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MICHAEL SWIFT (198? - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Plays by Michael Swift |
Boomerang | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rowland/Ballard Blackbox, Houston Texas | 06 Aug 2009 | ||||
Company: | Centre Stage 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 | #119226 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Directed by Keith Nobbs, Starring Terry Swift, Charla Wilkes, Jonathan Hubbard, and Nyseli Vega | |||||
Synopsis: | Boomerang concerns Frankie, a recent Columbia Journalism school graduate, whose single mother Agnes moves up from Texas to NYC to live with him. They fall into co-dependent habits as he is trying to establish himself as an adult and she is fighting to survive ageism in a new city in a bad economy. Their familial and generational roles get further complicated when Agnes gets romantically involved with Mick, a recently laid off Brooklyn stockbroker and Frankie starts dating Alegria, a first generation American from Queens. This disparate group of New Yorkers work together and against each other trying to find solid ground in a rapidly changing America. | |||||
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Francois' Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nuyorican Poets Cafe | 26 Oct 2006 | ||||
Company: | Family Tree Collective | |||||
| 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 | #119232 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, Future One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A one-act presented in tandem with Dan Campanelli's Harpo and Juliet. Both were directed by Michael Swift, François Love starred Campanelii as François and Christina Bennett Lind as Cara. Original Music and performed was composed by Zack Foley. | |||||
Synopsis: | In the not-so-distant future, François is possibly the last mechanic who can fix a gas powered automobile. In the ever changing world of technology, he has been left in the dust. He practices his craft on the 15+ year old cars that pull into his rest stop on the side of a lonesome highway. He has nowhere else to go. Cara is a young woman in the artistic game, a dancer. After a damaging experience in the big city trying to make it as an actress, she leaves on the day oil had been taken off the market. The story begins when Cara breaks down at François' reststopShe and her Dodge are broken down. François descends upon her 20th century car and when he sees Cara, he wants to fix her too. He is her servant to get her to fall in love with him. Cara needs the attention so she flirts with him, while François tinkers under the hood. François convinces her to show him a dance. As she dances, he plays music inside of the hood. It's is harmony, love even. Cara has a seizure. François saves her, and they share a moment of tenderness and honesty. She couldn't make it as a dancer because of her condition. François beckons his love to take him with her, and Cara retreats, not ready to take the plunge. François loses his mind and Caroline is frightened into her Dodge.François smashes the car to smithereens with a tire iron. François' Love is about fleeting love, the sense of entitlement of the brilliant, the lack intimacy in the coming world, and the maddening effect of unrequited love. | |||||
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Galveston | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Marigny Theatre, New Orleans, LA | 13 Nov 2008 | ||||
Company: | Family Tree Collective | |||||
| 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 | #119229 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Galveston takes place on the down-on-her-luck island. In the days proceeding a major hurricane, Maurice Troxclaire, the 73-year-old self-proclaimed "best lover on the island", is distracted by a strange request from his lover, a much younger, married Charlotte Moody. She wants him to drown her and resuscitate her. She has lost her spirit and believes this will revive her if he succeeds, or put an end to the malaise if not. When Maurice can't bring himself to do it, he sees this as a failure to please his lover, indicative of his years catching up to him. He employs the help of his best friend and protege, 15-year-old Dewberry, to get the job done, which he does and more. When Mayor M. Everett Moody catches the young rapscallion in the buff with his wife, he locks him up and holds him over Mo in exchange for his halfway house, the last stitch of land Mr. Moody hasn't bought up. With the force of Mother Nature coming strong, Maurice must decide whether to forgive Dewberry and accept his station at the twilight of his life, or go on deluding himself and watch his friends suffer around him. | |||||
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High Jinx Ensue | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Village | 02 Jul 2009 | ||||
Company: | The Village | |||||
| 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 | #119230 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The cast was between 73 and 90 years old | |||||
Synopsis: | A director tries to mount a production of Romeo and Juliet despite the interference of a controlling producer, a Juliet that doesn't want to die, a cast of bot characters adding new scenes for themselves, and a visitation from the playwright's ghost. | |||||
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Juvenilia | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Drama Studio, Norwich England | 05 Dec 2005 | ||||
Company: | The Minotaur 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 | #119231 | |||
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Genre: | Drama/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Juvenilia story follows Scotty and Brigham whiling away a summer day at Stop n' Go Convenient Store battling boredom and teenage angst. Their need to be seen and heard, to feel significant, tangles them in peck of trouble and the two young men learn a thing or two about life, friendship and responsibility; or as Brigham puts it "You can screw up your life before it's even started". | |||||
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Rumbles | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rowland/Ballard Blackbox, Houston Texas | 07 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | Centre Stage 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 | #119227 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Directed by the playwright, Starring Terry Swift, Robbie Swift, Tara White, and Aziza Anderson. Original musis and soundscape by Zack Foley. I'll always remember the play&the content&we all felt apart to the event, a part of the work, and apart of the art. -Ryan O'Connor, El Paso Exploration and World Traveler | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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September 12th | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Family Tree Collective | |||||
| 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 | #71588 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | September 12th is the story of Bubs and Press, two low-level drug dealers filling orders in the wake of the attacks on September 11 in NYC. After a deal gone wrong, they find themselves accused of attempted murder and thrown into Manhattan's 'Tombs' with criminals and unfortunates unlucky enough to get picked up on September 10th. The system is shutdown and Bubs and Press are forced to wait it out in an underground cell and keep their allegation a secret from the angry, hurt, and confused criminals. September 12th explores the anger caused by the attacks on the WTC and the innocent people that wrath was taken out upon | |||||
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Sinner, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nuyorican Poets Cafe | 23 Apr 2009 | ||||
Company: | Family Tree Collective | |||||
| 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 | #119228 | |||
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Genre: | Philosophical, Journey play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Directed by Brett Ziebarth, Starring John Conor Brooke, Mike Berberich, and April Perez | |||||
Synopsis: | A priest has a crisis of faith in humanity and sets out on a journey on the city streets that brings him to the underbellies of existence and the characters that inhabit that world, helping him find peace with the filth and hope of his human soul. | |||||
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Texas Law Men | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Obsidian Art Space | 12 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | Centre Stage 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 | #119225 | |||
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Genre: | Western | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 1 | |||||
Notes: | Full of bluster, goodness and lies. A funny, full-on, rowdy play about power -Keith Nobbs ofHBO's 'The Pacific' and Lombardi on Broadway. Well Written and Expertly Structured -Edward Albee, three-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe and The Goat | |||||
Synopsis: | Mark Sharp is a driven young lawyer who gets taken under the wing of the brilliant and ornery veteran litigator Drayton Kane. With the help of fiery secretary Nadine Blue and their old buddy Billy Goodnight the lawyers square up against the deadest shot plaintiff attorney in the state Royce Gunner in a multi-million dollar case involving teenage mother and the delivery of her subsequently brain damaged child. As the morality of case becomes more complex, the stakes raise in Sharp's personal life as he struggles to maintain a balance between winning in his work and maintaining his family life outside of his job. The play explores the fleeting nature of truth and the obsessive side of greatness in a modern Western-cum-Courtroom drama. | |||||
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