Stage Whispers, Paul M. Kelly's artfully crafted collection of one-act plays, takes aim at contemporary culture with an eye for the absurd, the allegorical, and the autobiographical. His rapier wit slashes open our sensibilities and exposes relationships through dialogue that exudes both pleasure and pain. The actions of his characters run the gamut from harmless to threatening, unsure to determined, adversely affected to calculating and controlling. Kelly's work, although written for the theatre, brings an immediate and perceptible presence to the page. Readers are instantly transported to...
Stage Whispers, Paul M. Kelly's artfully crafted collection of one-act plays, takes aim at contemporary culture with an eye for the absurd, the allego...
In Paul M. Kelly's theatre world, character conversations become burgeoning storms of existential bonding, an urban vaudeville of entertaining actors in ever-shifting roles. The audacious and sharp comedies shackled together in Kelly's tenth book of plays, "Folderol and Other Confabulations," reflect and refract one another in a kinked glare of reality. Within the five gems that embody this collection--"Woe Betide You ," "Norman's Woe," "Maytags and Speed Queens," "Fermented," and "Folderol"--prismatic personalities make themselves immediately known and strict attention must be paid. The...
In Paul M. Kelly's theatre world, character conversations become burgeoning storms of existential bonding, an urban vaudeville of entertaining actors ...
