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MICHAEL MCGRINDER (1937 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Born New York, NY, to Irish parents Michael (b Tyrone, N.I., and Mary Hickey (b. Cork, Ireland). First production: The Foreigners (director: Phoebe Wray) and The Biggest Information Booth In The World (director: Ted Mornel). Subsequently worked at most of the important early Off-Off-Broadway theaters-e.g. La MaMa, The Old Reliable Theatre Tavern, The Playbox. Directed many plays. Editor/Publisher: Proscenium, The Theatre Newsletter. Host: Proscenium (Cable TV), later Michael McGrinder Presents. Also writes stories, novels, novellas, poetry, essays. Now publishing The Old Reliable Press, whose primary focus is to preserve and publish plays from early Off-Off. Lives New York City.
Plays by Michael McGrinder
Foreigners, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Playwrights Workshop Club, W 23rd St, New York City, NY | 1967 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | The Old Reliable Press, 400 W 43rd St. 13O, New York, NY10036-6306 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85614 | |||
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 One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | While it is ideally performed in 19 minutes, The Foreigners is such a powerful dramatic statement, it is frequently the featured piece of a program. | |||||
Synopsis: | A man and a woman meet at a bus stop in a country where they are both foreigners. Unable to speak each other's language, or the language of their new country, they fall in love, and live an entire life cycle. Or do they? | |||||
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Heathen Piper | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Old Reliable Theatre Tavern, E 3rd St, New York, NY | 1969 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | The Old Reliable Press, 400 W 43rd St. 13O, New York, NY10036-6307 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0912292564 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85615 | |||
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Genre: | full-length historical drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Winner of the prestigious Scene Award. The Village Voice gave this one a full-page rave review. Originally published by The Smith/New Horizon. Distributed now by The Old Reliable Press. Limited copies available. | |||||
Synopsis: | The author writes himself into the "troubles" in 1920s Ireland and is at odds with his own characters, willing to live and even to die, just not on his terms. | |||||
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We Hate To See You Go | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Old Reliable Theatre Tavern, E 3rd St, New York, NY | 1969 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | The Old Reliable Press, 400 W 43rd St. 13O, New York, NY10036-6308 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85616 | |||
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: | black comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Played a return engagement by popular demand at London's Little Theatre. Originally anthologized in The Scene 2, published by The Smith. | |||||
Synopsis: | An Irish wake, a reluctant corpse. | |||||
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