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A. Stage Plays--Commercial
STAGE PLAYS:
I've written over 35 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. (for fuller information click
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Here is a small cross-section of titles.
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For the purposes of easy sampling, here are four
titles:
my newest drama, a new-ish musical, a seagoing
adventure and an oft-produced comedy
(two males, one set)
Ben
Calloway can't seem to get his bearings in his own home anymore.
Fifty-seven years old, recently widowed, childless and
retired from the
Kansas Highway Patrol, he's adrift... and even
though he's never seen
the ocean, he decides he should build a boat and sail
across the Atlantic,
single-handed. When Ben agrees
to let the troubled son of his next-door-
neighbor make a movie about his boat-building project, the two men
--
generations apart and lonely in very different ways -- force one
another
to
confront the isolation in their own lives.
Licensing of The Boatwright is now handled by DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY.
For perusal copies or information about performance rights, visit www.dramaticpublishing.comor telephone 800-448-7469, Monday through Friday, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm CST
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(2 females, 5 males, with doubling; shifting locales on a unit set.)
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.
In Service of the 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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MANLY MEN-- AN
EVENING CHOCKFULL
OF LIES AND TESTOSTERONE
(2 males, one female, with triping and quadrupling; shifting locales on a unit set.)
A contemporary comedy conceived and 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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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 list only four
but there have been dozens,
and I'm always happy to provide more upon request.
DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION
This driver's safety film has won multiple national awards and was
purchsed by
UPS to educate its drivers internationally. We're think State
Farm may have
gotten the idea for its "Mayhem" campaign from this film, but we
executed the
idea less for laughs than for the eye-opening value of seeing how
deadly
distracted driving can be.
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CHEMICAL COUNTERMEASURES
Written for the FBI as part of its ongoing
anti-terrorism effort, this short film
dramatically illustrates the necessity for academic environments to
secure their
inventories of dangerous chemicals.
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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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