The Trickle Down Lullaby (song/skit – humorous)

This was written as a one-act skit and then also inserted into my full-length collection of satirical bits, “Divide and Conquer.” A dark piece for dark times – written long before our current ones.

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“Down Came the Sun” is a two-character, romantic drama. It runs about 30 minutes and features a handsome younger man (early 20s) and a quite attractive older woman (30s-40s). Whether elaborate or sparsely representational, the single set and lighting should convey an idyllic feeling of the Florida Keys.

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Death of a Manure Salesman (one-act comedy)

“Death of a Manure Salesman” is a very short but, um, sweet, look at the way a family mourn their patriarch. The five-person cast includes roles for two young men (Biff & Happy), two middle-aged men (a Priest and neighbor Ben), and a mature woman (Mrs. Loman). The set is simple, though the final tableau requires some staging ingenuity.

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SEAWEED FOR THE GAMBLER (one-act solo)

SEAWEED FOR THE GAMBLER is a dramatic solo about a man and his money. Well, not exactly his… The play features a single set but a fairly complex soundscape.

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Blind Date (one-act comedy)

BLIND DATE is a dark, absurdist comedy about a man, a woman, and the waiter from hell (possibly literally). To date, it’s my most-produced play and has also been published in the anthology, “Marriage, Babies and the End of the World.”
I was never satisfied with the original ending of the piece (which I wrote back in the mid-1980s), so when the Richmond Shepard Theater chose to produce it in a 2008 one-act festival, I took the opportunity to tweak the finale, and I’m much happier with it now.
Blind Date has three characters: a man, a woman and a waiter. All three have sizeable speaking parts. There’s just one simple set (a table at a restaurant). The content is PG-13 for strong adult themes, profanity and immoral use of ketchup.

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King Solomon the Wise (one-act comedy)

KING SOLOMON THE WISE (A biblical comedy) by David Lefkowitz David Lefkowitz holvoe_at_aol_dot_com www.totaltheater.com (c)1990 by David Neil Lefkowitz SET: ROYAL CHAMBER OF JUSTICE, KING SOLOMON’S COURT Represent it any way you like, but make sure there’s a mighty throne for his Highness flanked by two lecterns, one with an unbound manuscript on it. TIME: [...]

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The Sky is Calling (one-act drama)

THE SKY IS CALLING is a one-act drama about a man finding a new direction for his life, with the help of an airport security guard. It’s an easy play to stage – just two characters and one location. It runs about 25 minutes and makes a nice character showcase for both the actor and actress.

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