![]() José Rivera is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright. And while it seems to do without the trappings of stagework, set, plot, scenes, etc, it is powerfully theatrical.” -Alan R Hall, Front Row Center This work is simple, and simply potent in its impact. We as listeners are forced to face these ravaging emotions, even as we contemplate the death of the storyteller. And each story, small as it might be in and of itself, fills the space, and our ears and our minds, with feeling joy, fear, rage, love, sorrow and makes each one expand to fill this void. There is not a plot here there are sixteen individual plots. They focus power center-stage with their individual stories and what they learned from them. These are people that we would meet on the street they are ordinary souls. ![]() Yet it builds in its intensity as each storyteller brings his or her own story to life. One man, who has been waiting for them, tells them that they have one final chance to tell their stories, and that their words will go out to the universe. In a moment somewhere between life and afterlife, these individuals are assembled. “Could you tell your life story In the space of a moment, the length of a sonnet? Playwright Jose Rivera attempts to answer that question for sixteen different individuals in a moving yet amazingly unencumbered play he has titled SONNETS FOR AN OLD CENTURY. Much as Edgar Masters did nearly ninety years before - with a much larger sample from a much smaller town - playwright Jose Rivera gives eighteen characters from present-day Los Angeles and environs one final chance in this collection of dramatic monologues to speak their peace about their lives, apparently from just the other side of the grave.” -Byron Woods, The Independent ![]() The only question left involves what we do with the information. Pete is having major issues with his co-worker because his co-worker doesn’t understand where to draw the line of their apparent friendship.“Now we have a SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY to call our own, a work whose scope and insights begin to suggest an OUR TOWN for our generation. Shabe is caught up with the wrong people and is being forced to commit a crime against his will. Jerzy discovers that his Father is planning to sell the family Motel but what’s more is that he also uncovers a deep dark secret that’s buried underground. Her experience changed her life…whether or not for the better is yet to be seen… Harley drops in on Art and Pam in order to move in with them until he figures out the rest of his life.Įdmund is a fashion writer who sheds light on design intern Avy during a catwalk.Įmily has returned back home after living on the other side of the country. ![]() Lenora has reached a turning point in her life when her boyfriend flirts with a younger woman old enough to be her daughter. The two discuss their present situation and decide what it all means for their relationship.Ĭharlie wants to give Tula the life he’s always dreamed for them but he can’t seem to ever break past his own gambling and drinking addictions. Kyra has left the home she shared with her boyfriend of five years. Rebecca confesses the truth to her daughter as to her real mother was…ĭaz needs to get his mother out of the local bar she’s passed out in, the only trouble is that she won’t leave unless a traveling musician plays her a song. Marza encounters a life changing event after spending an evening watching theatre. During a sandstorm, his wish may come true when two bank robbers show up.īeverly cannot go one more day unless she can escape the trapped feeling of her suburban home. Quinn is looking for a way out of bussing tables at a diner. Great 15 minute plays are short one act play scripts featuring 2 or more characters for actors to sink their teeth into. ![]()
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