A collection of autobiographical monologues, all of them lies; the monologues average about 10-minutes in length. Currently, no licensing or royalty fee is required for production of these scripts; neither must you get permission to perform them. The author merely requests documentation of the performance, which can take the form of a program, photographs, a poster, a videotape, or whatever other form can be digitally transmitted. The monologues can be performed independently or as a collection. Check back, as more monologues will be added when the mood strikes the playwright.
THE MONOLOGUES:
MIRACLE STORIES: Four tales of Bunny Sparber's great grandfather, one of the founders of hasidic Judaism, as remembered from his childhood, when they were told by his drunken mother. (DOWNLOAD)
TWEE: An illustrated monologue from Bunny Sparber's childhood, the last period in history when twee children were cherished and treated as gifted, when, in fact, they were just weirdos. (DOWNLOAD)
I WILL EAT EVERY ONE OF YOU: After a disastrous airplane crash in the Andes, Bunny Sparber turns to human flesh to survive; returning to his teaching post at Yale, he discovers some habits die hard. (DOWNLOAD)
STABRINA: The police search for a murderous drag queen, and suspect Bunny Sparber might be her. (DOWNLOAD)
THE PLAYWRIGHT BUNNY SPARBER, MOMENTS BEFORE HIS OWN DEATH: The end came, as everyone though it would, but not as predicted; the only survivors were people involved in musical theater, holed up in the Guthrie Theater, and ill-equipped to survive. (DOWNLOAD)
THE WIND: A massive gust of wind pushes Bunny Sparber above the city of Minneapolis; he is not alone there. (DOWNLOAD)
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, 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
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
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.
