NEWS 2020
MISS PEDDY & GRACE
Published & Licensed by Smith Scripts in the UK
Posted December 2020
MISS PEDDY & GRACE, a one-act play by William Ivor Fowkes, has been published and licensed by Smith Scripts in the United Kingdom.
SYNOPSIS: Caroline Peddy, an experienced and dedicated caretaker of elderly loved ones, may soon be available for hire, but her current charge, octogenarian Grace Butler, sees her in a different light and has a different scenario in mind.
A Livestream Production of
SISYPHUS & ICARUS: A LOVE STORY
Updated February 2021
SISYPHUS & ICARUS: A LOVE STORY, a one-act play by William Ivor Fowkes, was presented in a livestream production on Zoom on December 15, 2020 in week 4 of Third Citizen Theatre Company's Digital Dionysia Festival.
SYNOPSIS: Earthbound Sisyphus and flight-obsessed Icarus meet and fall in love. Two years later, they find themselves in couples therapy.
Livestream Reading of
A MISUNDERSTANDING AT SUNSHINE QUEST
Posted November 2020
A MISUNDERSTANDING AT SUNSHINE QUEST, a 10-minute play by William Ivor Fowkes, is being presented in a livestream reading by Love Creek Productions in December (date TBA). This play is adapted from an excerpt from his full-length play, SUNSHINE QUEST, which premiered at the Fresh Fruit Festival in NYC in 2014.
SYNOPSIS: It's New Year's Eve 1999. Retired gay men flock to the Sunshine Quest Club in Fort Lauderdale to welcome in the new millennium. But in the midst of all the celebrating, one attempted flirtation goes awry.
VIRTUAL FIRST DATE
Presented in Livestream Productions
Posted November 2020
VIRTUAL FIRST DATE, a 10-minute Zoom play by William Ivor Fowkes, is receiving multiple livestream productions this fall. SYNOPSIS: A couple who meet online during the Covid Crisis attempt a first date on FaceTime.
(1) VIRTUAL FIRST DATE is being presented by Anytime Players Ensemble at Shut in But Not Shut Down, their benefit for the Actors Fund, November 11-15, 2020.
(2) Fargo/Moorhead Community Theater, ND, is presenting VIRTUAL FIRST DATE in its Virtual 10-Minute Play Festival. A video of the play was released November 13, 2020.
(3) VIRTUAL FIRST DATE was named one of the 5 winners of This Covid Life, a competition launched during lockdown by four WGGB (Writers' Guild of Great Britain) members, including the founders of writers' collective SCRIPT6. This play is scheduled to be posted along with the other winners February 2, 2021.
TWO AMERICANS IN LONDON
Published by The Galway Review in Ireland.
Posted November 2020
TWO AMERICANS IN LONDON, a 10-minute play by William Ivor Fowkes, has been published by The Galway Review in Ireland. This play is an excerpt from the full-length play, THE HUDSON GUIDE TO TABLE MANNERS by William Ivor Fowkes.
SYNOPSIS: Two men who share a past run into each other in the bar of a London hotel.
Live YouTube Reading of AN UBER IN THE RAIN
Posted October 2020
Turn Point Theatre, UK, presented AN UBER IN THE RAIN, a short play by William Ivor Fowkes, at Tickle & Scratch, a weekly play reading event, at 2:30 PM EDT, Thursday, October 8, 2020.
SYNOPSIS: A man and a woman, both recently divorced from each other's best friend, run into each other in the rain.
BILL OF HEALTH to Be Published
Posted October 2020
How far should you take the Hippocratic Oath? In BILL OF HEALTH, a 10-minute play by William Ivor Fowkes, a gay patient and his doctor confront a series of crises. BILL OF HEALTH will soon be published by Iris Literary Journal of Assure Press (date TBA).
Live Zoom Reading of TELLING THE BOYS
Posted October 2020
Some1Speaking, a monthly "exploration of the at of the monologue" presented by Roland Tec, presented 5 monologues, including TELLING THE BOYS by William Ivor Fowkes (and performed by William Ivor Fowkes), at 6PM ET, Monday, October 5, 2020. Some1Speaking is a continuation and extension of the "Me & My Masks" Monologue and Fest that was produced recently by PinkPlot Productions. TELLING THE BOYS is an excerpt from the full-length play, MARRIAGES OF INCONVENIENCE, by William Ivor Fowkes.
STUCK IN PLACE Presented in a Reading
Posted September 2020
Theatre in My Pajamas presented an online reading of STUCK IN PLACE, a one-act play by William Ivor Fowkes, at 9PM EDT, Thursday, September 10, 2020.
SYNOPSIS: An anxious playwright refuses to focus on his imminent move as he works away on a play whose ending he can't figure out.
A Zoom Reading of
INCIDENT IN CONFERENCE ROOM B
Posted June 2020
Is this any way to find congressional candidates?
INCIDENT IN CONFERENCE ROOM B, a new full-length play by William Ivor Fowkes, was presented in a live Zoom reading on June 15, 2020 by IATI Theater in New York City. INCIDENT IN CONFERENCE ROOM B was one of 10 plays developed at IATI Theater's Cimientos 2020 Play Development Program and presented in readings in June.
SYNOPSIS: Trapped in a conference room, three potential congressional candidates compete to prove their suitability for the Party's nomination. As their claustrophobia and discomfort intensify, tempers flare, and the attacks become more personal until only one resolution is possible.
INCIDENT IN CONFERENCE ROOM B takes place at the intersection of politics, religion, and the desire for power and influence. It was inspired by David Hume's classic philosophical work, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.
MISS PEDDY & GRACE
Presented at Atlanta Audio Fringe Festival
Posted May 2020
Radio Theatre Project of St. Petersburg, FL, who presented the one-act dark comedy radio play, MISS PEDDY & GRACE by William Ivor Fowkes, last October, is presenting it at the 8th Annual Atlanta Audio Fringe Festival as of Friday, May 15, 2020. Last summer (August 2019), the stage version of this play was produced at Silver Spring Stage, Silver Spring, MD. The world premiere production was presented at Gallery Players, Brooklyn, June 2015.
SYNOPSIS: Caroline Peddy--an experienced and dedicated caretaker of elderly loved ones--may soon be available for hire. Then again, her current charge, octogenarian Grace Butler, sees her in a different light and has a different scenario in mind.
LISTEN HERE NOW (Scroll down to the first play under "General Audience")
NOT HERE YET Published
Posted May 2020
NOT HERE YET, a one-act play by William Ivor Fowkes, was published in the May 6, 2020 issue of FLEAS ON THE DOG, an online journal. ("We're a no frills, brown bag lit rag with only one focus: GOOD WRITING.") NOT HERE YET was first produced by Love Creek Productions in New York in 2012. It has been recorded and presented by two radio companies: Radio Theatre Project of St. Petersburg, FL (2017) and Petaluma Radio Players of Petaluma, CA (2019). In 2018, Radio Theatre Project presented NOT HERE YET at the Atlanta Audio Fringe Festival.
SYNOPSIS: Two women fight for survival on the streets of midtown Manhattan.
An Online Reading of
DO NOT GO GENTLE, ANGELA
Posted May 2020
DO NOT GO GENTLE, ANGELA, a 10-Minute Play By William Ivor Fowkes, was presented in an online Zoom reading in Round 1 of" Sip and Play" by Love City Arts, NYC.
SYNOPSIS: Angela suffers from dementia. Her nurse assumes nothing is going on behind that silent face. Angela knows better.
NEWS 2019
STUCK IN PLACE Long-Listed
Posted December 2019
STUCK IN PLACE, a 10-minute play by William Ivor Fowkes, was LONG-LISTED (i.e., top 50 out of hundreds) for Cast Iron Theatre's & New Venture Theatre's Short Play Night in the U.K. This play was written for Tina Howe's Master Class at the Dramatists Guild Institute.
SYNOPSIS: A playwright refuses to focus on his imminent move as he works away on a play whose ending he can't figure out.
MARRIAGES OF INCONVENIENCE Named Finalist
Posted November 2019
MARRIAGES OF INCONVENIENCE, a full-length play by William Ivor Fowkes, was named FINALIST (one of 20 out of over 360 submissions) in Normal Avenue's Playwriting Series (NAP) in New York. This play is based on his unpublished novel of the same name, two excerpts from which were published in literary journals. The play was developed in part at the Turtle Shell Productions Playwrights' Platform and at the Pulse Ensemble Theatre Playwrights' Lab, both in New York City.
SYNOPSIS: Graham Walker and Dan Carlsen, two best friends and lovers since college, struggle with their desire to be together in a world where marriage to women is the unquestioned norm, and the AIDS epidemic makes living out of the closet a frightening option. Their solution is to marry women, start families, and live as next-door neighbors while continuing their relationship in private. This strategy works surprisingly well--until it doesn't. MARRIAGES OF INCONVENIENCE is set against the backdrop of 30 years of sweeping social change.
A Staged Reading Announced for
INCIDENT IN CONFERENCE ROOM B
Posted November 2019
Incident in Conference Room B, a full-length play by William Ivor Fowkes, will be presented by IATI Theater in a staged reading in New York City in April 2020. Incident in Conference Room B is one of 10 plays that have been accepted into IATI Theater's Cimientos Play Development Program.
SYNOPSIS: Trapped in a conference room, three potential congressional candidates compete to prove their suitability for the Party's nomination as they argue about the existence, nature, and relevance of God in a debate inspired by David Hume's classic philosophical text, Dialogues Concerning Natural religion. As their claustrophobia and discomfort intensify, tempers flare, and the attacks become more personal until only one resolution is possible.
Recording and Podcast of
MISS PEDDY & GRACE
Posted October 2019
Radio Theatre Project of St. Petersburg, FL presented a live recording of MISS PEDDY & GRACE, a Radio Play by William Ivor Fowkes, at 7PM, Monday, October 28, 2019 at The Studio @620 in St. Petersburg, FL. After the recording, the play was posted as a podcast.
SYNOPSIS: Caroline Peddy--an experienced and dedicated caretaker of elderly loved ones--may soon be available for hire. Then again, her current charge, octogenarian Grace Butler, sees her in a different light and has a different scenario in mind.
DO NOT GO GENTLE, ANGELA
Presented in a Reading
Posted September 2019
DO NOT GO GENTLE, ANGELA, a 10-minute play by William Ivor Fowkes, based loosely on his mother, with appearances by Tennessee Williams, Woody Allen, and others, was presented in a cold reading on September 16, 2019, 7:30 PM, at PIZZA & PLAYS, a monthly evening of 10-minute plays--and pizza--at Lucky Jack's Bar & Lounge, 129 Orchard Street, on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
SYNOPSIS: Angela suffers from dementia. Her nurse assumes nothing is going on behind that silent face. Angela knows better.
MISS PEDDY & GRACE
Produced
Updated August 2019
MISS PEDDY & GRACE, a one-act play by
William Ivor Fowkes, was produced at the annual One-Act Festival at SILVER SPRING STAGE in Silver Spring, MD in August. This play was first produced in June 2015 at Gallery Players in Brooklyn, NY and then in July 2015 at Pend Oreille Players in Newport, WA.
SYNOPSIS: Caroline Peddy--an experienced and dedicated caretaker of elderly loved ones--may soon be available for hire. Then again, her current charge, octogenarian Grace Butler, sees her in a different light and has a different scenario in mind.
SISYPHUS & ICARUS: A LOVE STORY
at the LaBute New Theater Festival
Posted July 2019
SISYPHUS & ICARUS: A LOVE STORY, a one-act play by William Ivor Fowkes, had its world premiere at St. Louis Actors' Studio's LaBute New Theater Festival at the Gaslight Theater in St. Louis, MO, July 19-28, 2019.
SYNOPSIS: Earthbound Sisyphus and flight-obsessed Icarus meet and fall in love. Two years later, they find themselves in couples therapy.
THE WARD Published
Posted April 2019
THE WARD, a 10-minute play by William Ivor Fowkes, was published in the 2019 issue of Statement Magazine, the literary journal of California State University, Los Angeles. The launch reception took place on April 29 in the Golden Eagle Ballroom.
SYNOPSIS: Shortly before the presidential election of 2016, two stroke victims wake up and learn the latest news about the campaigns.
A Staged Reading of
TABLE MANNERS IN HELL'S KITCHEN
Posted April 2019
The latest "Table Manners" play by William Ivor Fowkes was presented in a staged reading at TAKE TEN 2: AN EVENING OF 10-MINUTE PLAY READINGS BY THE DGPG WRITERS (Dramatists Guild Playwrights Group), directed by GRETCHEN CRYER at The Players Club, NYC, Tuesday, April 9, 2019.
SYNOPSIS OF Table Manners in Hell's Kitchen: Seated at neighboring tables at a Mexican restaurant, two couples--one straight, one gay--have very different things on their mind.
New Podcast Recording of
NOT HERE YET
Posted March 2019
Petaluma Radio Players of Petaluma, CA has just released a new podcast recording of NOT HERE YET, a One-Act Play by William Ivor Fowkes. (This is different from the recording done by the Radio Theatre Project of St. Petersburg, FL in 2017 and presented at the Atlanta Audio Fringe Festival, 2018.)
SYNOPSIS: Two women fight for survival on the streets of midtown Manhattan.
Now Available on
Amazon Prime Video:
THE BRAZILIAN DILEMMA
A Short Movie - Screenplay by William Ivor Fowkes.
Posted February 2019
THE BRAZILIAN DILEMMA started as a 10-minute play by William Ivor Fowkes. It is now a movie--directed by TS Naylor; screenplay by William Ivor Fowkes; produced by Pulkit Datta; starring Robert Z. Grant and Karen Chamberlain. It was an Official Selection at the Adirondack Film Festival in Glens Falls, NY, October 2018.
SYNOPSIS: Peter and Janine have finally said the "L Word" to each other. But what about the third person in their bed?
New Podcast Recording of
NOT HERE YET
Posted March 2019
Petaluma Radio Players of Petaluma, CA has just released a new podcast recording of NOT HERE YET, a One-Act Play by William Ivor Fowkes. (This is different from the recording done by the Radio Theatre Project of St. Petersburg, FL in 2017 and presented at the Atlanta Audio Fringe Festival, 2018.)
SYNOPSIS: Two women fight for survival on the streets of midtown Manhattan.
Now Available on
Amazon Prime Video:
THE BRAZILIAN DILEMMA
A Short Movie - Screenplay by William Ivor Fowkes.
Posted February 2019
THE BRAZILIAN DILEMMA started as a 10-minute play by William Ivor Fowkes. It is now a movie--directed by TS Naylor; screenplay by William Ivor Fowkes; produced by Pulkit Datta; starring Robert Z. Grant and Karen Chamberlain. It was an Official Selection at the Adirondack Film Festival in Glens Falls, NY, October 2018.
SYNOPSIS: Peter and Janine have finally said the "L Word" to each other. But what about the third person in their bed?