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The Commuters by Robert Castle
Two men get off the bus after work and walk toward their homes. Mel tries to make conversation with Gerard. They seem to have only a relationship based on their coming and going to work. Seemingly innocuous topics come up. Ultimately, Mel wants to find out some information from his fellow commuter and, finally, asks what happened to Gerard's dog. Mel is going to get the information, more than he wants to hear, more than his wife, who had urged him to ask, wanted to know. The play was published in issue #49 of zygote in my coffee: (www.zygoteinmycoffee.com/issue49thecommuters.html [More about The Commuters]
Author Bio
Robert Castle teaches American History, Film Criticism, and Sociology
at a small academy outside Trenton, NJ. He studied English and got a
degree in the Writing Program at Penn State in the early seventies. After
attending Columbia University School of the Arts for a brief time, he traveled
around Europe and lived on and off in Florence, Italy. For fifteen years he
lived off his earnings as a cook at a New Jersey seaside town before finally
giving up and getting a full-time job, teaching being the least objectionable
profession to pursue. He is married and has no children.
Bob has regularly published articles for Bright Lights Film Journal since 2000,
writing about Stanley Kubrick, the Coen Brothers, James Bond, Fellini, Roger
Rabbit, Orson Welles, Disturbing Movies, and GoodFellas. Other of his film essays
have appeared in Film Comment (on Full Metal Jacket), The Film Journal (Sam
Peckinpah), The Journal of Religion and Film (Eyes Wide Shut), Talking Pictures,
24 Frames Per Second (Paths of Glory), Cinetext (Being There & The King of Comedy),
and Metaphilm (Stone's JFK). He has other regular gigs at Unlikely Stories for the
Internet version of the Sardine and at The Circle Magazine with a quarterly column
called "Half-Baked Ideas." He has also written two essays about teaching History for
Archipelago, has several articles about his travels in Europe at The Paumanok Review,
and has three literary pieces (on Cortazar, Queneau, Gombrowicz, Perec, Flann O'Brien,
Stoppard, and other of his literary gods) at elimae. His fiction can be found at many places
online: Fiction Funhouse, Fiction Warehouse, Wilmington Blues, 3 AM, 5_trope, The
Sidewalk's End, Octavo, Double Dare Press, Arbutus, Eclectica, Facets, Skive magazine,
and Sedona's Attic. His pre-Internet publications included literary magazines like The Sun,
Gadfly, Timber Creek Review, Curriculum Vitae, The MacGuffin, The Monocacy Valley
Review, The Iconoclast, and A Summer's Reading.
He will publish two books later in 2005: A Sardine on Vacation, Fiction (Spuyten Duyvil), and The End of Travel, creative nonfiction (Triple Press). [More about Robert Castle]
10-Minute Festivals - A Producers View By Robert Mattson
Having just slogged through 76 10-minute plays and selected 18 for this years festival I thought it would be beneficial to let those of you out there in on what goes through the producer's/reader's mind when they are receiving and reading your scripts.
Read the submission guidelines
I got a lot of submissions from people who either didn't read or didn't think the submission guidelines were important. When a festival asks for two copies of a script and you send one, they have every right to ignore your submission. I didn't, but I was very tempted. It shows a lack of respect for the organization that will hopefully be putting on your work. Also, when the guidelines stipulate that there are only certain set pieces allowed, don't send a script that needs a grand piano, 1/8 scale statue of George Washington or cream cheese covered replica of Bo Didley.
Send a cover letter
Whether you are sending by email or snail mail just your script is not enough, [MORE]
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