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THEATER 95: That Day is Coming, Every Day is Coming
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That Day Is Coming, Every Day Is Coming is a short play intended for audio-only formats. Two older gentlemen, longtime gamblers and friends, meet for their regular $100/$200 cribbage match. Over this routine card game, the men, never referred to by name until the play's conclusion, initially discuss benign concerns within their gambling circles but soon begin considering larger issues. The talk turns to notions of time, existence, and purpose until the older of the pair confesses that he has terminal cancer. This admission refocuses the lens of their conversation and uneasily points it squarely upon them. That Day Is Coming, Every Day Is Coming contemplates some weightier philosophical issues through the filter of everyday vernacular. Dennis Gersten directs actors Allan Wasserman, James Calvert and Stephen Gillikin.
Cameron Scott sold his first short story while an undergrad at New York University. He has since created brand campaigns for over 100 Broadway plays and musicals and has recently turned to writing plays of his own. His one-act drama Uphill was an official selection in Legacy Theatre’s Play Reading Festival this past September. It was subsequently produced by Wilmington Drama League where it won Best in Festival and later represented the winning play from Delaware at ESTAFest 2023 (Eastern States Theater Association). Scene Ten from Uphill will be published later this year in The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2023 (Smith & Kraus).
Founded by playwright and filmmaker Bernadette Armstrong, Open-Door Playhouse is a Theater Podcast- like the radio dramas of the 1940s and 1950s. The Playhouse launched on September 15, 2020. At the time, Open-Door Playhouse provided Playwrights, Actors and Directors a creative outlet during the shutdown. Since its inception. Open-Door Playhouse has presented Short and One-Act plays from Playwrights across the country and internationally. In 2021 Open-Door Playhouse received a Communicator Award for Content for the Play Custody and in 2023 the play What’s Prison Like was nominated for a Webby Award in the Crime & Justice Category.
Plays are produced by Bernadette Armstrong, Sound Engineer is David Peters, sound effects are provided by Audio Jungle, and music from Karaoke Version. All plays are recorded at The Oak House Studio in Altadena, CA.
There’s no paywall at the Open-Door Playhouse site, so you could listen to everything for free. Open-Door Playhouse is a 501c3 non-profit organization, and if you would like to support performances of works by new and emerging playwrights, your donation will be gratefully accepted. Your tax-deductible donations help keep our plays on the Podcast Stage. We strive to bring our listeners thoughtful and surprising one-act plays and ten-minute shorts that showcase insightful and new perspectives of the world we share with others. To listen or to donate (or both), go to https://opend...
150 episodes
Manage episode 367012950 series 2955314
That Day Is Coming, Every Day Is Coming is a short play intended for audio-only formats. Two older gentlemen, longtime gamblers and friends, meet for their regular $100/$200 cribbage match. Over this routine card game, the men, never referred to by name until the play's conclusion, initially discuss benign concerns within their gambling circles but soon begin considering larger issues. The talk turns to notions of time, existence, and purpose until the older of the pair confesses that he has terminal cancer. This admission refocuses the lens of their conversation and uneasily points it squarely upon them. That Day Is Coming, Every Day Is Coming contemplates some weightier philosophical issues through the filter of everyday vernacular. Dennis Gersten directs actors Allan Wasserman, James Calvert and Stephen Gillikin.
Cameron Scott sold his first short story while an undergrad at New York University. He has since created brand campaigns for over 100 Broadway plays and musicals and has recently turned to writing plays of his own. His one-act drama Uphill was an official selection in Legacy Theatre’s Play Reading Festival this past September. It was subsequently produced by Wilmington Drama League where it won Best in Festival and later represented the winning play from Delaware at ESTAFest 2023 (Eastern States Theater Association). Scene Ten from Uphill will be published later this year in The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2023 (Smith & Kraus).
Founded by playwright and filmmaker Bernadette Armstrong, Open-Door Playhouse is a Theater Podcast- like the radio dramas of the 1940s and 1950s. The Playhouse launched on September 15, 2020. At the time, Open-Door Playhouse provided Playwrights, Actors and Directors a creative outlet during the shutdown. Since its inception. Open-Door Playhouse has presented Short and One-Act plays from Playwrights across the country and internationally. In 2021 Open-Door Playhouse received a Communicator Award for Content for the Play Custody and in 2023 the play What’s Prison Like was nominated for a Webby Award in the Crime & Justice Category.
Plays are produced by Bernadette Armstrong, Sound Engineer is David Peters, sound effects are provided by Audio Jungle, and music from Karaoke Version. All plays are recorded at The Oak House Studio in Altadena, CA.
There’s no paywall at the Open-Door Playhouse site, so you could listen to everything for free. Open-Door Playhouse is a 501c3 non-profit organization, and if you would like to support performances of works by new and emerging playwrights, your donation will be gratefully accepted. Your tax-deductible donations help keep our plays on the Podcast Stage. We strive to bring our listeners thoughtful and surprising one-act plays and ten-minute shorts that showcase insightful and new perspectives of the world we share with others. To listen or to donate (or both), go to https://opend...
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