PLAYS

 
 


Museum Piece

A Play in One Act by William Fowkes


Presented at the New Works Festival, North Canton Playhouse, North Canton, OH, May 2011


Presented at the Downtown Urban Theater Festival at the Theater for the New City, New York, 8PM, April 2010.



Available for production and publication


 

A Play in One Act


SYNOPSIS:

A disruptive incident at the Museum of Modern Art brings three strangers together one Saturday afternoon. In this comedic tale, our three visitors are drawn to the museum for very different reasons and have oddly different experiences once they get there, leading to the unavoidable conclusion that the people who go to museums are often more compelling than the works on display.



SETTING: A bare stage.   



TIME: Now—a Saturday afternoon.



CHARACTERS:

#1: Brash, opinionated, tough, plainspoken.


#2: Well-educated, well-traveled, idealistic, sensitive.


#3: Self-involved, hypochondriac, fearful.


These three characters may be played by adults of either sex and of any age, race, ethnicity or physical type—and in any combination.

  

    A review of Museum Piece:


   “…the evening’s longest (35 minutes) and surely most riveting entry. … The three- 

     man-monologue is a gem of clever drama interwoven with biting comedy. Each

     delivers his take on visiting the Museum of Modern Art with increasing intensity until

     they literally and heatedly cross words and paths while gazing at a confounding

     contemporary installation.”


                                    Tom Wachunas, Artwach, North Canton, Ohio.

                                    (Review of From Script To You New Works Festival, North Canton

                                     Playhouse, May 2011)