by Frank Gagliano | Dec 31, 2020
BIG SUR Forty-Five year old church organist Jeremy Chester, having won a car in the church raffle (“the first thing I ever won in my life”), decides to take to the road and head west. ”–Straight across this great country I’ve never seen” JEREMY: . ....
by Frank Gagliano | Dec 30, 2020
The Hide and Seek Odyssey of Madeline Gimple MADELEINE: . . .That Balloon Man frightens me, because he hates me. Well, I hate him! . . . And I hate Steve and all those kids who torment me! I hate Hansel and Gretel Gimple, because they’re wherever they are and...
by Frank Gagliano | Dec 29, 2020
Download "Barebones Program" THE TOTAL IMMERSION OF MADELEINE FAVORINI is a surreal 3-performer piece (some have called it a dramatic poem) in which thirty-eight year old Madeleine Favorini journeys from dutifulness to rebellion on a gynecological examining...
by Frank Gagliano | Dec 28, 2020
“THE PRIVATE EYE OF HIRAM BODONI byFrank Gagliano This newly discovered 1970’s original television script introduces us to the brilliant detective Hiram Bodoni — and introduces Hiram Bodoni to his first caper in a television studio — where he tries to solve the...
by Frank Gagliano | Dec 26, 2020
HANNA: A Run-On Wordplay Tone Poem [Historical HANNA Notes from FG, Followed by DOWNLOAD link to Complete Revised HANNA text] Way back in my University teaching days — to loosen the subconscious and let it find its own form —I took one of my run- on writing...