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ALLSTON JAMES (1947 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Deborah Warren / East-West Agency |
Allston James is the author of three full-length plays. The Pink Brothers, a dramatic comedy, was produced in 2005 at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts in Carmel, California. Two years later, Foreign Women, a drama, was also produced by the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts. In 2009 The Lated Traveler and Foreign Women were both given readings at the Abingdon Theatre Company in New York. The Lated Traveler and The Pink Brothers received earlier readings at the 45th Street Theatre in New York in 2008. The Lated Traveler was a Semi-finalist in Pacific Repertory Theatre's 2009 Hyperion Project Competition. The play was also named Semi-finalist by the 2009 Seven Devils Conference/id Theatre, New York. One act plays were selected for the New York Collective for the Arts Short Plays Festivals in 2004 and 2005. The Dramatists Guild of America selected Duet in Platinum, published in Porter Gulch Review (Santa Cruz), for its Evening of New Works at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona. Other shorts and monologues have been staged in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.Allston is the author of the novel, Attic Light, as well as two poetry chapbooks,Paris Beach and The Mile Away Contessa. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a wide range of publications and anthologies. He divides time between homes in New York and California.
Plays by Allston James
Duet in Platinum | ||
| 1st Produced: | Turtle Shell Theater | 21 Jan 2011 | ||||
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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 | #123909 | |||
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Genre: | 8 Min | |||||
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Notes: | Part of 8 Minute Madness. Eighteen new provocative and engaging plays will be presented in groups A and B of 9 plays each. The plays, directed by innovative directors, are produced by a select team of New York's finest designers. Attending industry members will vote for who will win the coveted award of 8 Minute Madness Playwright of 2011. The participating audience will also vote on the best performance by an actor and best over-all show. The plays are: &Last and Always by Allan Baker, First Half by Ron Burch, The Intervention by Ron Burch, Last Words by Jeff Carter, The Family That Plays Together by Gigi Eng, Magnolia Day by SD Graubert, Bottom of the Ninth by Rand Higbee, The Wedding Ring by Tony Howarth, Duet in Platinum by Allston James, A Change of Plans by Dennis Jones, Mammaries by Joanne Koch, Bona Fide by Nina Mansfield, It's the Jews by John Minigan, Out of Time by Barbara and Carlton Molette, Dead Body by Barry M. Putt, Jr., Short Division by Fred Sahner, Zero Point by Jeff Schwamberger, and Slipping into Anarchy by Jeffrey Wolf. | |||||
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Foreign Women | ||
| 1st Produced: | Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, California | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, California | |||||
| 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 | #92987 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | The play had a successful run and received good notices. | |||||
Synopsis: | Newly released from a long stay in a juvenile detention center and jail, a young man goes to live with his sister. The two have a life-bond in their witnessing as children of their mother's death at the hand of the father. He meets identical twins-one a Jehovah's Witness, the other a recovering addict. He and he sisters come to grips with horrific childhood abuse and emerge as strong young adults. This is not a 'victim' story. It is a story of transformation. | |||||
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Lated Traveler, 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 | #92988 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | The play has had Off-Broadway readings at the Abingdon Theatre in 2009 and the 45th Street Theatre in 2008.It was semi-finalist in the 2009 Seven Devils Conference and also semi-finalist in the Hyperion Project Competition (Pacific Repertory Theatre-CA) in 2009 | |||||
Synopsis: | Arrogant venture capitalist is stranded in a storm-lashed carnival where a carnie and mysterious beauty transform him from a fast-talking jerk into a human being. The carnie turns out to be a Yale classics professor there for mysterious reasons, the woman there because the professor is there . . . black humor, serious introspection, a play that explores the nature of intimacy. | |||||
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Pink Brothers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, California | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, California | |||||
| 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 | #92989 | |||
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: | Dramatic comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | The play enjoyed a month run with a one week extension. Favorably reviewed, well-attended, the play actually made a profit. It received a stage-reading at Off-Broadway's 45th Street Theatre in New York in Oct. 2008 | |||||
Synopsis: | Two brothers share their 'knowledge' of women in an exploration that involves a transgression that utterly alters their relationship | |||||
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