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PHILIP VASSALLO (1953 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Family Secrets (published Hit Plays, 2006); The Community Service; The Phoenix (published, Brooklyn Publishers, 2007); Everything Means Something Else (published Brooklyn Publishers, 2004); Ask Me; The Spelling Bee (published, Samuel French, 1995); How You Get to Main Street?; Isn't This the Way You Wanted Me?; Do I Bleed in the Dark?; How Silent Do I Sound?; What Do You Charge for Cure? Awards: New Jersey State Council on the Arts Playwriting Grant (Questions Asked of Dying Dreams); Critic's Choice, Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival (The Spelling Bee); Award, Gettysburg College One-Act Play Festival (What Do You Charge for a Cure?); Finalist, Morton R. Sarett Playwriting Award (The Mold of the Ring); Finalist, Ruby Lloyd Aspey Playwriting Competition (The Mold of the Ring); Semi-Finalist, Albert Panowski New Play Award (The Mold of the Ring); Finalist, White-Willis Theatre New Playwrights Contest (Power Over Pain); Semifinalist, Strawberry One-Act Festival (The Phoenix).
Plays by Philip Vassallo
Ask Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | Harold Clurman Theater | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Sayreville Main Street Theater | |||||
| 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 | #93752 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
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Notes: | MICHAEL and JUDY are the only actors and the three band members may be of either sex as long as they can play guitar, bass, and drums. | |||||
Synopsis: | This one-act play begins with the consummated suicide pact of MICHAEL and JUDY, both 13, both in love with each other against their parents' wishes. Three punk BAND members silently observe the couple play out the final days of their life in reverse order, and they perform between brief scenes which trace the influences and circumstances surrounding the teens' tragic fate. | |||||
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Community Service, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #93755 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | This is an experimental play that bends identities to examine cultural perspectives and that focuses on communication barriers between two races. MAN, appearing drunk, threateningly enters WOMAN's candy store before business hours. While his behavior seems menacing, the WOMAN stands fast against him. We learn that she and her husband, now deceased, left behind in China an unwanted child, a decision WOMAN regrets. And MAN, once a police officer, pulled the trigger that killed WOMAN's husband a year ago. They are actually meeting to make sense of the last year: MAN down on his luck, out of a job, and estrange from his family, and WOMAN, apparently stuck in a candy store she has no desire to own and operate. | |||||
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Do I Bleed in the Dark? | ||
| 1st Produced: | Howell, NJ | 1992 | ||||
Company: | Amanda 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 | #93749 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | SLAM, a homeless derelict, survives in alleyways with the help of COOKIE, an aging street prostitute, who endures a love-hate relationship with him. In an encounter gone wrong, one of Cookie's customers, TERRY, shoots Slam. As Slam lies dying, his life passes before him, he sees a younger version of himself YOUNG SLAM, interacting with his assailant. Realizing he once knew Terry and that this is the second time in his life, he has in his hands Terry's fate. | |||||
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Everything Means Something Else | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rutgers University | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Pordenone Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers (2004) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93753 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | This alternately comic and tragic duet features teenagers MORT and DIDI, alone at the wake of their father, a renowned linguist but negligent parent. In trying to assess father's professional achievement, brother and sister, masters of language in their own right, show they have inherited their father's gift of communication-and realize they share his sense of isolation. | |||||
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Family Secrets | ||
| 1st Produced: | Miami | 2005 | ||||
Company: | City Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Heuer Publishing (2006) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93756 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | CAROL refuses to sign a do-not-resuscitate order on her life, RICHARD refuses to confess his sins before his execution, and BECKY refuses to videotape a speech denouncing America. Each speaks to us, unaware of the other's presence and of their blood relationship to each other. Through their monologues, we see the limitations of language, the richness of emotional energy in the face of death, and the nature of blood relations. | |||||
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How Silent Do I Sound? | ||
| 1st Produced: | Howell, NJ | 1992 | ||||
Company: | Amanda 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 | #93748 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | This one-act play finds CHUCK, a middle-age moving man just back from vacation waiting in an empty loft. As he awaits the truck he must unload, he meets a young, deaf MAN of uncertain ethnic origin who has been assigned as his partner. Chuck's inability to communicate with the man leads to his unadulterated rage, bigotry, and ultimately anxiety about death. | |||||
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How You Get to Main Street? | ||
| 1st Produced: | Courtyard Playhouse, New York | 1993 | ||||
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 | #93751 | |||
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 | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | FRANK, a lawyer living in a small suburban town, has tarnished his stellar reputation by successfully defending the right to community access of DA-OO, a homeless man who haunts the library and shopping malls in his community. As this one-act play opens, FRANK has now become a victim of DA-OO's burglary of his house. In scenes alternating between the courtroom where DA-OO's case was tried and the alleyway in which he lives, issues of equality, justice, and xenophobia surface as the play takes an unexpected turn. | |||||
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Isn't This the Way You Wanted Me? | ||
| 1st Produced: | Howell, NJ | 1992 | ||||
Company: | Amanda 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 | #93750 | |||
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: | short comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | This short two-scene play opens with JOAN at the end of her rope with BILL, her husband of 27 years who has lost his sense of romance, public decency, and self-respect. Joan misses the poetry, breathtaking sunsets, and exotic vacations of their early years. The first scene concludes with Bill in a bloated, alcoholic stupor, but second begins with him making a 180-degree turn, as he wakes up in the middle of the night sexually charged and rejuvenated by a wild sense of passion for Joan. Is this what Joan really wanted? | |||||
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Phoenix, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chernuchin Theatre, New York | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Pordenone Productions and Italian-American Repertory 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 | #93754 | |||
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 | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | It is December 11, 2002, fifteen months after a woman's only child, a college student, was killed in the World Trade Center. The woman lapses into one of her many bouts with depression, living vicariously through her image of her daughter's life. A girl, who cannot be seen or heard by the woman, exists to the audience as the daughter's spirit, trying unsuccessfully to reach her mother. Feelings of maternal guilt and youthful anxiety surface, but the girl struggles to release her mother so that they can both move on with their lives-one in the flesh and the other in spirit. | |||||
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Spelling Bee, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Village Gate | 1993 | ||||
Company: | West Dog Rep | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, NY (1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35465 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | This animated one-act tour de force thrusts two young men on stage, one black and one white. Each has been victimized by the same crime. One at a time, they tell their story while the other plays humorous supporting roles to enhance the narrative. The black assails everyone he sees in the white world: neighborhood greasers, sociology professors and sleazy businessmen. Reverse discrimination, violence perpetrated by blacks and the impotent justice system form the core of the white man's tale. Their tirades culminate in an explosive confrontation one's sister was stabbed to death and the other was charged with the crime and then exonerated. | |||||
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What Do You Charge for a Cure? | ||
| 1st Produced: | Howell, NJ | 1992 | ||||
Company: | Amanda 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 | #93747 | |||
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: | drama One Act | |||||
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Notes: | Dr. Parker may be performed by a male or female. | |||||
Synopsis: | In this one-act play, DR. PARKER, a director at a mental health facility, finds himself in a career black hole as he questions his assumptions about the services he provides and the developmentally disabled people he serves. He begins to find answers from two unlikely sources. The first is BOBBY, one of his clients, a mentally retarded janitor whose guileless observations equalize Parker's sanctimonious insights. The other is JOE, a candidate for services who suffered a gunshot wound to the head and lacks the ability to communicate and the desire to live, despite the loving support of his wife, KIM. Dr. Parker's confirmation that there are no easy answers is eclipsed by the ebb and flow of the alternately comic and tragic dialogues. | |||||
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