Coal

This is the earliest known surviving David Boles script -- Coal -- written in 1978 as a junior high class project on the environment. The production was a "radio of the mind" play taped on a cassette recorder with a plethora of characters all voiced by David. You may download the entire handwritten script by touching the page image below.

Coal Script

Stage

Unknowable Killing of Little Boy Blue (1993)
Carving Cather (1998)
Maslova: Tolstoy Musical (1989)
Bitterness of Ash (1988)
Binding of Isaac (1991)
Straight-Arrow from Broken Bow (1990)
Bits & Pieces (1987)
Dramatists Curse (1990)
United States: Fade Away (12/14-17/88)
Hunt for Home (10/15/90)
Sisyzeck: Crack Queen of Cabrini Green (1989)
Stone's Throw [reviews] (1986)
Weeping Water Cafe [live stage] [reviews] (1/7/87)
Drama of the Body [sheet] [video] (12/10/02)
Murder in Ernest (1984)
Cracked Stained Glass (1983)
Concessions (1984)
Holed Up (1985)
Unknowable Killing of Little Boy Blue [MAPS] (11/93)
Antigone '88 (1988)

Television

Weeping Water Cafe [TV] [reviews] (1/7/87)
Roseanne: Dan the Man [spec] (1993)
Uncle Wiggly (1991)
Toots (1991)
Harmonic Heart (1991)
Golden Girls: Big Freeze [spec] (1985)

Westborough Crusaders (1982)

Episode 1: A Grain of Sand
Episode 2: Broken Revelations
Episode 3: Intrepid Reflections
Episode 4: Excelsior [video]
Episode 5: Only a Matter of Time
Episode 6: A Blind Man's Camelot
Episode 7: The God of War
Episode 8: Masquerade of Robin Goodfellow [video]

Mickle: Impossible (11/19/79)
Waterstone Corner (1982)
Twilight Zone: Another 12-Year-Old Hero [spec] (1985)
Jojo -- stage play treatment (2/24/79)
IMDb

Film

Ischia is Burning (1993)
Deep Kill (1993)
Quake (1992)
Harmonic Heart (1992)
William Jennings Bryan: Magnificent Loser (1988)
Watershed -- First Draft [film] (1986)
Bushwhacker (1986)
Second Man's Denouement (6/2/82)
Strayers (1981)
To Be Steurling -- Jojo screenplay (6/9/81)

Radio

Coal (1978)
Growing Older (4/19/80)
Headlines (1981)