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PHILIP-DIMITRI GALLAS |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Plays by Philip-Dimitri Gallas |
Performance Hell | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1998 | ||||
Company: | Baby Jump Project | |||||
| 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 | #58676 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Performance Hell turns out to be just what its name implies: the place where bad performers go when they die. In the dozen sketches that make up Performance Hell, the breathtakingly funny and smart "avante-vaudeville" from the Baby Jump Project, we encounter several of the condemned. There's a young man spending eternity auditioning for a part in front of a director, assistant director, and, way up in the balcony, a janitor who, he knows, hates him. There's a former child star reduced to playing bass in a polka band. A woman working in a nightclub in Performance Hell sings "Danny Boy"--in the wrong key--over and over and over; at the end of each chorus, she checks her watch and it's always ten minutes to two: she has five more minutes till the end of her set. Performance Hell is as surreal and bizarre as, I hope, these examples suggest. Our host (sort of) is a slippery, unctuous fellow in a pinstripe suit with Ed Grimley hair and bright red nails; try to imagine Wayne Newton as the MC in Cabaret and you'll have some idea of the dissonant weirdness of this character. The Gertrude Stein Choir makes two appearances during the evening, first in a breathless, impeccably timed round of stream-of-consciousness and later in the tour de force act before closing, a Punch and Judy show about a performance art phenomenon known as the Art Baby. And Jayne Mansfield, of all people, turns up in Performance Hell as well, only she's living in a man's body. | |||||
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Revenge of the Red Shoes | ||
| 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 | #112559 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Monologue play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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