My son and I wrote Shakespeare Rocks for the Bastrop Opera House youth troupe to take to the Texas Non-profit Theater youth festival in Odessa Texas in 2013. It was a huge hit. What was great about the show is it gave small doses of Shakespeare broken up with a modern story about a kid having to write a report
Read moreI have been trying to decide if I really want to share this song or not. It will be part of An Unsafe Place: A Love Story which is a story about a journey out of insanity. This song will be sung towards the beginning of the show at the height of the character’s despair. When I had Matt Torrez record it,
Read moreAn Unsafe Place:A Love Story is a musical in the works. The story and lyrics are written by Will Holcomb and the music by Matt Torrez. The main character, Guy Tucker, is a poet working in a factory. The absurdity of life is driving him crazy. At night, he lays in bed studying his ceiling and starts to see messages in the
Read moreThe Puzzler is a one-act, two person play with minimal set. 1 male, 1 female Run time: 20 – 35 minutes depending on version Blanch, a self-centered woman, has community service hours to perform for a drunk driving conviction and does so at a nursing home. She sees the easiest way of doing this is sitting with Weldon, one of the
Read moreShakespeare Rocks was written to introduce youth to Shakespeare in a fun way. It was first performed by the youth troupe of Bastrop Opera House and performed at TNT Youth Conference in Odessa Texas at The Globe Theater. What made this work especially interesting was the mixing of live performance with video. The story is of a boy who begrudgingly has
Read moreUpcoming Productions – Past Productions – Production Notes Clinically Un-Depressed is a two act dramatic comedy where Cole Black, a boy with a chemical imbalance which renders him unable to be sad or angry, changes everyone around him. The story is told from the perspective of a Vietnam veteran, Millard Anderson, who is the grumpy old man of the neighborhood. His
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