Hooray!
Happy to report Pam Forrest is on board to direct.
THE TAO OF FRUIT. You may have notice how often food is a metaphor. Food and me, we're enablers.
THE TAO OF FRUIT is inspired by a full-length play of mine, NUMBER ONE SON, that placed as a finalist for the L. Arnold Weissberger competition. My first play, really. Received a lot of traction, but then was "upstaged" by Ang Lee's WEDDING BANQUET. It's not quite the same, but Hollywood execs said the market cannot bear TWO Asian American gay male leads. TWO! That's "two" many!
So I moved on. I tried to sell a pilot about three unrelated unconventional couples. In NUMBER ONE SON, Lyndon and his lover KEVIN adopt a girl MIRANDA from China. Lyndon has only a father, CHARLIE -- his mother and sister died in a skiing accident. This relationship, to me, represented the mandatory "Bachelor Society," enforced by immigrations laws. Now we have MODERN FAMILY, so it took a while for me to find my way back to NUMBER ONE SON.
My recent research in how language affects/determines culture, attitudes to say, hey, I've been interested in this for quite a while. I still find this interesting. Therefore, I'm going to take another look at NUMBER ONE SON, and see what I can come up with.
THE TAO OF FRUIT.
You'll laugh. And never look at a piece of fruit quite the same way.
The Judges have turned in their scores, and we're happy to announce the plays chosen for the 4th ALAP/ City of West Hollywood Gay Play Reading Festival!
The short plays, to receive rehearsed readings on Monday, June 18, at 7:30 PM, are:
The Skanky Ho and Her Half-Wit Brother by Dan Berkowitz
Flight by Joe Godfrey
Significant Others by Susan C. Hunter
Coffee and Paul by B. V. Marshall
Date’N’Switch by Felix Racelis
Moon Dancers by Mary Steelsmith
The Tao of Fruit by Lucy Wang
The full-length play, to be read on Saturday, June 23, at 11:00 AM is In the Name of the Son by Brian Raine.
Both programs will be held at the Celebration Theatre, and are free and open to the public. ALAP thanks the City of West Hollywood's Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission and Lesbian and Gay Advisory Board for their generosity in making the Festival possible.
Thanks and congratulations to all the playwrights who submitted to the Festival!
