ANONYMOUS: A One-Act Play

By Michael Allen Potter

ANONYMOUS is a one-act play in which two gay men who have both lost long-time lovers in different ways arrive at mutual attraction in the waiting room of an AIDS clinic. Both have returned for their respective HIV-antibody tests, neither one thinking that he would encounter "someone special" in the midst of such overwhelming personal anxiety and stress.

ANONYMOUS had its East-Coast premiere during the Playwright’s Showcase at Albany Civic Theater in New York and made its West-Coast debut as the inaugural production for The Alchemy Project at The Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts in California. ANONYMOUS received an Emerging Playwrights Award from Artists Alliance Against AIDS in San Francisco and an early draft was published in Art & Understanding Magazine.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Allen Potter
• Release date: Sep 6, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310305870

Michael Allen Potter

Playwright, poet, essayist, music fanatic, Ivy-League dropout, fake orphan, transit freak, popular loner, publisher, vegetarian, coffee addict, snow lover. Graduate of The Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa.

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ANONYMOUS:

A One-Act Play

Copyright 2013 by Michael Allen Potter

v. 3.0

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Acknowledgements

ANONYMOUS had its East-Coast premiere during the Playwright’s Showcase at Albany Civic Theater in New York and made its West-Coast debut as the inaugural production for The Alchemy Project at The Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts in California. ANONYMOUS received an Emerging Playwrights Award from Artists Alliance Against AIDS in San Francisco and an early draft was published in Art & Understanding Magazine.

I’d like to thank the following people for all of their help with the development, production, and publication of this play, including (but, by no means, limited to): Joe Galu, JoAnn, Squishy, Shoe + J, Professor Jordan Smith at Union College (New York), Professor Adrian Frazier at The National University of Ireland (Galway), Emily Howard, Frank Malifrando, Harold, Maude, and the fantastic leading men who played Twelve and Thirteen on both coasts: Robert Weidert, Rocky Bonsal, Steven Zawadzski, and Alan Quismorio.

Cast of Characters

TWELVE: An attractive gay male, thirty-one. TWELVE has a single gold hoop in HIS right ear, is well dressed, and masculine. TWELVE is a painter who works with acrylics and a waiter at a café.

THIRTEEN: An attractive gay male, twenty-five. THIRTEEN wears a RECOVERING CATHOLIC T-shirt, jeans, combat boots, and is slightly effeminate. THIRTEEN is a multi-media artist and a waiter at an upscale French restaurant.

MAN: Disheveled, slightly overweight. A Budweiser man's man.

WOMAN: MAN's