DUMB POLITICAL THEATRE: CHEW THE PINK LEAF

Hello everyone. Again, I want to thank Crazytown for supporting me and my rambling madness. This week I had to find a new place to live. I found it yesterday and I will move in later today. All is mostly well in the world. But this blog may end up being shorter than normal. I hope that's okay with everyone. 

For starters, I have good news. My play made it to the finalists - top 60 out of over 500. I'm so gosh darn proud I'm pasting the announcement below:

Dear Playwright,

The Parish Players Producers and Play Festival Reading Committee thank you for your submission to the Ten Minute Play Festival for 2017.  We enjoyed reviewing more than 500 entries. The selection of 60 finalists was a challenging task, indeed.

The committee is pleased to inform you that your entry was placed amongst the finalists. The plays that will be produced this year will be selected from the finalist list by directors. Even if not chosen for production this year, these works are re-entered in the finalist category for re-consideration in future festivals.

If your play is to be produced this year, you will be notified by email and the Parish Players website will list your piece on this year’s program: http://parishplayers.org/  

Congratulations on being a finalist!

 

Isn't that cool? All my fans in Vermont can see it. Maybe Bernie will be there. I don't think my true love Huma Abedin will be there. It's not like she has anywhere else to be. And fuck this guy. 

 

Back to this week's play - here we've got it all - in a scii-fi. 

 

Exploitation in mines - women miners are routinely sexually harassed. And they get very, very sick.  And it's not only in South Africa, but in other countries, too. In the sci-fi, the workers are selected to be miners at a young age. 

 

Drug abuse - the substance the Earthlings crave and the Uranians mine - orgasmic lube - has all the markings of addiction. This should be very straightforward. We see this in the relationship between the US and Mexico. The US consumes the drugs and pays for it - Mexico grows the drugs and then the US expects Mexico to fight a bloody war not to grow and supply drugs. 

 

Of course, keeping your workers drugged (i.e. the pink leaf) makes it so they can't really fight back. The truth about zombies is less "Walking Dead" and more "MacDonald's worker." And I don't mean James Franco. 

 

Ripe for revolt? And Italian, too. Fascisti! Via here.

 

Occasionally workers get pissed off and revolt. One of my favorite unions is the IWW. 

 

If only the Dramatists Guild  was that tough. By the way, after my play's reading in December 2015, our local Guild rep stopped talking to me. Good times, right? 

 

I'm noticing this post isn't full of glamorous photos or sexy videos. All the sexiness is in the play, which you can read here: Chew the Pink Leaf

 

Thanks again for reading. Will have something better next week. 

 

BRYAN STUBBLES is a playwright and sometime screenwriter as well as Crazytown's most eligible bachelor. His ten minute     masterpiece Trump vs Kahlo available here. His one-act play The Wicked Life of Patience Boston had a reading in West Virginia in December as well. The Noose had a performance at the Great Salt Lake Fringe in the summer. 

Brine Shrimp Gangsters will be published later this year by Smith & Kraus. 

Please watch a short film he cowrote: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3irqcOG3Og

BRYAN STUBBLES www.newplayexchange.org/users/3855/bryan-stubbles
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