Aaron’s Revenger’s Tragedy: A Feast of Blood
© 2019 By Patrick Thomas McCarthy ptmc

Cast: 8 Men 3 or 4 Woman
Synopsis
Mashing up Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy and the “Penny Dreadful” String of Pearls a.k.a. Sweeney Todd, to provide enough vengeance, mayhem and bloodshed to fill a banquet hall of horror. Aaron becomes the central character in this barbaric tripleheader, gaining his freedom, his vengeance & child’s legacy on the bloody way.

Traditionally, Todd, now Titus Todd, is a barber who dispatches his victims by pulling a lever as they sit in his barber chair. His victims fall backward down a revolving trap door into the basement of his shop, generally causing them to break their necks or skulls. In case they are alive, Todd goes to the basement and "polishes them off" (slitting their throats with his straight razor). Mrs. Tamara Gothic Dread, his partner in crime, assists him in disposing of the bodies by baking their flesh into meat pies and selling them to the unsuspecting customers of her pie shop.

Running Time Estimated 110 minutes + Intermission (70 pages publishing format, 12 pt type)

CUSTODY © 2017 By Patrick Thomas McCarthy ptmc In CUSTODY, a gay comedy of 1990s manners-lessness, three men, pursue one woman, and each other, for CUSTODY of their children, memories & photo albums. Covering Shannon’s 40th, 41st & 42nd birthdays in 1994, 1995, & 1996, CUSTODY features the issues & fashions of that era, including straight women who love gay men & the straight men who love them and try to be more like gay men to get women to love them back. CUSTODY is truly a sub-urban comedy set in a semi-tasteful apartment with four exits & one closet. By asking who’s going out & who’s coming in, CUSTODY pays tribute to rom-com-ishness, boulevard farce and even HandToGod, without the profanity. And in an effort to provide something for everyone, CUSTODY even includes America’s only child with Dutch Elm Disease.

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Characters
Brendan: late 30's/early 40's, straight looking, an English teacher
Shannon: her 40th, 41st & 42nd birthdays, an English teacher
Peter: dull, dependable, straight, 40's
Ted: 20's/30’s/40's, he keeps his promises, Brendan’s too understanding boyfriend

Scene A comfortable apartment furnished semi-tastefully with three exits & one closet. All action takes place on the single set. Timeframe 1994 to 1996.

PRIDE RIVER CROSSING ... Anchored in the heartland, PRIDE RIVER CROSSING channels Edgar Lee Masters' SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY's otherwordly voices to comment on contemporary LGBTQ+ life in America, featuring 49 characters, 40 interconnecting monologues, and 13 connecting scenes.
[3Men, 3Women] 60 pages [Running time: 116 minutes with 10 minute intermission]

NOW PUBLISHED (July 2020) by https://www.smithscripts.co.uk/product/pride-river-crossing-by-patrick-thomas-mccarthy/
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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: Suggested by The TEMPEST by William Shakespeare, this TEMPEST finds itself in a post-apocalyptic decaying world, where survivalist father, Pero, captures two Atrian 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.
Touching on themes of parenting, maternal death in childbirth, a shrinking pool of human existence, slavery, LGBTQ issues, the wizardry of love, and survival itself, TEMPEST centers on the idea of free will as central to the very idea of human existence. Will any or all our characters discover that, 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, brazen butlers 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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