David J. Mauriello
- Just Say Love
Two men begin a “bedroom”-only romance, however, with help from Plato, they embark on a journey to true love, and ever-lasting happiness.
Nominated for best new play Spotlight Awards, Portsmouth NH 2007, and for best new play at a small company Independent Reviewers of New England, 2007.
Produced as the movie “Just Say Love,” in 2009.
“Mauriello’s production is not just intelligent and unexpected, but even bewitching. … To watch a disbelieving, astounded Guy slowly raise his hands to Doug’s bare chest, and later to see Doug return the gesture, is almost to have witnessed a mystical act.” – M. Grumbling, the Portland Phoenix
One-Act: 75 min. – minimal set
2M: 20s, 40s - But Mostly Because It’s Raining
Tom, a street wise hunk, wakes up-half naked in closeted Mike’s unfinished apartment, which begins a tempestuous war of values.
Winner Jane Chambers Gay Playwriting Award 1983, produced in NYC, LA, NE.
A pre aids play that can be updated with simple changes.
One Act: 70 min. – minimal set
2M: 20s, 30s - A Passage of Time
Mike and Joe plan to open a guest house in a resort town. Plans are scuttled when Joe’s old-school parents, and aging aunt, move in. This drives Joe deeper into the closet, and a wedge between the two lovers.
“Sheer class … Insightful look at family relationships.” – Portsmouth Herald
3 Acts: 80 min. – unit set, kitchen, sun deck
3M: 30-50, 70s
2F: 60s, 80s - Fireflies
Peter, a successful realtor, is out to everyone, except for his aging mother. When he returns home to assist his ailing mother, he’s greatly conflicted about coming out to her.
Finalist, New Works Festival, Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, MA, 2007.
2 Acts: 70 min. – suggested Boston apartment and family living room, exterior flower garden
3M: 30s-40s, 70s
3F: 50s-60s, 80s-90s - One Great Big Light
A man, newly diagnosed with prostate cancer, meets a feisty old country woman whose son has died of AIDS. They give each other courage to face their emotional pains.
Finalist, New Works Festival, Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, MA, 2005.
Included in the Eileen Heckart Senior Division Archives, Ohio State University.
One Act: 10 min. – exterior minimal set
1M: 50s
1F: 70s - Homing Pigeons
Two elderly brothers confess to, and justify, their incestuous childhood relationship.
One Act: 10 min. – park bench
2M: 60s-80s - Nude in the Parlor
While admiring a faceless, graphic, male nude painting, a man makes assumptions that cost him a date with the actual model.
One act: 10 min. – suggested parlor set.
3M 20s-40s
