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MARK DUNN (1956 - ) |
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Plays by Mark Dunn |
Belles | ||
| 1st Produced: | Exit Cafe, San Francisco | 22 Jan 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10320 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 6 | ||
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Synopsis: | The full title of this piece is: Belles: a play in two acts and forty-five phone calls. This description is from the press release: "The Walker sisters, born and raised in Memphis, now live in six different US cities and communicate solely by phone. The eldest, Peggy, who remained with Mama in Tennessee, calls her siblings when their mother is hospitalized-nothing serious, she just ate some bad tuna-but the phone calls lead to often comedic and sometimes brutal confrontations about the past and the present." | |||||
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Deer And The Antelope Play, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10321 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | A serious comedy about the value of family and friendship, the importance of self-forgiveness, and the special healing joy that comes to those who know how to "drink life to the dregs," THE DEER AND THE ANTELOPE PLAY tells the story of an East Texas family-a mother, daughter and grandmother-who face tragedy and assorted misfortunes head-on with the help of the strange young woman who comes to live with them: a possible ex-hooker who defines herself as "one who drinks from the well of life in big gulps." Much of the action of this four-character play takes place in the home of Eleanor Kaiser, a sixty-three-year-old widow who has just opened her home to her daughter, Carol, and her teenage granddaughter, Mindy, following a devastating fire in Carol and Mindy's house across town. It becomes clear early in the play that Mindy, who is emotionally disturbed, was responsible for the fire and that it may have been a suicide attempt. Into the lives of these three women walks Kenetta Tate, a free spirit who, like Eleanor and Carol, is struggling to jump-start a life that has ground to a halt. Focusing on Mindy, Kenetta sets off on a mission to prove to her roommate and new friend that the pleasures life has to offer can conquer the pain&when one knows how to fully embrace them. | |||||
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Delightful Quarantine, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Community Theatre League, Williamsport, Pennsylvania | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82471 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 10 | ||
Parts other: | 2 girls | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | What would it be like to be confined with people you don't really know? Strange visitors leave behind a deadly disease that leaves seven separate households unexpectedly quarantined. Seven story lines are deftly balanced as people are forced to confront their personal issues. A heart-warming original comedy/drama about how people react when there's nowhere else to go | |||||
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Dix Tableaux | ||
| 1st Produced: | Community Theatre League, Williamsport, Pennsylvania | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82472 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | m/f ensemble of flexible number | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of friendship between two women in their sixties is played out over the course of ten years, each year representing another reunion for Beverly Duggins and Addie Spools, two participants in a series of annual "tableaux" sponsored by the Museum of Dix, in a small city in the South. Within human diorama settings as simple as a frontier cabin porch or the cow stall of a local dairy barn, and as elaborate as the "Spit and Curl" beauty salon (circa 1930) and the front seat of Thelma and Louise's plummeting convertible, Beverly, the lonely urban professional, and Addie, the down-home pharmacist's assistant, chart the course of each other's lives, while fending off incursions from the officiously bothersome fellow-poser Maureen. Through the ten scenes which comprise the play, the two women are forced to endure the constant in terruptions of the museum "promenaders" who "ooh" and "ah" at the lifelike presentations, offering up their comical comments, both kind and cruel. Though they see one another only one weekend a year, and in spite of their very different backgrounds, Beverly and Addie nurture a growing and abiding friendship. In the end, it becomes the strongest and most sustaining friendship of their lives. | |||||
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Five Tellers Dancing In The Rain | ||
| 1st Produced: | Denver | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10322 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | Southern sass, tears and charm as five bank tellers speak their hearts and brew lots of coffee | |||||
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Frank's Life | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Published, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10323 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Genermat | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82477 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Cary and Frances break up or is Carrie and Francis or Francis and Cary or&& | |||||
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Helen's Most Favourite Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82473 | |||
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Genre: | Romance | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Helen is swept off her feet by Jed. She wishes that her perfect day could last forever. Be careful what you wish for&. | |||||
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Island Fever | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sanford Meisner Theater, New York | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #82474 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Seven men are shipwrecked on a desert island. What will the straight ones do for sexual gratification? | |||||
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Judge and Jury | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10324 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | love and war rage in a Texas small claims court | |||||
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Minus Some Buttons | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10325 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | is the new teacher at Graceland Elementary School a complete lunatic or is she the only one with any sense whatsoever | |||||
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Mrs Townley Had a Pomeranian | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82475 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Maddie tries to find homes for the pets left behind after a bus crash kills most of the congregation of her church. Then she starts hearing voices. | |||||
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North Fork | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Published as "Cabin Fever" by Samuel French Inc, New York, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82476 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original music by Merek Royce Press. Also known as "Cabin Fever" | |||||
Synopsis: | For Memorial Day the family are spending the weekend in their cabin. Father has taken to drink; one daughter cannot stop eating; one daughter thinks she has got rid of her husband but he turns up; the aunt is locked in the bathroom and cannot get out and the one daughter who was not invited (because she was locked up in an institution) also turns up with a hostage | |||||
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Oh Revoir, Mirabeau | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #87699 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Broken hearts and broken dreams | |||||
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PIGmalion | ||
| 1st Produced: | Community Theatre League, Williamsport, Pennsylvania | 17 Oct 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69804-0 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #113108 | |||
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Genre: | dramatic comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | cross casting and double casting possible | |||||
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| nspired by Pygmalion, Shaw's classic drawing room tale of language and class division, and its musical incarnation, My Fair Lady, the play tells the story of one Eliza Doolittle - the daughter of a hardscrabble Mississippi pig farmer - who sells homemade pork rinds at the Tri-Counties Fair and Livestock Show, and dreams of someday working as a waitress at one of those nice downtown barbecue restaurants where all the tourists go. With the support of her best friend, a sassy Transgender firecracker named Miss Tiffany Box, patroness Ida Hill and her daughter Clara; and with Ida's instantly enamored son Freddy nipping romantically at Eliza's heels, Delta-drawlin' Eliza engages the services of a Kudzu-league college prof named Henry Higgins to take the country out of her speech and give her some semblance of class. Devotees of Shaw's original will delight in the transplantation of Eliza and Professor Higgins and his colleague Pickering to the American South. But this gentle, warm-hearted comedy gives us something else as well, a question for which everyone in the play must find the answer: how do we reconcile the way we present ourselves on the outside with who we truly are on the inside? | |||||
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Sand Pies and Scissorlegs | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York, 1992 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10326 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | having run away from foster home and headed for Disney World children find how difficult it is to trade the safety and security of youth for the problems and responsibilities of the adult world | |||||
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T J or The Publick and Private Intrigues of Thomas Jefferson and His Illustrious Circle | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #87700 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Thomas Jefferson and his slave mistress. Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton and their duel. The early days of the American presidents | |||||
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Volley Boys | ||
| 1st Produced: | Thirteenth Street Rep, New York | 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #82478 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | The volley ball team is invited to watch a video of one of their games. It is all a ploy they are being held prisoner. They are told by their captor that he will return in an hour and they should have decided in that time who of their number should have his penis cut off. If they are unable to make a choice they will all have their penises cut off. | |||||
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