Dudley Stone

Dudley Stone has had productions and staged readings of plays in Amherst, MA, Savannah, GA, Hartford, CT, Los Angeles, CA, and in Lexington, Louisville, and Richmond, KY. He has a B.A. in Theatre from the University of Kentucky and studied playwriting at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Mr. Stone is also a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and a mechanic-in-training at Broke Spoke Community Bike Shop. He lives, eats, sleeps, dreams, writes, bikes, and plays the ponies in Lexington, KY. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the Kentucky State Poetry Society.

Dudley Stone has had productions and staged readings of plays in Amherst, MA, Savannah, GA, Hartford, CT, Los Angeles, CA, and in Lexington, Louisville, and Richmond, KY. He has a B.A. in Theatre from the University of Kentucky and studied playwriting at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Mr. Stone is also a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and a mechanic-in-training at Broke Spoke Community Bike Shop. He lives, eats, sleeps, dreams, writes, bikes, and plays the ponies in Lexington, KY. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the Kentucky State Poetry Society.

Scripts

But Is It Art?

by Dudley Stone

Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
farce

Arthur is cheating. Maya knows he's cheating and exacts revenge, which is complicated by the unexpected appearance of Claire, Arthur's lover, and two crooks who break into the home and mistake the dead Arthur for a piece of art. Go figure.

Arthur is cheating. Maya knows he's cheating and exacts revenge, which is complicated by the unexpected appearance of Claire, Arthur's lover, and two crooks who break into the home and mistake the dead Arthur for a piece of art. Go figure.

Mr. Nobbs

by Dudley Stone

Cast Size
6
Genre
adaptation,
melodrama,
musical,
period

Mr. Nobbs is an adaptation of the George Moore story "Albert Nobbs," about a female itinerant painter who travels around New England in the early 1900s disguised as a man and who is thrown together for one night with a waiter in the hotel she is working out, who is revealed to also be a woman living her life disguised as a man, and the different takes they both have on living seemingly similar lives. The play...

Mr. Nobbs is an adaptation of the George Moore story "Albert Nobbs," about a female itinerant painter who travels around New England in the early 1900s disguised as a man and who is thrown together for one night with a waiter in the hotel she is working out, who is revealed to also be a woman living her life disguised as a man, and the different takes they both have on living seemingly similar lives. The play also includes musical interludes with period tunes performed by a Vesta Tilley-like performer dressing as various male roles.

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Unclenched - The Christmas Album

by Dudley Stone

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
holiday,
musical,
parody/spoof,
radio drama,
satire

Neil Headley is the British singer of a death metal band called Clench being interviewed for a BBC radio music program about his latest project, a solo Christmas album. Christine is the utterly cool and enthusiastic woman interviewing Neil. Intended as a dialogue for radio or podcast, but could be adapted to other venues.

Neil Headley is the British singer of a death metal band called Clench being interviewed for a BBC radio music program about his latest project, a solo Christmas album. Christine is the utterly cool and enthusiastic woman interviewing Neil. Intended as a dialogue for radio or podcast, but could be adapted to other venues.

Mitch Hedberg Goes Speed Dating

by Dudley Stone

Cast Size
1
Genre
comedy,
parody/spoof,
radio drama

Mitch Hedberg was a real historical figure (check out his act on YouTube if you're unfamiliar), a comedian with a distinctive point of view and delivery. Here he is back from the dead and participating in the weird ritual of speed dating in a monologue that I can only describe as literary ventriloquism.

Mitch Hedberg was a real historical figure (check out his act on YouTube if you're unfamiliar), a comedian with a distinctive point of view and delivery. Here he is back from the dead and participating in the weird ritual of speed dating in a monologue that I can only describe as literary ventriloquism.

Five Seconds in the Death of Dale Johnson

by Dudley Stone

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
faith-based,
fantasy,
movement/physical

Dale Johnson is going to die in five seconds - five "human" seconds, that is, while the two angels (a trainee and supervisor) discuss life and death and the pros and cons of being angels in "angel" time - in other words, Dale moves at a glacial pace for the last five seconds of life while the angels move in "normal" time throughout. It's almost like prayer.

Dale Johnson is going to die in five seconds - five "human" seconds, that is, while the two angels (a trainee and supervisor) discuss life and death and the pros and cons of being angels in "angel" time - in other words, Dale moves at a glacial pace for the last five seconds of life while the angels move in "normal" time throughout. It's almost like prayer.

Primary Caregiver

by Dudley Stone

1
Cast Size
1
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama

Primary Caregiver is a one-person performance piece. DWAYNE is a middle-to-late-middle-aged man who has moved in with and is taking care of his mother post-stroke, dealing with her needs, trying to find room for his own needs, and having to battle the various complications that arise, including his mother’s further diagnosis of cancer and his own growing sense of isolation.

The play takes place over several...

Primary Caregiver is a one-person performance piece. DWAYNE is a middle-to-late-middle-aged man who has moved in with and is taking care of his mother post-stroke, dealing with her needs, trying to find room for his own needs, and having to battle the various complications that arise, including his mother’s further diagnosis of cancer and his own growing sense of isolation.

The play takes place over several months starting with the day after the 2016 election, so the beginning of the Trump era and the perpetually-on television in the background are part of the scene.

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