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KIRSTEN GREENIDGE |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Bret Adams Ltd represented by Bruce Ostler & Mark Orsini |
Recently a Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellow, Kirsten Greenidges recent work includes Milk Like Sugar (La Jolla Playhouse/Playwrights Horizons/Women's Project), The Luck of the Irish (Huntington Theatre Company 2012), and Bossa Nova (Yale Repertory Theatre). Kirstens work combines elements of magical realism with a pronounced use of language: the result is a body of plays that possesses a heightened sense of realism while exploring how race, class, and culture intersect in these United States of America. She was an NEA/TCG playwright-in-residence at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and is also playwright-in-residence at Company One, which has produced numerous plays by Kirsten, including Thanksgiving, 103 Within the Veil, A More Perfect Union, and The Gibson Girl, and frequent ten-minute plays in Bostons Ten-Minute Play Marathon. Kirsten has enjoyed experiences at Sundance (Utah and Ucross), Magic Theatre, National New Play Network, Cardinal Stage, South Coast Repertory, Pacific Playwrights Festival, Madison Rep, Page 73 Productions, Hourglass Group, Bay Area Playwrights, Playwrights Horizons, New Dramatists, Mark Taper Forum, A.S.K., The ONeill, The Guthrie, Mixed Blood, McCarter Shorts, Humana Festival, Moxie, and New Georges. In 2008, Kirsten was awarded Sundances Time Warner Award for Bossa Nova. Additional work includes The Curious Walk of the Salamander, and Sans-Culottes in the Promised Land. Kirsten is currently working on commissions from Yale Rep and Denver Center Theatre Company. She attended Wesleyan University and The Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa, and is a member of Rhombus and a current resident at New Dramatists.
Plays by Kirsten Greenidge
103 Within The Veil | ||
| 1st Produced: | Boston Playwrights Theatre | 2005 | ||||
Company: | CompanyOne | |||||
| 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 | #60858 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | winner of best play 2005 by the Independent Reviewers of New England | |||||
Synopsis: | Three youngsters find a box of photographs in the cellar - and black life in Boston at the turn of the 1900s is brought to life | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Annie Desmond Gets A Tattoo | ||
| 1st Produced: | May 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Boston Theater Marathon XI - 2009 Anthology - 50 Ten Minute Plays Boston Theater Marathon XI - 2009 Anthology - 50 Ten Minute Plays ~ By Kate Snodgrass (ed) - Smith and Kraus, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-15752577164 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #114669 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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| Now an annual tradition, The Boston Theater Marathon utilizes hundreds of actors and dozens of directors to sponsor 50 ten-minute plays in 10 hours (five plays per hour!), each one supported by a different New England theatre company | |||||
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At The End of Our Street | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
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 | #60859 | |||
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Genre: | play Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bossa Nova | ||
| 1st Produced: | Developed: Sundance Theatre Lab | 2008 | ||||
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 | #123251 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Trapped by the confines of her upper middle class upbringing, Dee Paradis struggles to assert herself and emerge from the cloistered life that threatens to strangle her. If Funnyhouse of a Negro and Far From Heaven made a play together, this would be it. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Curious Walk Of The Salamandar | ||
| 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 | #123252 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company as part of the National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Theatre Residency. | |||||
Synopsis: | Forced to go into therapy after a breakdown at college, Henrys refusal to talk about her family make her sessions with her therapist far less than productive. When her therapist refuses to treat her anymore, Henry embarks on a campaign to reverse her therapists decision, and as she does, relives the circumstances of her once affluent familys demise. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Devil Must Be Deep | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Georges Manfest | 2004 | ||||
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 | #60861 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Familiar | ||
| 1st Produced: | workshop at Iowa New Works Festival | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Play Service, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14554 | |||
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Genre: | Drama with comic elements | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | Can be cast color blind | |||||
Notes: | (American College Theatre Festival Lorraine Hansberry Award 2001, First Place, IRAM Award, University of Iowa, 2001). | |||||
Synopsis: | Life could be simpler for Jill Frisby. With brother Archibald terrified to leave their apartment and mother Maya steadfast in her desire to sit in a hole on the beach to be closer to her dead husband, Jill is forced into running the family's clam shack single-handedly. That is, until she hires Lane against her better judgment. Soon Jill's coarse spiritual fabric is stretched to its limit by Lane's eternal and eclectic optimism. At first glance quirky, at times brimming with hilarity, the inner core of this piece is hauntingly tender. | |||||
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Feeding Beatrice: A Gothic Tale | ||
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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 | #14555 | |||
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Notes: | (American College Theatre Festival Lorraine Hansberry Award, 2000, Second Place; American College Theatre Festival Cohen Award 2000, Second Place; Read at Boston Women On Top Theatre Festival, 2000, Richard Maibaum Award (University of Iowa) 2000.) | |||||
Synopsis: | The Walkers have a problem. Their new life in their new home is being threatened by the increasingly noxious presence of Beatrice, their powerful new neighbor. At first Beatrice's comments only seem odd to the couple, which is black. But then Beatrice, who is white, begins to tailor her insights about to the couple specifically, and the Walkers are forced to make a decision: voice their outrage and forfeit their dreams or allow Beatrice to consume their souls. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gibson Girl, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Moxie Theatre Company | 2006 | ||||
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 | #14556 | |||
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Genre: | drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | (Developed at A.S.K. New Works Series (2001). Developed at Mark Taper Forum's New Work Series (2002), Read at Florida Repertory Theatre (2003).) | |||||
Synopsis: | From the recesses of the girls bathroom comes a voice: utterly unruly and viciously vivacious. Its owner is twelve-year-old Valerie, whose life would be a thousand times more endurable if her twin sister would quit her daughter-knows-best act and her mother would abandon her peculiar rituals that she hopes will lure the girls long absent father home with syrup tapped from trees in the familys front yard. But the forces that stifle Valeries spirit are facing extinction and strange alliances threaten to unearth a deep secret that, if exposed, will reverse the girls fortunes forever. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Grip | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Georges Performathon | 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 | #14557 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Performed at Boston Theatre Marathon, 2003 | |||||
Synopsis: | In this short play two elderly women embark on a bus ride after escaping from their nursing home. Their pursuits appear trivial-- jazz, pie, reminiscing, and the evasion of capture-but evolve. Both women seek to assert themselves in a world that has deemed them no longer necessary. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hinges Keep A City | ||
| 1st Produced: | Huntington Theatre Company, STAGES Project | - - - | ||||
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 | #60863 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Joan and Michael at Cisco Beach | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | Boston Theatre Works | |||||
| 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 | #60860 | |||
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Genre: | play Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Josephine 65 | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
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 | #14558 | |||
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Joys of Childhood, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51222 | |||
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Genre: | 5-10 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 female | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A wealthy mother prepares her new nanny to look after her precocious daughter, who happens to have an aversion to spices, carpet, glass, and most other common household substances. This piece is part of Trepidation Nation, an anthology of short plays. To perform this piece independently, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform this piece as part of the full-length collection, go to Trepidation Nation. | |||||
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Luck Of The Irish | ||
| 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 | #123253 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Commissioned: South Coast Repertory. | |||||
Synopsis: | When Hannah and her sister Nissa invite a long time friend of the familys to a memorial picnic for their grandmother, they learn that the deed to the house their family has called home for decades is being mysteriously reclaimed. The news forces Hannah into a tailspin as she wrestles with her relationship with the town shes called home. Interlaced with Hannahs struggles are glimpses of the past when the deal that procured their home came to fruition. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Maybe They're Wrong | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Company One | |||||
| 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 | #60971 | |||
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Genre: | play Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Milk Like Sugar | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playwrights Horizons Peter J Sharp | 01 Nov 2011 | ||||
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 | #123254 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | On her sixteenth birthday Annie is presented with two challenges by her friends: get a tattoo and get pregnant. Her friends would prefer if the latter happened fast. As Annie contemplates her future, she befriends Keera, whose chastity and championing of father-daughter Purity Balls are admirable, yet starkly out of place in the world she and Annie live within. As the play rushes forward, Annie is faced with choosing between the life those around her know, and the life she hopes is not yet out of reach. | |||||
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More Perfect Union, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Boston Center for the Arts | 2006 | ||||
Company: | CompanyOne | |||||
| 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 | #60862 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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On Orange Juice and Wonder Bread | ||
| 1st Produced: | McCarter Shorts Festival | 2005 | ||||
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 | #60857 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Point of Revue | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mixed Blood Theatre Company (Minneapolis, MN, United States) | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61241 | |||
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Genre: | 90-115 min Dramatic/Comedic vaudeville | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | 6 males, 6 females, 3 either (12-60 actors possible: 6-40 males, 6-20 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A composite shot of African America. . .with attitude. Through a riveting series of short plays and songs, this vaudeville defies stereotype as it explores a myriad of topics and places, from Northern Uganda to the American South, HIV to Condoleeza Rice. Swinging from the serious to the absurd, there's plenty to laugh and cry about in this powerful piece. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Proclivities | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Guthrie Theatre/BFA project at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN, United States) | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60856 | |||
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Genre: | 55-65 min Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | One pleasant evening, Doug and Shonda invite their friend Bing over for dinner and drinks. As they ply him with wine, the conversation's civility begins to crumble, and we witness each of the trio's run-ins with characters on the edge of their suburban existence -- a pregnant waitress, an ether-addicted doctor, a philanthropic street peddler. These experiences converge on the comfortable living room, forcing a choice between continuing on with their disconnected lives, or embracing the possibilities of human kindness. | |||||
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Rust | ||
| 1st Produced: | Magic Theatre | - - - | ||||
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 | #14559 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | (Developed at Sundance Theatre Retreat at Ucross, Wyoming (2002). Cherry Lane Alternative Semi-Finalist (2003). Read at Hourglass Theatre Retreat (2002) and Hourglass New Works Series (2002). Read at Playwrights Horizons (2002).) | |||||
Synopsis: | Riddled with self-doubt, NFL star Randall Mifflin has barricaded himself inside his den, where he plays video games around the clock, defends himself against a team of slick and shiny sportscasters eager to dissect his celebrity, and, at doctors orders, busies himself with a project: collecting black memorabilia. Life could return to normal if it werent for Randalls new hobby. Soon, objects meant to be forgotten are roaming the streets and Randall is assaulted by thoughts he would prefer to ignore. | |||||
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Ryan and Daisy on a Collegiate Afternoon | ||
| 1st Produced: | Summerworks Short Play Event | 2006 | ||||
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 | #84075 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Sans-culottes In The Promised Land | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
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: | 978--1583423653 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14560 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | (Originally commissioned by South Coast Repertory Theatre. Developed at Playtime Retreat at New Dramatists (2002), Sundance Theatre Retreat at Ucross (2002), and Madison Repertory Theatre (2003). | |||||
| Lenas days as Gretas new nanny are numbered: her mishaps with the washing machine have mangled all of her young charges clothes, the housekeeper is hoping to get her fired, the family she works for is suffering identity crises unique to black urban professionals, and, oh yes, a forest has begun to climb its way through the floorboards of the house. This is a play of velocity and image that rumbles to a chilling end. | |||||
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Silver Lining | ||
| 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 | #123255 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Commissioned: White House Historical Society/Kennedy Center. | |||||
Synopsis: | Inspired by the lives of Mary Todd Lincoln and Lizzy Keckly, Mrs. Lincolns freed black seamstress while living in the White House, this play written for young audiences is the story of both womens lives and the primary events that brought them together during a critical moment in our nations history. The mania often associated with Mrs. Lincoln has been etched away to reveal a friendship that both women came to hold dear. | |||||
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Trepidation Nation | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51223 | |||
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Genre: | 80-100 min Drama/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 12 | ||
Parts other: | 11 males, 12 females (4-23 actors possible) | |||||
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Synopsis: | We all have instinctive fears -- but what if a fear becomes inexplicable, illogical, and just plain weird? Then you're dealing with a phobia, one of those most extreme and fascinating of terrors. Actors Theatre of Louisville asked 16 frighteningly creative playwrights to find inspiration in real phobias, and the resulting collection of pieces might prove that not only is fear humankind's oldest emotion, but it's also one of our silliest, most serious, and stage-worthy. To perform the entire collection, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual piece independently, click on its title below: | |||||
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Yes, Please, and Thank-you | ||
| 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 | #14561 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 6 | ||
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Synopsis: | College classmates Diane and Grace cordially sip cocktails in Diane's living room. Although the din of gin and tonic rises steadily throughout their reunion it is unable to drown the racket of Diane's deepest fear, that of her fourteen year old daughter Perry, whom she purposefully leaves at gymnastics practice each evening in the hope that she can forestall Perry's constant need for parenting. Diane's mother, haunted by the unfair treatment she received in her younger days during her trips to the department store, pops in and out spouting what might be deemed nonsense if it didn't ultimately reveal the roots of Diane's anxieties. Relentlessly character driven, this is a piece about confinement, and the demands of femininity in the black elite. | |||||
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