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TOMMCCORMACKPLAYS.COM On this site are three playscripts. Here's why I'm making them available online. My first play, ENDPAPERS, ran for five months in New York with the largest total audience of any Off-Broadway play that year. It's now published by The Dramatists Play Service and excerpted in various "Best Stage Scenes" and monologue anthologies. I worked at these three new scripts on and off over the five years since then. If the agent and the producer I had during ENDPAPERS were still living I'd now hand the scripts to them. But they're not, and I admit I shy away from starting again at square one -- networking, making contacts, trying one-by-one to captivate a new agent, producer, or company. So I post the scripts online, where they may be called to the attention of someone in theater who'll see possibilities. An intriguing mystery of creating is that the creators -- who might be excellent judges of other people's offspring -- are seldom reliable at judging their own. So I'm suspect when I say the "someone" may be an actor drawn to a bravura role. Certainly as I wrote I watched several characters seize the moment in a way I thought a great actor might mold into something memorable. One is an articulate, sensual woman in her late forties who translates European Nobel Prize novelists; another, a rugged, ultra-brilliant guy in his late twenties. There's an intimidating, world-renowned professor between fifty and sixty, and two (or three) gifted, tormented women not long out of college. Or the "someone" may be a producer, director, or agent with a fondness for plays of a sort that these years usually originate on London's stages before coming to America's. Trying to sell myself with such lines is harmful to my teeth, plus it suggests a consistent surety I don't feel, so I'll stop here. It's futile anyway: If it's ever true that something must "speak for itself", it applies to scripts. Besides, if hereafter there are productions, the script may be the same but they'll all be different "plays", and each will speak in its own way. Tom McCormack |