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DAVID MACGREGOR |
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Plays by David MacGregor |
18 Holes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Heartlande Theatre, Birmingham, Michigan | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Heartlande Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | The Dramatic Publishing Company, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79574 | |||
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Genre: | One-Act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Performed in numerous one-act festivals (and voted Audience Favorite at the Barebones Theatre Group's Festival in 2003). Published in 35 in 10: Thirty-Five Ten-Minute Plays. | |||||
Synopsis: | Two friends engage in eighteen completely unrelated conversational snippets as they play a round of golf. There is no plot, no story, and no character development. Just two people who know and trust one another well enough to speak with complete candor. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Adventure of the Elusive Ear, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Livonia-Redford Theatre, Redford, Michigan | 1998 | ||||
Company: | Livonia-Redford Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #79575 | |||
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Genre: | One-Act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Also performed in Heartlande Theatre's One-Act Marathon in Birmingham, Michigan in 1998. | |||||
Synopsis: | A distraught Vincent van Gogh arrives at the rooms of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson and enlists their aid in the recovery of his missing ear. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Consider the Oyster | ||
| 1st Produced: | Purple Rose Theatre, Chelsea, MI | Jun 2011 | ||||
Company: | Purple Rose Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #136001 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The lead role in this play can either be played by a male or female actor throughout, or by a male in the first act and a female in the second act. | |||||
Synopsis: | CONSIDER THE OYSTER is a comedy based on the facts that doctors are now using oyster shells to repair human bone and all oysters are born male and turn female. After shattering his femur during a Super Bowl celebration, our newly engaged protagonist undergoes such a procedure and then gradually realizes that he is turning into a woman. Can true love withstand a little thing like gender change, and what does it really mean to love someone? | |||||
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Epiphany | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tipping Point Theatre, Northville, MI | Jul 2010 | ||||
Company: | Tipping Point Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #119643 | |||
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Genre: | One-Act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A middle-aged man having coffee with his wife comes to a startling realization-he doesn't give a damn about anything any more. Concerned that he has become a psychopath, his wife is able to ease his mind by revealing to him what he has really become. | |||||
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Gravity | ||
| 1st Produced: | Purple Rose Theatre, Chelsea, MI | Feb 2010 | ||||
Company: | Purple Rose Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Purple Rose Theatre Company, Chelsea, MI (www.purplerosetheatre.org), 2011 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #119642 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Gravity takes place in the rooms of Isaac Newton at Cambridge University in September, 1693, when Newton went through what subsequent biographers would call a "discomfiture of the mind." Newton's tragic past, conflicted sexuality, heretical religious beliefs and alchemical experimentation had led him to lock himself away in his rooms and to do nothing less than attempt to touch the face of God. Arrogant, paranoid, and absolutely certain that he had been chosen by God to reveal the eternal unity of all things in the universe, the play takes place in a crucible-like atmosphere where Newton's most ambitious work would finally come to fruition. Or failure. It features Newton's friend, the philosopher John Locke, and Newton's nemesis, Dr. Robert Hooke, a brilliant polymath and devoted ladies' man, whose jealousy of Newton unhinged him from time to time. Finally, the play features the mysterious woman with whom Newton became "embroiled." Based on Newton's letters and journals, the play reveals a man riding the delicate line between divinity and madness, grappling with the choice between immortality and love, and lays bare the fact that while many people regard Newton as humanity's first scientist, he was actually our last sorcerer. | |||||
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Hero's Journey, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Livonia-Redford Theatre, Redford, Michigan | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Livonia-Redford Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #79576 | |||
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Genre: | One-Act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The classic twelve steps of the Hero's Journey are covered in a blistering ten minutes. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Late Great Henry Boyle, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | B Street Theatre Company, Sacramento, California | 2002 | ||||
Company: | B Street Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | The Purple Rose Theatre Company, Chelsea, MI (www.purplerosetheatre.org), 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66275 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Originally produced in a workshop production by Heartlande Theatre at Performance Network in Ann Arbor, MI in 2000. Subsequently received its Midwest premiere at the Purple Rose Theatre (Chelsea, MI) in 2006. | |||||
Synopsis: | Henry Boyle is a shy, reclusive Professor of Medieval Studies whose life begins to fall apart when his wife divorces him. At the urging of a colleague who encourages him to "try something different," Henry begins indulging in absinthe and soon produces a best-selling book which transforms him into a pop-culture celebrity almost overnight. As he visibly disintegrates in the public eye, his popularity soars as people anticipate a Van Gogh/Hemingway/Cobain explosion. His only chance at salvation is to somehow become a nonentity again, but he is foiled at every turn until finally. . . | |||||
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Paternity Ward | ||
| 1st Produced: | Heartlande Theatre, Birmingham, Michigan | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Heartlande Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #79572 | |||
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Genre: | One-Act Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An unwed father and a gay woman wait together as their partners give birth elsewhere in the hospital. | |||||
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Revelation | ||
| 1st Produced: | Heartlande Theatre, Birmingham, Michigan | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Heartlande Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Meriwether Publishing LTD., 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66276 | |||
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Genre: | One-Act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Has been performed in numerous one-act festivals, from the Brass Tacks Rosetta Festival in New York (2003) to the Cockpit Theatre in London, England (2004). It was published in New One-Act Plays for Acting Students. | |||||
Synopsis: | A couple are about to go out to a dinner party when the husband discovers he is the Antichrist. They debate the benefits of waging war on God as opposed to simply going out to dinner. | |||||
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Towards the Perpetuation of the Human Species | ||
| 1st Produced: | Heartlande Theatre, Birmingham, Michigan | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Heartlande Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #79573 | |||
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Genre: | One-Act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A man and woman at a singles bar speak to one another with uncommon candor. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Vino Veritas | ||
| 1st Produced: | Purple Rose Theatre, Chelsea, MI | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Purple Rose Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | The Purple Rose Theatre Company, Chelsea, MI (www.purplerosetheatre.org), 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79578 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | The play takes its title from the Latin proverb, which literally translated: "in wine, the truth," suggests that people reveal their truest feelings under the influence of alcohol. On Halloween night, two middle-aged couples prepare to attend a friend's annual party. Though the evening begins as usual, familiar traditions slowly unravel when the foursome share a bottle of South American ceremonial wine made from the skin of blue dart tree frogs. Under the influence of this tribal truth serum, they share an unpredictable and hilarious night of unbridled honesty that stretches the bounds of their friendship and their relationships forever. | |||||
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Visitation | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Ringwald Theatre, Ferndale, MI | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Barebones Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #111938 | |||
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Genre: | One Act Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A couple going out on a date stop at a funeral parlor to pay their respects to a deceased co-worker and find that they are the only people who showed up. | |||||
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Waiting Room, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Heartlande Theatre Company, Birmingham, Michigan | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Heartlande Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #79577 | |||
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Genre: | One-Act Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A son helps his widowed father get ready for the father's upcoming wedding. | |||||
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