Christopher King

Christopher King

Christopher L. King
Playwright, christolking@comcast.net

Productions Timeline

*First staged production was S.P.A.C, a political drama about student protest staged at the Alhambra Theater in Jacksonville, FL
*Two one-act plays were finalists at the Mark Twain Masquers competition, with staged readings in 1993: A Mother In My Head, the story of two young lovers,...
Christopher L. King
Playwright, christolking@comcast.net

Productions Timeline

*First staged production was S.P.A.C, a political drama about student protest staged at the Alhambra Theater in Jacksonville, FL
*Two one-act plays were finalists at the Mark Twain Masquers competition, with staged readings in 1993: A Mother In My Head, the story of two young lovers, coached in their budding relationship by two omnipresent mothers, and Our Appointed Rounds, the story of two senior citizens of different race meeting neat and going on to distress their offspring. Both plays were produced by the Sherborn Players (MA) in 2002, Marblehead Little Theater in 2003, and Shea Theater Festival, Turner’s Falls in 2007.
Honors Outstanding Achievement for writing from EMACT, AACT for A Mother In My Head and Our Appointed Rounds in 2003
*A Mother In My Head is published by Heuer Publishing and has had more than 20 productions in the US and Canada.
*Wendy And Wendell’s Wonderful Wacky WASP Wedding, an audience participation comedy presented at The Sherborn Inn by the Sherborn Players 2004. Alaska Fine Arts Academy Feb 2014
Ten minute plays in the Boston Theater Marathon: BTM 8 A Ticklish Situation, BTM 9 Comfort Measures, BTM 10 Short Cuts
*Short plays presented at the Playwrights’ Platform Summer Festival from 2005 to 2013: Dark Retreat; L’Istesso Tempo; The Least Of These; Custody; Cupid’s Night Out; A Ticklish Situation; Comfort Measures; Short Cuts.
*The Least Of These had a production by the Boston Actors’ Theater in 2010
Collaborative short plays in twenty-four hours at Random Acts 8 –Ashes To Ashes with Kelly DuMar Nov 2010, and Random Acts 9 Everything Old is New Again with Linda Stein Nov 2011
*Scenes from the full length A Moving Day received a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant to be presented to seniors.
*Works welcoming further development: Ghosts – a musical featuring a Viet Nam war vet returning to the town he has not seen in ten years, Four Bar Blues –a pub crawl exploring masculine rituals, The Reveal - a short play about a rock god and the reporter who haunts him, Loaves And Fishes 
With Feet – two women who love religion and science respectively, and each other, You Can Call Me Al – substance abuse as your BFF, Armageddon – a one-woman dance drama in verse. Intimate Jest — unreachable six feet away. Simple Simon Says – the mind/body problem personified in an absurdist play.
*Listed in Doolee playwright’s database; New Play Exchange
*Member of the Dramatists’ Guild

Plays

  • Armageddon!
    This play is a keening.
    It could be a dance.
    The cast is one distraught woman and a 'dead' man.
    The play is one continuous speech from the first words to the last.
    A man is shot by an anonymous assailant while he and his partner are eating. The woman remembers their love and bewails his death.
  • Cupid's Night Out
    Two young people meet for a blind date that they think is organized by a magazine. they each discover they are somewhere else entirely.
  • Custody
    Alicia's parents are breaking up. They are trying to agree on fair custody for the 15 year old; but Alicia has her own plans.
  • Dark Retreat
    A reporter has come to interview a famous expatriate writer. The writer was a captive of a diabolical government and lost his family. The writer agrees to the interview in a totally dark room. We discover there is some past history between them.
  • Four Bar Blues
    Two straight males meet in a Chinese restaurant bar and in an evening or bar cruising they try to sort out how men do their best to be men. They also search for a dog that has been stolen.
  • L'Istesso Tempo
    Zena has signed up for a session of speed dating. She meets three quite different guys but shares quite the same info with each.
  • A Mother In My Head
    Mary and Manny are two quite different people; but they have a lot in common. They barely hold their lives together, they both work at the same large company, and they both have mothers in their heads 24/7 coaching every move. Is it possible to fall in love under these circumstances? It's a struggle, but they manage it, and end up with two quirky kids, capable of driving any mother nuts. Under these...
    Mary and Manny are two quite different people; but they have a lot in common. They barely hold their lives together, they both work at the same large company, and they both have mothers in their heads 24/7 coaching every move. Is it possible to fall in love under these circumstances? It's a struggle, but they manage it, and end up with two quirky kids, capable of driving any mother nuts. Under these circumstances can they find career advancement, the car of their dreams, and the off switch for those constant internal voices?
  • A Moving Day
    The last evening of the last day as three generations of a family move out of a home they have occupied for many years. The play takes place in three acts in three parts of the house in the same period of time.
  • Our Appointed Rounds
    One day in the mid 1980s a senior Black mail carrier put his foot through the front step of a petite senior white woman. When confronted by their daughters after a series of misunderstandings, they suspect they might need each other.
  • A Ticklish Situation
    Two characters who have been disabled conduct a clandestine love affair from their beds.
  • Wendy and Wendell's Wonderful Wacky WASP Wedding
    A young couple, Wendy and Wendell are having their second wedding in as many days. The first was in a staid church. The second, to satisfy the bride's family is a hand-fasting during the reception. Multiple parents and cantankerous relatives add to the chaos. Dinner theater. Audience participation.
  • The Reveal
    A Reporter and a Rock Star find themselves in bed together. They disagree about who needs the other more.
  • Intimate Jest
    A person tries to connect with their love who is six feet away and untouchable.