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NANCY GALL-CLAYTON (1946 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Nancy Gall-Clayton is a Kentucky playwright whose work has been on stages across the country and in Australia. She has won several national competitions, including the Streisand Festival of New Jewish Plays and the Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors. She has been a Finalist three times for Actors Theatre of Louisville's Heideman Award. Nancy has been a Visiting Artist at The Ohio State University Department of Theatre and a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee Writers' Workshop. She co-founded the traveling festival "6 Women Turning 60 in 2006." Nancy's work has been supported by the Kentucky Foundation for Women, Pleiades Theatre Company, and the Kentucky Arts Council. Excerpts, shorts, and monologues appear in anthologies published by Dramatic, Meriwether, and Smith & Kraus. She teaches writing and gives workshops. Nancy is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the International Centre for Women Playwrights.
Plays by Nancy Gall-Clayton
740 Is a Blue Ribbon | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #79549 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (drama) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Wilma uses a wheelchair and relies on an attendant during the day when her husband is at work and their 17-year-old is at school. Gloria has been eagerly awaiting her SAT results, which may qualify her for a scholarship to an out-of-town college. Her mother is not sure Gloria is ready to leave home. Or is it Wilma (who has hidden Gloria's mail) the one who isn't ready? Gloria stands up for herself and at the same time helps Wilma realize that, despite her disability, she still has meaningful choices. | |||||
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Anesthetic Was Psalms, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Highland Woman's Club, Louisville, Kentucky | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Highland Woman's Club | |||||
| 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 | #79550 | |||
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Genre: | historical drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | This is one of 11 plays in "Women of the 15th State," a collection of short plays about Kentucky women. | |||||
Synopsis: | This play was inspired by the life of Jane Todd Crawford (1763-1842) who, on Christmas Day 1809, had an ovarian cyst weighing more than 20 pounds removed as she lay on Dr. Ephraim McDowell's dining room table and calmly recited psalms. Anesthesia was unknown at the time, and Crawford refused whiskey. The patients life was at risk as was the doctor's since surgery was considered intervening into the will of God. Crawford and McDowell survived. | |||||
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Aphrodite at the ER | ||
| 1st Produced: | Camino Real Playhouse, California | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Camino Real Playhouse | |||||
| 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 | #78655 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (comedy) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Aphrodite will be in voluminous sheeting (Greek-style apparel) and the birth of Eros should be funny - a doll or cute teddy can drop from the folds of her garment to signify the delivery is complete. The "ping" can be an offstage cymbal or simply the sound of silver on a glass. It's meant to funny, not accurate. | |||||
Synopsis: | Very pregnant with Eros (Cupid) and mysteriously transported into the 21st century, Aphrodite (who lacks insurance and a surname) creates a stir in the Emergency Room. Bud, the clerk who is passionate about forms and order, is giving Aphrodite a very hard time when PING! out pops Eros and a little golden arrow changes everything. | |||||
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Audrey and Ora | ||
| 1st Produced: | MeX Theatre, Louisville, Kentucky | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Pleiades Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #79157 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (historical drama) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2f (one black, one white) | |||||
Notes: | This is one of 11 plays in "Women of the 15th State," a collection of short plays about Kentucky women. | |||||
Synopsis: | This play, which takes place in 1932, is inspired by the lives of two Kentucky women: Audrey Whitlock Peterson (193-1978) and Ora Porter (188-197), who lived close to one another in Kentucky. Though they may not have met, they could have - and this play puts the nurse Porter making a home call for a broken ankle experienced by Peterson, whose girls' basketball coach team from the tiny town of Woodburn won state championships 5 years in a row. Porter, an African American who earned her degree at Tuskegee, was the first registered nurse of any race in Bowling Green, Kentucky. | |||||
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Baby Joe's Song | ||
| 1st Produced: | Capitol Hill Arts Center, Seattle, Washington | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Mae West Fest | |||||
| 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 | #79154 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (drama) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | The play was revised extensively and presented in 27 at the "New Voices Series" of the Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative and the Cincinnati Arts Association. | |||||
Synopsis: | Two mothers spar, a teenage romance ends, a young man is misunderstood, and tragedy follows in this non-linear deconstruction of a moment of school violence. | |||||
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Bernice Sizemore's 70th Birthday | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Light Festival, Cincinnati | - - - | ||||
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 | #109420 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
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Synopsis: | Bernice is happy and able to look after herself and yet her daughter wants her to move into a condo - and has given her a gun | |||||
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Booking | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shelby County Community Theatre, Shelbyville, Kentucky | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Shelby County Community 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 | #78656 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (comedy) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | This very short play (5 pages) is easily done in a bookstore. It's okay to change all references to local ones. | |||||
Synopsis: | Two women are man-hunting in a bookstore; one finds the perfect guy, but it turns out to be the married brother of the other. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Clock is Ticking, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Looking Glass 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 | #62963 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (comedy) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | part of Creatures of the Cabaret. This is a program of eight short plays about non-human characters (such as trolls, fairies, goblins and ghouls). The plays are: Angels! by Mary Flanagan; One, Two, Three, Breathe by Lenore Blumenfeld; The Clock is Ticking by Nancy Gall-Clayton; Time Troll by Karin Diann Williams; English Therapy by Nancy Gall-Clayton; I Confess by Charmian Creagle & Sean Doran; Extraotica by Yasmine Beverly Rana; and Behind Closed Doors by Letitia Sweitzer. | |||||
Synopsis: | Tinker Bell is now a shrink, Dr. Tina Bellwether, whose services as sought by the Fairy Godmother. Tink drives a hard bargain, but all ends well in this fast-paced comedy. | |||||
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Colored Door at the Train Depot, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | South Eastern Theatre New Play Project | 2003 | ||||
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 | #78672 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length historical drama Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 3 WM 2 BM 2 WF 3 BF | |||||
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Synopsis: | This WWII drama is inspired Anna Mac Clarke, the first African American to command whites in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs). No one in Anna's rural hometown is impressed by her college degree, but the grandmother who raised her (and who can neither read nor write) helps Anna see she has choices. The choice Anna makes worries her grandmother and brother, but Anna is determined. Though there are certainly obstacles (including a scene between a reluctant recruiter and Anna), she joins up and graduates from Officer Candidate School in Des Moines. It was at Douglas Army Air Field in Arizona, that Anna led a protest against segregated seating at the base theatre. To her surprise, the base commander desegregated the airfield. Lt. Clarke died two months later of a botched appendicitis operation, and her brother was forced to bring her remains back home through the door marked "Colored" at the train depot. | |||||
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Crusader from Paducah, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Highland Woman's Club, Louisville, Kentucky | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Highland Woman's Club | |||||
| 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 | #79149 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (historical drama) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | This is one of 11 plays in "Women of the 15th State," a collection of short plays about Kentucky women. With doubling, 2 white males, 2 white females, and 1 black female can perform the play. | |||||
Synopsis: | This play was inspired by the life of Hannah Evelyn Brooks (1879-1926), an eccentric but beloved journalist in Paducah, Kentucky, who at 8, not only wrote for the paper, she delivered it. Early in her life, she opposed slavery; later, she worked for suffrage and prohibition. | |||||
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Curiosity Quilt, A | ||
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| 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 | #79551 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (comedy) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | The time is the 1950s, and Polly, age 11, is a spelling bee champion in a small town in rural Kentucky where the girl lives with her mother and grandmother. Polly has no interest in improving her quilt-making skills and is horrified when her grandmother suggests Polly might, like her older sister, marry one day and need such skills. As the three explain their feelings more fully, a compromise becomes obvious. | |||||
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Dan Rhema: Vessel for Art | ||
| 1st Produced: | Artwatch, Louisville, Kentucky | 1997 | ||||
Company: | Artwatch | |||||
| 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 | #79145 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue (drama) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | F or M | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A poetic dreamy reminiscence of a man's near death and out-of-body experience and his subsequent transformation into an artist. | |||||
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Dead Deer in the Dark | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playwrights Circle, Palm Springs, California | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Playwrights Circle | |||||
| 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 | #79155 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue (drama) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Michelle is making a recording in response to an assignment from her high school advisor. She must list strengths, weaknesses, and goals, but she forgets herself and reveals much more. We get a glimpse into the world of a teenage girl whose mother is in a halfway house and whose father refuses to believe Michelle's excuse for coming in after curfew. | |||||
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Directions to Venus | ||
| 1st Produced: | Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Panoply Arts Festival | |||||
| 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 | #78657 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (comedy) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A picnic table is needed for the set. | |||||
Synopsis: | Angie and Doug are having a weekend adventure - or trying to. Angie, who's mostly along for a chance to read and relax, is miffed that Doug has gotten lost looking for Supply, the oddly named North Carolina town where Doug will be able to paint Venus flytraps. Angie wants to ask that burly tattooed truck driver for directions. Doug is opposed, but it's too late. Not only does he give them directions and more information than Doug wishes, the truck driver becomes enchanted with Angie's sandals. | |||||
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Discovery | ||
| 1st Produced: | MeX Theatre, Louisville, Kentucky | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Pleiades Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #79156 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (drama) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | The play was extensively revised and presented subsequent to its premiere in several venues. | |||||
Synopsis: | A teen who "feels" Jewish breaks into the agency that handled her adoption to learn the truth. She, her best friend, and the agency director who finds the young women make discoveries - but not the ones they expected. | |||||
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Don't Call Me Loretta! | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading at Prop Theatre, Chicago | 16 Mar 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | A monologue from the play is published by Smith & Kraus in "Audition Arsenal for Women in Their 30s," Janet Milstein, editor, August 2005. It will be reissued by Meriwether in 2008 in "Women's Monologs 11."., | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78658 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (comedy) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This play has never been produced, possibly because it involves throwing things (hey, I changed it from ketchup bottles to sugar packets). | |||||
Synopsis: | When a man comes into a diner just before closing, Loretta, who is trying to tidy up and put everything away, is not amused, especially when the customer tries to flirt. | |||||
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Encounter in the Mega-Mega Toy Store | ||
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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 | #109421 | |||
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Genre: | Ten minute play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Christmas Eve and the assistant tries to help a Goth couple | |||||
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End of My Life as a Back Porch Beautician, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative/Cincinnati Arts Ass'n | |||||
| 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 | #79147 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue (comedy) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This monologue is scheduled for publication in 28. | |||||
Synopsis: | A new widow recalls her odd marriage and happily anticipates her retirement while providing an unforgettable hair experience for her last customer. | |||||
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English Therapy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Looking Glass 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 | #62964 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (comedy) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Creatures of the Cabaret. This is a program of eight short plays about non-human characters (such as trolls, fairies, goblins and ghouls). The plays are: Angels! by Mary Flanagan; One, Two, Three, Breathe by Lenore Blumenfeld; The Clock is Ticking by Nancy Gall-Clayton; Time Troll by Karin Diann Williams; English Therapy by Nancy Gall-Clayton; I Confess by Charmian Creagle & Sean Doran; Extraotica by Yasmine Beverly Rana; and Behind Closed Doors by Letitia Sweitzer. | |||||
Synopsis: | Punctuation marks are abused, neglected, and misunderstood, so naturally, they participate in group therapy under the auspices of Dr. Tina Bellwether (the former Tinker Bell). | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Felicity's Family Tree | ||
| 1st Produced: | Atlantis Playmakers, Billerica, Massachusetts | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Atlantis Playmakers | |||||
| 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 | #79552 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (drama) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | This play won the 2003 Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors competition, was a Finalist for the Heideman Prize at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and was part of the traveling festival "6 Women Turning 60 in 2006." | |||||
Synopsis: | An elderly woman's world is the photographs and albums she is putting together. What could be more important than family? A lot -- in the view of her social worker who thinks Felicity has been deluding herself too long and even endangering herself in her quest to fill the albums. | |||||
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First Woman of Industry | ||
| 1st Produced: | MeX Theatre, Louisville, Kentucky | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Pleiades Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #79158 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (historical drama) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This is one of 11 plays in "Women of the 15th State," a collection of short plays about Kentucky women. | |||||
Synopsis: | This play was inspired by the life of Catharine Danenhold Melcher (1817-1847?). Against all odds, this German immigrant who lost her husband and two babies, successfully managed her husband's pottery business in an era when few women were involved in commerce. Melcher's story is revealed as her 13-year-old daughter Amelia struggles between wanting to be a child, a woman, and an assistant to her mother. Eventually, Melcher's business and several others were combined into the highly successful company known as Louisville Stoneware today. | |||||
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Fish in the Dumpster, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater Row Studios, New York | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Love Creek Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Smith & Kraus "The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2000", 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78676 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This monologue has been popular in Australia. | |||||
Synopsis: | As a young woman explains a recent ordeal with strange innocence - she's been abandoned at a truck stop and a fish is trying to get out of her stomach, the audience gradually realizes the horrific thing she's done. | |||||
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Fluffy | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #109423 | |||
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Genre: | Ten minute play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | When their pet dies he has different ideas on what to do than she does | |||||
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General Orders No 11 | ||
| 1st Produced: | CenterStage, Louisville, Kentucky | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Jewish Community Center, Louisville, Kentucky | |||||
| 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 | #78671 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length (Historical drama) Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The premiere was performed with a unit set. It won the Streisand Festival of New Jewish Plays. | |||||
Synopsis: | This Civil War drama was inspired by General Ulysses S. Grant's order of December 17, 1862, banishing all Jews from his military district on 24 hours notice. Included in the 5 states his district touched were 30 families in Paducah, Kentucky, who fled up the Ohio River to Cincinnati, not knowing if they'd ever be allowed to return. A Paducah merchant, Cesar Kaskel, organized the exodus, and then took a train from Cincinnati to Washington, where he had an audience with President Lincoln. Lincoln had the order rescinded, but its impact on the Paducah community and Jews across the nation was profound. Though based on historical accounts and documents, the protagonist and her family are fictional. | |||||
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I Changed My Mind | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Co "Classroom Scenes and Monologues", 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79553 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Plans for surgery to remove a facial birthmark have been long in the making, but at the last minute, a teenage girl decides not to proceed. Without her birthmark and the responses it triggers, she will have a far more difficult time judging others. | |||||
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In The Garden Of Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #109424 | |||
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Genre: | Ten minute play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A box appears on a young woman's doorstep | |||||
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Interview in Midway, An | ||
| 1st Produced: | Highland Woman's Club, Louisville, Kentucky | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Highland Woman's Club | |||||
| 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 | #79148 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (historical drama) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This is one of 11 plays in "Women of the 15th State," a collection of short plays about Kentucky women. | |||||
Synopsis: | This play is inspired by the life of Phoebe Phelps Button (184-1892), a widowed school teacher interviewing for a position with the Superintendent of the Kentucky Female Orphan School. The Superintendent is very interested until Button explains that she'll come only if her son - who would be the first and only male student at the institution - must be allowed to attend classes. | |||||
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It's So Me, Mom! | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #78659 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (comedy) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This very short play (5 pages) is often used in forensic competitions. | |||||
Synopsis: | A 17-year-old has, at last, found the prom dress of her dreams. The problem is that it's not the prom dress of her mother's dreams. | |||||
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Jar, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #78674 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (drama) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This play is just 4 pages long and very dark. | |||||
Synopsis: | The passions and phobias of two brothers are revealed after their mother's funeral when both are determined to take possession of a jar of small mysterious objects that has been on her mantle for years. | |||||
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Juice | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #109422 | |||
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Genre: | Ten minute play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A recovering alcoholic can stay with his family if he gets a job. The one he is given reminds him of the death of a dear friend | |||||
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Just Taking Up Space | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kentucky Repertory Theatre, Horse Cave, Kentucky | 1998 | ||||
Company: | Kentucky Repertory 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 | #78673 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The premiere was performed with a unit set. Excerpts are published in "The Best Men's Stage Monologues 1999" and "The Best Stage Scenes 1999," both published by Smith & Kraus. The man's monologue has been a popular audition piece. | |||||
Synopsis: | Frank spray paints "I love you" on the wall of an abandoned building to let Jessie know how he feels. A police officer happens by, tempers flare, and things get physical. The officer falls against a wall. Frank grabs Jessie and they run off. The next thing Frank knows he has a public defender and is appearing before a judge known for creative sentencing. She orders him to spend time every day at the officer's side, even though the man is unconscious. Initially very hostile, Frank gradually not only accepts, but looks forward to, his chance to talk "to" Officer Arnie. Frank was beginning to impress even the stern charge nurse when he abruptly stops visiting. Worried about the consequences, Jessie goes to the hospital but gets a very cool reception from the officer's wife until Jessie reveals a secret from her past. Jessie finds Frank and gives him the surprising news that she and the officer's wife have become acquainted and even more unexpected, that the officer has regained consciousness. At the final bedside scene, it's clear that Frank is not totally transformed, but his unusual journey of self-discovery has enabled him to, at last, take responsibility for himself. | |||||
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Lady Steamboatman, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | MeX Theatre, Louisville, Kentucky | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Pleiades Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #79160 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (historical drama) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This is one of 11 plays in "Women of the 15th State," a collection of short plays about Kentucky women. | |||||
Synopsis: | This play is inspired by the life of Mary Millicent Garretson Miller (1846-1894), who, in 1883, became the first woman granted a license to be a steamboat captain. Her husband, who was twice her age, objected at first, but went on to offer his support. Next, it was the examiners in New Orleans who challenged her authority, but her success with the exam led a New Orleans newspaper to call her the first "lady steamboatman." | |||||
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Learning by Moonlight in the Mountains | ||
| 1st Produced: | League of Women Voters, Louisville, Kentucky | 2002 | ||||
Company: | League of Women Voters | |||||
| 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 | #79153 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue (historical drama) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This is one of 11 plays in "Women of the 15th State," a collection of short plays about Kentucky women. | |||||
Synopsis: | This play is inspired by the life of Cora Wilson Stewart (1875-1958), who began teaching at the age or 15 and eventually founded "moonlight schools," the forerunner of adult education. The play takes place in Rowan County, Kentucky, in 1912. Just 25 years earlier, violence had been so rampant in Rowan County that the Kentucky Governor said the county should be abolished, but the literacy classes apparently turned things around. In this monologue, Stewart speaks to a crowd gathered to wish her well on her journey to Louisville where she - the first female president of the Kentucky Education Association - will address the association. | |||||
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Levels of Living | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gallery 202, Westerville, Ohio | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute | |||||
| 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 | #78660 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (comedy) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The set should be ambiguous - is it a prison cell? a Spartan nursing home? or a level in Hades? This play was a Semifinalist in the Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors Competition. | |||||
Synopsis: | An elderly woman who was accidentally placed in Hades resists efforts to correct the error and move into Heaven. In fact, the angel sent to retrieve her decides she'd like to stay, also. | |||||
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Malinda | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Juneteenth Legacy 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 | #79151 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (drama) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Everything changes for Malinda, a Virginia slave, when she learns about President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Though the proclamation freed slaves in Confederate states, they still had to find a way to leave. Malinda - who is far more intelligent than she lets on - decides to ask the man who has fathered her son to jump the broom and go north with her. He finds the idea preposterous, but then he learns she's placed their baby (his only son) on the docks so that her journey north will be safer. He confronts her; both make decisions that will change their lives. | |||||
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Mama's Laundry Starch | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #139908 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Mama's Laundry Starch by Nancy Gall-Clayton will have a reading as part of the 2nd Annual Juneteenth Festival of New Plays. The play provides a contemporary look at women who eat clay, perhaps for needed nutrients, a practice dating to Africa in the 19th century. May 17, Workshop Theatre's Jewel Theatre in New York City. Tickets are $5. More information at http://www.juneteenthlegacytheatre.com/. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Man Named Mack, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jazz Factory, Louisville, Kentucky | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Jazz Factory | |||||
| 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 | #79150 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue (comedy) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The author read the monologue during a monthly event called "Jazz and the Spoken Word" where musicians improv while writers read their work. | |||||
Synopsis: | Sue Ellen is leaving a man who loves worms and plans to marry a mechanic with 7 missing teeth, but not until she explains things to her adult son and invites everyone for Thanksgiving. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mustache and a Mattress, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Creative Place Theatre, New York | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Love Creek Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Co. ("35 in 10: Thirty-Five Ten-Minute Plays"), 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78661 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (comedy) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A mattress is needed for the set. Love Creek nominated this play for the Samuel French Festival. | |||||
Synopsis: | She needs a mattress - he needs to sell one, but then a mustache gets in the way. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Neatness Factor, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing "Classroom Scenes and Monologues", 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79555 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1m or 1f | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A 15-year-old (male or female) who loves order the letter "B" prepares for a job interview at the library while also reflecting on the messy home where he lives with packrat parents. | |||||
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One Black WAAC | ||
| 1st Produced: | Museum Theatre, Frankfort, Kentucky | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Kentucky Historical Society | |||||
| 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 | #79152 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue (historical drama) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This is one of 11 plays in "Women of the 15th State," a collection of short plays about Kentucky women. | |||||
Synopsis: | This play is inspired by the life of Anna Mac Clarke (1919-1944), an African American from rural Kentucky who, against all odds, earned a college degree, joined the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, became the first woman of her race to lead a white women's unit during World War II, and thanks to a daring protest of segregated seating at an air force theatre in Arizona, caused the commander to desegregate his base years before the United States military was officially segregated. | |||||
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Papaya Sling | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #78662 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (comedy) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A bar and a couple of stools are needed. | |||||
Synopsis: | Would-be marrieds check each other out in a rapid-fire repartee at a neighborhood bar. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Poet from Pikeville, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Thrust Theatre, Louisville, Kentucky | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Pleiades Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #79161 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (historical comedy) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This is one of 11 plays in "Women of the 15th State," a collection of short plays about Kentucky women. | |||||
Synopsis: | This play, which takes place in the present, is inspired by the life of Effie Waller Smith (1879-196). A teacher objects to the plan of two high school students to write about an obscure African American poet from Eastern Kentucky, for their senior project. The teacher is sure the young women are mistaken; how could an African American female poet have published in Harper's without his knowing about her? The students convince the teacher to read a bit of Smith's prose, and the ghost of the poet joins the action. In spite of himself, the teacher becomes enamored of Smith and nearly forgets his wife's request that he pick up some pine nuts (What are they, he wonders) on his way home. | |||||
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Remembering a Bottle of of of | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #78663 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (comedy) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | He sees her at a bar in Dublin and she looks oh, so very familiar - but why? She's having none of it as she's waiting for a blind date to show and doesn't want the distraction. It turns out they had a sort of accidental weekend marriage back in the States a couple decades before. Can James Joyce bring them together again? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Requiem for a Pair of Manicure Scissors | ||
| 1st Produced: | Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, Lexington, Kentucky | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning | |||||
| 1st Published: | Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Ky. ("I to I: Life Writing by Kentucky Feminists," ed. Elizabeth Oakes & Jane Olmsted), 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79146 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue (drama) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The author was awarded the Carole Pettit Legacies Creative Writing Medallion and invited to read this piece as described above in 23. | |||||
Synopsis: | Childhood memories of beloved mother are explored and put in a new context when a small gift from long ago suddenly breaks. | |||||
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She Moves Like the Wind | ||
| 1st Produced: | MeX Theatre, Louisville, Kentucky | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Pleiades Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #79162 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (historical drama) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This is one of 11 plays in "Women of the 15th State," a collection of short plays about Kentucky women. | |||||
Synopsis: | This play is inspired by the life of Elmer Lucille Allen, an African American woman (b. 1931), who grew up in an era when everything from schools to libraries was segregated in her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. Allen broke racial and gender barriers when she earned a degree in chemistry in 1953. She found a job as a chemist in 1966 at Brown-Forman, staying on for more than 3 years. Not the retiring type, she earned her second degree at age 7 when she completed requirements for a Master of Arts degree in Creative Arts in ceramics. The play takes place in the gallery where she is packing up her thesis exhibit as she talks with a lost student and two friends. | |||||
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Snowflake Theory, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bard's Town, Louisville, Kentucky | 10 May 2012 | ||||
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 | #78675 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length (Romantic comedy) Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The play has received several awards, but awaits the right venue for its premiere. Contact me for a free perusal copy. | |||||
Synopsis: | This comedy examines spirituality, self-knowledge, and familial relationships. Marge, age 58, has at last decided to stop doing whatever she thinks her deceased husband would want. Marge's children, too, have plans for new paths. Rebecca, the 40-year-old daughter and social justice activist whom Marge has been unsuccessfully pointing toward marriage for decades, has just been artificially inseminated with Jewish sperm. Clark, age 33, who has been changing college majors for a dozen years, is still keeping his true passion (cooking) a secret except from Violet, who seems a ditz at first, but is perhaps the most grounded character in the story. It's all a bit overwhelming, and Marge asks the new rabbi for guidance. Marge startles them both by inviting the rabbi to join her at a reading of Lysistrata with Violet in the title role. Love, Jell-O, knit dresses, Scrabble, and bagels conquer all (more or less). In the end, the characters come together with a deepened sense of self, family, and spiritual connection - and all have, indeed, found new directions. | |||||
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Special Delivery | ||
| 1st Produced: | Olathe Community Theatre, Olathe, Kansas | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Potluck Productions | |||||
| 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 | #78664 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (comedy) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | This play takes place in the reception room of a zany little clinic where human embryos are created, grown, and stored.. | |||||
Synopsis: | The receptionist at a Bio-Geno Embryo, Inc. is always on top of things, despite over-eager sperm donors, late egg donors, insistent clients, and constant interruptions. | |||||
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Sphere Hunt, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Meriwether Publishing "Young Women's Monologs from Contemporary Plays", 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79554 | |||
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Genre: | monologue comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Being politically correct really gets out of hand at an after-school "sphere hunt" for colorfully painted ovoid objects laid by female birds. No one can be offended, no one can win - the question is, can anyone have fun? | |||||
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Sweet Potato Pie(s) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #78666 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (comedy) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | A table and two chairs are needed. | |||||
Synopsis: | Their mothers (how dare they?) have insisted on getting Mandy and Jason together. Jason picks a restaurant that is like nothing Mandy has ever experienced. Not only that, it seems the place is closed. It turns out both young people cook (though with wildly different approaches). This mutual interest saves the meal, if not the day. | |||||
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Terminal L | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Works Lab, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute | |||||
| 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 | #78670 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (comedy) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Five people with names that sound a bit like "limbo" think they're at O'Hare, but really, this is just a step along the way to eternity. They figure out what's happening with a Fed Ex employees bring in a limbo stick, and no one's cell phones work. | |||||
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They Say I'm Obsessive | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #78665 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (comedy) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | A portion of Vivian's dialogue has been excerpted into a monolog that appears in Young Women's Monologs from Contemporary Plays, Gerald Lee Ratliff, Ed., Meriwether Publishing Ltd. (2004). | |||||
Synopsis: | Vivian loves to count everything from the spots on a dog to the number of tables at a restaurant. When it's time to pay for a solo lunch, she discovers her assets are less than her liabilities, and she has a bit of trouble convincing the server to see things her way. | |||||
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Valentine Day Sale, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #78667 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (comedy) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A counter is needed. Computers are not seen in this play. | |||||
Synopsis: | She, an aspiring writer of 19th century sensibilities, has decided to, at last, give up the quill pen (almost) and get her first computer. It's a Valentine Day gift to herself, but the store seems deserted when she arrives and the clerk, who finally dashes out from the storeroom with a mouthful of food, confuses her. Still, it's love at first serial port. | |||||
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Wrinkles | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #78668 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (comedy) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | The play takes place on a park bench. | |||||
Synopsis: | A mother can't stand to age - her daughter can't stand not to. The mother doesn't want to reveal the mystery of her daughter's paternity; the daughter has got to know. The end is a shock, but inevitable. | |||||
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Yes, I Cut Marble, Mrs Grant | ||
| 1st Produced: | MeX Theatre, Louisville, Kentucky | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Pleiades Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #79159 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (historical drama) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This is one of 11 plays in "Women of the 15th State," a collection of short plays about Kentucky women | |||||
Synopsis: | This play is inspired by the lives of Enid Yandell (1869-1934), Bertha Honore Palmer (1849-1918), and Julia Dent Grant (1826-192). It's 1891 and Chicago is abuzz as it gets ready to host the Columbian Exposition. Palmer, wife of the Chicago hotelier, entertains Yandell, a 22-year-old sculptor helping with the Woman's Building at the Exposition and Grant, the president's widow, before they are to join a procession to unveil the monument to the late president. Though all present their views politely, their ideas about the role of women differ wildly. Fortunately, there are smelling salts on hand. | |||||
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Zimy & Zog Visit Earth | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shelby County Community Theatre, Shelbyville, Kentucky | - - - | ||||
Company: | Shelby County Community 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 | #78669 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (comedy) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | It's 500 years from now. Just before Earth was killed by an asteroid, there was an earthquake in California. The play opens as Zimy and Zog, aliens from a distant galaxy, find a box. It's a casket and Day's Inn (named for the place she was conceived) is inside. After a bit of debate, they bring her back to life. She's hungry for pizza. This could be the publication Zimy needs; this could be the woman Zog will love. But will Day's Inn get her pizza? | |||||
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