Additional Plays
Rick Fonté has written several other short plays and adaptations, some in serious need of a rewrite, others just not so interesting to him anymore.
Some are, of course, completely unproduceable due to copyright restrictions, but who thinks of these things in undergrad.
Also while at Carleton College, Rick participated in a weekly event called Chelsea 11:17. Every week playwrights were given ingredients to put in their plays, they would go off, write and return next week to have their plays staged before a screaming audience of drunken jerks (including most of the playwrights). Anyway, it was a great experience both as a writing exercise and to develop a routine of writing. Many of these works Rick pilfered for ideas and dialogue for later work.
Pig Sh!t
one-act comedy
staged for Indiana University’s Meet the Playwrights Festival
Midnight Runner
one-act film-noir comedy
staged for Bloomington Playwrights Project Early Stages Reading
Additional Original Work
Closet Romantics
10 minute comedy
fully produced as part of Carleton College’s Hit and Run Festival
The Daughter’s Farmer
one-act comedy
fully produced as part of Carleton College’s Hit and Run Festival
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Evening of short plays
fully produced by Carleton College in the Experimental Theatre Board Season
Between the Bells
one-act comedy
fully produced by Marian Catholic High School the year after graduation
Beowulf: The Musical
uncompleted full-length musical
workshopped on several occasions at Carleton College
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
full-length
fully produced at Marian Catholic High School while teaching there
Heffalumps and Woozles
full length adaptation of stories, poems and essays of A A Milne
fully produced by Carleton College in the Experimental Theatre Board Season
A Real Rain
full length adaptation of Taxi Drive
fully produced by Carleton College in the Experimental Theatre Board Season
Porphyria
One-act play based on the Robert Browning poem Porphyria’s Lover
fully produced as part of Carleton College’s One-Act Festival
The Lake
10 minute play
unproduced
Additional Adapted Work
Works Originally performed at Chelsea 11:17
some co-written, some adapted, can’t remember details so let me give a shout-out to Noah Tarnow, Justin Lazenby, Jason Hein, Colin LoCascio, and Don Zolidis
and a special thanks to all the Chelsea ‘Elves’ and the founders....
29 Cents Gets You Through
A Gut Feeling
Aluminum Baseball Bat
An Item of Little or No Value
Another Attempt at a Play (Parts 1-3)
Back and to the Left
Ballad of the Angst-Ridden Young Man
Beowulf: The Musical (several different scenes)
Betrayal of Princess Kari
Border of Insanity
Child’s Play 5
Choice for Life
Dish it Out Baby
Dorm at Pooh Corner
Ekaterina Does St. Petersburg
Everyguy
Fall of Rome
Flower Gardening with Alice Cooper
Goodnight Sweetheart
The Holst Situation
Informative Infomercial
In the Closet
Let’s Talk About It
Life’s A Long Song
A Man and his Mission
The Meaning of Life
The Meaning of Life (part two... lint screens)
Might as Well Jump
A Modest Proposal for the Holidays
An Old Joke’s Never Funny
Pieces Aquarius Capricorn and Confusion, L.T.D.
Play Written Between Other People’s Money and Chelsea 11:117
Please Pass the Liquid Nitrogen
Put a Stamp On It
Realist Theatre
Rest of your Life
Shameless
Shit Not This Again
Simple Story of Boy Meets Girl
Smurf 47
The Snowstorm Blows
THe Snowstorm Still Blows
Solid Gold Flunkies
Symphony for Mother and Daughter
Thoughts Upon Reaching a Gas Station
To Make a Long Story Short
Unseasonal Promotion
What Are You Waiting For?
Who’s Holier Than Though?
