Andy Accioli | Playwright ! Playwrighting ! American Playwright

Yola's 90th Birthday Party
2 Acts ~ Cast: 6 (3F / 3M)
Yola and Elvira are spinster sisters who recently moved into a senior citizen apartment complex. Yola, elder of the two, has always ruled the roost while Elvira has been content to blend into the background; unnoticed and unappreciated. Preparations for Yola’s 90^th Birthday Party (one might consider it a deadly celebration) are progressing almost flawlessly until Elvira in a fitful moment lets the building’s maintenance man have it. (Yola wonders “Elvira, why are you purposely trying to spoil my birthday celebration by killing that man?”) The party and party-goers come and go. Yola slips back into her role as queen bee with her servant, Elvira, close by. To add icing to this birthday cake, there are a couple of other deaths. Sounds like a party not to be missed, right?


	Andy Accioli's Plays




	Truth Pants 2 Act Courtroom Drama ~ Cast: 10 (3F / 7M)i Dr. Carl Anderson’s world changed on November 16, 2011. His wife and four children were at the wrong side of a gun barrel and slaughtered as they waited for their dinner at a local restaurant. Dr. Anderson was in surgery unable to join his family. This courtroom drama exposes the unregulated, unregistered gun sales conducted at gun shows and over the internet by unlicensed gun dealers who are shielded from any liability by the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.




	Long Live The Dead Pope 2 Acts ~ Cast 7 (2F / 5M) August 26, 1978 the Catholic church’s cardinals elected Cardinal Santini to succeed the deceased Pope James. September 28, 1978, thirty-three days later, the newly elected, healthy pontiff was dead. Mysteriously no autopsy was allowed. Minutes after discovering the body, the Vatican claimed Mark Peter died of a massive heart attack. Just prior to his death, Mark Peter notified leaders who controlled the vast Vatican wealth, including the behemoth Vatican Bank, that on September 28, 1978 they were being forced to resign their powerful positions. With Mark Peter dead, it would be business as usual at Vatican Incorporated. A mere coincidence that the pope would die during the night before his changes in personnel overseeing the Vatican’s wealth were to have taken place?



	Half-Mile Project 3 Acts ~ Cast 9 (5F / 4M) The “Half-Mile Project” is based upon the book “The Half-Mile Miracle” by Rocco Placente and Pamele Inzerillo. The play presents a gay love story between Rocco and Fred. They live in New York City and lead an active lifestyle. The brownstone apartment building where they reside has eccentric, certifiably-whacky neighbors. (I especially love Margo. She causes more drama in one day then most of us experience in a lifetime.) When tragedy strikes, Rocco and Fred are resolute in their determination to survive.



	Rebel In The Ranks 2 Acts ~ Cast: 7 (1F / 6M) Since it's inception two thousand years ago, the Catholic Church has always been faced with the problem of dissension from within its clergy. Rebel In The Rank''s plot deals with two present day priests and their desire to organize the other priests within their diocese into a priests' association. (Fr. Cummings, bucking the bishop, is one of these priests and is no stranger to controversy: he has publically supported marriage equality.) The bishop fears that their actions will hinder his own climb in the hierarchy of the church, wastes no time in quashing the proposed priest association.



Now Available On Kindle.	Earth To Ellen 2 Acts ~ Cast: 5 (3M / 2W) Ellen, a relatively new widow and a devout Southern Republican, and her two grown children gather at Ellen’s Florida retirement home to celebrate Christmas. Her son, Scott, is a liberal columnist from New York and her daughter, Nancy, is a progressive Democrat from Los Angeles who cannot bring herself to tell her mother of her divorce. Pandemonium breaks loose when Nancy’s boyfriend surprises her by showing up. Of course, she introduces him as Scott’s gay partner. It might work except Carlos, Scott’s real gay partner, also shows up unexpectedly.



	Caught Off Guard 3 Acts ~ Cast: 9 (7M / 2W) OFFICIAL REPORT: 9:00PM. May 4, 1998. According to the official report, five gunshots were fired in the newly appointed commander of the Vatican Swiss Guards apartment. Colonel Martin Lautens and his wife, Rosa Blanco Vargas, were murdered by Lance Corporal Lukas Seifert of the Swiss Guards who then killed himself. Against the backdrop of a love story, “Caught Off Guard” questions this official Vatican report.



	Life Don't Give You No Do Overs 2 Acts ~ Cast: 11 (7F / 4M) The play takes place in a hospital’s trauma center waiting room. 17 year old, Billy Hanover, severely injured in a high school football game, is artificially being kept alive pending the arrival of his mom who is away on a business trip. Billy’s quirky (New Age) aunt arrives with his grandma who has lost her ability to speak as a result of a stroke (who now has a “voice” by ringing a bell and writing endless notes). There is another family in the waiting room. They are black and have a son, Jonah, who has suffered with heart problems from birth through his childhood. Jonah is also 17 and is being prepared for a heart transplant. Friction between both families occur when Craig, Billy’s uncle arrives with his severe case of racism. Although Jim, Billy’s dad agrees to donate Billy’s organs, his ex-wife, Billy’s mom, won’t hear of it especially after the hospital’s transplant donor coordinator refers to the procedure as Billy’s organs being harvested upon his death. Peg responds: “Harvested? Like some goddamned corn field in Kansas?”



	At Heaven's Door 2 Acts ~ Cast: 3 (2F / 1M) Since time began, we are mystified by what happens when we die. This comical farce deals with this issue as nine main characters (played by three actors) arrive at At Heaven's Door and must wait there while their life is being reviewed. It is a study of contradictions: for example, a nun who you would expect to enter Heaven's Door immediately has been waiting for over 50 years while one of the street "sistas" (a prostitute) is called to heaven shortly after arriving At Heaven's Door.



	Candy Apples 2 Acts ~ Cast: 5 (4F / 1M) Candy Apples is a drama with Brenda Apple dedicating her life to remaining at home, caring for Lucy Apple, her ailing mother. Jessie and Lynn, Brenda's sisters are suddenly drawn into providing care. For Jessie, a nurse, this comes naturally. For Lynn (egotistical, vivacious and extremely sarcastic), not so much.



	Yola's 90th Birthday Party 2 Acts ~ Cast: 6 (3F / 3M) Yola and Elvira are spinster sisters who recently moved into a senior citizen apartment complex. Yola, elder of the two, has always ruled the roost while Elvira has been content to blend into the background; unnoticed and unappreciated. Preparations for Yola’s 90^th Birthday Party (one might consider it a deadly celebration) are progressing almost flawlessly until Elvira in a fitful moment lets the building’s maintenance man have it. (Yola wonders “Elvira, why are you purposely trying to spoil my birthday celebration by killing that man?”) The party and party-goers come and go. Yola slips back into her role as queen bee with her servant, Elvira, close by. To add icing to this birthday cake, there are a couple of other deaths. Sounds like a party not to be missed, right?



	4 Chairs 2 Acts ~ Cast: 4 (1F / 3M) 4 actors play 16 characters, 4 different plots, same 4 chairs. Take Your Seat – Run Time: 32 minutes Four people board a transporter and must sit in assigned their seats. The reason for the seat assignments becomes clear by the end of the play. Fantasy Horticultural Society – Run Time: 34 minutes Three “house-dads” have had it with the never-ending household duties which their working wives pile onto them. They decide to start a male escorting service catering to retired senior citizen ladies. They conceal the true nature of their enterprise – from their wives - behind the innocuous name of “Fantasy Horticultural Society”. It’s not pretty and definitely not an everyone lived happily ever after ending. 2 Guys From Sardinia – Run Time: 24 minutes Mistaken identities has a microbiology professor (from Sardinia, Ohio) unknowingly brought to perform a hit (a killing). And his counterpart, the contracted hit man (from Sardinia, Italy), guest speaking at the American Society of Microbiologists’ Convention about his algae growth process. By the end with their identities restored, all is straightened out. Well, sort of. Restore Hudson River Oysters – Runt Time: 32 minutes There has never been a cause that the very Jewish, Jacob and Esther have knowingly not supported…even ones they do not believe in: “…they need a voice too.” Esther tries to be the matchmaker between her son and the son of an acquaintance. After a year of Jonathan and Alex living together, a marriage proposal happens. Unfortunately not to each other thereby upsetting Esther and Jacob and their social causes’ meeting schedule.