Michael Shayne

Michael Shayne

MICHAEL SHAYNE "Honeymoon Sweet" His play "Heroes: Fighting In The AIDS Trenches" had its premiere January 2018, in Fort Lauderdale, FL. His other plays are "Peter Pan Is Dead", "The Job Offer", "Mr. G", and "The Mirror In the Attic." He has also written the librettos to “Lysistrata: A Musical Fable About Love and War”and “Survivors: A Kurt Weill Songspiel”.

Plays

  • Honeymoon Sweet (A Play About Modern Marital Problems)
    Honeymoon Sweet. A comedy about divorce before the honeymoon is over! Dexter and Justin & Richard and Declan are married and are unknowingly honeymooning in adjoining hotel suites on Fire Island. The only problem is Dexter and Richard were once a couple, and by chance, they meet again. Barbs fly and drinks flow as they fall in love all over again and run off together to New York, leaving their new husbands...
    Honeymoon Sweet. A comedy about divorce before the honeymoon is over! Dexter and Justin & Richard and Declan are married and are unknowingly honeymooning in adjoining hotel suites on Fire Island. The only problem is Dexter and Richard were once a couple, and by chance, they meet again. Barbs fly and drinks flow as they fall in love all over again and run off together to New York, leaving their new husbands behind. Justin and Dexter pursue their husbands to the city trying to get them back.
  • Peter Pan Is Dead
    The last moments of the life of the former child actor Robert (aka Bobby) Discroll's life. He died homeless and penniless. Before he dies Bobby is visited by Walt Disney (Who he worked for) and the fictional characters of Uncle Remus, (Song of the South), Long John Silver (Treasure Island), and Peter Pan (Who Bobby was the voice and live-action reference model for the film.) This is the original 10-minute...
    The last moments of the life of the former child actor Robert (aka Bobby) Discroll's life. He died homeless and penniless. Before he dies Bobby is visited by Walt Disney (Who he worked for) and the fictional characters of Uncle Remus, (Song of the South), Long John Silver (Treasure Island), and Peter Pan (Who Bobby was the voice and live-action reference model for the film.) This is the original 10-minute version of the play. Also currently expanding it into a full-length version)
  • Mr. G
    Taking Samuel Becket's Waiting For Godot as the jumping-off point, this short play surmises what the young boy from the play talks about with the unseen title character from the play when he exits from the original play.
  • The Job Offer
    Sydney, an elderly person, offers Sam a unique one-time job offer that may not be all it's meant to be.
  • The Mirror in The Attic
    A young girl finds a mirror in the attic and discovers a most unusual reflection in the mirror. Time and space change as the story unfolds with a twist ending.
  • Heroes: Fighting In the AIDS Trenches. Two One-Act Plays
    Heroes: Fighting In the AIDS Trenches is the overall title for two one act plays. Ruth: The Cemetery Angel and Vito: Standing On His Shoulders. The plays are monologues about two extraordinary people who fought the AIDS crisis during the 80's in their own unique way. Ruth: The Cemetery Angel tells the story of Ruth Coker Burks who gave a home and eventually a final resting place in her family's...
    Heroes: Fighting In the AIDS Trenches is the overall title for two one act plays. Ruth: The Cemetery Angel and Vito: Standing On His Shoulders. The plays are monologues about two extraordinary people who fought the AIDS crisis during the 80's in their own unique way. Ruth: The Cemetery Angel tells the story of Ruth Coker Burks who gave a home and eventually a final resting place in her family's cemetery to dozens of young men with AIDS who would have died alone when their families rejected them. Vito: Standing On His Shoulders is about the late Vito Russo who was the author of the seminal book, "The Celluloid Closet" about how homosexuals were depicted in Hollywood movies. More importantly, however, he was a gay and AIDS activist and founding member of GLAAD and ACT UP. His friends included Larry Kramer, Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin. He was a featured participant in the Academy Award winning documentary "Common Threads: Tales From the Quilt".
  • I, William Shakespeare
    A time traveler meets William Shakespeare in order to write his biography. Changing history he causes the untimely death of the Bard. He wants to go back in time to stop his death but an older version of the time traveler appears to stop him from going back again. No matter what they try Shakespeare still dies and they have to come up with a solution to rectify the death of one of the greatest writers ever.