{"title":"Drama","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"mutezp","title":"Muted., by Zack Peercy","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eDrama, chapbook, 48 pages, from\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMuted.\u003c\/em\u003e is a one-act play about Sid, a college sophomore, and Chelsea, a ghost of a former middle school acquaintance, in transitional states. Told over twenty-four reflecting scenes in Sid’s dorm room, the play forces it’s characters to confront their own inertia and grow in small and significant ways.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThis is a ghost story for people haunted by the seemingly insignificant moments of life. This is a human story for people trapped in a seemingly meaningless existence. This is a story for people.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eZack Peercy is a disabled playwright, screenwriter, and director based in Chicago. He is a resident playwright at Three Brothers Theater. In 2021, his play \u003cem\u003eESSENTIAL STARLITE\u003c\/em\u003e was honored as an O’Neill National Playwrights Conference finalist, a Bay Area Playwrights Festival semi-finalist, and a Blue Ink Playwriting Award semi-finalist. He has developed work with The Wampus Cat Collective, Intrinsic Theater Company, The New Coordinates, Unheard Of Company, Broken Bell Reads, Jackalope Theater Company, and others. 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He grew up in Tacoma, Washington and Phoenix, Arizona. His previous play \u003cem\u003eThe Trade Federation, or, Let’s Explore Globalization Through the Star Wars Prequels\u003c\/em\u003e was published by NoPassport Press. His cartoon book \u003cem\u003eSuitable for Framing: The Collected Cartoons of Andy Boyd, Volume 1\u003c\/em\u003e is self-published and is available from his Instagram page @AndyJBoyd.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andy Boyd","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":43686314311995,"sku":"LILSAB","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":43686314344763,"sku":"LILSABe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/threefront.png?v=1672864628"},{"product_id":"theystg","title":"They Would Live Likewise, A Play in One Act, by Sydney Tatum Gamble","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrama, chapbook, 28 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe night before his daughter's wedding, Arthur writes obsessively at his kitchen table, working hard on a book he has no hope of finishing. His wife, meanwhile, hosts a bizarre celebration in their home. The bride-to-be is a child. The mother-in-law abandons her own dying mother to attend the party. The groom gives a toast about lightning storms, black birds, and stained glass windows. But once these guests have cleared out; once their cake and champagne have been cleaned up; Arthur must face his own fiction and wonder:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat keeps us from living differently?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDay after day, milestone after milestone, we lose our lives as we live them. This play is therefore an elegy delivered with urgency. It strives for the sincere in the uncanny, the intimacy in the minimalistic, redundant, and mundane. In this city, a nail polish stain and a shared breakfast become their own shattering life events. \u003cem\u003eThey Would Live Likewise\u003c\/em\u003e was written in 2019 and first performed at the Massman Theatre in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSydney Tatum Gamble is a writer, researcher, and choreographer from Clayton, California. Her plays and dances have been staged from Chesire, Connecticut to Los Angeles, California. 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An exploration of the mystical and ephemeral human body through the combined forms of a traditional stage play and poetry collection, the short scenes allow readers to overlay their voice onto the conflicts of the characters, to reckon with the scary things we encounter on the exterior of our body that also live within us.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA collection of Socratic dialogues,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhenomenal Will\u003c\/em\u003e, asks all who encounter it to become readers, players, and participants in exploring the difference between our voices of ego and intuition by seeking dialogue with our community and self.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhenomenal Will\u003c\/em\u003e's goal is to stain readers' minds and lips with very literal questions to prompt discussion between families, lovers, and friends long after the reading ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSophia Valera Heinecke (she\/her) is an award-winning writer, an archivist, dramaturg, high-level divergent thinker. As a community programs architect she is drawn to process-based work and intentional creative experiments. As a writer, she has been awarded the John Golden Prize for Outstanding New Play and LogCinema’s Best Play To Film Adaptation. Her play \u003cem\u003eTrash Lord: Renovation\u003c\/em\u003e was a semifinalist for the National Playwrights Conference at The O'Neill Theater Center. As an archivist, she has supported projects with La MAMA ETC., The Guthrie Theatre, and with the Research Center for Arts and Culture at The Actors Fund. From 2009-2010 she directed, wrote, and produced the CPTV show \u003cem\u003eWe Fill The Void\u003c\/em\u003e. Her creative consulting company Eleven Wise offers a variety of services to assist individuals and companies in vigorously crafting and delivering on the intentions of projects that include live performances, conference convenings, virtual reality, augmented reality, film, archiving, educational programming, social histories, data analysis, and creative coaching. 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The conversations within Hunger will feel relatable to anyone with dreams and desires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLucy Rattner is a 20-year-old poet from Rockland, New York. She adores the sublime, the surreal, and the sentimental. Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eMidsummer Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eScribere\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePinky Thinker Press\u003c\/em\u003e, and has been featured on the \u003cem\u003eViewless Wings\u003c\/em\u003e podcast. 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In these surreal and existentially charged works, characters grapple with questions of identity, performance, truth, and the stories people tell about themselves. Whether inhabiting a world where a cellist abandons his art after encountering a mysterious young woman, reflecting on a life spent inhabiting roles that never quite fit, or participating in an absurd audition that unfolds across decades, Trocchia’s characters move across a stage where reality and invention continually exchange masks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eWritten in a lyrical prose that mixes wit, melancholy, and wonder, these plays explore what it means to perform a life rather than simply live one. Trocchia draws on theatrical conventions only to dismantle and reimagine them, creating works that, though brief, are at once intimate dramas and meditations on language, artifice, and selfhood. The result is a chapbook that invites readers to consider how we are shaped by the roles we inherit, the fictions we construct, and the elusive parts of life that remain behind the curtain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eMichael Trocchia’s poetry has appeared in \u003cem\u003ePloughshares, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eArion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, Black Sun Lit, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eChicago Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Fourteen Hills, New \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eOrleans Review, Poetry International, Tarpaulin Sky, UCity \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eReview, \u003c\/em\u003eand elsewhere. He teaches philosophy and works in the library at James Madison University in Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Trocchia","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":67905087832379,"sku":"MISCMT","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":67905087865147,"sku":"MISCMTe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/Miscast2_cover.png?v=1793905041"}],"url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/drama.oembed?page=2","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}