Scripts by David:

BOOTH TRILOGY

Part I - Booth
Edwin Booth was the most successful actor of his day...
until his brother assassinated the President....

In the wake of Lincoln's assassination an angry country wanted retribution. BOOTH is set in New York on January 3, 1866, nine months after the assassination, as Edwin Booth prepares to return to the stage. Knowing too well that his name is inextricably linked with his brother, John Wilkes Booth, and hence his brother's infamous crime, he fears the worst from a hostile audience. A fascinating insight into life in the public eye, an individual grappling with the wheels of history and fate, and American theatre at the time of The Civil War.

"Beeler, quite superb...keeps you on the edge of your seat." "...impressively detailed...fascinating..."
— The Scotsman —The Evening News, Edinburgh

Part II - Our Brutus
When obsession is fatal...
When one death threatens a country...
When a president pays the price...

John Wilkes Booth was a successful actor, earning over $20,000 per year, but he is most remembered as Lincoln's assassin. He had fame, adulation, and was the toast of society. Why then, did he do it? Told with passion and dark humour, OUR BRUTUS follows John Wilke's obsession, the conspiracy, the assassination, and Booth's demise as his ultimate solution backfires. It is the story of those who survived a Civil War but could not endure the peace.

"...Beeler, a masterful performance... a uniformly strong cast....a tight, imaginatively directed play (and) worthy successor to the 1991 Fringe First for BOOTH."
—The Scotsman

"...compelling...witty, richly crafted....the nine strong cast fills a colourful canvas......a truly ripping yarn."
--–– The Independent

Part III - The Sanity of Madness
He had that "touch of strangeness that gave him genius"...
He was one step away from the top...
Then he fell in love.

Junius Brutus Booth, father to Edwin and John Wilkes, was considered to be one of the greatest actors of his day — a swaggering drunk, an eccentric prone to fits of madness, and the only real rival to the great Edmund Kean. On the cusp of achieving his goals and toppling "the Lion of the London stage", he meets a flower girl who rocks his world. A glorious love story spanning two continents, The Sanity of Madness follows Junius as he balances his two families, his two careers as pre-eminent tragedian and gentleman farmer, and the demonic and angelic contradictions of his nature. If Edwin inherited his father's genius, then John Wilkes Booth inherited his father's star quality and his dark, conflicting, passionate soul. This is the story of a man searching for that which we all crave, carving solutions from the granite of his experience, touched by the potent simplicity of love....

DOUBLE ACT (co-written by Tom Konkle)

GOOD NIGHT (co-written by Tom Konkle)

MCFWAP! PILOT (co-author with Lester McFwap team)

THE ANIMAL IN US ALL (co-written by Tom Konkle)

WHITSTLING IN THE DARD; GLENN MILLER'S WAR

SHATTERED ROSE