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J T ROGERS |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents |
J. T. Rogers is the author of The Overwhelming, Madagascar, White People, Murmuring in a Dead Tongue and other plays. His works have been produced in London by the National Theatre, Tricycle Theatre and Theatre 503; toured the UK with Out of Joint; and been heard on BBC Radio. In New York City his plays have been seen at the Roundabout Theatre, the SPF Play Festival and commercially Off Broadway; they have also been staged in Australia, Canada, Israel, Germany and throughout the United States. His essays have appeared in the Independent, New Statesman and American Theatre. In New York City, Rogers is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and a member of the Dramatists Guild. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Plays by J T Rogers
Above the Beasts | ||
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Blood And Gifts | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | in The great game: Afghanistan, Oberon Books, London (2009) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781840029222 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95231 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Notes: | part of a three month long festival about the culture and history of Afghanistan. Entitled The Great Game: Afghanistan. The festival will be divided into three parts, each focusing on a period of Afghan history: 1979 - 1996 : Communism, The Mujahideen And The Taliban | |||||
| After another brief Shakib monologue from a Queen of 500 years back but way ahead of her time on gender issues, the highlight of the day is this fully realised if compact play by American writer, J.T. Rogers. He first takes us to the Pakistani side of the border and a meeting that didn't happen. This pits CIA agent Jim, the remarkably versatile and extremely talented Rick Warden, in touch with a Mujahideen freedom fighter, the canny Abdullah (Vincent Ebrahim). As they bicker over the secret provision of arms, respect grows. Even so, Jim struggles to understand the tribal infighting that characterises the country but gets in the way of his mission. The action moves to an ante room prior to a meeting with a Senate committee, where the two men are at each others' throats and, movingly, a few years later when lives have been lost and truths are revealed. . | |||||
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Blood And Gifts | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, Cottesloe, South Bank, London. SE1 9PX >>> | 07 Sep 2010 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571271160 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #119234 | |||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | ensemble | |||||
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| My God, Russian soldiers being shot with Chinese bullets. Sometimes the world is so beautiful. 1981. As the Soviet army burns its way through Afghanistan and toward the critical Pakistani border, CIA operative Jim Warnock is sent to try and halt its bloody progress. Joining forces with a larger than life Afghan warlord and the Pakistani and British secret services, Jim spearheads the covert struggle. But in the face of mutual suspicion as the brutal chaos escalates, clear political action becomes impossible. | |||||
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Bob Comes to Life | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #73998 | |||
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Chicks 'n' Beer | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #73999 | |||
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Frankfurt | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #74000 | |||
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Guy Talk | ||
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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 | #74001 | |||
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Lionel's Blue | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #74002 | |||
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Madagascar | ||
| 1st Produced: | 09 Sep 2005 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63439 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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Synopsis: | MADAGASCAR is the haunting story of a mysterious disappearance that changes three lives forever. At three different periods in time, three Americans find themselves alone, in the same hotel room overlooking the Spanish Steps in Rome: June, a young woman who works as a tour guide of the city's ancient ruins; Lilian, her wealthy and elegant jet-setting mother; and Nathan, a rumpled university economist and the best friend of Lilian's famous deceased husband. They each tell their individual story of how and why they are here. Their relationship to each other, what this room means to them, and why they have been called to it slowly reveal themselves. Their stories spill out, weave back and forth-each contradicting, clarifying, deepening what the others say-becoming strands of one gripping and disquieting tale. | |||||
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Murmuring in a Dead Tongue | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Next Stage Company (New York, NY, United States) | 1998 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29929 | |||
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Genre: | 25-35 min Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 male | |||||
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Synopsis: | A man sits before us in a chair, telling a fever-dream of a story: about a cocktail party he's just come back from that went disastrously wrong, about channel-surfing between a mesmerizing surgery and the world's strangest action movie -- all while quoting his mysterious, enigmatic wife. Slowly a pattern begins to emerge from his spiral of words, as his tale loops back on itself, stitching together seemingly random threads into a hypnotic whole. A bracingly funny and disquieting play about a man who keeps asking the question: "How do I live in a world in which I am doomed to die?" | |||||
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Overwhelming, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cottesloe, London | 2006 | ||||
Company: | National Theatre Company and Out of Joint | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY (2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54997 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling, extras | |||||
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Synopsis: | When American academic Jack Exley arrives in Kigali, Rwanda, in early 1994 to write about his old college classmate, Dr. Joseph Gasana, and his work with children stricken by AIDS, Jack is unable to find anyone who even admits to knowing the doctor. Jack, his African-American second wife, Linda, and his teenage son, Geoffrey, become enmeshed in the politics, fear and personal betrayals that mark the start of a genocidal war-a horror all can sense is coming but no one can comprehend or control. | |||||
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Penetrating Malaysia | ||
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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 | #74003 | |||
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Saddest Lines, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #74004 | |||
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Seeing the Elephant | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #74005 | |||
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Seven Lies Of An Unbeliever | ||
| 1st Produced: | Source Festival, Washington DC | 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 | #99744 | |||
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Genre: | Ten min | |||||
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Synopsis: | Seven Lies of an Unbeliever is a solo piece about a man who travels to Utah to investigate a certain famous religious denomination. He comes as a cynical secret agent, but finds himself entranced by a beautiful church guide, so much so that he agrees to view a religious recruitment movie. | |||||
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White People | ||
| 1st Produced: | Philadelphia Theatre Company, Philadelphia, PA | 2000 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29930 | |||
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Genre: | dark comedy Comedy | |||||
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Synopsis: | Now-right now-what does it mean to be a white American? What does it mean for any American to live in a country that is not the one you were promised? WHITE PEOPLE is a controversial and darkly funny play about the lives of three ordinary Americans placed under the spot-light: Martin, a Brooklynborn high powered attorney for a white-shoe law firm in St. Louis, MO; Mara Lynn, a housewife and former home-coming queen in Fayetteville, NC; and Alan, a young professor struggling to find his way in New York City. Through heart-wrenching confessions, they wrestle with guilt, prejudice, and the price they and their children must pay for their actions. WHITE PEOPLE is a candid, brutally honest meditation on race and language in our culture. | |||||
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