/p> The Plays of Max Sparber: OLD PLAYS

FAST, CHEAP & OUT OF CONTROL

A lunatic series of short plays designed to be produced on microbudgets; all of these plays are currently being offered without licensing fee -- go ahead and just do them!

Minstrel Show by Max Sparber

MINSTREL SHOW, OR THE LYNCHING OF WILLIAM BROWN

Two itinerant African-American blackface performers retell the harrowing tale of the murder of an African-American man in Omaha, Nebraska in 1919.


"Mr. Sparber has taken a shameful, little-noted event in American history and fashioned a raw, gripping work."-- The New York Times

Minstrel Show by Max Sparber

MAD ABOUT THE BOY!

A lip-synced musical created from a series of gay themed novelty records from the Sixties, telling a story of love before Stonewall.


"A hilarious and biting sendup of the time before the gay rights movement." -- Omaha World-Herald

Mad About the Boy

CHELSEA (FROM A TO B AND BACK AGAIN)

Two years in the life of an artist inspired by Andy Warhol, telling of his art, his self-invention, and the making of a disastrous movie.

Chelsea by Max Sparber

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OLD PLAYS

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Original plays by Max Sparber, written before January, 2010, available for download in PDF form, with additional media.

THE SUBSTITUTE BRIDE: Max Sparber revisits Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, telling a story of Alice on her 16th birthday, and the puzzle-like dreamland she finds herself in.

KISHINEV: Max Sparber tells of a Hasidic woman who leads her community at the time of one of the 20th century's first mass uprisings against the Jews.

MINSTREL SHOW, OR THE LYNCHING OF WILLIAM BROWN: Max Sparber tells the true story of the murder of a black man in Omaha in 1919 through the eyes of two blackface itinerant African American performers.

BOYELROY: Max Sparber writes a series of monologues satirizing television cartoon characters.

CRUELTIES: Inspired by the life of Truman Capote, Max Sparber tells a story, in reverse chronological order, of the artistic and personal collapse of a writer after his authorship of a book based on a horrific crime.

CHELSEA (FROM A TO B AND BACK AGAIN): Max Sparber creates a fiction inspired by the life of Andy Warhol, telling of two periods in the life of an artist, and his disastrous attempt to make a short film.

THE OLDER GENTLEMAN: Max Sparber writes a coming of age story of a young man in rural Nebraska in the 1960s, and his relationship with a flamboyantly gay vocal coach.

BUDDY BENTLEY: Max Sparber writes a morbid satire of the Golden Age of Hollywood and the deteriorating relationship of two brothers, one neurotic and addicted to pills, the other a psychotic former child star.

MAD ABOUT THE BOY!: Max Sparber writes a lip-synced Christmas musical based on a series of gay themed novelty records from the Sixties.

TWO GROUPIES: Max Sparber tells the story of the sexual coming of age of two young women in Baltimore in the early Sixties, detailing the series of liaisons they have with British bands as they tour America.