This page offers a range of script samples, both theatrical and corporate,
for audiences both young and adult. To jump to the section which most interests
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A. Stage Plays--Commercial
STAGE PLAYS:
I've written 25 stage plays, and I've had more than
my share of luck
with these endeavors. Some of them have been honored
by a variety
of national awards and recognitions, and almost all of
them have been
produced at least once. (If you want all of the details
of
my many-splendored writing career (HA!), click
here for my bio)
Of course, you don't want to read 25 plays, and my server
won't
accomodate that kind of volume anyway, so I've chosen
a sample
of the titles you're most likely to find interesting.
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For the purposes of this web site, I've decided to make
four scripts available--
a newer comedy, an older comedy, a drama, and an adventure.
MY
UNCLE'S BUSINESS
is a brand-new (as of September 30, 2002) comedy about
an ordinary guy who
inherits a rather extraordinary group of enterprises.
It utilizes a cast of two men
and five women. If I tell you any more than this,
it'll only spoil it.
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MANLY MEN-- AN EVENING CHOCKFULL
OF LIES AND TESTOSTERONE
is, as the title hopefully suggests, a comedy.
Written for three actors and simple scenic
demands, the play charts the course of a lost soul named
Harold, who is seeking the
one truth that will solve his problematic relationships
with the fair sex. In the course
of the play, Harold solicits the advice of a variety
of well-meaning men and women,
all of whom are played by the same two actors, which
adds a lot of fun to things.
Manly Men won the first annual National
New Play Award of The Production
Company and has been the most frequently-produced of
my works. The
Richmond Times Dispatch said "Bo Wilson is the
real thing... Manly Men has laughs--
lots and lots of laughs-- and, like all good humor, it
offers a few serious thoughts
along the way." Style Weekly Magazine called
it "A delightful evening of theatre...
Wilson deserves highest praise for the delicacy of his
thinking and writing... it all has a
ring of truth both sexes will enjoy... An evening with
Manly
Men is one of those
all-too-rare audience privileges."
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WAR STORY
is a two character, one-set drama detailing the collision
between a retired U.S.
Army General and the young black woman who recently sued
her way into the
General's alma mater, the Carolina Military Institute.
Kendra Davidson has come
to visit the ailing General Ryan Roosevelt Walker in
his hospital room, ostensibly
to interview him for the CMI's cadet newspaper... but
it soon becomes clear that
she is after much more than a simple interview, and she
is going to have to fight
to get it.
War Story has won a great many accolades
from theatres across the country.
It was selected for inclusion in the 2000 U.S. West Theatre
Festival at the
Denver Center Theatre, and for the New Voices From the
Heartland Festival at
the New American Theatre in Rockford, Illinois.
It was also the winner of the Mill Mountain Theatre's
National New Play Award
for 2000, and was included in that theatre's Norfolk
Southern Festival of New Work.
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IN SERVICE OF
THE QUEEN
is a seagoing adventure, set in the late 19th century,
"a time of clipper ships and
courses yet uncharted." Annie Pilgrim, a
middle-aged woman longing for
a change in her life, decides to leave her home in Victorian
England for a chance
to win a reward offered by the Queen herself-- a reward
to be paid to the first
person succesful in the delivery of live honeybees to
the colonists of New Zealand.
Scoffing at the risks, Annie boards a clippership with
four healthy colonies of bees,
determined to claim her reward and to start a new life.
But strange things begin to
happen, and Annie soon finds herself swept up in a fantastic
adventure that carries
her not just to the bottom of the world but to very heart
of what it means to serve
an idea with courage and loyalty.
With a cast of eleven, Queen makes thorough
use of the poetic power of theatre
to move an audience across time and space using only
language and imagination.
The Goodman Theatre said that the play has "a gorgeous
sense of theatricality
showcasing truly lovely writing."
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The majority of my plays are commercial ventures for adult
audiences, but quite a few
have been for young audiences. I've been commissioned
to adapt fairy tales for very
young students, and I've also been commissioned to write
educational pieces for older
students. The educational pieces run the
range from historical topics, to science and
math, to current social issues. I've included three
of the most popular below.
LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER,
is a play for five actors, written for a young teen audience.
Its heroine is a young girl
named Jessie, who sees "everyone around her" having sex
and has trouble deciding
whether to give in to her boyfriend and join the crowd.
When she finds a bundle of
old letters, she discovers that her mother wrestled with
the same questions-- for the
letters are written by her mother to Jessie, before she
had even been born.
A piece with no villains and no easy answers, Letter
to My Daughter tackles some of
the toughest questions today's young people face. While
never preaching or pretending
to have perfect answers, the play ultimately promotes
abstinence as the safest course
through these difficult waters.
Originally commissioned by ShenanArts, this play was toured
to junior high and high
schools throughout central and western Virginia, and
was so successful that it
received funding for an additional year's tour.
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THREE SLICES OF PI
asks the question: What do the Marx Brothers, Abbot and
Costello and the Three
Stooges know about math? The answer is "Plenty!" in this
comic exploration of the
number, p.
Three scenes offer each of these classic comedy teams a chance to take
their best swipe at addressing the mysteries and marvels
of this seemingly simple
number which has stumped the best mathematicians for
thousands of years.
Moving from basic introduction to social implications
to practical application,
Three Slices of Pi is an engaging exploration
for
students 10 and up.
Originally commissioned by the Science Museum of Virginia,
PI
has
been
entertaining audiences for over a year now and is still
going strong.
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THE SOLAR SHOWROOM
A planetarium narration which introduces audiences to
the many fascinating
phenomena surrounding our sun.
When a newlywed couple goes shopping for "something
special," they find
themselves in a very exclusive showroom, considering
whether they should
buy a star... and when their sales associate shows them
a particularly
cute yellow dwarf model, they just can't resist.
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Of course, everyone knows that Art alone seldom pays the bills. So, I do my bestCORPORATE WORK
to bring artistry and fun to a range of corporate clients, in the form of scripts for
training films and narrations.
In the interest of space I will again list only a couple,
but there have been dozens,
and I'm always happy to provide more upon request.
FALL PREVENTION
is a health and safety product which offers a straightforward
presentation of basic rules
for iron workers, in accordance with OSHA guidelines.
I include it to demonstrate
my ability to handle very dry material in what I think
is a human and accessible way.
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HARASSMENT: IT CAN'T
HAPPEN HERE
is an HR-based film dealing with the subject of what's
known as "General Harassment"--
that is, the sorts of behaviors many states have ruled
illegal apart from the federally
prohibited discriminations against race, sex, and so
on. The film follows four workers
who have been called together to receive "sensitivity
training" and who absolutely know
they've done nothing wrong... until they have a chance
to talk about and see things from
the victim's side.
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(note: access to the above corporate scripts
has been kindly granted by Coastal Training Technologies.)
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