JOHNNA ADAMS (1972 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Johnna Adams
8 Little Antichrists |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
| Company: | Flux Theatre Ensemble | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 |
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Notes: part of The Angel Eaters Trilogy | ||||
Synopsis: Set 20 years in the future, the final play of the trilogy imagines a dystopia where Disney Corporation runs jails and SONY clones workers. Skipping ahead two generations, 8 Little Antichrists follows Osleys (from RATTLERS) grandchildren - Jeremy and Melanie - in their quest to stop the apocalypse and save the world from the antichrists. This story is the thrilling conclusion to a three play battle between good and evil, love and loss | ||||
Angel Eaters |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
| Company: | Flux Theatre Ensemble | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: part of The Angel Eaters Trilogy | ||||
Synopsis: Joann, a slow girl growing up poor in 1930s Oklahoma, claims to talk to angels and raise animals from the dead. But when her father dies and her sister gets pregnant, the angels message takes a darker turn. As her mother hires a pair of carnies to rise her dead husband, Joann struggles to understand if her growing power is good or evil and whether she should fight God to bring her father back. This fiercely comic and cosmic drama of good versus evil plays out through one family struggling to survive the death and loss of the Dust Bowl. | ||||
Clovis |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 6 |
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Synopsis: Clovis was a bully. He is dead and Deputy Duey has the task of interviewing his family to find out who dunnit. | ||||
Cockfighters |
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| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: takes place in a lonely West Texas town where vengeance and violence come more naturally to the Fowler family than to the gamecocks they fight. | ||||
Death Comes To Us All |
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| 1st Published: | 2007 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
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Gingerbread House Demolition, The |
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| 1st Published: | 2007 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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How To Suck A Million Toes And Not Get Electrocuted Once |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Ten minute play | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: What to do when a beloved pet dies | ||||
In The Absence of Angels |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 7 |
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Synopsis: A movie star has attempted suicide on the set of her latest film. She goes to stay with her aunt pursued by the paparazzi | ||||
Judith Christ |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Judith believes she is the reincarnation of Jesus. She can heal - but only when she is drunk. | ||||
Lickspittles, Buttonholers and Pernicious Go-Betweens |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: The ladies of the Enhancement of the Christian Mind have invited a preacher to address them. He tells them that unless they do as he says the World will end tomorrow | ||||
Miracle of Mary Mack's Baby, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: Mary pulls a green thing out of an UFO that crashes in front of her house. She thinks it has been sent by the Lord but the rest of the town are convinced it is the start of an alien invasion. Meanwhile Mary's husband has decided to murder her... | ||||
Nude on the Beach |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: A married couple are having problems. Their priest tells them to go to a nudist colony and sort things out. | ||||
Perceptionist, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Ten minute play | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: Celeste is to pose for a famous artist. But she is shown into a padded cell where the artist is in a straight jacket and there are no paints | ||||
Rattlers |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
| Company: | Flux Theatre Ensemble | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: part of The Angel Eaters Trilogy | ||||
Synopsis: The second play, set in the 1980s, follows the children of the survivors of ANGEL EATERS. Unwilling to accept her sister Kates death, Ernelle kidnaps Osley, her ex-lover and uses dark methods of persuasion to convince him to raise Kate from the dead. Meanwhile, Kate and Ernelles mother, believing her daughter was murdered, seeks revenge, while the two men who may have killed her share memories of the woman they loved. This hauntingly intimate play examines how love can drive good people to acts of unspeakable violence. | ||||
Sacred Geometry of S&M Porn, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 16 Actors playing various roles | |||
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Synopsis: A troubled young man with a stack of dirty magazines a dead woman stealing souls a televangelist grilled by Mike Wallace a whore seeking enlightenment a disgruntled woman wielding a gun = an assassination plot, weird sex, the Crystal Cathedral, a whole lotta money and a new religion | ||||
Sans Merci |
| 1st Produced: | Roy Arias Studios & Theatres, NY | 2008 | ||
| Company: | Mauetic Theatre Works | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: When Elizabeth sent her daughter Tracy to college to study literature, she never thought her remains would be returned to her less than a year later. Soon she discovers that Tracy was influenced by her new roommate Kelly to become an activist, like Rachel Corrie, only to suffer a similar fate. In an act of desperation, Elizabeth flies to California to confront Kelly about the mysterious circumstances surrounding her daughter's death - press release | ||||
Sinner to the Bone |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: When their aged mother takes a fall the Crowley children face a dilemma | ||||
Storm Riders |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: 18 year old Kyle is mowing Lainie's lawn. She has decided that today is the day to seduce him. But is seduction that easy? | ||||
Terraforming The Planet Wellness |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 6 |
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Synopsis: The one about the paranoid child, the two psychopathic teenage girls, the alien and the vampire | ||||
Truth About Santa, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Ten minute play | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: Santa runs his establishment like a concentration camp. The perimeter has barbed wire and is patrolled by armed reindeer. And genetic experiments make sure the elves stay small and have pointy ears | ||||