SEPTEMBER 26, 2011: A Red Shuttleworth Chapbook

September 26, 2011

a one poem chapbook

Red Shuttleworth

From a blog entry, from a poem presented on September 26, 2011, a new poem, somewhat of a treatment/scenario for a short film, has recently emerged.  Red Shuttleworth's September 26, 2011 is issued as a limited edition Bunchgrass Press chapbook.

Red Shuttleworth

Dave Kelly, WHAT'S IT LIKE? A Bunchgrass Press Chapbook

What's It Like?

poems

Dave Kelly

Bunchgrass Press is proud to publish a new poetry chapbook by Dave Kelly, What's It Like?

The poems included are:

Imitation

The Buckaroo

The Honda Was Six Years Old

Sudden

What's It Like?

The Adoption

A Reburial

and

The Lake, Early Evening

Dave Kelly, Lake Michigan, 2011

(Photo by Willow Kelly)

What's It Like? is published by Bunchgrass Press in a limited edition.

62 Homers: A Red Shuttleworth Play

62 Homers

a play by

Red Shuttleworth

Red Shuttleworth wrote 62 Homers in 1992... when it seemed remotely possible that a Major League slugger could break Roger Maris' home run record... could slug 62 homers.  The play was written in the innocent time before steroidal juicing became farcically common among professional and college baseball players.  The play was soon to become a culturally pointless anachronism, but at the time....

So... 62 Homers  (cast of two women, one young girl, and four men), set contemporaneously, is about a Colorado Rockies slugger, Pony Rivers, who chases the home run record... and tries to cope with the temptations and hazards of fame.

Red Shuttleworth (Assistant Baseball Coach, Big Bend C.C. Vikings)

and Luke Appling Shuttleworth (BatBoy, BBCC Vikings), March 1993 

62 Homers received a measure of development and its first staged reading at the Utah Shakespearean Festival on August 12, 1993. The reading was directed by Rod Ceballos.  Special thanks to USF's New Plays-in-Progress director, the late Doug Cook, and to the program's former dramaturg, Jerry L. Crawford.

The cast for the USF reading of 62 Homers featured:

              Peter Massey...........................Pony Rivers

              Jennifer Alexander..................Cloudburst Caldwell

              Katie Helms.............................Apaloosa

              Tom Kelley..............................Bubba

              John Oswald............................Charles Butterman

              Larry Bull................................Turk Caldwell

              Erika Rolfsrud.........................Rosemary Rivers

The 62 Homers Team: John Oswald, Erika Rolfsrud, Peter Massey,

Katie Helms, Larry Bull, Rod Ceballos, Jennifer Alexander, and Tom Kelly.

            

Pistolero Rideaway: A Red Shuttleworth Play

Pistolero Rideaway

a play by

Red Shuttleworth

Pistolero Rideaway (cast of three women and six men) is a retelling of the Kaspar Hauser legend.  Kaspar, a sixteen year old boy found in the wilderness, journeys from innocence and the primal to the hazards of modernity.  

Red Shuttleworth's Pistolero Rideaway was developed and received its first reading at Sundance Playwrights Lab in July of 1994.  The reading was directed by Kathleen Dimmick.  Quincy Long worked as dramaturg.  Stephanie Fischer served as stage manager.  The cast, with two actors in double-roles, featured:

            Daniel Jenkins............................Kaspar

            Susan Cash.................................Mango

            Quincy Long..............................Mac & Fr. Longwell

             Ethan Phillips............................Coroner & US Marshal

             Francois Chau...........................Tim

             Susan Watson...........................Alice

             Rob Curtis-Brown.....................Nicholas

             Joanne Takahashi......................Julia

 Daniel Jenkins

Susan Cash

Kathleen Dimmick and Quincy Long

Ethan Phillips

Francois Chau

Susan Watson

Rob Curtis-Brown and Joanne Takahashi

1994 Sundance Playwrights Lab

Sundance Playwrights Lab 1994

an incomplete photo album

The participants (playwrights, directors, actors, dramaturgs, stage managers, resource artists, and administrative staff) at Sundance Playwrights Lab 1994 were:

Mac Wellman, Red Shuttleworth, and Lynne Alvarez

Christine Avila

Carlos Carrasco and Rochelle Newman

Sharon Washington, Susan Cash, Kathy Hiler, and Tyra Ferrell

David Kirk Chambers

Francois Chau

Rob Curtis-Brown

Liz Diamond

Kathleen Dimmick and Quincy Long

Giancarlo Esposito

James Farrell

Stephanie Fisher

Daniel Jenkins

David Kranes

Henry Leyva and Mikael Salazar

Jerry Patch

Ethan Phillips

Lynn Nottage

Peter Sagal

Ona Siporin

Octavio Solis

Adrienne and Linda Stiefel

Joanne Takahashi

Susan Watson

... and Michael Alvarez, Len Berkman, John Cooper, Elizabeth Diggs, Jay Frank, Mary Gail, Jose Cruz Gonzalez, Bill Harley, Drew Scott Harris, Erika Herrmann, Heather Hogan, David Irving, Tom Jones, John-David Keller, Meredith Lavitt, Marcos Loya, Jayne Luke, Alma Martinez, Deena Metzger, Dwight Richard Odie, Marian Partee, Mark Reeves, Joel Rene, Richard Rice, Michael Roth, Harvey Schmidt, Vilma Silva, Michael Silversher, Karen Tenkhoff, Donna Ayako Tsufura, Susana Tubert, and Lois Vossen.

When It Goes Haywire: A Red Shuttleworth Play

When It Goes Haywire

a play by

Red Shuttleworth

Red Shuttleworth wrote When It Goes Haywire (originally entitled What in the World's Come Over You?) when he was Playwright-in-Residence at the Utah Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City, Utah, in the summer of 1999.  The play received its first reading at USF on August 14, 2000.  The reading was directed by Rod Ceballos and featured the following cast: Todd Denning, Heidi Ewart, Annie Wersching, Ross Dippel, John Oswald, and Aaron Serotsky.

Annie Wersching and Ross Dippel

rehearse What in the World's Come Over You?

at the Utah Shakespearean Festival, August 2000

With a new title, When It Goes Haywire, Red Shuttleworth's drama set in modern rural Utah (cast of two women, one girl infant, and four men), received its premiere on April 22, 2004 at the Foothill Theatre Company's historic Nevada Theater in Nevada City, California.  The Artistic Director of the Foothill Theatre Company was Philip Sneed.  The play was directed by Carolyn Howarth.  It featured the following cast:

                  Tim Kniffin..............................Kevin Brooks

                   Alexandra Matthew.................Lora Carver

                   Jennifer Le Blanc.....................Emily Gibbs

                   Gary Alan Wright.....................Zealot Norwood

                   Elwood Carver..........................David Silberman

                   Mick Mize.................................Bert

                   Hazel, three months...................Zoe

Opening Night, When It Goes Haywire, Group Shot:

Mick Mize, Gary Alan Wright,

David Silberman, Red Shuttleworth, Ciara Shuttleworth, Jennifer Le Blanc,

Carolyn Howarth, Tim Kniffin, and Alexandra Matthew

Tim Kniffin, Alexandra Matthew, Red Shuttleworth, and Jennifer Le Blanc

Opening night: Red Shuttleworth, Sands Hall, and Philip Sneed

The script for Red Shuttleworth's When It Goes Haywire is only available to artistic directors (who are seriously interested in fully producing the play) at professional theatres.  Those wishing to receive a copy of the script for When It Goes Haywire should send an email to Red Shuttleworth (redshuttleworth@gmail.com).

                   

Pearl and the Fire Angels: A Red Shuttleworth Play

Pearl and the Fire Angels

a play by

Red Shuttleworth

Red Shuttleworth's Pearl and the Fire Angels was written during the summer of 1999 when he was Playwright-in-Residence at the Utah Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City, Utah.  Many thanks to Fred Adams, the late Doug Cook, Scott Phillips, Jerry L. Crawford, George Judy, and the staff at the festival who provided support and encouragement.  Special thanks go to Ethan Phillips who, on his own, flew to Cedar City, Utah, to provide counsel on Pearl and the Fire Angels and the two other full length plays Red wrote that summer while in-residence at the festival.

Pearl and the Fire Angels (cast of four women and five men) received its first reading at the Utah Shakespearean Festival at on July 31, 1999.  Set in an illegal, expensive brothel in Las Vegas, Pearl and the Fire Angels was feared to be so scandalous, so outrageous in language and action (Rated NC-17), that the reading was not advertised to the general public.  It was read at midnight to a packed bring-your-own-drinks audience from the community of working actors and other theatre practitioners.

The cast for the reading of Pearl and the Fire Angels featured:

              Toni Loppnow............................Pearl Starr

              Jennifer Minter...........................Sarah Jane

              John Oswald...............................Champ

              Laura Tompkins.........................Colleen

              Karen Wegner.............................Ruby

              George Judy................................Senator Gatewood

              Jerry L. Crawford........................Joey-the-Blue

              Matt Ramsey................................Billy Mack

              Paul Hope.....................................Boy

Jennifer Minter, Matt Ramsey, Toni Loppnow, and Jerry L. Crawford

Ethan Phillips, Albert Einstein, and Red Shuttleworth

(Utah Shakespearean Festival, Cedar City, Utah, Summer 1999)

Shaggy-Haired Horses of Winter: A Red Shuttleworth Play

Shaggy-Haired Horses of Winter

a play by

Red Shuttleworth

Red Shuttleworth's Shaggy-Haired Horses of Winter (adapted into a full length play from Shuttleworth's one-act developed and produced at University of Nevada, Las Vegas) premiered at Spirit of the Horse Theatre in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on March 9, 1990.

The opening of Shaggy-Haired Horses of Winter (cast of two women and two men) was directed by Jack Gritzmacher... who was soon fired.  The play closed briefly... then opened again under the direction of Arjo Adams (Artistic Director of Spirit of the Horse Theatre).

Red Shuttleworth's Shaggy-Haired Horses of Winter is a (for mature adults) double love triangle, a tragi-comedy set in a line cabin in Northern Nebraska, near the Niobrara River.  Two women, dear friends, become pitted against each other over two cowboys, to learn a truth or two about love, what it takes to win, courage, bravado, and about coping with ranch life beset by intrusions from the world outside. 

The cast of Shaggy-Haired Horses of Winter featured:

               David Roberts..............................Dingus

               Kay Kropp....................................Zerelda

               Scott Thun.....................................Moss

               Gwen Loeb....................................Lottie

Kay Kropp, Gwen Loeb, and David Roberts

The script for Red Shuttleworth's full-length version of Shaggy-Haired Horses of Winter is only available to artistic directors (who are seriously interested in fully producing the play) at professional theatres.  Those wishing to receive a copy of the script should send an email to Red Shuttleworth (redshuttleworth@gmail.com).

Red Shuttleworth

(Stillwater, Minnesota, February 1990)