by Frank Gagliano | Jan 12, 2021
THE PRINCE OF PEASANTMANIA(Fairy-tale Extravaganza for grownups) “INNOCENT: What is there in them that makes them mean and ugly and vicious? —makes them, in their agony, need to punish each other? Yes: EACH OTHER! The answer’s there —there in that daisy chain of...
by Frank Gagliano | Jan 10, 2021
MY CHEKHOV LIGHT “. . .Oh, Martin, where has it all gone? My life, my youth, my loves, my artistry, my joy.” In a University black box theatre, a television star returns to give his alma mater a large donation for a new theatre, and confronts his former...
by Frank Gagliano | Jan 9, 2021
The Farewell Concert of Irene and Vernon Palazzo [From the four page run-on part of Irene’s ninety minute monologue: “. . .then he tells me that I must sign something because I must understand that there are exercises and such that get the beauties to open to the very...
by Frank Gagliano | Jan 8, 2021
Part 1 of 3 in the Voodoo Trilogy Part 2: The Commedia World of Lafcadio B Part 3: Congo Square (Musical) “Yes. Getting even is what it’s all about.” [from Marie Laveau’sSpoken Prologue Aria] *********** It is 1900, on the eve of Mardi Gras. In her New Orleans Parlour...
by Frank Gagliano | Jan 7, 2021
Part 2 of 3 in the Voodoo Trilogy Part 1: In the Voodoo Parlour of Marie LaveauPart 3: Congo Square (Musical) THE COMMEDIA WORLD OF LAFCADIO B takes place in 1917 New Orleans, during an Influenza epidemic, in a room that was once the voodoo parlour of Marie Laveau,...
