All right! As an offshoot of my work at Freehold Theater trying to learn to act Shakespeare, I wrote a one-act play and submitted it to Freehold's Incubator Studio Series, a sort of competition for performance projects that will be presented at the end of March. I just learned my play was accepted. I'm now using whatever persuasive powers I have to convince four actors and a director to do the play.
It's called OFFRAMP. It's about a vet panhandling at a freeway offramp. He is approached by a representative of an organization that wants a cut of his daily take in exchange for marketing support and not beating him up. He declines. He is then approached by his ex-wife, irate and ashamed that her former husband is out there with a cardboard sign; then by a dead army buddy; and finally be an enforcer for the organization, who finds he has much in common with the panhandler. Their conversation moves inexorably to the subject of suicide.
Unfortunately Freehold doesn't have a list of aspiring actors looking for performance opportunities. Too bad, there certainly are actors who would like to be on such a list, me included. I'm reaching out to the better actors in the classes I took. So far I have a director and one actor. Wish me luck
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