Purchase Enemy Towers through Amazon.comEnemy Towers is an avant-garde parody of academia written to coincide with an art exhibit curated to have works by local artists both in the performance, as well as in an adjoining gallery space where a reception will be held each night before and after the play. Its party-time!
Its first run at
Greylight Theatre, directed by
Jason Hedrick, was a hilariously smashing success, leading to publication in an anthology which, ironically, has occasionally been used as a text book in academia.
The Weeding is a screenplay which is less obviously avant-garde, but very much and subversively is so. More and more my works tend toward tweaking the idiom of medium, genre, and language in general. So I give you Hollywood conventions turned in on themselves. In film business "log-line" speak, which I hate, The Weeding is something like Reservoir Dogs meets Six Degree's of Separation on acid. And by the way, I am one degree away from
Kevin Bacon. I worked as an extra on a film set with him in Montana last summer, along with some Albanian actors from Kosovo that I dragged along with me.
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My screenplay "GREY PROPAGANDA" won Honorary Mention in the Holman Screenplay Writing Contest at Wichita State University, in 2002. It's a kind of X-Files taking place in the Beatnik 1950's, and calls into question the real motives behind the Cold War. Contact me for more information on that.
"They weeded him out of the system. You know why, because he was a beautiful person. They feel threatened by that kind of energy. They see a beautiful person as a weed, and they pull him out!" From: THE WEEDING
Here is the log line and a short synopsis of the play:
The Weeding
Short Log Line:
Its Reservoir Dogs meets Six Degree's Of Seperation on acid.
Analogical Log Line:
An eccentric trio of ill-starred crooks plan to "weed out the weak ones" from a pool of recently paroled white collar criminals recruited for a major armed robbery( by having them do small-time robberies for practice.) The story morphs as victims from the first 20 pages sneak back into the action. Predictability goes helter-skelter as this weed-wacker of a movie churns out plot twists like tornados, making one final and twisted touch-down at the end.
Synopsis:
The armed robbery of a riverboat casino goes tragically wrong, leaving victims denied justice and wanting revenge, and leaving the remaining robbers without enough gang members to pull off a "big job" worth enough to retire on.
While the robbers busy themselves with how to recruit new flesh capable of handling a major armed robbery, the victims come together through happenstance, and their own greed, to one up the plans of the robbers.
One of the ring leaders of the gang is a parole officer, and they decide to brutally recruit white collar convicts getting out on parole. But having little violent experience, they decide to put the parolee's through a series of small-time robberies to train them, and to "weed out the weak ones." This is kicked off by a drug and alcohol fueled party in the woods where war games will be played.
This mad party becomes the hallucinogenic lens through which much of the weeding is seen through. The victims have interjected themselves into the process, and in the process they have become antagonists themselves, resulting in more tragic chaos.
By the end of The Weeding, when the gang commits the "big job", the robbing of a large new casino, surprise protagonists are revealed. Some scores get settled, while others emerge from the darkness of crime and failed dreams that nobody can win.