Plays | Full-Length | Short |
Plays | Full-Length | Short |
Kate McLeod’s plays have been produced/read at The Lark, Ensemble Studio Theatre, America-in-Play, The Flea, Irish American Writers, and Artist Without Walls.
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BY THE LIGHT
a monologue
Character:
Joe is a man in his 50s. He appears weary and worn, beaten by life, yet inside him there is a light.
FOR THE LOVE OF ME
a monologue play
Characters:
Emilia Walsh, 25, servant and Irish immigrant
Michael Byrne, 27, the stableman
Father Joseph, 50, pastor at St. Mary’s Catholic Parish, Hudson, NY
HOLY MARRIAGEDOTCOM
a short play
Characters:
Mark, mid-thirties, Mittie’s husband, an intense, sensitive guy
Mittie, mid-thirties, Mark’s wife, Indian with a slight accent that is semi-British.
This piece was a finalist in The Secret Theatre's One Act Festival July/August 2022
HOT? UMMMMMM. NOT.
a short play
Characters:
Laura, 31, has big ambitions as an actress. Married to Bob, together they formed the Improbable Improv Troupe with Laura’s best friend from grade school, Diana. Laura thinks she is best suited to the best roles.
Bob is 32. He is a promising actor who has not found his way in theater. He sees himself leading a company devoted to Shakespeare but formed the Improbable Improv Troupe out of desperation. So far, Improbable Improv has received mediocre reviews.
Diana, 30, has just quit grad school where she was working on a masters in classical theatre. In the throes of a divorce, she has moved to Boston and joined Improbable Improv. She’s in love with Bob and possibly has a lisp.
ICE FLOES
OR
DON’T STAY, PLEASE GO, WAIT…
a short play
Characters:
Eunice, a woman of about 40, youthfully bundled-up
Roger, a man in his 50s, also dressed against the elements. He is worn out from living.
ONE MORE STOP
a short play
Characters:
Kate, white, about 38. She is dressed for success and works in corporate.
George, a worker Black, around 50 and clearly at the end of a long day.
Buhddist Monk, Asian
Furies: Three young hip women or transgender person or persons.
Harvey: A elderly man probably in his seventies
TEA TIME
a one act play
Characters:
SIR ROBERT BLATCHENFIRE, lord of the estate. Played by HERBIE ZELDENFICHER, a drunk and a philanderer.
LADY POINTERFIE BLATCHENFIRE, imperious, deaf in one ear and wife of Sir
Robert Blatchenfire. Played by motorcycle aficionado RED CRUTHERS, wife of Herbert Zeldenficher .
CRAMMERFILE, Butler. Played by DANNY FISHER, a slovenly, distracted, B actor, who then went to culinary school and flunked out, but considers himself a culinary visionnaire.
LIDIA RITTENHOUSE, Guest. Played by DEENA DALMONTE, heiress to the DalMonte fortune and classy-ish slut.
CAROLINE, Daughter of Sir Robert and Lady Pointerfie Blatchenfire. Played by LULU SNOW, mistress of Harry Bledsot and less classy slut.
HARRY BLEDSOT, Director, Tea Time, lover of Lulu Snow.
THE AMUSE BOUCHÉES
a ten minute comedy
Characters:
Frank, 40, an anglophile and oenophile who calls himself a gourmand.
Gordon, 40, his friend since childhood.
Ernesto, a waiter, who’s really an actor
THE END OF THE WORLD IN TWO ACTS
a short monologue play
David packs for the apocalypse. Kate wants to return a dress she bought yesterday but she can’t find the mall.
DAD’S ARRIVAL
a full-length play
RON WILLIAMS Handsome, black. He is a UPS driver who has written a novel.
DAD Duncan MacDonald seventy something. Helen’s father. A charmer. A steam roller. Spiffy dresser. He has a kind of tick laughter.
HELEN MACDONALD Dad’s daughter A loner in New York, tall with an air of distress and confusion about her. Easily intimidated, especially by her father. She wants to be a writer. She and Ron are friends.
GRACE MACDONALD Helen’s mother. Tough, loving and dying.
DARWIN DAY
a full-length play
Characters:
Beth, , 15, Sophie’s very best friend
Sophie, 15, Beth’s complete soul mate,
Teresa, , 40s, Beth’s single mother, now living with David
David, 55, a minister, living with Teresa and raising Beth
Rachel, , 40s, Sophie’s mother, a widow
STEPS
a full-length play
Mike O’Farrell--Brooklyn boy, very smart and well read. He is alone.
Beaver van Allen--an artist and family man.
Sam Atkins--an artist. Separated from Rosemary.
Roger Rousseau--a complicated, religious man
Kateri Tekakwitha--a seventeenth-century Mohawk, now the only Blessed (awaiting sainthood) who is Native American; patron of alcoholics.
Bartender
Rosemary--Sam’s Wife. Tall with a handsome, strong beauty. Quiet and powerful.
Flanagan--a sixty something Irishman