MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI

MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI

CONTACT: Madeline Puccioni
6430 Mystic Street
Oakland, CA, 94618
510 318 0410
mpuccioni@gmail.com

MEMBERSHIPS

Madeline Lowe Puccioni
510 318 0410
​OAKLAND, CA 94618
​
Company Member
Towne Street Theatre
L.A.'s Premiere African American Theatre Company...
CONTACT: Madeline Puccioni
6430 Mystic Street
Oakland, CA, 94618
510 318 0410
mpuccioni@gmail.com

MEMBERSHIPS

Madeline Lowe Puccioni
510 318 0410
​OAKLAND, CA 94618
​
Company Member
Towne Street Theatre
L.A.'s Premiere African American Theatre Company
Celebrating 21years in 2014
http://www.townestreetla.org/

Company Member
PlayGround SF
Playwrights Center SF
SF Olympians Festival
​ATLAS PLAYWRIGHT 2015​

​Dramatists Guild
International Centre for Women Playwrights
American Association of Community Theatres​
Theatre Communications Group
Theatre Bay Area​
TBA Adjudicator​

Madeline Puccioni is a “re-entry” playwright, delighted to be back at work after grading college English essays for 30 years.. She’s had a number of short plays produced in S.F., NYC, and L.A. recently, and is working on two longer plays and a screenplay at present. Madeline lives in Oakland with her husband Monroe, and two insane chihuahuas. She is a member of PlayGround SF, Towne Street Theatre L.A., PlayWrights Center SF, SF Olympians Festival, AAACT, Dramatists Guild and the International Centre for Women Playwrights.

Her first one-act, LAUNDROMAT, was produced by the Julian Theatre in 1980 and published in Shameless Hussy Press. Her first full-length, “TWO O’CLOCK FEEDING,” was produced in 1985 at the Magic Theatre in SF and published in West Coast Plays. This year, her 10 minute play, THE INTERVIEW, was produced at the Towne Street Theatre, L.A., in February, and again in June, in the SHEHEREZADE FESTIVAL at The Exit Theatre in S.F. Her 10 minute chihuahua comedy, YAPPY HOUR, was produced at The Players Theatre, NYC, in its Valentine’s Day Festival, SexFEST, in February 2014.

Her 10 minute play, DARK WINDOWS , (which was short listed for the Vittum Award), had a fine six week production in Sept./Oct. 2014, in Pegasus Theatre’s Tapas Festival. Her first play for the SF Olympians, THE IMMORTAL WALLS OF TROY, was a finalist for the Stanley Drama Award. Her one act, GERTRUDE , (yes, THAT Gertrude) an Elizabethan-ish verse play and a “sequel” to Hamlet, was a finalist for the Windsor Fringe U.K., in June. Her new one act, THE THREE GRAEAE MEET PERSEUS AND A BANANA PEEL, had a staged reading at the Exit Theatre in SF last November, during the San Francisco Olympians Festival. She is now a member of PlayGround SF, Playwrights Center SF, The Towne Street Theatre Co. (L.A.), SF Olympians Festival, PlayCafe Berkeley, and PlayWrights Center Minn. (www.pwcenter.org) She will see her next SF Olympian drama, EURYBIA AND THE PIRATE QUEEN, performed at The Exit Theatre in November 2015, and will have a number of her new 10 minute plays staged in PlayGround’s Monday Night PlayGround Series at The Berkeley Rep Theatre.

RECENTLY PRODUCED ...AND COMING UP

JANUARY 2015 WAR BABIES (PlayGround Theatre, Berkeley Rep)
MARCH 2015 GOONERS (Theatre Bay Area Conference, Berkeley Rep) http://www.theatrebayarea.org/news/news.aspid=236276&hhSearchTerms=%22gooners%22
APRIL 2015 GOONERS (Dramatists Guild Showcase, Tides Theatre SF)
JUNE 2015 SOLO SHOW - MAD 10'S - FUNDRAISER FOR 3RD STREET THEATRE, Temescal Arts Center
AUG 2015 WONDERPEOPLE - THEATRE 906, The Public Theatre, Chicago
SEPT 2015 DR SEX EDNA, SF THEATRE PUB, ON THE SPOT SHOW, PianoFight, SF
OCT 2015 MIND THE GAP, FUNDRAISER FOR UWAC, CCCC, JOHN KNOX THEATRE
OCT 2015 THE SATURDAY NIGHTERS, Towne Street's IN RESPONSE, STELLA ADLER THEATRE , L.A.
OCT 2015 SQUEEK! PlayGround SF, at Berkeley Rep and Robles Theatre, Stanford
OCT 2015 FIRST AND TEN, DO IT AGAIN! Playwrights Center SF, Custom Made Theatre SF
OCT 2015 RUDOLF THE ZOMBIE REINDEER, 3RD ST. Theatre, Joy Gallery, SF
NOV 2015 EURYBIA AND THE PIRATE QUEEN, SF OLYMPIANS FESTIVAL, THE EXIT THEATRE, SF
DEC 2015 FLASH PLAYS (DARK STAR, EXTRA CREDIT, PLAYLAND FOREVER) Fundraiser for Playwrights
Foundadion, Brava Theatre, SF

Plays

  • THE SATURDAY NIGHTERS by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama
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    Keyword: lynching, Georgia Douglas Johnson
    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama
    Keyword: lynching, Georgia Douglas Johnson
    We are in GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON’S spacious living room in Washington D.C., in 1938. It is a meeting of her SATURDAY NIGHT SALON - called THE SATURDAY NIGHTERS - where she hosts struggling black artists, activists and writers, many of whom are or will be luminaries of the HARLEM RENAISSANCE. Tonight we meet OSWALD VILLARD, who co-founded the NAACP and co-edits the magazine CRISIS with W.E.B. du...
    We are in GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON’S spacious living room in Washington D.C., in 1938. It is a meeting of her SATURDAY NIGHT SALON - called THE SATURDAY NIGHTERS - where she hosts struggling black artists, activists and writers, many of whom are or will be luminaries of the HARLEM RENAISSANCE. Tonight we meet OSWALD VILLARD, who co-founded the NAACP and co-edits the magazine CRISIS with W.E.B. du Bois; LANGSTON HUGHES ZORA NEALE HURSTON, a 37 year old anthropologist and novelist, just back from Haiti, where she has been studying Vodun and folk dialects. Du Bois has sent OSWALD with a list of possible cuts for Georgia’s play, AND YET THEY PAUSED, which is based on true events, involving the lynching of two men in Duck Hill, Mississippi. Georgia and her friends read the play, drink and squabble, and Georgia resists most of Oswald’s cuts and changes. “Oz” finally realizes the horror at the center of this play, and its importance: perhaps it alone can change how white people feel about lynching, and help pass the Wagner Anti Lynching Bill currently stalled in the Senate. But will lynching stop, even after the bill is passed? Has, in fact, lynching ever stopped? “Young black man has him a dream, white folks got to stop him somehow,” says Georgia’s Reverend Williams. “What happens to a dream deferred?” writes Langston, many years later.
  • FINDING MEDUSA (THE MUSICAL) (Madeline Puccioni, Book & Lyrics; Jeff Dunn, Music) by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: comedy, fantasy + 3 more
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    Keyword: PERSEUS, Medusa + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, fantasy, musical, opera, young audiences
    Keyword: PERSEUS, Medusa, GREEK HEROES, ancient greek mythology, romantic comedy
    PERSEUS wants to be a great hero like Prometheus someday--but right now, he needs to save his mother, Queen Danae, from the clutches of evil KING POLYDECTES. ATHENA offers him a chance to be a hero, win a “Glorious Destiny” ---and she will protect his mother. All he has to do is slay the monster MEDUSA and bring ATHENA her snake-covered head. Oh, and while he's at it, slay her evil old sisters, The...
    PERSEUS wants to be a great hero like Prometheus someday--but right now, he needs to save his mother, Queen Danae, from the clutches of evil KING POLYDECTES. ATHENA offers him a chance to be a hero, win a “Glorious Destiny” ---and she will protect his mother. All he has to do is slay the monster MEDUSA and bring ATHENA her snake-covered head. Oh, and while he's at it, slay her evil old sisters, The Three Graeae, as well. PERSEUS takes his Mom to ATHENA’S temple for sanctuary, and sails off to Sarpedon to slay MEDUSA, who knows he’s coming and has some profound surprises in store for him. He’ll have to resist pretty PAMMY, MEDUSA’S seductive youngest sister, and outwit her cannibal older sisters ENYO and DEINO, who want only to chop him up into tasty little bites. But what will PERSEUS lose, if he slays these ancient monsters? Will he become the hero he wants to be? Achieve his Glorious Destiny? Or must he first find the monster -- within?
  • THE CASSANDRA MURDERS by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller + 1 more
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    Keyword: mystery, thriller + 1 more
    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller, tragedy
    Keyword: mystery, thriller, Greek mythology
    Dr. Kate Wells, Chief Forensic Psychologist at Colusa State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, must determine whether her new patient, Cass Porter, (who calls herself Cassandra, Princess of the House of Troy,), is genuinely insane, or faking insanity to avoid trial for murder. Despite her skepticism, and her training, Kate forms a mysterious attachment to Cass, an ancient bond she cannot explain. Will...
    Dr. Kate Wells, Chief Forensic Psychologist at Colusa State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, must determine whether her new patient, Cass Porter, (who calls herself Cassandra, Princess of the House of Troy,), is genuinely insane, or faking insanity to avoid trial for murder. Despite her skepticism, and her training, Kate forms a mysterious attachment to Cass, an ancient bond she cannot explain. Will Cass risk her freedom -- and her life -- to convince Kate there is a “dark and evil” secret at Colusa? Will Kate risk her reputation -- and her sanity -- to believe Cass -- in time to save both of their lives?

    THE CASSANDRA MURDERS is also an award winning screenplay, and has won "Best Script" in the Scriptwriters & Co International Film Festival, and the Hawaiian International Film Festival. It is a Finalist in the Dublin Film Awards Festival, and may advance in the next round.
  • NOW AND AT THE HOUR by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Cast: 
    10–15
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    Genre: horror, mystery/thriller
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    Keyword: horror. mystery/thriller
    Genre: horror, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: horror. mystery/thriller
    Someone is murdering young Central American women who have been drugged and trafficked and forced to work "The Blade" -- Oakland's infamous International Blvd. After the 7th woman is murdered, and posed as a Madonna in a local Church, Dr. Risa Owens, ex-FBI profiler, and a genuine psychic, is called in by Detective Ghil Connelly to help. Risa is now head of a W.E.W.I.N., a non-profit which...
    Someone is murdering young Central American women who have been drugged and trafficked and forced to work "The Blade" -- Oakland's infamous International Blvd. After the 7th woman is murdered, and posed as a Madonna in a local Church, Dr. Risa Owens, ex-FBI profiler, and a genuine psychic, is called in by Detective Ghil Connelly to help. Risa is now head of a W.E.W.I.N., a non-profit which helps women escape The Blade. She will risk her sanity and her marriage to find the monster who is targeting "her girls"--- but will she risk her life?
  • CYCLONE DANCING by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    LOUISE has a beautiful new baby, KATY, whom she adores -- and she’s just been admitted into the MFA program at SFSU. Life is good. But Katy, like most new babies, screams. All the time. All the time. But Louise is doing fine. She’s a published poet. How hard can this new motherhood thing be? GEORGE, her husband, is a rock star Neonatologist, but, despite his promises, he’s never home. Louise is all...
    LOUISE has a beautiful new baby, KATY, whom she adores -- and she’s just been admitted into the MFA program at SFSU. Life is good. But Katy, like most new babies, screams. All the time. All the time. But Louise is doing fine. She’s a published poet. How hard can this new motherhood thing be? GEORGE, her husband, is a rock star Neonatologist, but, despite his promises, he’s never home. Louise is all alone in this big new city, but she doesn’t need help, really -- just a few hours’ sleep. She’s doing fine. Isn’t she? But Katy screams. And screams. Will LOUISE survive, in this terrifying and surreal new world of fatigue and isolation? Will Katy?
  • SQUEEK! (copywright October 2015, MADELINE PUCCIONI) by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Recommendations: 5
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: Fantasy, Dystopia + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, fantasy, farce, horror, political, satire, science fiction
    Keyword: Fantasy, Dystopia, ecological collapse, climate change
    It is the year 2542. We are in the livingroom of Family 9479, Quarry Level 4, at dinnertime. Earth is dying, and the last of the water is pumped up from deep aquifers and sold in plastic bottles. Like most KochRoaches, Family 9479 are half human, half cockroach. They can survive on very little water, thanks to the miracle of recombinant DNA. They work the pumps, living in deep, rigidly controlled warrens....
    It is the year 2542. We are in the livingroom of Family 9479, Quarry Level 4, at dinnertime. Earth is dying, and the last of the water is pumped up from deep aquifers and sold in plastic bottles. Like most KochRoaches, Family 9479 are half human, half cockroach. They can survive on very little water, thanks to the miracle of recombinant DNA. They work the pumps, living in deep, rigidly controlled warrens. JUSTIN hopes to pass the LEVEL 3 exams and move his family up to LEVEL 3, but BABY LULU drinks all the water they have for the week, at dinner, as they are saying grace. An extra BOTTLE OF WATER will cost 15 Nestles, more than the Level 3 exam fee, for which they’ve all worked so hard to save. Can PAPA trade his GOLD WATCH to THE WATER MAN for the extra bottle of water? Or will MAMA and BABY LULU have to take matters into their own … pincers?
  • A VALENTINE FOR ELLIE by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama
    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama
    RUTH grieves for her daughter ELLIE, who was one of seventeen people, students and teachers, shot at Stoneman Douglas High School, on Valentine's Day 2018. Ruth comes to Ellie's room every night, wraps herself in Ellie's tiger blanket and talks to her daughter, keeps her cluttered room just the way it was. But this night, Ellie visits her and begs her to get some help, and to move on..."...
    RUTH grieves for her daughter ELLIE, who was one of seventeen people, students and teachers, shot at Stoneman Douglas High School, on Valentine's Day 2018. Ruth comes to Ellie's room every night, wraps herself in Ellie's tiger blanket and talks to her daughter, keeps her cluttered room just the way it was. But this night, Ellie visits her and begs her to get some help, and to move on..."so I can." Ellie urges her Mom to clean up her room, and stop hoarding bits of her hair, her gym socks. Can Ruth listen to her daughter and join a support group --- and try to help the broken kids like Nic, the shooter?
  • CYNTHIA by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: adaptation, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Civil War, American drama as a Greek tragedy + 1 more
    Genre: adaptation, drama, tragedy
    Keyword: Civil War, American drama as a Greek tragedy, black history plays
    CYNTHIA re-imagines Euripides' HECUBA and updates it to the last days of the American Civil War. Sherman is marching on Atlanta, and slave-owner General Bremerton of The Acropolis, must sell four slaves in order to pay his regiment. One of them is Polly, his wife's young maid and "companion." CYNTHIA BREMERTON throws a fit and refuses to let him sell Polly to Major Achilles, of Spring...
    CYNTHIA re-imagines Euripides' HECUBA and updates it to the last days of the American Civil War. Sherman is marching on Atlanta, and slave-owner General Bremerton of The Acropolis, must sell four slaves in order to pay his regiment. One of them is Polly, his wife's young maid and "companion." CYNTHIA BREMERTON throws a fit and refuses to let him sell Polly to Major Achilles, of Spring Field, a neighboring plantation. Bremerton tells her the contract is signed and Achilles will collect his purchases that afternoon. Cynthia begs Achilles not to take her Polly, whom she loves like a daughter. What dark secret has Cynthia kept for seventeen long years? How will Polly -- and she--finally escape The Acropolis ---and find freedom?
  • THE PANDA MURDERS by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, mystery/thriller
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    Keyword: Murder Mystery Dinner Theater
    Genre: dark comedy, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: Murder Mystery Dinner Theater
    VAL and THEO care only about Grandaddy's new will; but what if there's a murderer in the creepy old house, a murderer who may be lurking in the library --with a knife?
  • SCOTTY BONS by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: adventure, fantasy
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    Keyword: ghost story, mystery + 1 more
    Genre: adventure, fantasy
    Keyword: ghost story, mystery, Adventure/Fantasy
    HORACE comes home from his grey job to his grey apartment and finds a beautiful Jamaican woman in his kitchen, singing along to Bob Marley, and cooking Brown Fish Stew. AMAYA thinks it is HER kitchen, and her apartment, until she realizes, as she tries to chase HORACE with a knife, that she cannot leave this kitchen, and she has returned to it, once again, to find out what happened in it, years ago. She is a...
    HORACE comes home from his grey job to his grey apartment and finds a beautiful Jamaican woman in his kitchen, singing along to Bob Marley, and cooking Brown Fish Stew. AMAYA thinks it is HER kitchen, and her apartment, until she realizes, as she tries to chase HORACE with a knife, that she cannot leave this kitchen, and she has returned to it, once again, to find out what happened in it, years ago. She is a kind of ghost, a duppy, who cannot move on. Will HORACE help her find "justice and peace"? And her daughter JOCELYNE? And will AMAYA teach him ...Jamaica...in return?
  • RICO THE MAGNIFICENT by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, fantasy + 2 more
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    Keyword: chihuahua, christmas + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, fantasy, holiday, romantic comedy
    Keyword: chihuahua, christmas, Alternative Holiday
    Rico, an ageing chihuahua, abandoned years ago on Ocean Beach, must sing for his supper -- and for survival, on the mean cold streets of San Francisco. But his new friend, Jimmy, now homeless in SF, after being kicked out of his house for being gay, steals Rico's Santa hat and beard, hops the N Judah to panhandle in Union Square. . Rico gets picked up by Animal Control, a "Kill Shelter"...
    Rico, an ageing chihuahua, abandoned years ago on Ocean Beach, must sing for his supper -- and for survival, on the mean cold streets of San Francisco. But his new friend, Jimmy, now homeless in SF, after being kicked out of his house for being gay, steals Rico's Santa hat and beard, hops the N Judah to panhandle in Union Square. . Rico gets picked up by Animal Control, a "Kill Shelter" where he meets Lacey, a doomed Yorkie. Can Rico save Lacey, and sing his way out of the County Animal Control center before his time is up?
  • GOONERS by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: Valentine's Day, Arsenal FC + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, romantic comedy
    Keyword: Valentine's Day, Arsenal FC, GOONERS, FOOTY, romantic comedy
    Bad love, mad love, what's the game, what's the score, and who's playing? Ellery hides in a closet all night and swills down a bottle of Veuve and eats all the chocolates in the Valentine's Day box. What is Rob hiding from her? What's her name? WHERE DOES SHE LIVE?
  • MONTICELLO 2020 by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: biography, comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: Race, History + 1 more
    Genre: biography, comedy, docudrama/historic, political, tragedy
    Keyword: Race, History, family
    SYNOPSIS

    Who are we now, America? What have we become since Election 2016? Has the “American Dream” become a nightmare from which we cannot wake up? What has become of the dream we thought we knew: “All men are created equal?” Has it shattered into tweets and retweets, likes and lies? Or has it always been a lie? MONTICELLO 2020 is the story of a family...and its journey through...
    SYNOPSIS

    Who are we now, America? What have we become since Election 2016? Has the “American Dream” become a nightmare from which we cannot wake up? What has become of the dream we thought we knew: “All men are created equal?” Has it shattered into tweets and retweets, likes and lies? Or has it always been a lie? MONTICELLO 2020 is the story of a family...and its journey through slavery and Jim Crow and lynchings and violent racism, down through the years, to create space in this world, for a new baby girl who may unite them at last.
  • PIERCINGS by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Cast: 
    6–8
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: comedy, comic fantasy + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, fantasy, farce, romantic comedy
    Keyword: comedy, comic fantasy, drama, romantic comedy

    Love and loss,
    laughter and tears
    await each one of us here
    stronger than anger
    stronger than fear
    stronger than death --
    though death may us part--
    the love that pierces
    a human heart





    PRODUCTION NOTES: PIERCINGS

    PIERCINGS, a full-length collection of “...

    Love and loss,
    laughter and tears
    await each one of us here
    stronger than anger
    stronger than fear
    stronger than death --
    though death may us part--
    the love that pierces
    a human heart





    PRODUCTION NOTES: PIERCINGS

    PIERCINGS, a full-length collection of “sad and hilarious little love stories,” by Madeline Daly Puccioni. is a seventy-five minute evening of theatre, available for production. PIERCINGS was published by NEXT STAGE PRESS in September 2021. As such it is subject to the following conditions and requirements:


    CAUTION: Professionals and Amateurs are hereby warned that performance of PIERCINGS is subject to payment of a royalty. It is fully protected under the copyright laws of The United States of America, and of all countries covered by the International Copyright Union (including the Dominion of Canada and the rest of the British Commonwealth) and of all countries with which the United States has reciprocal copyright relations. All rights, including without limitation professional/amateur stage rights motion picture recitation, lecturing, publicreding, radio broadcasting, television, video or sound recording, all other forms of mechanical, electronic and digital reproduction, transmission and distribution, such as CD,DVD, the Internet, private and file-sharing networks, information storage and retrieval systems, photocopying, and the rights of translation into foreign languages are strictly reserved. Particular emphasis is placed upon the matter of readings, permission of which must be obtained from the Author in writing.
  • SHORT BIO by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: biography
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    Keyword: sss
    Genre: biography
    Keyword: sss
    Recent work
  • PLAYLAND FOREVER by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, fantasy + 1 more
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    Keyword: comedy, romance + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, fantasy, romantic comedy
    Keyword: comedy, romance, Fantasy, PlayLand-at-the-Beach, San Francisco
    RICHARD wants to stay in San Francisco to finish his coffee table book about San Francisco’s lost PLAYLAND-AT-THE-BEACH ---but his fiance LESLIE just got a full time teaching job in Bremerton, Washington. She’s sold their condo and bought a “new old house” in Bremerton, where they can plant a garden and raise a family. They argue; they’ve been doing that a lot, lately. How can Richard leave San...
    RICHARD wants to stay in San Francisco to finish his coffee table book about San Francisco’s lost PLAYLAND-AT-THE-BEACH ---but his fiance LESLIE just got a full time teaching job in Bremerton, Washington. She’s sold their condo and bought a “new old house” in Bremerton, where they can plant a garden and raise a family. They argue; they’ve been doing that a lot, lately. How can Richard leave San Francisco? And his memories of PlayLand? Then -- PlayLand comes to him -- in the form of ZOLTAR, Master of Time, seeking his lost darling, LAFFIN’ SAL. And suddenly -- all their lives become a lot more interesting.
  • THE TALE OF SETSUMI AND HER BELOVED NOBU by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: Japanese folktale, LORD SHINIGAMI + 4 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, fable/folktale, fantasy, romantic comedy
    Keyword: Japanese folktale, LORD SHINIGAMI, NAMAZU, SNOW GHOST, Fantasy, twist
    NOBU, an honored biwa hoshi, (travelling minstrel), grieves for his beloved SETSUMI and desires only to join her in death, even if he has to become a snow ghost, like she is. But SETSUMI wants him to find her little bones and consecrate them at the temple, so her spirit can travel to the Pure Land. Her bones have washed down to the bottom of the swift Shinano river and NOBU says he cannot find them; no...
    NOBU, an honored biwa hoshi, (travelling minstrel), grieves for his beloved SETSUMI and desires only to join her in death, even if he has to become a snow ghost, like she is. But SETSUMI wants him to find her little bones and consecrate them at the temple, so her spirit can travel to the Pure Land. Her bones have washed down to the bottom of the swift Shinano river and NOBU says he cannot find them; no one can. "One step at a time, dear husband," she counsels. "One day after the next." After a series of adventures NOBU arrives at the mighty river. The horrible river monster, NAMAZU, emerges and grabs him. NOBU promises to make her a goddess, and build her a shrine if she will help him go to the bottom of the Shinano River and find SETSUMI'S bones. "Get into my belly, where it is warm and dry," purrs NAMAZU. Should NOBU trust her? What if she's working with LORD SHINIGAMI, the Lord of Death?
  • #MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, fantasy, political, satire, tragedy
    What if Adorable Deplorable TWEET starts listening to older and wiser EVE, and her own conscience, instead of her MAGA boyfriend DONGLE? And what if these two women, working together, can push DONGLE “offstage” go out for a beer, and
    change the paradigm?
  • MY DATE WITH THE GOLEM OF PRAGUE by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, fable/folktale + 2 more
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    Keyword: Golem, RACHEL + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, fable/folktale, fantasy, farce
    Keyword: Golem, RACHEL, Prague
    What if RACHEL could "manifest" her perfect match via The Secret and J-Swipe? Suppose she creates him, visualizes him in detail, then "asks" :believes" and "receives" him? And suppose he turns out to be a monster... but the monster turns out to be her "perfect match"?
  • DARK WINDOWS by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: love story
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: love story
    Raine and Steve return home on BART from the San Francisco Ballet. They look elegant, they chat excitedly about RAIKU, and Yuan Yuan Tan - then a young man, homeless and incoherent, sits down with them and talks incoherently about the dark windows we see ourselves in... hurtling backwards into the night. Clearly, he knows Steve, and blames him for .... what? Needs resolution for....what? Raine realizes...
    Raine and Steve return home on BART from the San Francisco Ballet. They look elegant, they chat excitedly about RAIKU, and Yuan Yuan Tan - then a young man, homeless and incoherent, sits down with them and talks incoherently about the dark windows we see ourselves in... hurtling backwards into the night. Clearly, he knows Steve, and blames him for .... what? Needs resolution for....what? Raine realizes that Jules has been a part of her life, as well as Steve's, for a very long time. How will she survive? How will she and Steve move on, after this encounter?
  • LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVERS by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER, D.H. Lawrence + 1 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER, D.H. Lawrence, SEXUAL AWAKENING
    OLDER MEL vividly recalls the day she and her College Prep English friends, JIM and ALAN, passed around Jim’s copy of LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER in their High School cafeteria. Shocked and embarrassed, Mel explodes with laughter as she reads a “juicy” passage. Miss Lavarini hears her and confiscates JIM’S book. Jim gets angry, swears and gets suspended. He never talks to Mel again. Mel and Alan...
    OLDER MEL vividly recalls the day she and her College Prep English friends, JIM and ALAN, passed around Jim’s copy of LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER in their High School cafeteria. Shocked and embarrassed, Mel explodes with laughter as she reads a “juicy” passage. Miss Lavarini hears her and confiscates JIM’S book. Jim gets angry, swears and gets suspended. He never talks to Mel again. Mel and Alan date, and have sex, but never the “unspeakable pleasure” which the book promises. Alan goes away to an expensive East Coast college. Older Mel wonders might her life have been like, had she not been so naive, and got Jim in trouble. And had read the whole beautiful book.
  • WAR BABIES by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    Janice Daly and Keum Ja Lee discover they are half sisters through DNA testing via Ancestry.com. They meet and compare their memories of their father, who abandoned Kim's mother in Korea, in 1963. Janice wants to find a sister, and perhaps a friend; Kim, a living father. Can their vastly different lives allow them to accept and forgive their father... and each other?
  • ATTACK OF THE KILLER GARAGE by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: audition monologue, garage + 3 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: audition monologue, garage, PENSION, blue collar, WORK KAMPER
    Edsel and Lila, both in their late seventies, lose their pension in the Bank Disaster of 2008, and now they must sell their house. The shock of losing his pension has caused Edsel to drift into his own fantasy world. For him, the stack of boxes he must leave behind, is like a collection of old friends, sweet memories, so quickly fading. For Lila, the cluttered garage is a nightmare she never has been...
    Edsel and Lila, both in their late seventies, lose their pension in the Bank Disaster of 2008, and now they must sell their house. The shock of losing his pension has caused Edsel to drift into his own fantasy world. For him, the stack of boxes he must leave behind, is like a collection of old friends, sweet memories, so quickly fading. For Lila, the cluttered garage is a nightmare she never has been able to understand. While his memories protect and sustain Edsel, they attack Lila, and may disable her for the new job she's found as Work Kamper for Amazon.com. She trips and falls, is all she knows, but she gets right back up. One must "keep moving, is all. Keep moving, and don't look back." But will she be able to take care of Edsel and work the 10 hour shifts she has taken on, with her bad knee, made worse by the "accident" in the garage?
  • GERTRUDE by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy
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    Keyword: based on Shakespeare, dark comedy
    Genre: dark comedy
    Keyword: based on Shakespeare, dark comedy
    What if... Gertrude has plotted independently to poison Claudius, and feigned death herself to avoid suspicion? She wakes to find Hamlet dead and handsome Fortinbras, King of Denmark. How will she keep her throne? What's a Queen to do?
  • PIERCINGS by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Cast: 
    6–8
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, fantasy, farce, romantic comedy

    Love and loss,
    laughter and tears
    await each one of us here
    stronger than anger
    stronger than fear
    stronger than death --
    though death may us part--
    the love that pierces
    a human heart





    PRODUCTION NOTES: PIERCINGS

    PIERCINGS, a full-length collection of “...

    Love and loss,
    laughter and tears
    await each one of us here
    stronger than anger
    stronger than fear
    stronger than death --
    though death may us part--
    the love that pierces
    a human heart





    PRODUCTION NOTES: PIERCINGS

    PIERCINGS, a full-length collection of “sad and hilarious little love stories,” by Madeline Daly Puccioni. is a seventy-five minute evening of theatre, available for production. PIERCINGS was published by NEXT STAGE PRESS in September 2021. As such it is subject to the following conditions and requirements:


    CAUTION: Professionals and Amateurs are hereby warned that performance of PIERCINGS is subject to payment of a royalty. It is fully protected under the copyright laws of The United States of America, and of all countries covered by the International Copyright Union (including the Dominion of Canada and the rest of the British Commonwealth) and of all countries with which the United States has reciprocal copyright relations. All rights, including without limitation professional/amateur stage rights motion picture recitation, lecturing, publicreding, radio broadcasting, television, video or sound recording, all other forms of mechanical, electronic and digital reproduction, transmission and distribution, such as CD,DVD, the Internet, private and file-sharing networks, information storage and retrieval systems, photocopying, and the rights of translation into foreign languages are strictly reserved. Particular emphasis is placed upon the matter of readings, permission of which must be obtained from the Author in writing.
  • GOONERS by MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: rom com, Valentine's Day + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, romantic comedy
    Keyword: rom com, Valentine's Day, Arsenal FC, football
    Bad love, mad love, Arsenal at Man City, money on the table, her future in the wind, Ellery hides in the closet and drinks a bottle of champagne on Valentine's day, and eats almost all the chocolates in the box. Why won't Rob talk to her? What is he hiding? What is her NAME and WHERE DOES SHE LIVE?