“Charlotte Weinman has a unique talent for finding the heart and humanity in [her] figures and laying those hearts on the line”
from a review of her work on New Play Exchange
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scripts
the Salamander and the Impediment: a reclamation play about trying to get the words right. Salamander engages in a meaningful queering of history to discuss plagiarism and love in the lives of Zelda Fitzgerald, Tallulah Bankhead, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. (4 actors, 80 mins). This play was produced at Boston University in the College of Fine Arts in the New Works Initiative in October, 2021. You can watch a video of the production here.
Look Alive: a comedy about spatial-reasoning and posthumous love-affairs. Nora is stuck in the free-fall before rock bottom when she goes to hear her mother’s will read by Beth, a clumsy and relentless optimist. If they can manage not to knock into each other on the way down, each might be able to help the other touch something solid. (2 actors, ten minutes). Look Alive was produced at Boston University in College of Fine Arts as a part of 2020’s Director’s Project
Safe [in progress]: pressed for cash, a father of two robs banks to support his family. But when the opportunity for a heist that would financially secure the family for the foreseeable future, the whole family must work together to pull it off. This new musical is an adaptation of true events.
The Blazing World [in progress]: a consciously queer adaptation of Margaret Cavendish’s 1666 piece. A woman avoids a forced-marriage by shipwrecking herself on the North Pole. There she meets a menagerie of man-animal hybrids and the empress who rules over them. In the meantime, below, war does what it does. (up to 23 actors)
Chew Toy [in progress]: Drew has been sent to the farm upstate. It’s a real farm, and it’s really upstate, but the metaphor stands— that is, until she meets a giant talking dog (5 actors, various puppets/puppeteers)