Reeking of Indiscretion: Madame X's Allerton ... The Chicago Tribune’s Madame X, society doyenne Caroline Kirkland (1865-1930) declared Robert Allerton (1873–1964) Chicago’s most eligible bachelor in 1906. His personal relationship with Caroline Kirkland, and his intimate relationship with John Wyatt Gregg Allerton (1899-1986), his longtime companion, and adopted-as-an-adult son, are best imagined by inventing what their correspondence might have been. Bridging two centuries, what words might have passed between these three brightly shining stars that helped shape the course of art, landscape architecture, the future of celebrity journalism and LGBTQ issues that were only imagined in the early 20th century. An epistolary intrigue of historical truth and fiction and LGTBQ issues for two men and one woman.
Staging
Like A. R. Gurney’s Love Letters, Madame X’s Allerton can be staged very simply, with the three actors sitting at a writing table where they simply read the script. Using projections of the news items, locations, and people in the stories would certainly enhance the storytelling but is not essential.

Cast: 2 Men 1 Woman

Robert Henry Allerton / Bob – reads his imagined letters to Caroline Kirkland / Madame X & John G.
Madame X / Caroline Kirkland / X – reads her imagined correspondence to Robert Allerton and feature stories about him
John Wyatt Gregg / John G. – reads imagined correspondence to Robert Allerton & Caroline Kirkland/Aunt Carrie

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New Title ... Reeking With Indiscretion: Madame X's Allerton Jan. 1, 2019

Midnight’s Dream © 2018 Patrick Thomas McCarthy ptmc

Setting/Situation: In the outer halls of Congress, 2 congresspeople, are having congress regarding their own sexlife and that of a constituent’s daughter. Camp Weekend Transgressions is in the Woods of Merryland where the lovers flee to escape and everyone follows or goes there first. A fanciful/farcical contemporary adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

CAST 7 Men & 5 Women
Congressman Theseus O’Baron
Congresswoman Hippolyta Blackbottom/ Polly/ Titania Whipmaster
Colonel Edgeus Edge
Mr. Phineas Puck / Congressional Chief of Staff
Demetrius Demigoggins / Demitri
Sandy Lysander Lackluster / Sandy
Hermia Edge / The Edger /Daughter of Colonel Edge
Helena Jane Hathaway / The Congressman's secretary
Mz. Bette Bottom / Midnight / Congressional Staffer / Pyramus
Quin Quince / Congressional Staffer / Turd Blossom / Wall / Moonshine / Dog
Frankie Flute / Francis / Congressional Staffer / Mustard Seed / Thisby
Ms. Snug Robin-Starvling / Congressional Staffer / Peace Blossom / Lion

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sExtOrtiOn, A lonely outcast hatches a scheme that draws his entire high school and its Middle American community into the harrowing world of teen sexting. Posing as a girl on a social media site, he entices his classmates to send him compromising photos and videos, then “sextorts” them into physical encounters with the threat of exposure. Suggested by an actual teen “sexting” and extortion scandal, sExtOrtiOn digs beneath the superficial and sensationalistic treatments in national media accounts to explore the roots of adolescents’ fluid sexual identity, experimentation, and recklessness, plus the consequences of bullying, pack behavior, and hidden violence. sExtOrtiOn takes place over a year during which none of the “sextorted” boys reveals what is happening until the central character inexplicably turns himself in. Over the course of the play’s 90 minutes, the nine characters of sExtOrtiOn struggle to make sense of the story’s myriad unanswered questions & to disguise what is actually happening.

RE: sExtOrtiOn The underlying story of this fictionalization made national news in 2009 & actually happened at a school where I formerly taught in the 70s. The central character is now serving a 20 year prison sentence, tried as an adult for what he did as a minor. Its storyline involves the desperation of "otherness" that drives young men to acts of violence, and the community response that denies the very existence of the problems that fuel them. The gay subterfuge of the sexting [a boy posing as a girl to solicit naked pix & video from other boys] makes it unique. Although fielding elements of high comedy & the absurdity of teenage life, the hard questions the play poses regarding sexual assault and extortion, are difficult to process.
Characters
The Boys: [in their 20’s to play teens]
Donny Doirko: DD, small, dark, a troubled loner.
Buck Cummings: BC, jock, control issues.
Bennett Benjamin: BB, jock, tallest & biggest of the boys, object of desire.
Bradley Michael White: the BMW, golden boy athlete, promised to Brenda.
Brent Dodge: BD, average teen, marching band geek, Britany’s boyfriend.
Quin Quimby: QQ, out gay male teen.
The Girls: [in their 20’s to play teens]
Brenda Fenton Flair: BFF, cheerleader, promised to Brad.
Britany Gray: BG, cool girl, office monitor, Brent’s girlfriend.
The Adult: Mr. Zee: the administrator, also voices Quin’s offstage dad.
RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes without intermission, 53 pages text [12 pt type]
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TEMPEST © 2018 by Patrick Thomas McCarthy pTmC;
SETTING: A survivalist enclave
SYNOPSIS: In a post-apocalyptic world, survivalist father, Pero, captures two strangers he will groom to give as gifts to two of his three children, his pups, Miranda, Ariel & Cal. Will the Atrian strangers civilize his children or compound their savagery? "Oh brave new world" that has the other in't.
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12th NIGHTed: On the 12th day of Christmas, your true love brings to me, many kinds of pasta, one butler braying, and one golden ring. Updated to 1960’s Little Italy, NYC, this 12th NIGHTed is shot out of a Shakespearean confetti cannon of sexual confusion, double sets of twins, and families trying to stick or get back together. A farce of epic proportions mirroring the Bard's TWELFTH NIGHT.

Characters 5 men 3 women

Orson Argento: middle aged businessman, Cesario is his personal assistant, Antonio Alberto Argento is his twin brother, one actor should play both Argentos.

Antonio “Tony” Alberto Argento: middle aged businessman, Vito is his muse, Orson Argento is his twin brother, wears glasses, one actor should play both Argentos.

Viola/Cesario Vitale: has a brother twin, Vito, androgynous, Viola/Cesario is Orson’s personal assistant disguised as a man.

Vito Vitale: Viola's twin brother, wears identical wig as Viola/Cesario, wears identical costume as Viola /Cesario, same height as Viola/Cesario, wears glasses, Antonio's muse.

Olivia Ruttate Earnrighto: middle aged entrepreneur, head of the family, widow grieving for her dead husband Earnesto.

Francesco “Frankie” Assisi: personal assistant to Olivia Ruttate Earnrighto.

Toby Ruttate: the black sheep of the family, Olivia's brother.

Maria Theresa D’Assolvere: the Italian maid.

Mel Volio: the butler, handler of personal correspondence.

SETTINGs: 1960’s Little Italy, New York City, Orson’s office, Olivia’s Palazzo, Antonio’s Studio Apt/Office, the streets of Little Italy

RUNNING TIME: 123 minutes 85 pages

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWPKU-H46WE
http://www.theatrereviews.com/off-broadway-review-12th-nighted-and-fire-on-babyon-at-fresh-fruit-festival-2016-at-the-wild-project/