Scale Plus Points

A web site for husband/father/writer/sometimes artist James C. Ferguson

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  • News & Productions, 2019

    2019 is looking to be a good year. Here’s what we have lined up so far …

    April 7, 2019 at 6:30 PM – WORKSHOP – King Arthur In Contemporary Connecticut at The Hatbox Theatre in Concord, NH. Produced by The New World Theatre as part of Putting It Together, a Sunday evening series of workshop productions. CLICK HERE FOR ADDL. INFO. & TICKETS

    April 25 – 27 at 8 PM & April 28th at 3 PM, 2019 – PRODUCTION – For Whom the Yell Tolls at The Sauk Theatre as part of Sauk Shorts in Jonesville, MI. CLICK HERE FOR ADDL. INFO. & TICKETS

    May 15, 2019 – PRODUCTION – For Whom the Yell Tolls – TIME (TBD) at the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont Street in Boston, MA. CLICK HERE FOR ADDL. INFO.

    June 7 – 8 at 7:30 PM and June 9th at 2 PM, 2019 – PRODUCTION – On Hold presented as part of The Slice of Life new works festival produced by Theatre One Productions at The Alley Theatre 133 Center St. Middleboro, MA. CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS AND ADDL. INFO.

    2019 – Don’t Be A Scrooge – WINNER, 3rd place, The 27th Annual Nantucket Short Play Festival and Competition Nantucket, MA. Festival details: TBD.

    2019 – PRODUCTION – Don’t Be A Scrooge – The Write Hour Podcast. Availability and addl. info: TBD.

    November 9th at 10 AM, 2019 – READING – The Trophy Wife at The Actors Studio of Newburyport in Newburyport, MA. ADDl. INFO. TBD.

  • For Whom the Yell Tolls from Funhouse IV

    If you want to see a video of my ten-minute play For Whom the Yell Tolls from Funhouse 4 which was produced in the winter of 2018 at Theatre off Jackson in Seattle, directed by Chris Quilici and Maureen Armstrong with Zoe Schwartz as Pepper, Kwesi Phillips as Joss and Alex Garramone as Felicity, here it is —

  • Productions Update – May, 2018

    Someday, I’ll find a consistent title for these posts.  In the meantime, here’s what I have coming up:

    MAY

    First up, my ten-minute play ORI & ADDISON will be performed in Florida this May as part of Pensacola Little Theatre’s Short Attention Span Theatre on 5/4 – 5/6 & 5/10 – 5/13.

    ALEXANDER THE GREAT gets two additional productions: The ACP One Acts Festival produced by The Allegan Community Players in MI in May, 2018 and the Festival@First 10: Heroes & Villains in Somerville, MA in August, 2018.

    Finally, my award-winning short play THE CHAIR will be produced as part of The One Act Plays Festival in Tarpon Springs, Florida. The show runs from  7/19 – 7/22.

  • News & Productions: January, 2018 (Happy New Year!)


    JANUARY

    Happy New Year!  Despite the cold, 2018 is off to an exciting start!  First up, my full-length play THE TROPHY WIFE gets a reading as part of the Granite State Playwrights Workshop (Produced by Working Title Productions) in Concord, NH on January 5 – 7.  Tickets can be purchased here.

    I am also honored to have two plays included in this year’s Boston one-minute play festival.  Come see RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS & A NIGHT OUT as part of SERIES B in The 7th Annual Boston One Minute Play Festival on 1/8 & 1/9.  Gets tickets for this super fun show may be purchased here.

    Lastly, my short play DRIVE BUY will be included in TRACK B of The ACME New Works Winter Festival XVII on 1/13, 1/19 and 1/21 in Maynard, MA.  Information on how to get tickets to that show may be found through the ACME Theatre’s web site here.

  • News & Productions: January – June, 2016

    FEBRUARY

    My short film ORI & ADDISON (based on my short play) will screen at The 41st Boston Science Fiction & Film Festival, to be held at The Somerville Theatre in Boston. The Festival runs 2/5 – 2/15. ORI & ADDISON screens as part of SIBYL’S EYE (shorts) on Tuesday Feb 9th @ 5:30 PM.  Tickets are only $ 12:50 and can be purchased HERE.    

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    My new ten minute play entitled CLASS REUNION will be presented by Urban Stages in NYC as part of The President Plays on Sunday, Feb 21, 2016 at 3 and 5 PM.  (I will be at the 3 PM performance so come on out and say “Hello” if you can.)

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    The Emerson Theater Collaborative & The Mark Twain House & Museum present two readings of my full length comedy (presented as a live radio play) KING ARTHUR IN CONTEMPORARY CONNECTICUT at The Mark Twain House & Museum, the home where Twain worked on his version of the classic Arthurian legend, on Saturday, April 9th at 7 PM and Sunday, April 10th at 4 PM, and in Mystic, CT at the United Methodist Church on Saturday, April 16th at 7 PM and Sunday, April 17th at 4 PM.  All tickets: $10  (For tickets for The Mark Twain House & Museum performances:  (860) 247-0998 or visit www.marktwainhouse.org.  For tickets for the Mystic performances:  www.emersontheatercollaborative.org.)

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    After winning 1st place in their new works competition (Another one of my plays, Snowbound, won 3rd place, so they tell me), my full length play HISTORY 101 be performed at The Las Vegas Little Theatre in the LVLT Black Box Theatre April 22-May 8, 2016 and you can purchase tickets HERE.  

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    My award-winning short play THE CHAIR will be included in the Emerging Arts Festival, produced by The Laugh/Riot Performing Arts Company in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, beginning April 21st.

    I’m beyond thrilled to announce that my award-winning short play ORI & ADDISON is an official selection in The Independent Film Festival of Boston, one of my favorite film festivals (They introduced me to The Troll Hunter so, clearly, they have excellent taste).  Ori & Addison will screen with the shorts D (Delta: Narrative) group on Saturday, April 30 6:45pm at the Somerville Theatre – Screen 4 & Sunday, May 1  2:45pm at the Somerville Theatre – Screen 3.    

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    My ten minute play DRIVE BUY will be included as part of 6 Playwrights In Search of a Stage at The Roxbury Repertory Theater at The Roxbury Community College in MA April 29th – 30th, 7 PM.  All shows are FREE.  

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    JUNE

    My ten minute play ALEXANDER THE GREAT will be presented by The Actors Theatre Playhouse in West Chesterfield, NH (in southwest NH near the VT border and Brattleboro VT) as part of their new works festival.  (Dates and times to be announced – Watch this space.)

    ALEXANDER THE GREAT will also be presented by The Group Rep at the Lonny Chapman Theatre in Los Angeles, June 11 through July 17 – Saturdays at 2 PM and Sundays at 7 PM – in their new upstairs black box space at The Lonny Chapman Theatre (10900 Burbank Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91606).  (Dates changed to July – Update soon.)

    Finally, my short play DRIVE BUY will be presented at part of The Gallery Players 2016 Black Box New Play Festival, presented by The Gallery Players in Brooklyn, NY.  (DRIVE BUY will be produced in the 3rd weekend of the Festival, which runs June 16 – 19.)   

  • Come to a staged reading of my play SNOWBOUND in Mystic, CT 4/11 & 4/12

    SNOWBOUND
    A staged reading of the full-length play by James C. Ferguson
    Presented by The Emerson Theater Collaborative
    Directed by Theresa Broach
    With Mary Couto, Patrick Dicesare and Ben Donnel

    WHEN:
    April 11th, 2015 @ 7 PM
    April 12th, 2015 @ 4 PM

    WHERE:
    First United Methodist Church
    23 Willow St, Mystic, Connecticut 06355

    HOW MUCH?
    $ 10.00

    TICKETS:
    CLICK HERE

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  • SHITTENS!

    Over the summer, I have been diligently working on a new graphic novel.  Here’s the cover.  What do you think?

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