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RICHARD MAXWELL (1967 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Richard Maxwell is a playwright and director living in New York. Maxwell studied acting at Illinois State University. In Chicago, he was a founder of the Cook County Theater Department. He is now the artistic director of New York City Players and a resident playwright at New Dramatists. Maxwell has been selected for Guggenheim Fellowship, an OBIE Award, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. A volume of his plays, Plays, 1996- 2000: Richard Maxwell, has been published by TCG. His latest work, Neutral Hero, is currently on tour. Maxwell is also directing Early Plays by Eugene O'Neill for The Wooster Group, which will premiere at St. Ann's Warehouse in February.
Plays by Richard Maxwell
Ads | ||
| 1st Produced: | COIL Festival | 06 Jan 2010 | ||||
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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 | #108910 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
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Synopsis: | This is part of the Under the Radar Festival and the COIL Festival. Ads marks a new departure in the work of downtown auteur Richard Maxwell and NYC Players. Moving into and beyond traditional video screening, and projecting video into the realm of live performance, Ads stages three-dimensional video recordings in the theater as theatre. Recorded speeches make the appeal for independence, displaying ideas and beliefs held up to be essential. Are we humble? Are we great? Can we begin to claim back space? | |||||
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Billings | ||
| 1st Produced: | Williamstown, MA | 1999 | ||||
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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 | #139976 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | chronicles a family move from Montana to Minnesota, whilst husband, wife and three movers ruminate on where/who they are, often to staticky samba.Br /> - Flight of Fancy, Village Voice, 1999 | |||||
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Boxing 2000 | ||
| 1st Produced: | Present Company Theatorium, New York City, USA | Sep 2000 | ||||
Company: | Cultural Industry in Bite 2001 | |||||
| 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 | #22848 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min one act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Exposes the whispering fears and confusions which hide beneath the banalities of everyday conversation. It presents a compelling examination of the small preoccupations of everyday life; never condescending, poignant and often funny, it portrays disconnected characters who nonetheless contain elements that remind us of ourselves. | |||||
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Burger King | ||
| 1st Produced: | Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, MA | Jul 1997 | ||||
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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 | #139977 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Caveman | ||
| 1st Produced: | Festival D'Automne, Paris, France | Oct 2000 | ||||
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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 | #109238 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Soho Rep (workshop), New York City, USA (Dec 1999) | |||||
Synopsis: | a aman and woman, a catatonic couple known as W and C, and another man, A, who shows up to upset their domestic balance. | |||||
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Cowboys And Indians | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mar 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 | #109239 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | written by Richard Maxwell and Jim Strahs | |||||
Synopsis: | experiment into what audiences know about the nature of performance and how they kow it | |||||
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Darkness of this Reading, The | ||
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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 | #139978 | |||
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Genre: | video | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 1 | ||
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Drummer Wanted | ||
| 1st Produced: | P.S. 122 | Nov 2001 | ||||
Company: | New York City Players in Bite 03 | |||||
| 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 | #22849 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | An adult man still lives with his mother. A motorcycle accident deepens the strain on their relationship. Using fragmented dialogue, restrained movement and hackneyed song, Maxwell paints a bleak picture of contemporary American suburbia, where soap opera-esque scenarios are blend of emotion and artifice to reveal a darker side of human nature. | |||||
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End Of Reality, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Kitchen, NY | Jan 2006 | ||||
Company: | The Kitchen and New York City Players | |||||
| 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 | #47513 | |||
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Genre: | 85 min one act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | It takes place in a "lobby-citadel," where guards attempt to secure a vulnerable area against unidentified intruders. Confusion and conflict, community and containment erupt and become intertwined, as the heart is traced, tracked, and followed to a heretofore unknown place that is distinctly American. | |||||
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Feud Other, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greene Naftali Gallery, NYC | - - - | ||||
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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 | #139979 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Flight Courier Service | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ontological Theatre | May 1997 | ||||
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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 | #139980 | |||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Flight Courier Service is a voyage to the bright lights of Kuala Lumpur through the dim light of a kitchen cupboard, a cartoonesque fantasy accompanied by karaoke and neon. This twisted comedy contains no nudity and no hero's. | |||||
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Good Samaritans | ||
| 1st Produced: | 29 Apr 2004 | |||||
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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 | #111613 | |||
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Genre: | drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Kevin a drunk homeless man is sent by the Courts to a shelter for the homeless in the hope that he will be reformed. He meets Rosemary who runs the shelter and they fall in love | |||||
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House | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ontological Theatre | Jun 1998 | ||||
Company: | Cultural Industry in Bite 2001 | |||||
| 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 | #22850 | |||
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Genre: | musical 60 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | House is like nothing you've seen before on stage. A bare room in the suburbs. Four people. A white wall, a light and a telephone. Commonplace chatter about everyday subjects: community religion; rock music; DIY; selling the house. Talk, not communication. Until this workaday existence erupts into a revenge-fuelled frenzy which dislocates lives and redefines relationships. Forever. | |||||
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Joe | ||
| 1st Produced: | P.S. 122 | Oct 2002 | ||||
Company: | The New City Players for BITE:05 | |||||
| 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 | #49077 | |||
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Genre: | musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | robot | |||||
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Synopsis: | Five actors portray the life journey of Richard Maxwell's ordinary Joe everyman from pre-teen to senior citizen, and beyond. We feel the pained and poignant path he takes through a distinctly American dystopia, as adolescent dreams of football glory sour, and a lifetime of harbouring grudges and wayward wandering gets him nowhere. Each Joe takes his turn in a succession of monologues that detail his arrested development punctuated by heart-rending yet comic songs delivered under a canopy of stars. | |||||
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Neutral Hero | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Belgium | May 2011 | ||||
Company: | New York City Players | |||||
| 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 | #139981 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
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Ode to the Man Who Kneels | ||
| 1st Produced: | Belluard Bollwerk Festival, Fribourg, Switzerland | Jul 2007 | ||||
Company: | New York City Players & Piece by Piece Productions, Inc. | |||||
| 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 | #75157 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Maxwell's anti-style musical is about the violent quest for love, and a town called Grid where balladeers compete for the affections of beautiful women | |||||
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People Without History | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Performing Garage, 33 Wooster Street, NY | Mar 2009 | ||||
Company: | New York City Players | |||||
| 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 | #95905 | |||
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Genre: | drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | People Without History is a new sci-fi comic musical by Richard Maxwell, set in the time and landscape of the 15th century Battle of Shrewsbury. This description is from the press release: "Trying to piece together shattered memories of a battle that left nameless lives behind, soldiers Owain, Mendace, and Rhobert march their prisoners Blunt and Sheriff through a war-torn landscape to a makeshift prison (an abandoned inn) on the border of England and Wales. Having forgotten most and suppressed nearly all, the men come upon Alice. Alice's unlikely appearance into this world puts her identity and courage to the test. Being at once one woman and all women, she confronts men who no longer want what she has to offer: true healing. Struggling to satisfy the men's desires, Alice nurtures them, is physically abused by them, threatened with rape, and seduced in vain. She struggles to maintain her autonomy and survives while the men wait for the next battle." | |||||
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Showcase | ||
| 1st Produced: | A.P.A.P. Hilton, New York City, USA | Jan 2003 | ||||
Company: | New York City Players | |||||
| 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 | #49331 | |||
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Genre: | 30 min piece One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | In a hotel room high above London, a man lies naked on a bed with only his shadow for company. He is a businessman, who knows about the cut and thrust of the deal brokered in the public spaces of restaurants and bars. Cocooned in the cotton wool intimacy of the anonymous darkened hotel room, the city lights twinkling across the skyline, he gets dressed to go to a conference and reflects on his past. | |||||
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Showy Lady Slipper | ||
| 1st Produced: | P.S. 122 | Oct 1999 | ||||
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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 | #139982 | |||
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Synopsis: | consists of the gossipy conversation of three female friends awaiting a visit from the alpha-girls's boyfriend | |||||
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Ute Mnos v Crazy Liquors | ||
| 1st Produced: | Eden Arcade, NYC | Feb 1998 | ||||
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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 | #139983 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
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Whitney Biennial | ||
| 1st Produced: | Whitney Museum of American Art, NY | 25 Apr 2012 | ||||
Company: | New York City Players | |||||
| 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 | #139984 | |||
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Notes: | New York City Players rehearsed a new play written and directed by Richard Maxwell at the Whitney Museum from April 25 to 29 as part of the 2012 Biennial. | |||||
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