Jim Dalglish
- The Black Eye
When an aging gay man asks a street-wise kid if he needs a lift home, is he prepared to go where the dangerous young man is about to take him? Narrator: “He’s seeing himself for the first time. Look at him. Nothing on this earth is more beautiful.”
Winner: “Best Short Play” – 2001 Edward Albee Last Frontier Theatre Festival.
One-Act: 18 min. – three chairs
2M: early 20s, late 40s
- Daughter of the Regiment
Its Billy’s first day at a new school. Now if only his mother could get
him out of the limousine. Mother: “It’s called ‘Ritalin.’ But you don’t have to tell that to your new friends. Just say it’s a special vitamin.”
Panelists’ Choice Winner, 2002 Edward Albee Last Frontier Theatre Festival.
One-Act: 18 min. – three chairs
1F: early 30s
- The Shaving Lesson
An emotionally damaged father teaches his son the art of shaving. Father: “You don’t want me to start that … some old boring war story … that was 10 years ago. No one wants to hear those stories now … no one ever did.”
Chosen “Best Play” – 2002 Eventide Arts Festival.
One-Act: 17 min. – no set
1M: late 30s
- Cavalier
A blizzard, a mysterious pregnancy, and an emotionally fragile high school quarterback take a small North Dakota town by storm. Billy: “It was like something wild came over me and made me strong, and brave, and invincible. I was wild and couldn’t be stopped … not by anyone.”
Two-Act: 2 hours – diner
5M: late teens-70s
3W: late teens-40s
- Starkweather
Forced out of his childhood home by a rapacious traveling saleswoman, a young man is torn between returning to the man who betrayed him and settling for life in a dying town on the wind-swept plains of North Dakota. Mrs. Cook: “Nothing’s more dangerous than a man with nowhere to go and an eternity to get there.”
Finalist – Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Competition
Three-Act: 2 hr., 20 min. – set: farmhouse, gas station
3M: late teens-40s
2W: 40s and 70s
- A Little Off the Top and Sides
When an eight-year-old brat, a middle-aged man, and a retired professor visit the barber shop, they get more than just haircuts. George: “If you and your friends stick together, you’ll beat David Osowski no matter how scared of him you are.”
One-Act
6M: 7-75
1W: 30s
- Love and Death and Isabella Stewart Gardner
Three former college roommates are re-united in this romantic comedy about
a museum tour gone terribly astray. Alex: “Each year at za stroke von midnight on za anniversary of St. Isabellas death … You can hear za moans and groans from deep within zeez werry valls.”
Honorable Mention – Ten Best Plays; Cape Cod Times, 2001
One-Act: 45 min. – set: picture frames
3M: early 30s
1W: early 30s
- The Brave
The telling of an Indian legend helps two men express their love for each
other as they face a terminal illness. Jack: “The brave was the only one in the hunting party who saw the white buffalo.”
Selected for the 1999 Boston Theatre Marathon.
One-Act: 18 min. – set: bedroom
2M: early 30s
- Consequences and Their Side Effects
Could a relationship that begins in the shower room of an ivy-league gym
have any chance of succeeding? Jack: “That evening I felt like I had peered over the edge and into something … immense. Something real. I had never felt that in my entire life.”
[This is the title play appearing in a collection of seven short plays.]
One-Act: 30 min. – no set
3M: early 30s
- Three Pillows
Howard’s very non-traditional wedding is just a week away. Everything is ready … except the bed. Veronica: “I believe in equal rights on this earth. The afterlife is a different story, though.”
One-Act: 15 min. – furniture store bed
2M: 20s, 30s
2F: 20s, 30s
- Professionals
Billions of dollars are at stake and Victoria’s job is on the line. But is that more important than an inconvenient fire on the 60th floor of a rather tall office building in downtown Manhattan? Victoria: “The mission of this company is bigger than us … much, much bigger than us.”
One-Act: 15 min. – NYC financial district board room
1M: 30s
2W: 20s, 40s
- Like Father, Like Son
Louis is taking his father to his first Gay Pride Parade. But will he be proud when he discovers what’s really on his dad’s mind? Louis: “And look at this. Poppers! Poppers, Dad, poppers! My old man uses poppers! Great!”
One-Act: 15 min. – attic apartment in Boston’s South End
2M: 20, 52
