“There’s a woman meditating in the bread aisle.” Alicia Banaszewski is a freelance writer located in the Twin Cities. She writes about restaurants for Eater, book reviews for Drizzle Review, and has a piece about why everyone that hates French dressing is wrong forthcoming in the Midwesterner. Her debut poetry […]
Troupe 98 | Paige Zubel
hi hello my name is sarah yes there are three other girls in my troupe named sarah yes I hate it yes I know hate is a very strong word would you like to buy troupe 98 candy from me so I can win the big blue excaliber mountain bike would you like to buy something?
from Nimbusclud | Cara Scarmack
Onstage: Two porthole windows suspended in space.
Also, at least one wall (if not all of the walls) is completely covered by dark fabric that stretches from floor to ceiling.
The fabric flutters and ripples every now and again.
Playday | Joanna Glum
The Woman’s up in the treehouse, The Stranger can’t go back to work until he makes sure The Girl is alright, and The Girl just wants to bury her brain. She’s great at playing, she knows, but she’d be better if her brain didn’t make her say things.
from Hurricane Diane | Madeleine George
Hurricane Diane will be performed at the New York Theater Workshop from February 6-March 10, 2019. Tickets are available for purchase here. __________ Lights. With a great wind, the god appears. DIANE I have returned, and it begins. DIANE is a butch charm factory, with that combination of swagger and […]
September Mourning | Paul K. Smith
SEPTEMBER MOURNING A Ten-minute, One-Act Ceremony in 3 scenes for 4 actors in a performance space: 1. “Arrival” 2. “Boy Meets Girl” 3. “A Day of Promise” First presented as “A Day of Promise in New York” at Players Theater, NYC, June 21-24, 2018. Produced with the same cast at […]
Celebrity | E. Y. Smith
E. Y. Smith’s work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and Thoughtful Dog and is forthcoming in The East Bay Review. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.bkreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/CELEBRITY.pdf”]
Ursus: a tavern play in verse | Jason Brown
Jason Brown is a playwright and writer from Ireland. Since graduating from the DIT Conservatory of Music & Drama in Dublin with a Degree in Drama (Performance) a decade ago, he has been writing for the stage and publishing much of his poetry and short fiction here. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.bkreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/URSUS_a_tavern_play_in_verse-1.pdf” title=”URSUS_a_tavern_play_in_verse”]
Lovely Madness | Ariella Carmell
Ariella Carmell is a third-year student and writer at the University of Chicago. She has had prose and poetry published in Maudlin House, Spry, Words Dance, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Souvenir, Cleaver Magazine, Burningword, Alexandria Quarterly, and other places. In the past, she has also been named a 2014 Foyle […]
Legendary Wolves; In Memory Of Peter Stumpp’s Daughter (Redux) | Emma Johnson-Rivard
Emma Johnson-Rivard is a Masters student at Hamline University. She received her undergraduate degree in Film Studies at Smith College in Massachusetts and currently lives in Minnesota with her dogs and far too many books. Her work has appeared in Mistake House, Moon City Review, and the Santa Ana River […]
Oh, wondrous day! | Rachel Joseph
Rachel Joseph’s short stories and plays are published in journals ranging from North American Review to Kenyon Review Online. Her novella “The Man in the Trees” was a shortlisted finalist for the William Faulkner-William Wisdom competition. Additionally, she was a finalist for the 2017 Arts & Letters Drama Prize, a […]
Transformation Perfection | Mark Burrow
Mark Burrow is a writer from the UK. His work has appeared in various publications in England, Ireland, the US, and in the French Riviera-based Côte Poets magazines. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.bkreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Transformation-Perfection-M-L-Burrow-November-2017-edit.pdf” title=”Transformation Perfection M L Burrow November 2017 edit”]
L.A. Play | Singer Joy
Singer Joy is a playwright and composer who splits her time between New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Singer has produced her own written work for the stage independently and the Sacred Circle Theater Company. Singer has also written music for stage productions. L.A. Play is a movement-and-poetry piece inspired […]
Treatise on Morality | Sharon Wildin
Sharon Willdin is a writer based in Sydney, Australia. You can find more of her work here. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.bkreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Treatise-on-Morality-1.pdf” title=”Treatise on Morality”]
The Tower | Adam Scott Mazer
The Psychedelic Tragedy of the Donner Party CHAPTER III Winter The Five of Coins (Gale-force winds blow, swallowing sound and blasting snow across rock. Everything is an endless field of white.) (From the whiteness emerge a few dark shapes. They yell at each other.) Stanton: I CAN’T […]
Your Day | Dave Malloy
From Preludes, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff. Dave Malloy is a composer/writer/performer/sound designer. He has written eleven musicals, including Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on War & Peace headed to Broadway this fall. Other shows include Ghost […]
The Unfinished Eye | Stephen Kaplin
The Unfinished Eye Written and designed by STEPHEN KAPLIN, Based on artwork and texts by EVE KAPLIN. First performed at Arts at St. Ann’s, Brooklyn, 1998. Direction and Puppet Design: STEPHEN KAPLIN Lighting, Sets and Sound: BILL BRADFORD Costumes: JANE CATHERINE SHAW Stage consists of two screens. Large Rear Projection […]
From the Archives: “Phaethon Apparatus” | Mac Wellman
MAC WELLMAN’s recent work includes 3 2’s; or AFAR at Dixon Place in October 2011, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (with composer David Lang) at Montclair in the fall of 2006 (and elsewhere more recently), and 1965 UU for performer Paul Lazar, and directed by Stephen Mellor at the […]
Buckshot: A Rashomon | Brian Bauman
CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE) KATHY ACKER THE BENGAL TIGER QUEENY NEWSCASTER ROGER THE CAMERAMAN JOE, ROGER’S BROTHER, AN ACTOR, AN APE, A TOTAL FUCK-UP AUTISTIC MOMMY COMMUNITY COLLEGE PROFESSOR TERRY THOMPSON, OWNER/PROPRIETOR, ZANESVILLE WILDLIFE EXPERIENCE DEAD LLAMA AUTISTIC SONNY KATHY ACKER THE BENGAL TIGER “I’M GONNA DIE. Coming […]