This world premiere of an original seven part episodic Zoom play, Elevator Music, by Mike Brayndick, combines science fiction and contemporary comedy with a double love story. Enjoy the adventures of a Dream Keeper in the 23rd Century and a young writer in the 21st working security in a suburban apartment building. Dreams are not just for the future. Sometimes we need to live them now. Available to watch free on Youtube.
Episode One:
https://youtu.be/4rJ8siFvKFA
Episode Two:
https://youtu.be/pE66MkqBTnc
Episode Three:
https://youtu.be/q_IsX8vPiTA
Episode Four:
https://youtu.be/WisJ0L6kp1Y
Episode Five:
https://youtu.be/BF6paYThma8
Episode 6:
https://youtu.be/fq6YOQzdOBQ
Episode 7: https://youtu.be/u7SqwbesFPU
Watch the whole play!
https://youtu.be/eVw43-d46RM
Episode One:
https://youtu.be/4rJ8siFvKFA
Episode Two:
https://youtu.be/pE66MkqBTnc
Episode Three:
https://youtu.be/q_IsX8vPiTA
Episode Four:
https://youtu.be/WisJ0L6kp1Y
Episode Five:
https://youtu.be/BF6paYThma8
Episode 6:
https://youtu.be/fq6YOQzdOBQ
Episode 7: https://youtu.be/u7SqwbesFPU
Watch the whole play!
https://youtu.be/eVw43-d46RM
This Old Guitar written by Pete Blatchford, directed by Pat Henderson, and featuring Baird Brutscher. A rock musician out of his time reminisces about the greatest hits of his life. Just click this link https://youtu.be/-gzlLoI9hvg to watch this short play for free on YouTube!
In Dan Ochoa's new short play, Amy Passaro, You Broke My Heart, directed by Pat Henderson, a young man helped by a quirky new friend seeks solid ground after a case of ghosting leaves him wondering if anything is the way it seems. Who really was Amy Passaro, that mysterious woman who seemed better than a dream? And who are we meant to be when love visits briefly and then vanishes like smoke? https://youtu.be/U4y2KkueDPs
A new episodic, dramatic comedy. What do Physics, K-Pop, Beowulf, and Jungian psychology have in common? Words of course! In A Play On Words, four members of a university consult with the prestigiously progressive Dynamic Dictionary to suggest what words they should remove from their upcoming edition. Personalities and professional prerogatives clash as they figure out who among them might be best to lead the group into the future. And in the process they discover why the words we use really matter. In five episodes by Emma Brayndick, and four monologues by Mike Brayndick, find out what words will make the cut.
Watch the whole play here:
https://youtu.be/92W4j3XpI5w
Watch the play in episodes here:
Part One, Verily, It Is https://youtu.be/N9nzlJYH7Ug
Freja's Monologue, The Answer My Friend https://youtu.be/NT76rsLmHqw
Part Two, Ready Steady... https://youtu.be/tdzVr4yea_k
Billy's Monologue, A Monologue for Monday https://youtu.be/kAcr0oyBwZE
Part Three, The One Before, The One Before, The Last One https://youtu.be/grKBc9SeCek
Lexi's Monologue A Lexicon for Lexi https://youtu.be/tSwgIFTTw-8
Part Four, Cyno-not-so-sure https://youtu.be/oFvh9jrVdzE
Raef's Monologue, In The Beginning Was The Word https://youtu.be/6cd7yJk1rug
Part Five: The Last One https://youtu.be/fI0or_l34K0
https://youtu.be/92W4j3XpI5w
Watch the play in episodes here:
Part One, Verily, It Is https://youtu.be/N9nzlJYH7Ug
Freja's Monologue, The Answer My Friend https://youtu.be/NT76rsLmHqw
Part Two, Ready Steady... https://youtu.be/tdzVr4yea_k
Billy's Monologue, A Monologue for Monday https://youtu.be/kAcr0oyBwZE
Part Three, The One Before, The One Before, The Last One https://youtu.be/grKBc9SeCek
Lexi's Monologue A Lexicon for Lexi https://youtu.be/tSwgIFTTw-8
Part Four, Cyno-not-so-sure https://youtu.be/oFvh9jrVdzE
Raef's Monologue, In The Beginning Was The Word https://youtu.be/6cd7yJk1rug
Part Five: The Last One https://youtu.be/fI0or_l34K0
Autumn Lights series of short plays. The plays include Deliberate Acts, Missing Person, Faking It, and I'm Glad You Made It. If you didn't have a chance to catch these entertaining pieces in the last month on our Youtube channel, you can see them all together in one combined show.
https://youtu.be/Wo14aLkijFI
https://youtu.be/Wo14aLkijFI
What happens when your best friend inexplicably disappears? In Pete Blatchford's comic and heartfelt play, Missing Person, you will meet a man paying tribute to the best drinking buddy a guy could have. Written and featuring Pete Blatchford as Tim, and directed by Pat Henderson.
https://youtu.be/AKKXS2CNX7o
https://youtu.be/AKKXS2CNX7o
In Deliberate Acts, a couple celebrate their anniversary at home while watching astronauts walk in space. Can there be something in common after all between repairing the international space station and healing the world? Find out in this touching and thought provoking take on the question of whether love is a kind of accidental free fall, or more of a deliberate act. https://youtu.be/MLPmBE5200E
I'm Glad You Made It. This 15 minute play is the first in a series of new short works that we will be presenting this autumn. In I'm Glad You Made It, when a walker meets a silent and shadowy figure at a city street corner, the walker makes an essential plea across a tangible divide. Enjoy this lyrical piece for five actors who speak into this darkness as if they are one unified voice about resilience and renewal during troubled times. The play will of course be available to view on youtube anytime for free after the premiere. https://youtu.be/W6_LY-ASZQg
Enjoy another comic short, Faking It written by Andrew Thorp and directed by Pat Henderson.When Barb and Dan, a rather creative young couple facing too many months cooped up, try to connect with friends through separate group chats, a comic competition ensues over the only good internet connection in their living room.
https://youtu.be/qv1Jr21uuwI
ENJOY THESE SHORT PLAYS FOR A COMIC BREAK.
Did you miss any of the Summer Shorts? Never fear, you can watch all three here: Three 10-15 minute comedies combined into one evening!
https://youtu.be/G1rcknvJ1r
Or watch each one individually at the links below.
GUERILLA THEATRE by Dee McIntosh
https://youtu.be/vAjx-3oxb0o
A young actor in contemporary London, Samantha, requests a favor of her old friend, nurse Julie, and recounts a criminally comedic tale of street theatre that didn't quite go as planned. Featuring Dee McIntosh and Emma Brayndick and directed by Mike Brayndick
AROUND AND AROUND WE GO by Pete Blatchford
https://youtu.be/bGJ11IjoIq0
When a pitchman pitches his best idea yet to an associate he has known for what seems like forever, they play out a game of competitive marketing that plumbs the lower depths. Featuring Pete Blatchford and Daniel Ochoa and directed by Pat Henderson
WORKING IT OUT by Mike Brayndick
https://youtu.be/0vEPmDyULfU
A young woman in love, Sylvia, rings her boyfriend for their usual evening chat, and finds that he is preoccupied with strenuous self-development, putting a bit of ridiculous strain on their long distance relationship. Featuring Mike Friend, and Emma Brayndick and directed by Mike Brayndick
Did you miss any of the Summer Shorts? Never fear, you can watch all three here: Three 10-15 minute comedies combined into one evening!
https://youtu.be/G1rcknvJ1r
Or watch each one individually at the links below.
GUERILLA THEATRE by Dee McIntosh
https://youtu.be/vAjx-3oxb0o
A young actor in contemporary London, Samantha, requests a favor of her old friend, nurse Julie, and recounts a criminally comedic tale of street theatre that didn't quite go as planned. Featuring Dee McIntosh and Emma Brayndick and directed by Mike Brayndick
AROUND AND AROUND WE GO by Pete Blatchford
https://youtu.be/bGJ11IjoIq0
When a pitchman pitches his best idea yet to an associate he has known for what seems like forever, they play out a game of competitive marketing that plumbs the lower depths. Featuring Pete Blatchford and Daniel Ochoa and directed by Pat Henderson
WORKING IT OUT by Mike Brayndick
https://youtu.be/0vEPmDyULfU
A young woman in love, Sylvia, rings her boyfriend for their usual evening chat, and finds that he is preoccupied with strenuous self-development, putting a bit of ridiculous strain on their long distance relationship. Featuring Mike Friend, and Emma Brayndick and directed by Mike Brayndick
Check out our virtual production of the one act comedy, Only You Could Think That. Directed by Pat Henderson and starring Erin Caswell and Baird Brutscher. Only You Could Think That visits a philosophical café where the quirky proprietor is intrigued by a frustrated consultant who turns people’s small problems into big ones to put their lives into perspective. This play explores the theme of personal responsibility in a complex world.
https://youtu.be/mn4HsJYw9zw
https://youtu.be/mn4HsJYw9zw
The More Things Change a double bill of one-act plays.
In Double Date, when Denise Arnold, a high school science teacher, meets David Joyce, a copywriter for a software company, through the Bumble dating site, she thinks she may have found the man of her dreams. But to make sure he is not just an illusion, she decides to do a dating experiment of her own devising, much to the chagrin of her long-suffering roommate and former girlfriend, Avery James, a musicologist and bartender. Avery can’t prevent Denny from nearly splitting herself in two to test whether true love is possible, and complications and comedic soul-searching ensue for everyone before things come back together at last.
Here is a link to our virtual production of Double Date https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEuqycuWlbQ
In The Ninth Planet, when Chris Markham, historian, and his wife Melly, go on a last-ditch weekend to save their marriage, leaving their adopted home in posh Hampstead, England, they have no idea what awaits them in their former Chicago neighborhood. Because, sitting in the same café from twelve years ago, are their equally unsuspecting friends Al and Jan Warren. Jan a progressive school teacher is working on a novel about the things that shape our lives, and Al an English professor is grading papers on Jack Kerouac. The two couples had bonded twelve years before during Obama’s campaign for president. Chris, enjoying recently inherited wealth, has undergone a political sea change. Old values and old friendships are tested when old secrets also are revealed on a late-summer weekend in Lincoln Square.
Here is a link to our virtual production of Ninth Planet https://youtu.be/rRyywBi6Ows
In Double Date, when Denise Arnold, a high school science teacher, meets David Joyce, a copywriter for a software company, through the Bumble dating site, she thinks she may have found the man of her dreams. But to make sure he is not just an illusion, she decides to do a dating experiment of her own devising, much to the chagrin of her long-suffering roommate and former girlfriend, Avery James, a musicologist and bartender. Avery can’t prevent Denny from nearly splitting herself in two to test whether true love is possible, and complications and comedic soul-searching ensue for everyone before things come back together at last.
Here is a link to our virtual production of Double Date https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEuqycuWlbQ
In The Ninth Planet, when Chris Markham, historian, and his wife Melly, go on a last-ditch weekend to save their marriage, leaving their adopted home in posh Hampstead, England, they have no idea what awaits them in their former Chicago neighborhood. Because, sitting in the same café from twelve years ago, are their equally unsuspecting friends Al and Jan Warren. Jan a progressive school teacher is working on a novel about the things that shape our lives, and Al an English professor is grading papers on Jack Kerouac. The two couples had bonded twelve years before during Obama’s campaign for president. Chris, enjoying recently inherited wealth, has undergone a political sea change. Old values and old friendships are tested when old secrets also are revealed on a late-summer weekend in Lincoln Square.
Here is a link to our virtual production of Ninth Planet https://youtu.be/rRyywBi6Ows