Ruby of Elsinore' by Bruce Kane"
Sergio Velarde
Founding Member -Association of Peruvian Theatre Critics and Research
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"...we won the Adjudicator's prize for Artistic Originality
and my actress playing 'Ophelia' won the Adjudicator's prize for
acting achievement (equivalent to best supporting actor/actress
prize). The Adjudicator even described the production as "a breath
of fresh air". Most importantly everyone enjoyed our production
- from the actors to the audience and we had some wonderful feedback.
Julie James
Woodlands Drama Group
Harrogate, England
A comedic look at all the things that make modern romance
so much fun including infidelity, emotional masochism, envy, bad
sex, letting go and getting caught. "10 quick takes on the dating game... the sketches move quickly
and devastatingly". Los Angeles Dramalogue
“Opposites” is more than just a play; it’s a fully involved
experience. " City Pulse, Lansing, MI
Shakespeare's famous balcony scene goes slightly askew when
a fleeing Casanova shows up to turn Romeo from a lover to a seducer
under Juliet's balcony.
In a comedy about love and men, Juliet gets conflicting
advice from the ever loyal and romantic Desdemona, whose husband Othello
still suspects her of having an affair; “Taming of the Shrew’s” Katherine,
who claims that “all men are pigs”; and, finally, the head of Henry
VIII’s late wife Anne Boleyn, who believes women should be free to
pursue their appetites… in spite of her present condition
Set completely within the fevered imagination of a
man in romantic crisis, a confused dentist is tormented by three
fantasy women who represent his uptight fiancee, an oversexed wish
fullfillment bimbo and his whip cracking ex-wife.
One Act Play - 1 man, 3 women
"...a psychologically brilliant and funny piece of work!"
- Marsha M. Morgan, Associate Professor of Theatre, Park University
A man interacts with the women in the audience as well
as the three areas of his brain that affect sex and love while trying
to find the girl of his dreams.
4 Males - 6 Females 2 female roles can be double cast
..."I Can Explain," by Bruce Kane, is a short American play
on the same theme, more implicit, but also more extravagant and
just as funny!"
Claude Vedder
Strasbourg
Cinderella and Juliet commiserate about romantic love,
happily ever after and what went wrong with their marriages.
(10 minute play)
(3 women)
"I wanted to tell you that I fell in love with the play
at first reading, and still can't get enough of it. My cast of three
delightful young women love performing it. Your dialogue flows so
beautifully that there is never a problem with lines, and the audience
reaction is great."
JoAnn Katz
Township Theater Group, NY
"Writer Bruce Kane cleverly puts a modern spin
on the old stories that make them less fairy tales and more every
day life.
Vermont Times
With a reptilian bartender acting as matchmaker, the
future of the human race looks anything but promising when a sophisticated
Eve meets the hunky but dim Adam over apple margaritas at the Garden
of Eden Bar & Grill.
(10 minute play)
(2 Males, 1 Female)
"We staged a cabaret-style season of your plays and the whole
concept was enthusiastically received…the audiences particularly
enjoyed "In the Beginning" and "Cindy & Julie."
An
egotistical super hero has difficulty consummating a liaison with
the sexy and eager wife of his super hero rival until he reveals
his true identity.
A woman, who's recently plunged back into the dating
scene, recalls disastrous encounters with three typical males. The
strong, silent type who never speaks (Frankenstein), the all gentlemanly
one minute and all hands the next type (The Wolfman) and the one
night stand who's gone before the sun comes up (Dracula).
"MARJORIE:(breathlessly) Now I know why they call you Vlad...
the impaler."
A stage actress refuses to do a nude scene only to
become insanely jealous when the director decides to replace her
with an imaginary actress that the audience seems to love.
(1 female, 2 males, 1 male or female)
( Running time approximately 6-7 minutes)
Romance and commitment get turned inside out when two
emotional masochists form a relationship based on mutual rejection.
(10 minute play)
(Two character play) (1 male, 1 female)
"...If I tell you that the text has been inspired by Bruce
Kane’s Masochism Tango , it should give you some idea of the nature
of the verbal exchanges. If Woody Allen or Mike Nichols and Elaine
May had gone in for movement theater, they might have talked like
this."
A relationship between two people taken with their
own sense of emotional honesty and openess quickly falls apart from
a lack of emotional honesty and openess.
All Ireland One Act Play Festivals 2008
Crooked Wheel Productions won the following awards:
Ballymahon - Best play, Best Actress, Best Moment in Theatre-Overall
Cavan - Best Play, Best Actress Carrigallen - Best play, Most entertaining Play-Overall
Maudebaum - Best Play
Manorhamilton - Best Play, Best Actress
Winner
Audience Appreciation Award
Cambridge, UK Drama Festival
Tough talking, hardboiled detective Justin Thyme travels
to 11th century Denmark to find out who whacked Hamlet's old man
and runs into a king named Claudius who wants him dead, a prince
named Hamlet who doesn't know what he wants and a dame named Ophelia
who wants everything including Thyme.
Justin Thyme, the hard boiled fictional detective,
gets burned by an old flame by the name of Lady MacBeth, when he's
hired to find out who zotzed the King of Scotland.
'The Case of The Tale Told by an Idiot - a Justin Thyme Mystery'
went down a storm at the festival. The audience laughed from the
first line and even stopped the play on several occasions by clapping! Vivien Devereaux
Mold Drama Works
‘The Case of the Tale Told By An Idiot’ by Bruce Kane,
a send-up of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, which guarantees a laugh a
minute." Limerick Independent
Listen to excerpt from the Wireless Theatre Company
Nobody is what they seem when Justin Thyme, fictional
detective, heads to Sherlock Holmes country to find his client frightened
to death by a four hundred year old hound the size of a Buick and
a list of suspects that includes the slow witted heir to the murdered
man's fortune, his butler, a butterfly collecting twit and a beautiful
woman who immediately casts her spell over our detective..
"THYME: For a British dame she was alright. Hair the color
of strawberries. Peaches and cream complexion. Eyes like blueberries
and for lips... two red delicious apples. I couldn’t tell if I was
fallin’ for her or just low on vitamin C."
Thyme
travels to Transylvania to find out why the country has experienced
a sudden shortage of virgins where he meets the delicious Molly only
to lose her to the mysterious and sinister Count Dracula.
Fictional
detective Justin Thyme strips away the picture perfect façade
of Peppermint Bay, a place know for its gingerbread houses, cotton
candy clouds and little furry woodland creatures singing pop tunes
in high, squeaky voices to reveal the corruption that lurks just below
its surface when he investigates the death of his old pal William
Jefferson Dumpty. But things get complicated when Dumpty’s scrambling
gets our hard boiled gumshoe mixed up with a cast of characters that
includes Veronica Virago, who manages to give wicked stepmothers a
bad name and a gorgeous dame named Rapunzel who was Dumpty’s
main squeeze and who may, or may not, be an old flame of Thyme’s.
Then there’s B. B. Wolfe, the local crime lord, who Thyme suspects
of zotzing Dumpty and making off with the dear old granny of a tough
talking frail who seems to be wearing a "little red riding hood"
and not much else.
A snippy stage manager gets carried away in his/her
instructions to the audience regarding proper behaviour during the
performance of the play to follow. Can precede any production.
"The evening began with a dramatic plea, written
by Bruce Kane. This friendly chastising rant was witty and humourous,
and vocalized most theatergoers’ pet peeves to a tee."
Bancroft This Week, Ontario, Canada
Ophelia dishes on the royal family while explaining
why she has to marry Hamlet or die
Featured
in "Audition Monologues For Young Women" contemporary
audition pieces for aspiring actresses. Assembled by Gerald Lee
Ratliff for Meriwether Publishing.
With a hip hop style Roman Chorus providing narration,
Julius Caesar's wily number one slave Colitus tries to guide his
thick and lustful master through the jealousies and power grabs
that threaten his rule. In this bawdy romp about the folks who ran
the Roman Empire - right into the ground, the luscious Cleopatra,
the ambitious Brutus, the lean and hungry Cassius and the dim witted
Marc Antony all make plans to knife Caesar in the back while Colitus
maneuvers to keep his master safe just along enough to gain his
own freedom.
"This hilarious play had a hip-hop chorus and a riotous
cast..." Louisville Voice Tribune
