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LEN JENKIN (1941 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency |
Len Jenkin is a playwright, screenwriter, and director. His plays include Margo Veil, Dark Ride, Pilgrims of the Night, Careless Love, My Uncle Sam, Limbo Tales, andLike I Say. His works for the stage, often directed by him, have been produced throughout the United States, as well as in England, France, Germany, and Japan. His films include Blame It On the Night, Welcome to Oblivion, and American Notes. His novel N Judah is currently available in bookstores and on the web at lenjenkin.com. He has received many honors and awards, including three OBIE awards for Directing and Playwriting, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Award, a nomination for an Emmy Award, and four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Mr. Jenkin holds a Ph.D in American Literature from Columbia University. He's a Professor in the Dramatic Writing Department, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Plays by Len Jenkin
American Notes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1988 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18032 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | The action of the play is made up of a series of concurrent actions, some set in a tacky motel, somewhere else, involving a group of disparate, but curiously related, people. There is the young night clerk, Pauline, who studies her high school English Lit notebook while growing increasingly fearful of the unseen and unwanted suitor who lies in wait in the motel parking lot; a raucous carnival barker touting his giant crocodile, Bonecrusher; a pair of seedy bar denizens who occasionally break into song; a dim-witted handyman, Chuckles, who performs pointless errands; a deranged scientist who believes that he is in contact with creatures from outer space; an abandoned woman who waits restlessly for a lover who will probably never return; and a mysterious drifter, Faber, who somehow becomes the catalyst which fuses all these divergent elements into a cohesive, and often wildly funny, whole. And, in so doing, makes the play both an encapsulation of the American myth and, at the same time, a telling commentary on | |||||
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Birds, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #71179 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Based on "The Birds" by Aristophanes | |||||
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Candide; Or, Optimism | ||
| 1st Produced: | Minneapolis | 1982 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18033 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | novel by Voltaire | |||||
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Careless Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Sun & Moon Press, Los Angeles, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781557131683 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18034 | |||
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Christmas Song | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Flea Theater (New York, NY, United States) | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #90831 | |||
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Genre: | 10-20 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2 males, 2 females (4-5 actors possible: 2-3 males, 2-3 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Four characters on Christmas Eve. A rooming house in an American city. An old pitchman prepares dinner when a young girl knocks on his door. The landlady knits while her silent super shovels coal. Moments in their lives. . .and a song or two. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play 'Twas the Night Before. . .) | |||||
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Country Doctor, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in "Three Plays by Len Jenkin" Broadway Play Publishing Inc, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0881451580 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18035 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | story by Kafka | |||||
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Dark Ride | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1981 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1982 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18036 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Is comprised of a series of vignettes involving characters who, at first, appear to bear no relation to each other. A mysterious figure gives a scholar an ancient manuscript to translate; a thief steals an enormous jewel; a woman assures us that life is all coincidence; a dream-like waitress serves her customers all manner of thoughts and suggestions, but no food. The images created are bizarrely funny and provocative and, in time, coalesce into a pattern of driving concerns and obsessions which come into focus when the various characters finally meet at an oculists convention in Mexico City. Phantasmagoric and convoluted, the play is a journey which, in the final essence, transcends the physical world to explore the seat of true reality-the inner recesses of the mind. | |||||
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Death And Life Of Jesse James, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1974 | ||||
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 | #18037 | |||
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Dream Express | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | c1998 | ||||
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 | #71180 | |||
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Genre: | Play with Music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | music by John Kilgore | |||||
Synopsis: | The legendary outlaw lounge act | |||||
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Five Of Us | ||
| 1st Produced: | Seattle | 1981 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780822204053 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18038 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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| Deals with the parallel lives of New York tenement dwellers, who live next door to each other but whose paths do not cross until one fateful moment, which spells disaster for them all. One apartment is occupied by Mark, a young writer who churns out pornography while planning the "big novel" he will someday write, and his live-in girlfriend, Lee, an anthropology grad who works as a waitress. Their next door neighbor is Herman, a mentally deficient messenger who speaks in a language all his own and amuses himself by calling 800 numbers to make hotel reservations he has no intention of keeping. When Lee is offered a chance to join an anthropological expedition to Sri Lanka, Mark is faced with a crisis-the loss of both her companionship and her income. With the connivance of his ex-con buddy, Eddie, a street-smart would-be mercenary, Mark decides to prop up his finances by robbing Herman's apartment, in the misguided belief that the poor eccentric has been hoarding money. But, instead, what they find is the bizarre detritus of a stunted life-a life which is abruptly ended when Herman, coming upon them, is startled into a fatal epileptic fit. Fearful and guilt-ridden, Mark and Eddie try to cover their tracks-but as the play ends it is also clear that no matter how far or fast they flee they will never escape the spectre of the lonely misfit whose pathetic world they have so thoughtlessly and fatally shattered. | |||||
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Gogol: A Mystery Play | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Theatre of Wonders", Sun and Moon Press, Los Angeles, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18039 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Grand American Exhibition | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1973 | ||||
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 | #18040 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Highway | ||
| 1st Produced: | Westbeth Theatre Center, NYC | 1980 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18041 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Limbo Tales | |||||
Synopsis: | a man suddenly decides to drive to his girlfriend's house, which is 200 miles away. He becomes obsessed with the thought that each car which passes may be his girlfriend coming to visit him-and as he begins to lose touch with time and place he becomes convinced that he has moved back to another century, another civilization. | |||||
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Hotel | ||
| 1st Produced: | Westbeth Theatre Center, NYC | 1980 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18042 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Limbo Tales | |||||
Synopsis: | a down-on-his-luck encyclopedia salesman sits in a flea bag hotel room, eating Chinese food which is delivered by a disembodied arm, while listening to the squabbling of his neighbors and contemplating the aridity of his limbolike existence. | |||||
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Intermezzo | ||
| 1st Produced: | Westbeth Theatre Center, NYC | 1980 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18043 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Limbo Tales | |||||
Synopsis: | a Master of Ceremonies announces, in hilarious detail, all the exotic acts which will not be on the bill that evening; while in the final play, HOTEL, a down-on-his-luck encyclopedia salesman sits in a flea bag hotel room, eating Chinese food which is delivered by a disembodied arm, while listening to the squabbling of his neighbors and contemplating the aridity of his limbolike existence. Each of the three plays calls for 1 man; and each may be presented with simplified settings and a minimum of props and special effects. | |||||
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Invisible Man, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71181 | |||
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Genre: | youth audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | This book provides the full texts of plays produced through The New Generation Play Project a consortium that included The Seattle Children's Theatre, The Children's Theatre Co. of Minneapolis, Louisville Children's Theatre and The Honolulu Theatre for Youth in 1989. | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on the novel "The Invisible Man" by H G Wells | |||||
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Kid Twist | ||
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1977 | ||||
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 | #18044 | |||
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Kitty Hawk | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stratford, Connecticut | 1972 | ||||
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 | #18045 | |||
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Kraken | ||
| 1st Produced: | Walkerspace, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Push Productions, Inc. | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0881452983 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66653 | |||
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Genre: | Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | music by Scott O'Brien | |||||
Synopsis: | Kraken explores the true-life encounter between legendary American novelists Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1856. Melville, in the midst of a spiritual journey to the Holy Land, stops to visit with his old friend Hawthorne, now the American consul in Liverpool. As they spend the evening together, they discuss and confront their, fears, failures, things of this world and the next, books and publishers, and all possible and impossible matters. | |||||
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Like I Say | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in "Three Plays by Len Jenkin" Broadway Play Publishing Inc, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0881451580 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71182 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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| Coconut Joe is looking for the perfect consignment of coconuts for the biscuit factory he works for. His search has taken him to Berlin, where he is double crossed by a beautiful woman and ends up as a prisoner in a nuclear waste plant. He escapes and makes his way to Venice. He boards a ship but it sinks. But Joe manages to escape on a life raft with a Pirate Queen. They are washed up on an island and end up in a hotel that is full of down and outs who cannot pay their rent. They put on a puppet show to amuse themselves. | |||||
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Limbo Tales | ||
| 1st Produced: | Westbeth Theatre Center, NYC | 1980 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1982 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18046 | |||
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Genre: | Three Short Plays One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | includes Highway, Hotel, Intermezzo | |||||
Synopsis: | The New York Post writes: "&the plays are character studies of two men who have distinctly different, but related, experiences of physical and spiritual dislocation." In the first play, HIGHWAY, a man suddenly decides to drive to his girlfriend's house, which is 200 miles away. He becomes obsessed with the thought that each car which passes may be his girlfriend coming to visit him-and as he begins to lose touch with time and place he becomes convinced that he has moved back to another century, another civilization. (1 man). In the short INTERMEZZO, a Master of Ceremonies announces, in hilarious detail, all the exotic acts which will not be on the bill that evening. (1 man). In the final play, HOTEL, a down-on-his-luck encyclopedia salesman sits in a flea-bag hotel room, eating Chinese food which is delivered by a disembodied arm, while listening to the squabbling of his neighbors and contemplating the aridity of his limbo-like existence. (1 man). | |||||
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Madrigal Opera | ||
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1985 | ||||
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 | #18047 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | music by Philip Glass | |||||
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Margo Veil: an entertainment | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | The Flea Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0881453034 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #75303 | |||
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Mission | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1975 | ||||
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 | #18048 | |||
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My Uncle Sam | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
Company: | New York Shakespeare Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18049 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Uncle Sam was a novelties salesman who died one night, alone and broke, in a Pittsburgh hotel. But he was also a larger-than-life figure, a mythic hero, to his nephew-who now seeks to discover his uncle's true story. His quest is a quixotic and picaresque one, involving a seductive night club singer who promises to marry Sam if he can locate his ne'er-do-well brother (who absconded with the proceeds from a robbery), and developing into a series of sometimes funny sometimes hair-raising episodes as the nephew "becomes" his uncle in his youth and journey's to a remote lighthouse, a rather sinister university laboratory, an opium den, the clinic of a Mexican quack, and a very odd miniature golf course-all intriguingly distorted, as though viewed through a funhouse mirror. In the end it is really the landscape of the mind which is explored and illuminated, as the trail leads back to Old Sam and the disquieting knowledge that dreams and reality are, in the final essence, often one and the same, with the "truth" still remaining tantalizingly out of reach. | |||||
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New Jerusalem | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1979 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Sun and Moon Press | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0940650435 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18050 | |||
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Pilgrims Of The Night | ||
| 1st Produced: | Seattle | 1991 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in "Three Plays by Len Jenkin" Broadway Play Publishing Inc, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0881451580 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18051 | |||
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Poor Folk's Pleasure | ||
| 1st Produced: | Seattle | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Dark Ride and Other Plays, Sun & Moon Press, Los Angeles, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18052 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Ramona Quimby | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing, Woodstock, Illinois, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18053 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
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Notes: | from book by Beverly Cleary | |||||
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Secret Life Of Billie's Uncle Myron, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | H Holt, New York, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18054 | |||
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Soldier's Tale, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1986 | ||||
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 | #18055 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
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Notes: | libretto by Ramuz, music by Stravinsky | |||||
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Tallahassee | ||
| 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 | #71183 | |||
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Notes: | Written by Len Jenkin and Mac Wellman | |||||
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Twas the Night Before. . . | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | The Flea Theater & The Chelsea Art Museum | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58899 | |||
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Genre: | 60-85 min Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 5 males, 3 females, 8 either (11-41 actors possible: 5-33 males, 3-31 females) | |||||
Notes: | Part of a program of ten-minute works by playwrights Christopher Durang, Len Jenkin, Roger Rosenblatt, Elizabeth Swados, and Mac Wellman. The Flea commissioned this group of writers to create short works using the famous holiday poem "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" by Clement Clark Moore as an inspiration. | |||||
Synopsis: | A collection of five Christmas-themed short plays from New York City's acclaimed Flea Theater. From a family sitting down to read "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" with unexpected results (Not a Creature Was Stirring), to elves rapping about bloody films (Holiday Movies), to an irreverent take on the story of Jesus' birth (Away in the Manger), these comedies and dramas take on the holiday season like never before. To purchase this book of 5 plays, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below: | |||||
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