HOUSE BEAUTIFUL
Two-act drama
3 W, 2 M
Victoria, a jaded millennial with no real home of her own, returns to her decaying Long Island town to visit with her grandfather Edwin—and perhaps move in. Victoria arrives to discover that not only has he taken a turn for the worse, her frazzled Aunt Fran is also emptying the family home of its precious heirlooms. Victoria stays and fights back, but the more Edwin’s body fails, the more the mysteries of the universe seem to crack open and rain on the family, introducing a stream of strange happenings and unwelcome visitors. As each family member faces the end of everything they hold dear, they find new definitions of home and family, doing their best to accept that growing older is both the beauty and tragedy of being alive. HOUSE BEAUTIFUL explores family dynamics across generations, leaving the past behind, and celebrating the life that exists in the tiniest of houses and smallest of rooms.
HOUSE BEAUTIFUL was commissioned by Theater J for their 2013 Locally Grown Festival. It received staged readings at Theater J in May 2013 (Locally Grown Festival) and November 2013 (Tea@2 reading series), was presented by Strand Theater at the Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage Festival in September 2013, and was workshopped in July 2014 at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. The play was produced by the theatre department at Wichita State University in February 2017. Winner, Wichita State University Playwriting Contest; Semi-Finalist, O'Neill National Playwrights Conference.
Unpublished. Please go to the New Play Exchange for full script.
3 W, 2 M
Victoria, a jaded millennial with no real home of her own, returns to her decaying Long Island town to visit with her grandfather Edwin—and perhaps move in. Victoria arrives to discover that not only has he taken a turn for the worse, her frazzled Aunt Fran is also emptying the family home of its precious heirlooms. Victoria stays and fights back, but the more Edwin’s body fails, the more the mysteries of the universe seem to crack open and rain on the family, introducing a stream of strange happenings and unwelcome visitors. As each family member faces the end of everything they hold dear, they find new definitions of home and family, doing their best to accept that growing older is both the beauty and tragedy of being alive. HOUSE BEAUTIFUL explores family dynamics across generations, leaving the past behind, and celebrating the life that exists in the tiniest of houses and smallest of rooms.
HOUSE BEAUTIFUL was commissioned by Theater J for their 2013 Locally Grown Festival. It received staged readings at Theater J in May 2013 (Locally Grown Festival) and November 2013 (Tea@2 reading series), was presented by Strand Theater at the Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage Festival in September 2013, and was workshopped in July 2014 at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. The play was produced by the theatre department at Wichita State University in February 2017. Winner, Wichita State University Playwriting Contest; Semi-Finalist, O'Neill National Playwrights Conference.
Unpublished. Please go to the New Play Exchange for full script.