StageWorks' TampaWorks 2013 10-Minute Play Winners Staged Now thru June 9

StageWorks has announced TampaWorks' 10-minute play winners. The winning productions will be staged tonight, June 6-9, Thurs-Sat at 8PM and Sun at 3PM. All tickets are $20. Call for general seating and information at 813-251-8984 or 813-727-2708A. The performances will benefit Stageworks' at-risk youth programs.

This year StageWorks' has eight plays, eight playwrights, four directors, twenty six characters combined to create an evening of fun and intriguing situations, all around the Bay Area. You will travel to a Hyde Park bungalow, St Petersburg, outside of a church on the bayou in Tarpon Springs, all over Tampa, the café bar of the Columbia Restaurant in Ybor City, the Manatee viewing center and be a part of the Gasparilla festivities.

STAGEWORKS: TAMPAWORKS 2013 WINNERS:

1. GHOSTS OF HYDE PARK Matt Cowley

A real estate agent becomes the unlikely ally of a woman new to town when they discover that the past will find them, wherever they are

2. HIT AND RUN (tied for first) Jack Gilhooley

When Jake was 19 and breaking into pro baseball with the St. Pete Cardinals, he impregnated a local girl. It's 13 years later and he's getting a tentative last shot at the big leagues with the upstart Devil Rays. Naturally he'll look up his old flame. DON'T GO THERE, JAKE!

3. NO TIES Martin Tucker

Drop in on a successful young man whose goals are personally admirable, extremely self-centered, and with little redeeming social concerns. He has to face the exposure of his values when his girlfriend challenges him and a kindly older customer who is visiting the store.

4. GEO-MUGGLED Joie Marsh

While out for a day with his family at the Manatee Viewing Center, a snowbird named Henry encounters a young stranger with a peculiar hobby.

5. GASPARILLA QUEEN Dewey Davis-Thompson

This is a peek under the full skirt of social politics in the Gasparilla Court - and other South Tampa traditions.

6. CUSTOMER SERVICE Philip Hall

George is yet again calling Verizon Customer Service. This time he reaches a real person, one he wants to get to know better. Her name is Suzanne, and she seems to want to get to know George better, too.

7. GUITAR MAN (tied for sixth) Floyd Wilson

"Can a homeless guitarist strum his way into an exclusive retirement manor?"

8. PLAY ME Janet Scaglioni

When a woman goes into a bar . . . you never know just what to expect.

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