A Conversation with Duncan Pflaster

The Drama Book Shop presents, in association with Jay Michaels Global Communications, “A Conversation with Duncan Pflaster” - A talkback, signing, and live podcast recording.

About the plays:

Fourteen Hundred And Sixty Sketches Of Your Left Hand- When Paul gets invited to New Mexico for the summer for an artist’s retreat with his gay bromantic college buddy Alonso, he discovers that Alonso’s sister Blanca is tasking Paul with keeping Alonso on his Medic*tion for temporal lobe epilepsy, which he doesn’t want to take since he identifies with Van Gogh, who had the same condition. Paul and Blanca begin a clandestine affair as he increasingly offers teases of his body to Alonso as incentive to take his meds. All comes to a head when Blanca’s boyfriend Gabriel returns unexpectedly from the army. Tormented painters, sexual obsession, and crossed boundaries combine for a scorching new play.

Harmony Hall- Set in 1968, the play is a poetic homage to the style of Tennessee Williams. Brother Linus is a monk who has been exiled to a remote monastery on an island, where he has lived alone in quiet contemplation for the past 20 years. Then, during a huge thunderstorm, a young man named Christian washes up on the beach with memory loss, and in giving succor to him, Linus begins to question to what exactly he is truly devoted, and if he has allowed his life to be wasted.

A Touch of Cinema- Dina Kummerspeck, a filmmaker in a small country that isn't America, has been taken by the newly-fascist government and tortured for making supposedly seditious films. Now returned home under house arrest with an electric shackle on her ankle, she and her husband Tomas invite over their actor friends for a party, but unbeknownst to them, it's going to be a secret reading of Dina's new screenplay loosely based on her torture.

About the Author:

Duncan Pflaster is a multi-award-winning New York indie playwright. He is best known for his Beckettian romp The Underpants Godot, which has had regional productions with Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco and Nearly Naked Theatre in Arizona, as well as the New York off-off-Broadway productions. His plays A Touch of Cinema, Harmony Hall, and Fourteen Hundred and Sixty Sketches of Your Left Hand are published by Next Stage Press. He has written around 40 full-length plays and a plethora of one-acts, which have been produced all over. His plays vary widely in genre and style, from science fiction to Shakespearean verse drama. Scorpio Film Releasing produced his two films Strapped for Danger and its sequel Undercover Vice: Strapped for Danger II (available on Amazon, Tubi and GayBingeTV), as well as bringing him on to co-write Code Name: Dynastud and an episode of their series PansyVision, which is now available on YouTube. www.duncanpflaster.com or look him up on New Play Exchange for more.

Author photo by Rex Lott Photography

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