"If there's a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn't exist in the world around you, at least not in the form you envision, then you create it so you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn't have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more shallow, predictable way. And that's it. That's all an artist does."
-Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
Two Gays Contemplate a Straight
The new one-act play
Written and Directed by Award-Winning Playwright Duncan Pflaster
in the Chain Theatre's Winter One-Act Festival 2025
Two gay men meet at the birthday party of a young straight men they both have a crush on. They soon come to realize that though the straightie is charming, he's also just needy.
Starring: Trey Radu-Blackburn, Juan Calix, and Nolan Atterbury
Intimacy Coordinator Emily Edwards
PROGRAM #17 (4TH FLOOR) features:
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Reflections of a Broken Mirror by Phoebe Eileen Grech
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The Best of Constance & Florence by Lou Stone Borenstein
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Two Gays Contemplate a Straight by Duncan Pflaster
Tickets $23 in advance online or $26 at the Door
EXTRA DISCOUNT - use code GAY25 when purchasing online
https://www.chaintheatre.org/winter-one-act-festival-2025
Only Three Performances
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February 8th at 8pm
** streaming option available on the 12th
At the Chain Theatre
312 W 36 St 4th Floor
New York, NY 10018
Show includes brief nudity.
Duncan has a new interview on the podcast Hamlet to Hamilton: Exploring Verse Drama. Nearly four hours of geeking out about iambic pentameter as used in theatre writing, with examples from Duncan's body of work. Check it out on Spotify or wherever your podcasts are found!
Duncan had a wonderful book signing and interview at the venerable Drama Book Shop on September 26th, selling out all their copies of his plays that they had in stock. There was a moderated conversation with Duncan about his body of work and his three plays published by Next Stage Press as well as an audience Q&A, all of which was recorded for Drama Book Shop's podcast The Drama Book Show, which should be coming out in a few months. Keep your ears peeled for that!
PansyVision!
Pansyvision is the fake all-Queer cinema fantasy series from the producers of Strapped for Danger!
Different writers created fake gay movies from different decades - the one written by Duncan is the 1950s Biblical Epic David and Jonathan! He also wrote the song "My Cowboy Joe" for another episode and has a cameo in the silent film episode.
See all of PansyVision on their YouTube!
Published Plays
The wonderful people at Next Stage Press have published Duncan's plays A Touch of Cinema and Harmony Hall, and perennial favorite Fourteen Hundred and Sixty Sketches of Your Left Hand. You can purchase them at Next Stage Press.
