mnartists.org: Matthew Everett

Leave - a one act drama of "don't ask, don't tell" (4M/1F)

Matthew Everett — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:16:41 GMT

Seth is a young Marine serving during wartime. Nicholas is his civilian husband who waits back home. In addition to the strain on their relationship caused by distance and absence, they must hide their love for one another behind code words and secret identities because of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy barring gays and lesbians from serving openly in the United States military. Seth's mother Anne assists them by providing the cover of a woman's handwriting for Nicholas' daily letters, but Nicholas and Seth's resolve is starting to weaken. Jonas, another young gay Marine in Seth's unit just coming to terms with his identity, forms an intense bond with Seth overseas. Tyson, a former Army soldier who got fed up with "don't ask, don't tell" and didn't reenlist, now works alongside Nicholas, providing temptation as well as a reality check. When Seth returns home for an unexpected leave, with Jonas at his side, and post-traumatic stress following him from the battlefield, old relationships are tested, and new ones bloom. In the end, the realities of war call on one man to make the ultimate sacrifice.

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Love's Prick - a modern day riff on Shakespeare's "As You Like It" - (3 women, 6 men)

Matthew Everett — Wed, 23 May 2007 12:28:40 GMT

Love's Prick - June 15, 16, 18, 22, & 23, 2007 at 7:30pm - at the [a href="http://www.c4ia.org/events/show_description.php?show_id=158"]Center for Independent Artists[/a] - A semi-staged workshop production presented in partnership with [a href="http://www.outwardspiral.org/"]Outward Spiral Theatre Company[/a]. [i]"He that sweetest rose will find, must find love's prick and Rosalind."[/i] "Love's Prick" is a modern day riff on the love, gender confusion and other themes of Shakespeare's romantic comedy "As You Like It." Several ages of love and infatuation cross in a coffeehouse known as "The Forest." - a high school girl masquerades as a boy, fielding romantic interests both gay and straight - two college wrestlers and the student editor of the campus literary magazine struggle with a complicated love triangle and a mysterious online poet - a transgender minister finds the possibility of companionship with a local police officer. Directed by Todd Hughes Featuring - Delta Giordano, Grant Henderson, William Leaf, Mark Mattison, Dan O'Neil, Michael Ooms, Nathan Surprenant, Renee Werbowski, Laura Wiebers Audience feedback sessions after each performance Performances at the Center for Independent Artists 4137 Bloomington Avenue South Minneapolis Friday/Saturday June 15, 16, 2007 Monday June 18, 2007 Friday/Saturday June 22, 23, 2007 Times - 7:30 p.m. Tickets $5 General Admission $2.50 for CIA members and Fringe buttons [a href="http://www.c4ia.org/events/show_description.php?show_id=158"]Click here for reservations[/a]

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application: Love's Prick - Excerpt 2 - Gillian and Tarek

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application: Love's Prick - Excerpt 3 - Celia, Orlando and Jacob

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application: Love's Prick - Excerpt 4 - Auggie and Alonzo

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application: Love's Prick - Excerpt 5 - Orlando and Jacob

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application: Love's Prick - Excerpt 7 - Duke, The Duchess and Auggie

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The Bronze Bitch Flies At Noon - a short comic seduction involving money and sex (2 men, plus a security guard walk-on - M or F)

Matthew Everett — Sat, 15 Mar 2003 00:51:24 GMT

Jonathan's parents gave him a hundred dollar bill to go get something he wants as a graduation present. What he wants is to lose his viriginity before he graduates. And he wants to lose it with David, the frat boy he shares a lab station with in chemistry class. On the night before graduation, alone in the chemistry lab, the young men strike a bargain. Following through may be more complicated than either of them imagined.

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The Surface of the World - a drama in two acts - (4 men, 2 women)

Matthew Everett — Sat, 15 Mar 2003 00:39:45 GMT

While sorting through his childhood home after his father's death, Nicholas Draper receives a surprise visit from his lover, Seth Lundy, a Marine stationed overseas. Seth has returned to Terre Haute, Indiana, not only to comfort Nicholas, but to inform him he's thinking of reenlisting. Emma Draper, Nicholas' older sister who left home six years ago in the wake of their mother's death, has also returned to Terre Haute. Now an AIDS widow and herself H.I.V. positive, Emma is trying to find the courage to show up at the front door and mend relations with the brother she left behind - the only family she has left. When these people converge on the Draper home by the Wabash River one autumn evening, no one gets much sleep. The Surface of the World is a play about shifting allegiances - romantic love, familial love, and love of country. A play about the families and homes we grow up in, and the ones we choose. "Oh, that I could shrink the surface of the world So that suddenly I might find you standing at my side." -- Wang Chien

Heaven and Home - a haunted love story in two acts - (4 men, 1 woman)

Matthew Everett — Sat, 15 Mar 2003 00:34:17 GMT

Byron's been dead nearly two years but Cian's still having conversations with him. Cian's brother, Vince, was Byron's best friend in life. Haunted by fading memories of Byron, Vince is angered by the visits his brother is receiving, particularly because Vince was a constant presence at Byron's hospital bed during Byron's last days, while Cian could hardly bring himself to visit twice. As the brothers fight for custody of Byron's ghost, the two people who love them push for Vince and Cian to get on with their lives. Gabby, a bartender and Vince's long-term girlfriend, defends her religious convictions against Vince's feelings that God has betrayed him by allowing Byron to die. At the same time, Andrew, a reformed hustler, courts Cian but is frustrated by Cian's continuing devotion to Byron's memory. Moving fluidly between past and present, HEAVEN AND HOME is about the different kinds of love and friendship, grief and loss. How a sense of humor and a hand to hold are sometimes the only things that can lead you out of a dark place. A story of the afterlife and the life after.

Dandelion Snow - a collection of short plays about romantic confusion, including "Dandelion Snow," "Across Their River," "Extra Cheese," and "Tools."

Matthew Everett — Sat, 15 Mar 2003 00:22:14 GMT

When Dana and Ash, two high school sweethearts now in their thirties, meet again in the ruins of their old elementary school, the undertow of old emotional ties threatens to undo their current relationships with others. Will Dana be able to resolve his conflicts with his lover Julian over the long-distance relationship into which their connection is evolving? Will Ash find love with Aidan the pizza boy? Will Dana and Ash find their way back to each other? Should they? Dandelion Snow needs two men Across Their River needs three men Extra Cheese needs three men and three women Tools needs four men

Studpuppy - a one-act comedy - (4 men, 2 women)

Matthew Everett — Sat, 15 Mar 2003 00:13:53 GMT

sexual, romantic, & spiritual identity, & a guy in a dog suit A tight-knit group of college friends struggle with sexual identity, spiritual yearning, and romantic confusion - and all is somehow made right by Skippy the Wonder Dog, a young man in a dog suit with problems of his own. Harris likes Ralph who likes Isobel who likes Linc who likes Skippy, who he doesn't know is Spencer under that dog suit. Harris is struggling to be true to his fabulous self in a butch gay boy's world. Ralph is trying to get out from under his brother Linc's shadow. Isobel is trying to free herself from her irrational obsession with Linc. Linc is just trying to hold together the pieces of his broken heart in the wake of his first big breakup. Diana is struggling to come out to Isobel, which is complicated by the fact that Diana has bonded with Isobel over their common religion, but also likes Isobel as more than a friend. And Spencer would like to be more than just the guy in the dog suit at the mall for Linc, but can't reveal himself to him while on duty - a job he needs to support himself since his parents kicked him out. Window shopping has just become a contact sport.

The Hopes and Fears of All the Years - a Christmas Musical in two acts - (3 men, 3 women)

Matthew Everett — Sat, 15 Mar 2003 00:08:45 GMT

Six actors portray eighteen characters in four interlocking stories spanning four generations of a family on a day prior to Christmas in 1998, 1971, 1951 and 1921. These holidays hold a mix of love - both requited and unrequited, pregnancy, unemployment, war, divorce, mourning, and distance - both physical and emotional. Equal parts humor and heartache, the script and musical styles jump back and forth in time, until the tree is decorated, the families in their new configurations are united, and new traditions are forged as old ones are reaffirmed. Book and additional lyrics by Matthew A. Everett Music and lyrics by Rob Hartmann