Tara and I went to Utah to look at rocks, and I made this video.
"There Are No Small Parts" Short Screenplay Reading Aug 28
- "She-Woman" by Jessica Whitfield (IFCKC)
- "Work for Hire" by Joni Mitchell (KCWIFT)
- "There Are No Small Parts" by Bryan Colley and Tara Varney (KC Screenwriters)
The readings will be at 7:00pm Wednesday, August 28, 2019 at the Screenland Crossroads, 1701 McGee, Kansas City. Free admission.
"Enlarged to Show Texture" Review by Kelly Luck
There is not much this reviewer can say about this play, as to go into even basic detail would be to spoil the thing. Suffice to say it is a meditation upon friendship, conflict of differences, the ways we cope with how the world messes with our minds, and the means by which we heal.
Fringe veterans will know that it’s always worth finding out what Tara Varney and Bryan Colley are up to. Over the years, it’s never been quite possible to guess what they would come up with next, but it is always something interesting. Once again we get the blend of humor and tragedy, the frivolous drilling down to the deeply personal. There’s even a little music history thrown in for good measure.
Sometimes things don’t always go to plan. Sometimes you have to get out there and wing it. And sometimes you need to stop and ask yourself what is really important. A most affecting show, and definitely worth the Fringer’s attention.
https://kcfringe.org/enlarged-to-show-texture-review-by-kelly-luck/
"Enlarged to Show Texture" at the 2019 Kansas City Fringe Festival
Performances are at the Loretto Auditorium, 1111 W 39th Street on the following dates:
- 9:00pm FRI JULY 19
- 4:30pm SAT JULY 20
- 7:30pm MON JULY 22
- 7:30pm THU JULY 25
- 6:00pm SAT JULY 27
"Hexing Hitler" Reading May 20
The Midwest Dramatists Center will present a reading of Bryan Colley and Tara Varney's new full-length version of "Hexing Hitler" at 7pm, May 20 at the Second Presbyterian Church at 55th and Brookside (318 E 55th St). The reading is directed by Tara Varney and the cast includes Gary Wesche, Shelley Wyche, J. Will Fritz, Emma Carter, and Michael Golliher.
An hour-long version of "Hexing Hitler" was produced at the 2011 Kansas City Fringe Festival, and it has now been expanded into a full-length 90 minute play. It is a true story as told in a 1941 photo essay from "Life Magazine" about a party that gathered in a remote Maryland cabin to put a curse on Adolf Hitler and end World War II using witchcraft.
Leading the hexing was the successful writer William Seabrook, who popularized the word "zombie" in 1927, when he published a book, "Magic Island," about his adventures in Haiti, which served as the basis for the film "White Zombie" in 1932. Throughout the 1930s he was a best-selling author, world traveler, and journalist. He was also fascinated with witchcraft, black magic, and the occult. Along with writing about voodoo rituals on the island of Haiti, he wrote about eating human flesh in the jungles of Africa, battling alcoholism in an asylum, and joining a Bedouin tribe, much like T.E. Lawrence in "Lawrence of Arabia."
A companion work play by Colley and Varney, "Sexing Hitler," was also expanded to full-length and presented in a staged reading at the Unicorn Theatre in 2016. It details the true story a Nazi program led by Heinrich Himmler to create inflatable pleasure dolls, intended for standard issue to Nazi soldiers. Along with connecting thematic threads, both plays are designed to use the same cast.
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