Description:
A bookshelf of short plays, with settings ranging from the breakfast room at a motel to a beach, from the HR office at a major corporation to a dungeon (sorta the same place?), from a cozy kitchen to halfway up a Ferris wheel. Many of the scripts are suitable for ten-minute play festivals.
Theatre folks can whip these scripts up into performances that both they and their audiences will enjoy. The scripts also respond well if you are reading them just for yourself, with the resources of the theatre of your mind.
Brief description: Andrew Wetmore trained as a performer, but concluded relatively early that his skills did not match his enthusiasm in a way that would support a professional acting career. Instead, he has spent decades working with community theatres and regional playwrights. He was the founding chairperson of Dramatists' Co-op, an initiative by the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia to improve the quality and increase the visibility of Nova Scotia-written scripts. For many years he was artistic director of Moveable Feast Theater, which performed in Quebec and Massachusetts. He founded and coordinated MVP (Merrimack Valley Playwrights), where writers in northern Massachusetts could hear their scripts read by trained actors and get constructive feedback on them their writing and acting colleagues. Wetmore was born in Nova Scotia, and has returned to the province after many years 'down the road.' He is the editor for Moose House Publications, and for the infrastructure team of the Apache Software Foundation.