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My Dramedy
Cafe Dustyefsky
Little Katie McMullen
Opposite Ends of the Rainbow
Peace in the Valley
Where Do We Go From Here
Writing plays is how I entered the field of writing. In MY DRAMEDY are the following five plays/screenplays as well as a brand new
stageplay called GEORGE & LOTTIE. I'm excited about GEORGE & LOTTIE, for it is my version of what happened twenty years after EDUCATING RITA by Willie Russell. My version has a romantic, happy ending, of course.
The first play I wrote was Cafe Dustyefsky - a musical stage play with my partner Don Dominguez who wrote the music & lyrics, I wrote the book (the story) and created the characters. It is published as a play as well as included in "My Dramedy" and my
book "Bits & Pieces of Me." A story about the defunct piano bar of the '70s and 80s. Boy do I miss those wonderful days.
Next I wrote the screenplay "Birth Mother", which isn't listed here. I've lost the database and haven't recreated it, but I will.
Then came the screenplay "Peace in the Valley", partly true, partly not. It's also included in "My Dramedy" and my published book "Love Has a Price Tag," if you'd like to read it. It's actually the forerunner of my "Midnight" novel series. This is where we first
meet Rachel O'Neill.
The two stage plays that followed (which are also published in my book - "Love Has a Price Tag" as well as in "My Dramedy") are dear to my heart, both based on truth - "Little Katie" more so than "Rainbow" that is based loosely on the chaos that occured during the mad Buckley courtship. In "Little Katie McMullen" Katie is Dame Catherine Cookson ... the prolific British novelist of the 20th Century (over 100 novels) who made a memorable mark in writing about the plight of
the poor in the northern regions of England. She wrote from her heart and managed to pull herself out of the muck and mire of the docklands near Newcastle. I visited a museum dedicated to her memory while I was in that area doing research
for this play. Also went to Hastings on the south coast of England to nose around ... she moved to Hastings on her own when she very young and became a laundress in the Harton Workhouse. Anyway ... I could talk all day and night about Catherine Cookson. So this play is most definitely dedicated to her - Little Katie McMullen. By the way, she happened to have the same maiden name as me - McMullen. How about them apples?
The screenplay on the right is a comedy ... this one was fun to write, about an aging Hollywood Hooker who wins the lottery, and would be a terrific movie or a MOW pilot for a weekly sitcom.
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PLAYS BY REBECCA BUCKLEY