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ELIZABETH WRAY (1950 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Born in Rochester, NY on January 15, 1950. B.A. in English, Mills College, 1970; M.F.A. in Writing, Columbia University, 1976. Poems published in: Partisan Review, New Letters, Kayak, Epoch and many others. Worked for four years as an editor and radio producer for Black Box Magazine, Watershed Tapes (series of contemporary poets reading their own work on cassette tapes), The Poem That Never Ends, a series of programs on contemporary U.S. poetry for public radio. In 1981 was Playwright-in-Residence, Julian Theatre, San Francisco, CA. Address (in 1981) 100 Delores St., 3 San Francisco, CA 94103
Plays by Elizabeth Wray
Broken Borders | ||
| 1st Produced: | American Place Theatre, Women's Project Series, 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 | #62678 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 3 | |||||
Notes: | Long one act (90 minutes). Setting: minimal suggestions of a one room apartment, a trench, a railroad station, a road, a border post, a look-out post. 23 speaking characters played by an ensemble of 8 actors, 4 males, 4 females; 3 non-speaking extras. | |||||
Synopsis: | An episodic play in twelve scenes, following the journey of a woman over the decimated landscape of an unspecified war, It explores the anonymity of modern war and the difficulty any person has in choosing sides or taking action. | |||||
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Cold Pipes | ||
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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 | #62681 | |||
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Cold Storage | ||
| 1st Produced: | Eureka Theatre, San Francisco, CA | - - - | ||||
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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 | #62683 | |||
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Corners | ||
| 1st Produced: | Washington Project for the Arts, Wash., D.C. | - - - | ||||
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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 | #62676 | |||
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Double Shift | ||
| 1st Produced: | Indiana State University, Evansville, IN | - - - | ||||
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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 | #62680 | |||
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Knitting | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mill Valley Center for the Performing Arts, CA | - - - | ||||
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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 | #38222 | |||
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Memory Motel: Chrysalis | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1981 | ||||
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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 | #62677 | |||
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Mobile Homes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Julian Theatre, San Francisco, CA | - - - | ||||
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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 | #62682 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Setting: Three locations, Porch, the front porch of a Baltimore row house; Border, a cafe/gas station on the Texas-New Mexico border; Car, near a Dodge van, San Francisco | |||||
Synopsis: | Three American Scenes: The action follows a thirty-year-old waitress and former rock singer, Ava, who decides to leave her home and family in Baltimore where her life has come to a standstill and travel across the country to make an audition set up for her at a club in San Francisco. The play is about taking responsibility for one's own actions, about the pain of leaving home, the limbo of being on the road and the difficult joy of beginning again. | |||||
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Nightstone | ||
| 1st Produced: | U. of Montana, MT | - - - | ||||
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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 | #62675 | |||
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Rock Island | ||
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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 | #62679 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | The time is 1936 in the Dust Bowl, on a Rock Island Railroad right-of-way along the Oklahoma-Arkansas border. Five American types" (former IWW man, would-be starlet, itinerant female soapboxer, former ringmaster with PT. Barnum, newspaperman from Trenton) wait to hop a train west. They become involved with each other as a drama unravels involving the discovery, capture and escape of the former IWW man, who has dynamited a border post set up to collect revenues from itinerant farmers. | |||||
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