RICHARD ETCHISON

Richard Etchison is a New York City-based playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and proud member of Inviolet Theater Company since 2007. Richard’s stage plays have been produced or workshopped by community and professional theatre companies in New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Greenville, SC, Dayton, OH and Muncie, IN. His full-length drama Force Majeure was Inviolet’s inaugural world premiere production in 2008. The actors and directors of Inviolet have helped develop and workshop his plays Maslow’s Hiccups, Nature Abhors a Vacuum and The Haven. The full-length drama The Haven was a 2011 Dayton FutureFest Finalist. He has written 12 full-length stage plays and 27 feature-length screenplays, including the Creative World Awards Finalist The Haven and the Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist...

Richard Etchison is a New York City-based playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and proud member of Inviolet Theater Company since 2007. Richard’s stage plays have been produced or workshopped by community and professional theatre companies in New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Greenville, SC, Dayton, OH and Muncie, IN. His full-length drama Force Majeure was Inviolet’s inaugural world premiere production in 2008. The actors and directors of Inviolet have helped develop and workshop his plays Maslow’s Hiccups, Nature Abhors a Vacuum and The Haven. The full-length drama The Haven was a 2011 Dayton FutureFest Finalist. He has written 12 full-length stage plays and 27 feature-length screenplays, including the Creative World Awards Finalist The Haven and the Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist Beauty and Sadness. Orphaned at a young age, he was raised by his half-sister in Florida, and graduated from the Florida State University's Creative Writing Program. He is grateful every day to be married to the documentary filmmaker Debbie Etchison.

Scripts

Pride and Sensibility

by RICHARD ETCHISON

3

Cast Size

9—16

Genre

comedy,

farce,

parody/spoof,

period,

romantic comedy,

satire

Pride & Sensibility is a pitch perfect parody of the Jane Austen costume drama, an ensemble farce in which two prominent families of the town of Worcestershire arrange a wedding of their children, neither realizing that both have secretly lost their fortunes. In the tradition of Oscar Wilde comedies and Woody Allen’s Love and Death, this frenetic comedy of ill-manners features relentless, literate humor...

Pride & Sensibility is a pitch perfect parody of the Jane Austen costume drama, an ensemble farce in which two prominent families of the town of Worcestershire arrange a wedding of their children, neither realizing that both have secretly lost their fortunes. In the tradition of Oscar Wilde comedies and Woody Allen’s Love and Death, this frenetic comedy of ill-manners features relentless, literate humor, elevated language, and a compelling romance driving the narrative.

It’s 1815. While dutifully courting the spoiled Lisette Vaillancourt, the rugged and romantic Ambrose Rasmussen becomes bewitched by her free-spirited orphan cousin Mary, an old maid at 26, the classic Austen heroine. Meanwhile, the coquettish Lisette has fallen in lust with the town’s eminent actor and libertine, Ignacius Larrimore, whose wife Petunia lay dying of the fever. Will Mary and Ambrose find a way for their love to come to fruition? What happens when the Rasmussens and Vaillancourts find out they have arranged a marriage with bankrupt familes? Will the mad German Doctor Merck find a cure for Petunia’s fever -- or will she indeed perish, putting a stop to Ignacius’ tawdry affair with Lisette?

The Haven

by RICHARD ETCHISON

1

Cast Size

4

Genre

drama

If you knew what life had in store for you, would you make the same decisions? In THE HAVEN, the lives of four people are intertwined and changed on a snowy night while trapped at the airport. Paige and Gunnar are two strangers who unwittingly bear witness to the unraveling marriage of Wolf and Turner, while discovering that life holds many more surprises than they'd expected. This drama with a touch of magic...

If you knew what life had in store for you, would you make the same decisions? In THE HAVEN, the lives of four people are intertwined and changed on a snowy night while trapped at the airport. Paige and Gunnar are two strangers who unwittingly bear witness to the unraveling marriage of Wolf and Turner, while discovering that life holds many more surprises than they'd expected. This drama with a touch of magic will make you laugh and leave contemplating what commitment and love truly entail.

It's a crowded, busy day at the airport gate, and in one particular line of chairs, four people await a flight to Atlanta. The hung-over Paige, 29, has just ended a tumultuous weekend at her best friend's wedding. Next to her is a cheerful average white guy, the 35-year-old Gunnar, who is traveling to his niece's baptism. They hit it off immediately, enjoying each other's charming banter.
However, the people next to them seem to be traveling together, despite the fact they sit apart. Paige and Gunnar soon learn that Turner is leaving her husband Wolf after 22 years together. Wolf cannot understand her stringent refusal to forgive what he sees as a minor indiscretion. Wolf and Turner share a secret concept that they refer to as their "haven,” the once perfect manifestation of all that is good in their marriage.
Stuck in the middle, Paige and Gunnar do agree that they want to somehow help the older couple. Then Paige discovers a stunning revelation that makes her rethink her entire life. Will their actions help Wolf and Turner to stay married -- or will Wolf's and Turner's self-destruction thwart the beginning of something special?