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LAURA LIVINGSTON |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Plays by Laura Livingston |
First Lowering, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 4th Annual Living Literature Festival, Metropolitan Playhouse. New York | 2009 | ||||
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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 | #108901 | |||
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Genre: | One act, Physical Theatre | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Inspired by "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville | |||||
Synopsis: | An adaptation of the chapter from "Moby Dick," using Melville's words, three ladders and an athletic cast, this one-act brings whale hunting, storm, capsize and daring rescue to an otherwise bare stage. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Inconvenient River, An | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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 | #61585 | |||
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Genre: | One-act, environmental theme, multi-media, comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of Twainathon, a celebration of the work of the great American author and humorist, Mark Twain | |||||
Synopsis: | Mark Twain attempts to give a lecture about the geology and history of the Mississippi River, but, like the river, the evening keeps changing direction and soon gets out of control. There are jumps in period (Twain accompanies his talk with a slide presentation), and style (lecture gives way to buffoonery, followed by realism). A scientist is doing her best to take over the lecture, in order to address the audience about present day environmental concerns. The characters try to grapple with the problems of controlling the river, or not, and the price exacted by controlling it, or not. They are flooded by facts, imagery and the river itself. | |||||
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Nellie and the Madhouse | ||
| 1st Produced: | 19 Jan 2010 | |||||
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 | #109605 | |||
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Genre: | One act, Biography | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Metropolitan Playhouse hosts Another Sky, the theater's fifth annual Living Literature Festival of performances inspired by the lives and works of American authors. Another Sky is a collection of nine new works by artists and companies from across the US taking their inspiration from women of the long 19th Century | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of groundbreaking journalist Nellie Bly's effort to start her career. . .by getting herself committed to an insane asylum. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pearl of Great Price, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #125743 | |||
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Genre: | One act, Drams | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 1 puppet | |||||
Synopsis: | Inspired by those moments when mothers and daughters look at each other and don't recognize the person they see; the play takes place over the period of time when a daughter begins to realize that her mother's memory is slipping, and that she can no longer live on her own. Much of the story is from the mother's point of view, as she slips in and out of consciousness while her daughter reads to her from THE SCARLET LETTER. She remembers moments when her daughter begins to realize her trouble, when they pack up for the move to assisted living, when she no longer comprehends her daughter's motives, and when she so misreads her daughter that she causes herself physical harm. She also has a vague idea of a granddaughter, who is unmarried and expecting a child. Through these memories move Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester Prynne, and her illegitimate daughter, little Pearl. | |||||
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Purloined Detective, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #125742 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Narrator of Edgar Allen Poe's C. Auguste Dupin stories has become murderously jealous of Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes because they have eclipsed Dupin's fame. In a lighthearted way, it's a comparison of Poe and Conan Doyle's work, and touches on the ideas of originality, execution, plagiarism and inspiration. As the play begins, Holmes has usurped Dupin's role in Poe's best known detective story, The Purloined Letter. In a rage, the Narrator lures Holmes and Watson to Dupin's flat, and with or without Dupin's help, tries to kill them - first by boring them to death, then by walling them up. Holmes's only hope for survival lies in whether or not Watson's storytelling gifts can outdo the Narrator's. | |||||
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Quiet Howl | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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 | #67440 | |||
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Genre: | One act, Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Metropolitan Playhouse presents the fourth annual installment of East Village Chronicles, an ongoing series of original one-act plays about/set in the theatre's local neighborhood in NYC's East Village/Alphabet City | |||||
Synopsis: | A young banker meets the spirit of Ginsburg in the bohemian and the radical mix of today's Lower East Side | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Twice-Told Romance | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #125744 | |||
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Genre: | Full length, Biography | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | The play explores the tension between the public and the private Nathaniel Hawthorne, his effect on American letters, and his family's role in bringing his genius to the world. It is performed in the spirit of a family, sharing their saga with the audience. The dialogue is taken almost entirely from the writing of the actual people involved. | |||||
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