JOHN CASWELL JR (1982 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by John Caswell Jr
Britney Spears For President: a pop culture disaster |
| 1st Produced: | Chyro Arts Venue, Scottsdale AZ | 2008 | ||||
| Company: | Progressive Theatre Workshop | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | Some roles aren't gender specific | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Meet Cheryl and Steve, a drop dead gorgeous couple that is heavy on looks and light on brains. Cheryl and Steve are hopelessly addicted to everything pop culture and function in a vacuum that is sealed by an unquenchable thirst for celebrity perfection. Cheryl dreams of changing her name to Angelina and Steve's name to Brad. Together, Cheryl and Steve rename themselves Brad and Britney (Cheryl compromises and gives up on Angelina) and they set out on a quest for pop culture saturation which includes the adoption of foreign babies, unrelenting bouts of exercise and bulimia, repetitive plastic surgeries to correct non-existent problems, and a never ending addiction to tabloid magazines. Along the way they are joined by Britney Spears and her dance crew, a villainous Madonna who wants to take over the world, and many other recognizable faces. | |||||
closetdrama: a homo/hetero collision |
| 1st Produced: | Chyro Arts Venue | 2009 | ||||
| Company: | Progressive Theatre Workshop | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | an unnamed boy is trapped in a closet. . . quite literally. Walls surround him on three sides. As he negotiates his own sexuality, he suddenly discovers that he is haunted by the voice of Fred Phelps, the founder of Westboro Baptist Church and godhatesfags.com. Worse, he discovers that his real mother has been replaced by a surrogate mother. . .. Shirley Phelps-Roper, extreme advocate against homosexuality and fallen soldiers. Mom attempts to convert her son via electroshock therapy and other loving and delicate techniques. | |||||
Shots: A Love Story |
| 1st Produced: | Desert Rose Theatre Mesa, AZ | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | Progressive Theatre Workshop | |||||
| 1st Published: | in ASU Professor Johnny Saldana's text and anthology published by Left Coast Press titled Ethnotheatre: Research from Page to Stage, 2011 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | 1h 15m, Drama, Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | The play went on to receive 3 additional productions including a showing at The 12th Annual New York International Fringe Festival | |||||
| Synopsis: | The piece is a semi-autobiographical abstraction of the author's experiences with alcoholism. Set in an arcade shooting gallery during the winter of a very bad year when rooms spun and organs failed, SHOTS follows a woman through the ups and downs of the abusive relationship that is her addiction. | |||||