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 QUARKS in Minneapolis QUARKS has had over 17 productions, including performances in Ontario, Canada, and Barcelona, Spain, and at The Original Theatre Company, Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis. MN, Little Fish Theatre Company, San Pedro, CA, Theatre in the Woods, Woodside, CA, Actors Theatre, Santa Rosa, CA, American Theatre of Actors, Beckman Theatre, New York, NY, Samuel French One-Act Play Festival, New York, NY, The Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO, and Cleveland Public Theatre, Cleveland, OH.
Published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2009, 2 Actors, Smith & Kraus, 2009
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 "QUARKS" in Kitchener, Ontario
"QUARKS" was one of ten short plays performed at various sites as the audience walked about Kitchener, Ontario. The audience's stroll concluded at a bar, where "QUARKS" wound up the evening. Here's a description by the director, Paddy Gillard-Bentley...
The bartender tidies up, then walk to a high table with a beautiful woman sitting on a stool. Some people may have noticed her eyeing the guy in the tie. Some, may not have. The bartender leaves and the shark moves in for the kill...or is it a kill? This play, Quarks, written by William Bolden of Royse City TX., has many of the things I love. Lots of sexual innuendo and gestures, overtly sexual moments and physics. A couple that engages in a mating ritual, but are equally armed. She’s a theoretical physicist and he sells the very computer that she uses. She studies quarks and he works for a Japanese firm, although, according to her, does not look Japanese. For me, the play was equal, close hot, sexy....he asks her to take off her panties, she does – quite expertly letting them slide down her legs, and into her hands where she deftly puts it into his jacket pocket making a pouf. There is this beautiful moment. He backs away...just a tiny bit, and she takes it and runs.
"Quarks," William Borden's playlet about desire, particle physics and articles of clothing, pops and crackles." Minneapolis Star Tribune.
"Quarks" takes place in an upscale bar where a computer salesman attempts to pick up a very sexy theoretical physicist. Borden's use of language is polished, and his ability to blend the scientifically profound with the erotically profane is a considerable achievement." Bruce Feld, Doubleday Productions, Hollywood, CA.
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FULL-LENGTH PLAYS
DON'T DANCE ME OUTSIDE
Butch, a novelist, and Ardis, an architect, begin an affair. They reveal their pasts, fantasize their future, call their spouses, fight, risk, and love.
MANY WORLDS
Maggie has to tell Axel that she has terminal cancer, as Axel explains the "Many Worlds" theory of quantum physics, and from time to time "other worlds" open up, some involving Maggie's husband.
TAP DANCING ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
A college professor who wants to run away from home gets his chance when he and his wife are visited by a would-be shaman, a runaway mother, and a hippy.
MEET AGAIN
A romantic comedy that takes a playful, sexy look at reincarnation. "Insightful and delightfully wacky," Jason Fogelson, New York Shakespeare Festival.
GOURMET LOVE
How long can Sally and Arnie keep their affair from their spouses, who are having an affair of their own?
BLUEST REASON
Lewis and Clark air their conflicts and hire a pregnant guide.
TEN-MINUTE PLAYS
GUNNING FOR LIFE
An old man's lust for life confronts his terminal cancer in an unusual comedy with a poignant ending.
DUET FOR VIRTUAL PARTICLES
A man wonders if he's an alien. A woman wonders if she's too tall.
DIRTY LAUNDRY
A woman wearing only a raincoat gives a would-be writer something to write about.
QUARKS
A man and a woman meet at a singles bar. His "Take off your panties," gets unexpected results.
SOMETHING LIGHTER
A couple finalize their divorce. Or do they?
THE BLUES STREET JAZZ CLUB REHEARSES
The loves of five would-be musicians intertwine like strands of music, improvised and unpredictable.
LUNCH
Should Bob and Bella tell their spouses they know their spouses are having an affair?
RECOGNITION
Two high school sweethearts, with their spouses, meet for lunch after 25 years.
HANGMAN
A condemned man must build his own gallows. He helps his executioner write a poem.
ONE EVENING IN PRAGUE
Albert Einstein, an up-and-coming physicist, meets Franz Kafka, a little-known author, .
FALLING
The thoughts of a Jew and a Muslim who fell from the World Trade Center the morning of September 11, 2001.
MUSE
Cal, plagued by writer's block, calls for a muse. He gets Ron.
THAT GUY FROM THE BERGMAN FILM
It may be Cassy's last day, but she hasn't lost her sense of humor as her family gathers around.
THE ALIEN HYPOTHESIS
If Larry is an alien, as he suspects, why haven't the aliens told him?
JUMPING
A man and a woman rejected by love fall in love before one jumps into the ice-covered Mississippi and the other jumps into the praxis of politics.
LEDGE
Mary could jump and end it all if Tom, who also wants to jump, would get out of her way.
ONE-ACT PLAYS
GARAGE SALE
Warren's starting over. He's selling everything.
PATRIOTS
Two men talking--terrorists or undercover agents?
I WANT TO BE AN INDIAN
A white liberal who wants to be an Indian gets his chance.
APPLES
A deconstructed Garden of Eden where Adam finds Lilith, and Eve and Satan reach an understanding.
COCKTAILS, DINNER
Should Sally and Arnie tell their spouses about their affair? Or will it spoil dinner?
IT'S SO WOWOO
Larry wonders if he's an alien. If he is an alien, why haven't the other aliens told him?
HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW
A teenager wonders if a homeless man is really Jesus.
AFFAIRS OF RECKLESS HONOR
Six women re-enact the duels of an earlier age
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