AMARILLO, Texas — Northwest Arkansas audiences have seen some of Adam Douglas’ plays: “Murder and the English Gentleman: A Comedy,” “How to Survive the End of the World,” “Midnight at Wolf Howl Saloon,” “Vices.”
This week, however, judges at the American College Theater Festival’s regional event in Amarillo, Texas, are considering four new plays by Douglas for advancement to the next stage of the competition, which takes place at the Kennedy Center.
That means four out of the 12 plays accepted for the regional ACTF contest were written by Douglas.
His entries are two 10-minute plays, “Forgotten Gifts”- which he describes as “a Jewish kid’s Christmas story” - and “The Weird Sisters,” based on the three witches of “Macbeth,” along with two oneact plays, “Oscar Goes To...” - “about my favorite dead writer, Oscar Wilde,” he says - and “Hamlet,” which he describes as “an absurdist piece about freedom and hammers.”
Douglas grew up in Bentonville and is working on a master of fine arts in playwriting at the University of Arkansas. A new, fulllength play by Douglas titled “Superman” is scheduled to debut in Fayetteville later this year.
Whats Up, Pages 16 on 02/25/2011