Roy C. Booth, author of Theatre of the Macabre, is having his 48th play published! Congratulations, Roy!

Bemidji native and resident Roy C. Booth announces that his award-winning one-act comedy, Rodrigo Gets the Postmodern Blues, will be published in 2010 by Heuer Publishing of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The play will then become Booth’s 48th to be published. The play originated in the Black Box Theatre at Bemidji State University in the spring of 1997, and was later produced years later in revised form in Seattle, Lexington, KY, and later at various venues in Poland starting in 2003. In 2006 Booth revised the script a third time and entered it into a national playwrighting contest sponsored by Stepping Stone Entertainment of Kentucky where it won Best One-Act Comedy in 2007 and earned another full production in 2008. The play is famous in certain fringe festival circles for featuring a mad scientist, an unhinged Wisconsin cheese salesman, aliens, baseball pitching five-legged mutated frogs, film agents, an epic kaiju battle, Godzilla performing Shakespeare, and other quirky elements Heuer editor Geri Albrecht calls the play “a whopping home run,” one that Heuer would be “more than honored to have in our catalog.” Booth already has five plays pubished with Heuer, including an award-winning adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s famous short story, The Rocking-Horse Winner.

Booth also received the 640th known production of his work this weekend, two performances of The Glover’s Mange Cure Caper, co-written with Louise Bottrell, at the Madison High School in Rexburg, Idaho. Booth is a Central Lakes College and Bemidji State University graduate with a BA in English/Speech-Theatre and an MA in English with an emphasis in creative writing, and is the owner/operator of Roy’s Comics & Games of Downtown Bemidji where copies of his plays and books can be obtained as well as at Bookworld.