Several of David Olsen's plays have received productions and public
readings before paying audiences.
His Irish play, Two Roses, was described as "a superior piece of theatre ...
beautifully rendered" in an equity production in Los Angeles (1992).
An expanded version was commended in a competition sponsored by the
Oxford Playhouse in 2009.
Confessions of an Addict was broadcast as a story by BBC-Oxford radio
in 2005. It received rehearsed readings in the Oxford Playhouse Circle Bar
in 2008 and 2009, and Almost Random Theatre presented this monologue
in the Friends Meeting House and the Port Mahon in Oxford in 2012, and in
The White House, Oxford, in 2016. The play was shortlisted in the 2006
Burton Taylor competition.
Six short plays (Therapy Pen, Mating Dance, Waiting for God Knows What,
Game Without Rules, Destroying George, and Holdings ) received public
presentation to paying audiences by members of the Oxford Actors Network
in the Oxford Playhouse’s quarterly PlayBites series of rehearsed readings.
Oxford Playwrights and members of Oxford Actors Network presented
Shadows and R.I.P., Dusty Rhodes in the Friends Meeting House in Oxford
(2010 and 2011, respectively). The latter was also presented as a rehearsed
reading in the Top Room of the Oxford Playhouse (2015).
One of his black comedies, Shall We Begin Again, received staged readings
in San Francisco in 1987, and in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1989. It placed
second in the quadrennial Olympiad of the Arts play-writing competition
in 1988. The following year the script was selected by The Performer's Studio
for use in its affiliated school for the performing arts. In 1990 another black
comedy, Third Person Singular, received a staged reading in San Francisco
and won third prize in an open script competition at the San Mateo County
Fair. A romantic tragi-comedy, Captives, received a staged reading in San
Francisco in 1987. Wunderbar, Herr Doktor Freud received a rehearsed
reading by Semper Theatre in Sutton Coldfield in 2010.
Two of his plays have been published in anthologies from Oxford Playwrights:
R.I.P., Dusty Rhodes appears in Twelve Short Plays (2012), and Therapy Pen
appears in More Short Plays (2015).
See http://e-voice.org.uk/oxfordplaywrights/profiles/copy-of-profiles-2-2/
readings before paying audiences.
His Irish play, Two Roses, was described as "a superior piece of theatre ...
beautifully rendered" in an equity production in Los Angeles (1992).
An expanded version was commended in a competition sponsored by the
Oxford Playhouse in 2009.
Confessions of an Addict was broadcast as a story by BBC-Oxford radio
in 2005. It received rehearsed readings in the Oxford Playhouse Circle Bar
in 2008 and 2009, and Almost Random Theatre presented this monologue
in the Friends Meeting House and the Port Mahon in Oxford in 2012, and in
The White House, Oxford, in 2016. The play was shortlisted in the 2006
Burton Taylor competition.
Six short plays (Therapy Pen, Mating Dance, Waiting for God Knows What,
Game Without Rules, Destroying George, and Holdings ) received public
presentation to paying audiences by members of the Oxford Actors Network
in the Oxford Playhouse’s quarterly PlayBites series of rehearsed readings.
Oxford Playwrights and members of Oxford Actors Network presented
Shadows and R.I.P., Dusty Rhodes in the Friends Meeting House in Oxford
(2010 and 2011, respectively). The latter was also presented as a rehearsed
reading in the Top Room of the Oxford Playhouse (2015).
One of his black comedies, Shall We Begin Again, received staged readings
in San Francisco in 1987, and in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1989. It placed
second in the quadrennial Olympiad of the Arts play-writing competition
in 1988. The following year the script was selected by The Performer's Studio
for use in its affiliated school for the performing arts. In 1990 another black
comedy, Third Person Singular, received a staged reading in San Francisco
and won third prize in an open script competition at the San Mateo County
Fair. A romantic tragi-comedy, Captives, received a staged reading in San
Francisco in 1987. Wunderbar, Herr Doktor Freud received a rehearsed
reading by Semper Theatre in Sutton Coldfield in 2010.
Two of his plays have been published in anthologies from Oxford Playwrights:
R.I.P., Dusty Rhodes appears in Twelve Short Plays (2012), and Therapy Pen
appears in More Short Plays (2015).
See http://e-voice.org.uk/oxfordplaywrights/profiles/copy-of-profiles-2-2/
