Playing It Forward

Playing It Forward is a series of queer plays by E. Robert Dunn. Creating a play comes with challenges. A play engages the senses more than any other mode of writing. Contained herein are five examples of my forays into the creative writing process of dispelling belief.LipSync: Three male friends of varying ages unite to overcome stereotyping, abuse from their male ex-lovers, and economic hardship through regaining their self-concept and power by using - whether they know it or not - the messages and energy of the music they listen too.A Dragged Out Haunting: Five friends discover mirth and mystery on a get-away vacation to the remote island of Bradberry Cay. Unwillingly, they become seaside sleuths as they try to uncover clues into the haunting.VOiCES: Kevin Brodt is plagued at night by a voice haunting him in his dreams following an auto accident. He's seeking answers, feigning off insanity. His psychiatrist attempts to make sense of the voice in Mr. Brodt's head.The World We Live In: Jordan Russell, a Farmer's Market Manager, and his best friend Peter Pennell, a chef starting his own catering company, attempt to survive in a changing economy. Philipp Shea, a flamboyantly aging twink wanna-be is just trying to find his identity. The interplay of relationships features the trials and tribulations of making it in a low-income, high cost of the living world as well as comical key stereotypes of gay culture.TiWitched: "When a door is unlocked, evil comes through a window" What ancestral haunt befalls a statuesque 27-year-old Caucasian female with thick, raven hair and a nervous nature when she becomes acquainted with a tall, squarely built 30-ish man with straight sandy-blonde hair and a broad, unlined tanned face? What beguiles the eye can bewitch the heart in a deadly game of inherited revenge. The Life Of Another: "That's it, step right up...You may feel a sense of disorientation at first...Relax and enjoy the experience ..." A middle-aged male awakes to find himself living in a small village where he is a well-known member of the community who is suffering from a delusion of living another life.