HOW TO ORDER A READING COPY OF STEALING SAXOPHONES FROM HOMELESS PEOPLE...

Until it's available from Brooklyn Publishers, which will publish it in time for fall 2006, you can request a perusal copy here.

Send me an email with the following information. Please provide ALL information requested below.

1. Your full name and your organization (theater company, school or other group). If you are a high school or college student, please include your teacher/professor's name.

2. A snail mail address and phone number for your organization.

3. When and where the production would be, and the number of performances.

4. When do you expect to make a decision about using my play?

5. Can you receive attachments as PDF files? (It's a free download--link below.) A non-printable PDF reading copy is free. If you can't read PDF files, I can mail you a copy of the play ($5 fee includes copying and postage). Email me for a mailing address to which to send your check.

6. Please tell me how you found me and my work (I'm listed on certain websites, and it's always good to know, for both them and me, whether they're effective).

7. A statement that you understand that production of my work requires the payment of a royalty. See the note about royalties on the Plays for Production page.

ABOUT THE PLAY

Dark comedy. Requires one actor of either gender. 8-9 minutes. One setting, requiring a chair.

Stealing Saxophones from Homeless People was written specifically for my friend, Jake River Fraser, who premiered it at the Street Theatre in Canberra, Australia as part of A Bunch of Fives.

SYNOPSIS

When your mother tells you at the age of three that you're going to end up stealing saxophones from homeless people, you're saddled with a heavy burden. In Stealing Saxophones..., a character fights a lifelong battle to avoid fulfilling his mother's prophecy. Can he do it?

STEAL A SAMPLE...

Read the opening of STEALING SAXOPHONES... as a PDF file using the free Adobe Acrobat reader.