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The Cast from ROMEO & JULIET. I had a blast and I look forward to the next project.
04/14/2024

The Cast from ROMEO & JULIET. I had a blast and I look forward to the next project.

05/02/2023

I am working on a play GUNS & gods about gun violence in America and this is the punch line that I want Marcus to deliver to the audience in the final scene. I would like your thoughts. It's rough, but it carries the sentiment that I wish to deliver to the audience.

“We say that we didn't want it to happen... that we can't believe it that it did, whole we wonder why and how when we know why and we know how. We claim that we don't let or make things like this happen, but it but we in our own little ways come to contribute in those things that we do and don't do and things that we say and don't say. It is in our own silence, our unwillingness to speak out that we all allow these stories of human tragedy continue to be. Whether it's out of fear, shame or maybe we're just too damn angry that it blinds us in our own pool of swirling rage knowing that there is no true justice to be found in any of it. There are no words that we can find to speak of those horrors and pains of sorrows that we know like personal Hells that burn in our heart, or worse we're alright with it, because it's not you or me that is until it is you or me who comes to be swallowed in some great storm where tragedies and travesties of the world wrack and wail like wind-song banshees leaving us to be hollow shells. Then, in our pain, our sorrow, our anger we come to take up the great cause to right wrongs of the world. But honestly, we know it's too late to undo what has been done, so we become self-made-martyrs. Sooner or later you and I, we will have to decide if we are helpless or hopeless to stop any of it or if we are willing to stand up and speak out and honestly deal with these unnecessary casualties of the human affair and do what needs to be done to fix it, to make it right. ”

07/23/2022

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06/02/2022

I finished my 42nd play STAIRS TO NOWHERE and I am editing it now.

08/19/2021

A snippet form 'EMPTY HOUSES' play that I just finished up and I am editing it right now.

EMMA:
Looking at VICTORIA’s half eaten waffle.
That’s a big waffle for a little girl.
VICTORIA:
(Speaking softly but loud enough for DAISY to hear.)
I get an extra big one, so Mommy can have some. She’s so busy taking care of me and Daddy, that sometimes she forgets about herself. She loves us so much that she would do anything for us. But sometimes she forgets about herself. I don’t know how many times she ate her dinners cold so often.
E MMA:
I know and that she would.. You don’t miss a thing do Cupcake and you’re right.
Getting up and looking at DAISY.
Have a seat young lady.
DAISY:
What Emma.
EMMA:
(Insistent.)
I said have seat. I am going to make us some breakfast. Well I am going to make you breakfast and then Miss Victoria and I will get all this cleaned up and then we can go to the garden and get goodies from my garden.
DIRECTIONS:
DAISY starts to quietly protest but EMMA just smiles at her as she gestures the chair.
EMMA:
Please join Miss Victoria for breakfast. I know my way around a kitchen and I have your coffee. Today I am going to treat you Mrs. Roseman.
DAISY:
I don’t know what to say.
VICTORIA:
TOUCHING HER hand and Smiling kindly up at her.
Please Mommy, you do so much already. Let Auntie Emma and me treat you , and of course you do Mommy?
DAISY looks at VICTORIA.
What to say. Thank you is a simple, but most special thing that you can say, especially when you really, really mean it.
DAISY:
Smiling.
Down, down deep in your heart. It’s not something that take or say lightly You just don’t say half-heartedly...
VICTORIA:
Or it means nothing at all.
DAISY:
Looking up at EMMA as she holds VICTORIA’S hands.
Thank you so Emma, thank you so much. This is truly a treat. It really is.
VICTORIA:
Auntie Emma, maybe I could help. I wouldn’t mind one bit.
EMMA:
No Sweet Pea, that’s alright. That’s really sweet of you. You and Mommy just sit here and enjoy Mommy and daughter time. Auntie Emma has this.
VICTORIA:
You’re the best Auntie Emma.
DAISY:
SITTING DOWN still holding VICTORIA’s HAND.
Yes she is. She’s our little angel light. But Emma, I can make my coffee, really I can. You don’t have to...
EMMA:
Bringing a cup of coffee.
No you won’t Mrs. Daisy, besides I know exactly you take your coffee.
VICTORIA:
Two teaspoons of sugar, a dash of cinnamon and a little bit hazel nut cream.
EMMA:
Exactly! You are so smart!
VICTORIA:
Yes I am. I’m smart like Mommy and you too Auntie Emma.
DAISY:
Yes you are Little One.
(Aside.)
But you’re not so little anymore.
EMMA:
No she’s not. She’s clever and funny, and she’s our little morning glory, sweet and bright as can be. Just having you with us makes both Mommy and my day a little bit brighter and a little bit sweeter.
DAISY:
Doting on VICTORIA
Yes she does.
EMMA:
That she does Daisy. She has been a blessing and we could not imagine our world without her.
DAISY:
No we could not.
EMMA:
Well I had better get to making those waffles or we’ll never get out to garden. And Daisy, you just enjoy our little sunshine. I have this and afterwards Victoria and I can clean up.
VICTORIA:
It’s Mommy’s treat for the day.
EMMA:
Yes it Cupcake. And maybe, just maybe if we get enough berries we can make up some jam.
VICTORIA:
Oh that would be grand. I would like that very much, and Mommy too.
DAISY:
Yes I would, you just can’t eat all the berries. You’ll have to leave some for the Jam.
DIRECTIONS:
They all laugh.
VICTORIA:
It’s nice to see you laugh Mommy, you have a pretty smile, you really do. You should smile more.
DAISY:
You always make me smile, you know why?
VICTORIA:
Cause I am your Sunshine.
DAISY:
Yes you are. You are my little wonder that brings me jo and laughter into my world. You make the world a better place.
(To herself.)
Your smile and laughter washes away all the sorrow and pain of the world away like a fresh spring morning rain that paints a rainbow across the sky, cause you are my rainbow, rain or shine.
VICTORIA:
That was really pretty Mommy.
DAISY:
Because you inspire me to be better than I am.
VICTORIA:
But Mommy, you’re perfect the way you are.
EMMA:
BRINGING the WAFFLES to the TABLE.
Yes she is Cupcake.

08/10/2021

I just finished the first draft of 'Empty Houses' that deals with domestic violence. Now I have to go back and do a read through and edit it.

The 'Thorn Poem' that inspired the play.

EMPTY HOUSES
by
Gavion E. Chandler~

Empty houses silent and still they stand
where gardens ever pretty with their thorns
tend to stories untold in unspoken silence
as mother and child pretend to make-believe
that everything is going to be alright
that nothing is really, really wrong at all.

Empty houses mad with their masquerade
where mother and child dance and play, playing house
putting on that good face smiling right through their tears
trying to paint that faerie tale, it picture perfect in every detail
so that all the neighbors far and near may never ever suspect,
that something... anything might be awry or out of sorts.

Empty houses where hallow haunts of dreams play on and on and on
where mother and child hollow like shells sit, waiting... listening...
each and every heartbeat that thunders in their chest...
each and every breath that bellow and roar they hear
though ocean tempest tides crashing upon some distant shore,
there they arm in arm cradling back and forth, back and forth,
whisper prayers, dreaming themselves far, far, far away
trying to drown out their tears in the roar of the storm
that waits and baits them every hour of the day.

Empty houses casting long shadows 'cross the way,
where silhouettes cast against windows with shades drawn down
that would be less than child play...
where daunting doors beaten and battered crimson red
that would be ever vigilant with their watch stare them down
keeping secrets locked away behind their eyes
where memories and thoughts of things that should not be
play over and over again and again,
never wanting, never letting mother or child to forget .

Empty houses, ever silent... ever still...
fragile and desperate like a house of cards they stand
'Whisper little one, whisper, don't breathe too hard.'
the mother to child tells 'or it just may all come tumbling, tumbling down.'
'Whisper little one, whisper and promise to never kiss and tell.'


Copy Righted and Intellectual propriety
of Gavion E. Chandler~ & BLACK TENT PRODUCTIONS

04/05/2021

I am so pumped for this. A live read of a play that I wrote!!

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03/28/2021

Myself, Tony and Stephanie, fellow playwrights had a delightful conversation about playwrighting and the challenges of trying to get our work to see the light of the stage. Tony and his lovely wife, in all their English charm shared some of their experience and their successes, Georgette being an actress and Tony the writer make quite the duo, while Stephanie shared her ongoing collaborations with other actors and writers.

It was a well spent two hours where we got to know each other better and the round table of discussion was open to anything and everything.

We are looking to meet up again at 11 AM EST, May 1st to talk and share and this time we will be focusing on topics to keep it grounded and relative to thoughts and questions of inquiry and personal experience. What we are hoping to do is to get playwright folk, actors and directors involved to reads of new works and create a platform for learning and sharing while creating opportunities for creative exposure and a possibility of getting playwrights' plays to see the light of the stage. After all the hope of any playwright, to put our ghosts out there for an audience experience how we see and experience the world, in the hope to make others consider thoughts of things that are curiously human.

We tell and share human stories on stage so that we as people might learn and grow and be better.

If you are interested in joining us, please contact me. I hope to hear from you soon.

Gavion E. Chandler~

'Man is his own Devil.'

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