| PLAYS BY WILLIAM BORDEN AVAILABLE FOR PRODUCTION
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SYNOPSES
One-Act Plays
It's Wowoo
Larry wonders
why he feels so different. Is he an alien? If he is, why hasn't he gotten
a manual? When his alien wife materializes, his earthly wife has to make
adjustments. 1m, 2f. 25 min.
Garage
Sale
Warren's
starting over. He's selling everything–pajamas, wedding pictures,
his past. Bargain-hunters, including his daughter and his ex-wife, find
more than they expected, while Garcia, an old hand at garage sales, gives
Warren advice and wins at Monopoly. 5m (1 Latino), 3f. 60 min.
- Winner,
1996 Grand View College Prairie Playwrights Festival, Des Moines, IA,
and The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco 1986 Dramarama.
- Productions:
Grand View College, Des Moines, IA; The Source Theatre, Washington,
DC.
- Radio version:
Winner, 1985 Midwest Radio Theatre Workshop Competition.
- Radio productions:
WCPN, Cleveland Public Radio, November 27, 1991; KANU-FM, Lawrence,
KS, March 1, 1986; KOPN-FM, Columbia, MO, September 30, 1985. Distributed
via satellite.
I Want
To Be an Indian
A liberal
who wants to be an Indian gets his chance one night in a bar on a reservation.
Single set. 3m (2 Native American). 30 min.
- Productions:
Actors Theatre of Louisville Short Play Festival; Listening Winds Theatre,
Bemidji, MN; Concerned Productions, Santa Fe, NM; University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, NE; Playhouse 1990, Cable Television, Los Angeles, January,
1991; Venice Playwrights Festival, Venice, CA; Turtle Mountain Community
College, Belcourt, ND; The American Line, New York, NY; Polaris Theatre,
New York, NY; Little Hoop Community College, Fort Totten, ND; Standing
Rock Community College, Standing Rock, SD; New One-Act Theatre Ensemble,
Los Angeles, CA.
- Published
in Discover…First Nations People in America, Verlag Ferdinand
Schöningh, Paderborn, Germany, 1999, and Eleven Plays from the
Midwest Radio Theatre Workshop, The Midwest Radio Theatre Workshop,
Columbia, MO, 1990.
- Radio version,
Winner, 1982 Midwest Radio Theatre Workshop Competition.
- Radio productions:
Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA; American Radio Theatre, Los
Angeles, CA; KOTO, Telluride, CO; Bates College, Lewiston, ME; TIC Radio
Workshop, Boston, MA; KOPN-FM, Columbia, MO, distributed via satellite.
- Film version:
Finalist, 1983 Film in the Cities Screenplay Competition.
- I Want To
Be an Indian studied in courses in Cologne, Germany, and at State
University of New York at Binghamton, University of North Dakota, Little
Hoop Community College, Standing Rock Community College.
Apples
A deconstructed
Garden of Eden where Adam finds an Uzi, Lilith tempts lust, and Satan
and Eve reach an understanding. 2m, 2f. 30 min.
- Productions:
Off-Hollywood Theatre Company, Los Angeles, CA; Theatre of the
Invisible Guests, Fargo, ND; Performers at Work, New York, NY.
- Staged readings:
Carrie Productions, Los Angeles, CA; White Bird Productions, New York,
NY.
- Finalist:
Mill Mountain Theatre Competition Roanoke, VA.
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