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Plays by John J King (see a full resume here)
Bear Patrol (2011)
Produced by Vaquero Playground at Boston Playwrights' Theatre.
Somewhere, over the Zakim...
Huggy Bear wants to be a rock star. But when the world gets nuked, all she has left are some rock star ruby booties, her best friends, and a post-apocalyptic Boston full of mutants and malice. Will she find her audience? Or will she just find home?
She finds the answer somewhere over the Zakim in this romping adaptation of the Wizard of Oz, chock full of pop culture, gags, and mutants.
Somewhere, over the Zakim...
Huggy Bear wants to be a rock star. But when the world gets nuked, all she has left are some rock star ruby booties, her best friends, and a post-apocalyptic Boston full of mutants and malice. Will she find her audience? Or will she just find home?
She finds the answer somewhere over the Zakim in this romping adaptation of the Wizard of Oz, chock full of pop culture, gags, and mutants.
My Fair Baby (2011)
Produced by Vaquero Playground in Company One's FRINGE WARS, 2011.
Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle have a five-year-old boy, who likes to do girl things. Eliza indulges the boy's feminine side, while Henry demands manliness. Wouldn't it be Loverly if they all just got along?
Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle have a five-year-old boy, who likes to do girl things. Eliza indulges the boy's feminine side, while Henry demands manliness. Wouldn't it be Loverly if they all just got along?
The Money Hunt (2011)
When their father, a creator of competitive reality shows, passes away, a brother and sister are forced to compete for their inheritance.
Produced in January 2011 as part of the 24 Hour Plays at Boston Playwrights' Theatre.
Produced in January 2011 as part of the 24 Hour Plays at Boston Playwrights' Theatre.
M. RIVERSIDE (2010)
Produced by Mill 6 Collaborative, June 2010, as part of the T Plays. Selected Audience Favorite!
Produced by Point of Contention in Chicago, November 2010. Read review of the festival.
A virgin drag queen and a Sox fan share the last train home.
Concord Marrow (2009)
Produced by Exquisite Corps, Sept. 2009.
Raymond is tired of leading a life of quiet desperation, so he abandons his fiance, in search of his own,
solitary, personal Walden Pond.
But its hard to stay alone when you're a vampire.
Raymond is tired of leading a life of quiet desperation, so he abandons his fiance, in search of his own,
solitary, personal Walden Pond.
But its hard to stay alone when you're a vampire.
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life (2009)co-written with Dawn M. Simmons
Produced by New Exhibition Room at FeverFest, 2009. featured in the Boston Globe. Harold has heard the voice. He's put on his dancing shoes and taken up his cross. Mama gonna be so proud. |  |
Red Face/Blue Room (2008)
A 3-page play written at the Kennedy Center Playwrighting Intensive program, 2008, as a final project.
This is my favorite play of mine.
This is my favorite play of mine.
 | Martha's (b)Rainstorm (2008)
This is Martha's wish list. This is Martha's iPod. This is her job. This is what she hates. This is Martha's future, this is Martha's cleft-palette baby. This is why she wants to change the world, and this is why she can't. This is Martha's life, splintered. This is Martha's (b)Rainstorm. Martha's (b)Rainstorm was produced by the Orfeo Group at FeverFest 2008. |
CockTales (2004)
A traditional knight-errant tale with one exception: all the characters are genitals. This short version was written for an Artists Fighting AIDS fundraiser in 2004. The piece is currently being expanded into a Decameron-style serial play composed of different stories. But still with genitals. Get it? Cock Tales?
Waiting...WAITING… is seventeen short plays and over 40 characters' stories brought to life by four actors, threaded together in a narrative quilt exploring the thrills, fears, silliness and dread that arise when you're waiting for life to show up.
WAITING... premiered at the 2007 New England Fringe Festival. Click here for STUTTER, and ORGANS, two of the plays in WAITING... |  |
