Press
Ben Kingsland’s Trash Talk, about an anthropomorphic garbage can and recycling bin kicked to the curb too early for pick up, was by far the best sketch. In the best performances of the evening, Carolyn Sagatov plays the bad girl trash can to Mary C. Davis’s goody-goody ‘green’ shoes…
- Hillary Crowe, CITYPAPER
Sharply-drawn… An understanding [of] our present environmental challenges… sweetens the conflict among the characters. [In Trash Talk,] Kingsland captures the holier-than-thou attitude of some environmentalists and puts it in the recycling bin… the garbage can is earthy and winsome… excellent.
- Tim Treanor, DCtheatrescene.com
[Trash Talk] was bubbly… delightful… well-written and well-acted… the right balance of humor and environmental messaging.
- Josh Novikoff, DCist
My personal favorites [included] the Volga Goatman, Ben Kingsland’s mini-epic… Fun… spooky… had the audience laughing… surprisingly enjoyable and interesting… ”
- Rich See, TheaterDC.com
[White-Collar Caveman] shows tremendous potential in Kingsland… to produce works for the theater that are funny, off-beat and maybe even make us do some thinking.
- Robbie Whelan, JHU Newsletter
Production History
Here’s a selected history of where my plays have been seen or read:
Full-Length
(originally produced under the title Whitehill)
- Diving Board series, Active Cultures
- FORUM series, Playwrights’ Theater of New Jersey
- Witness Theater, Johns Hopkins University
- Playwrights’ Gymnasium, 9th Annual Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival
One-Act
- It’s Not Easy Being Green series, Journeyman Theatre Company, Capitol Fringe Festival
- Montgomery Playhouse
- Available through Heuer Publishing
- Laurel Mill Playhouse
- Available through Heuer Publishing in English and Spanish
- Bethesda Urban Partnership’s 2010 Play-in-a-Day Competition, Imagination Stage– Award-winning!
- Bethesda Urban Partnership’s 2009 Play-in-a-Day Competition, Imagination Stage– Award-winning!
- Project 24/7, SOURCE Festival
- Witness Theater, Johns Hopkins University
- Playwrights’ Gymnasium, 9th Annual Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival
- MYTH-Appropriation IV series, Rorschach Theatre
There Is No Such Thing As Cold
- Sportaculture series, Active Cultures
Educational Theatre
The Twelve Daughters of Hercules
- Richard Montgomery High School
- McKinley Elementary School, produced by Educational Theatre Company
The Legend of King Arthur and His Knights
- Tuckahoe Elementary School, produced by Educational Theatre Company
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