Bill Johnson's The Baggage Handler will be performed in New York on April 4th as part of the Creative Mechanics/E-MergingWriters 10-Minute play competition, Stage This! The Best 10-Minute Plays We Could Find Festival.
(PRWEB) March 3, 2005 -- Bill Johnson's The Baggage Handler will be performed in New York on April 4th as part of the Creative Mechanics/E-MergingWriters 10-Minute play competition, Stage This! The Best 10-Minute Plays We Could Find Festival.
In The Baggage Handler a couple getting ready to be reborn learn something about themselves and each other when they check in their baggage for their next life and try and leave one bag behind.
The festival is held at the Theater of the 14th Street Y in New York City at 8pm. To make reservations (space is limited), call (201) 686-9131.
Bill will be in New York to attend the performance.
The Baggage Handler is part of Bill's series of plays set in the after life that include Pre-Life, Pre-Nuptial, about a couple arguing about a pre-nuptial agreement before they are born; and Betting the Karmic House, about a couple betting their karma in a heavenly casino.
Bill is the author of A Story is a Promise; office manager of Willamette Writers, a writing group with 1,250 members; and webmaster of Essays on the Craft of Dramatic Writing!, a web site that reviews popular novels, movies, and plays to a way to explore principles of storytelling. He currently teaches an on-line writing workshop through the University of California, San Diego.
The full list of pieces to be performed by Creative Mechanics include:
2005 Stage This! Finalists:
The Baggage Handler
Bill Johnson, Portland, OR
Reading directed by Shannon Maddox
Conspicuous Citizenship
Claude McMillan, Boulder, CO
Reading directed by Janice Herndon
Dialogue in 3 Parts
Barry Rowell, New York, NY
Reading directed by Gabriel Shanks
Entitled
Peter Snoad, Jamaica Plain, MA
Reading directed by Frank Blocker
I Love You, Virus
Tom Grady, Fairhaven, MA
Reading directed by Chris Meade
The Lovely
Shannon Murdoch, Footscray, Victoria, Australia
Reading directed by Benjamin Keightley
New Tricks
Adam Ruben, Baltimore, MD
Reading directed by Avi Glickstein
Rat-tat-tat
David Guaspari, Ithaca, NY
Reading directed by Avi Glickstein
Resistance
Peter Snoad, Jamaica Plain, MA
Reading directed by Terry Long
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