The Plays of Max Sparber: MOD AND MAD

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.

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SYNOPSIS: The audience is invited to see the making of a piece of art involving monochrome paint, a viola that plays one note, and three nude models. A documentarian films it and characters trade off narrating their experience of creating a scandalous painting in 1960s London.

HISTORY: This play has yet to be produced.

COMMENTS: This script is part of Coco Mault's and my Fast, Cheap & Out of Control collection of scripts: Royalty free scripts written quickly in a sort of mania, and intended to be produced anywhere for almost no budget at all. At the moment, we require no royalty or licensing fee for producers who wish to produce this script, and no permission is required; we merely ask that we be informed of the production, and given some sort of physical documentation of the event.

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ADDITIONAL MEDIA: The piece of art in this script is inspired by the creation of "Suaire de Mondo Cane" by the artist Yves Klein. The making of the piece can be seen in the video below, taken from the movie Mondo Cane: