Most recently released is from a newcomer to JAC, Garret Mathews.
Can't Find A Dry Ball is the story of a season in professional baseball's lowest minor league. All the action takes place in and around a messy dugout. Players on the Evansville Otters get $12 a day in meal money and are more attuned to discount coupons than the homeless. There's the anxiety about being released, the death watch on the shortstop with the bad arm, and the bussie who gets drunk and tries to sell his conveyance on eBay. There's honking loogies for distance in the bullpen, and the locker room that Lewis and Clark would turn down as being beneath them. There's trying to make sense of a manager who is so cold a player could die at the plate and the Skip would simply "X" out his name on the lineup card. In the course of the play, players find their confidence, recover from injuries, get released, and get signed, but when all is done, they all live and cope with everything you might expect from a ball team - the good AND the bad.
Can't Find a Dry Ball is a comical look into the lives of a ball team. 6 men and 1 woman in the cast.
What's new to the JAC Publishing play catalog? Popular playwright Thomas M. Kelly has a new full-length play available thru JAC. It's a fantastic three-man piece called
ZEN and the Art of Making Par. Francis is a thirty-three year old Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps who will not admit that he suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome. It is common for people who have been traumatized to develop medical and psychological symptoms associated with the experience. Francis and his wife divorced before he was sent with his Marine unit to Iraq. She, an engineer, was sent by her company to Iraq to rebuild bridges. On her way to the airport just outside Baghdad, she was killed by an improvised explosive devise. On a leave from the Corps for rest and recuperation he travels to Scotland where he has made plans to meet a friend for a round of golf at the birthplace of golf: St. Andrews, the Old Course. His friend sends his regrets. Francis is left at the practice tee where he meets an eccentric old man and they later meet an East Indian traveler in search of truth.
Also available now is Patrick M. Brennan's
Here Lies George. George is an honest man. A man of integrity. A man who has the respect of the everyone in the business community. And that's why Junior needs George to stand up as the spokesman for his hare-brained scheme to bet the company on a stupid and unnecessary hostile takeover. George's choice is between his honesty and his loyalty to Junior. How will he decide? Another play selection for a cast of three men.
