One-Acts
The Scream: 2F, 1M 30 minutes
A dark LGBT comedy about a love triangle involving a successful artist, caustic lesbian bank clerk and a free-spirited gallery owner.
Drinking Zombies 2F, 2M 45 minutes
A college and its environs are the backdrop for this smart, funny examination of sexual expression and sexual repression. For the rights to production go to...
http://www.originalworksonline.com/DRINKING-ZOMBIES-by-DT-Arcieri_p_67.html
Norman!: 1F, 2M 40 minutes
Norman is on an obsessive quest for the truth about a lost dog. His funny and poignant journey ends with a revelation that changes his life.
The Play About the Menu at Simon’s Coffee Shop: 2F, 2M 25 minutes
A play about human appetites and the things that can happen when they are not satiated. Clearly Simon needs to change more than just his menu.
Read it here... http://proplay.ws/coffeeshop.html
The Sisters Flora: 2F, 1M 15 minutes
Iris and Orchid compete for pollination at Happy Hour. Yikes!
How to Catch and Cook a Bluefish: 2F, 2M 15 Minutes
JR takes a comedic journey from bait to plate with Captain Billy and Chef Fred...
Etiquette!: 3F, 3M 10 minutes
A comedy of manners where six adult siblings attempt to tolerate, negotiate, and ultimately appreciate each others behavior at a dinner party.
Full lengths
Japanese Death Poem: 1F, 3M 90 minutes (no intermission)
A storm rages outside and inside. While Jenny is ever more lost in herself, two rival brothers try to get her back desperately. Each in his own way, each seeking his own Jenny.
Cowbirds: 2F, 2M 75 minutes (no intermission)
A young ornithologist’s life comes into sharp focus only when he puts his binoculars down and takes a close look at his family. What the critics think: http://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/birdwatching-through-life-1.714242
Carl a.k.a. Karl: 5M, 2F 90 minutes (no intermission)
A heartless businessman, who runs the family empire, is in conflict with his agoraphobic, magician brother over their parents’ estate. Personalities and values collide in this theatrical, comedic rendering.
St. Thea, Croatia, 2013
St. Thea: A One-Act Play in Two Acts: 2F, 2M 75 minutes (one intermission)
"A seventeen year-old boy learns the bizarre truth of his ancestry through the disparate memories of his wacky family members. Alternatively hilarious and heartbreaking, this exciting new play has razor-sharp dialogue that explores the themes of memory, family and truth in ways that are remarkably fresh." - Kitchen Dog Theater. Read it here... http://proplay.ws/saintthea.html
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What's New?
Lots of cool theatre activity in the near future and recent past including...
- Article published in January 2018 on the Dramatists Guild website... https://www.dramatistsguild.com/why-i-joined-the-guild-by-dt-arcieri/
- Drunk Socks: Notes for a Novella, my first work in prose is now available! https://www.amazon.com/Drunk-Socks-Novella-D-T-Arcieri-ebook/dp/B01N1PR88D/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1481247039&sr=1-1&keywords=drunk+socks
- Monologues from my Greatest Hits now available from Performer Stuff... https://performerstuff.com/search?text=DT+Arcieri&product_type=3&=
- The Leduc Drama Society staged Cowbird at the 2016 Edmonton Fringe Festival in August
- Japanese Death Poem was produced by WAT? Theatre in Serskamp, Belgium (in Dutch) in http://www.watwichelen.be/#!japanese-death-poem/qeh79
- How to Catch and Cook a Bluefish got its world premiere at the Dover Little Theater in NJ
- Latest one-acts The Sisters Flora and How to Catch and Cook a Bluefish were read by Northport Plays on Long Island NY
- Carl aka Karl was published published Fourth Wall Review
- The Scream was produced at Towson University in Baltimore... http://thetowerlight.com/one-act-four-days-two-plays/
- The world premiere of Saint Thea: A one-act play in two acts in Croatia. See the promotion video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTr2U6Xqvw8
- A production of The Scream in Shanghai, China, in English & Chinese. Two shows in one night with two different casts! http://eastwesttheatre.com/events/thescream/
- A staged reading of Carl aka Karl, one of four plays chosen out of 296 submissions, as part of the nuVoices Festival at Actor's Theatre of Charlotte, NC
- And finally, some sad news... http://sadplaywright.com/post/52643483214/dt-arcieri-long-island-ny-dt-arcieri-is-a
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