Playwriting
Adam began writing plays in 2023 through Sacred Heart University's New Works Festival. Since then, he has continued to work, having written three one-act plays: Metronome, Sfumato, and Calliope. More information on these shows, as well as upcoming projects, are provided below.
Metronome
Metronome is a One-Act Play about a poet who clings to form as he writes, adhering to strict poetic structure and following the ticking of a metronome on his desk. As this rigid obstinance takes form in his budding relationships, the poet is challenged to question his once-secure worldview. Does his life need this rigid order? Does his poetry?
Metronome debuted at Sacred Heart University, 2024.
Sfumato
Sfumato is a One-Act Play about two college students in an art class with their fanatical professor. Dr Carbone's elective, Colors of the Sky, draws only the most ambitious painters, who echo Carbone's own mania for art. As Peter and Delaney, two of these zealous students, begin a romance, Dr Carbone sees an atypical potentiality in their paintings, in art born from compassion. With pressure from his avaricious museum curator, Professor Albini, a thesis is tested through the students: What is it that makes great art: compassion or aggression?
Calliope
Calliope is a One-Act Play about a family’s struggle to cope with tragedy, told through a cryptic encounter with a circus and its Fortune Teller. As the present setting of the circus and the imagined setting of the family’s tumultuous dining room conversations meld together, Calliope, an intransigent daughter, relives her chaotic relationships with her family; mother, father, and twin sister. The Fortune Teller’s tarot card readings guiding Calliope through the processing of her family’s fresh trauma, this one-act play explores how truth can be distorted or perverted in the face of tragedy.
The Printer's Devil (WIP)
The Printer's Devil is a Two-Act Play exploring the old occupation and legend of printer's devils, the novice printers of colonial America. Just after the Revolutionary War, with ink-stained hands from the antiquated press, a new nation is being born in ink. And where human hands take their first departure from written word, a devil fabled among the earliest printers seeks to take root. From the gazettes of colonial America to the publishing offices of today, a story is told of revival, resignation, and retaliation, a battle with the evils that have plagued America since its birth.
