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BATHSHEBA DORAN |
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Literary Agent: SUBIAS |
Bathsheba Doran. Bathsheba Doran's first play, Feminine Wash, was produced at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival while she was a student at Cambridge University. She came to the United States on a Fulbright Fellowship and received her M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her most recent play,Nest, was commissioned and produced by Signature Theater in Washington, DC and is published by Samuel French. Her playLiving Room in Africa, also available from Samuel French, was developed at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference and produced Off-Broadway by the award-winning Edge Theater. Other plays by Ms. Doran include 2 Soldiers (various), The Parents' Evening(Cherry Lane), Until Morning (BBC Radio 4); adaptations of Maeterlinck's The Blind(Classic Stage Company), Dickens' Great Expectations (starring Kathleen Chalfant at The Lucille Lortel; published by Playscripts, Inc.), and Ibsen's Peer Gynt (directed by Andre Serban at the Theater of the Riverside Church). Ms. Doran is the recipient of three Lecomte du Nouy Lincoln Center Playwriting Awards, and she is a Blackburn Award finalist. Her work has been developed by Lincoln Center and Sundance Theater Lab among others, and she is currently under commission from the Atlantic Theater in New York and South Coast Repertory in California. Ms. Doran is a former playwriting fellow of Juilliard and lives in New York City.
Plays by Bathsheba Doran
2 Soldiers | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Red Room, NY | 2006 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "The Backstage Book Of New American Short Plays 2004" published by Back Stage, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54098 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | Two soldiers, one from 1412 and one from 1974, debate honor, courage, and sacrifice while waiting to battle an unknown and unseen enemy. | |||||
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Blind, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | The Vortex Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #81307 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Maurice Maeterlinck | |||||
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Great Expectations | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lucille Lortel Theatre (New York, NY, United States) | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58101 | |||
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Genre: | 90-100 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 8 males, 4 females, 4 either (6-30 actors possible: 4-20 males, 2-15 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | Based on Dickens' classic story of a young orphan, Pip, who comes into a mysterious fortune. Rejecting the love and squalor of his childhood, he attempts to win the heart of snobbish Estella, who was raised by her Aunt Miss Havisham "to wreak revenge on all the male sex." A concise and accessible adaptation for both adults and young audiences. | |||||
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Kin | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playwrights Horizons Mainstage | 21 Mar 2011 | ||||
Company: | Playwrights Horizons | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-2561-4 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #125288 | |||
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Genre: | drama comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | Anna, an Ivy League poetry scholar, and Sean, an Irish personal trainer, hardly seem destined for one another. But as their web of disparate family and friends crosses great distancesboth psychologically and geographicallyan unlikely new family is forged. Bathsheba Doran's play sheds a sharp light on the changing face of kinship in the expansive landscape of the modern world. | |||||
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Living Room in Africa | ||
| 1st Produced: | Beckett Theatre, NY | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Edge Theater Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-66344-4 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48200 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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| UK transplants Edward and Marie relocate to remote African village, intent on opening an art museum. Weeks after arriving, they are stuck with the realization that they have settled in an area devastated by poverty and AIDS. In turn, questions about personal and political responsibilities surface and they are forced to confront what the experience in Africa means to them, and what they mean to each other | |||||
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Nest | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Signature Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780573663536 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #91233 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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| Based on historical fact, Nest is a taut domestic love triangle set against the landscape of a fledgling nation on the verge of realizing its manifest destiny at a terrible bloody cost. The play re-imagines the real life story of Susanna Cox, a young indentured servant from Pennsylvania who murdered her baby in 1809, and the story of the man who wrote the ballad that was sold at her hanging. The play is a searing exploration of American dreams and violence and their place in the national psyche. | |||||
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Nowhere in America | ||
| 1st Produced: | Keen Teens at The Kirk Theatre (New York, NY, United States) | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #90804 | |||
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Genre: | 25-30 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | 8 males, 5 females (9-13 actors possible: 5-9 males, 4-5 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | Fred wants to stop watching TV; Gracie wants a Barbie leg; four friends drink on a rooftop; and a prostitute tries to imagine a better life. On a dark night, a group of Americans separated by time and space all ask the same questions: What's out there waiting for us? Who controls the future? (This play was specially commissioned by Playscripts for high school actors.) | |||||
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Parents' Evening | ||
| 1st Produced: | 29 Apr 2010 | |||||
Company: | The Flea Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #113586 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A married couple prepare with dread for the annual PARENTS' EVENING at their daughter's school. Doran's play examines the land mines of modern marriage and parenting. | |||||
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Time / Unstuck | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Ensemble Studio Theatre and Horse Trade | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84333 | |||
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Notes: | written by Neal Bell and Bathsheba Doran | |||||
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