DALE ANDERSEN   (1943 - )


Dale Andersen
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Plays by Dale Andersen

DALE ANDERSEN
Acid Test
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Play
One Act
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Male
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Female
2
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Synopsis:
A look at polygamy from a woman's point of view. Nudity & toilet scene
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DALE ANDERSEN
Best Years of her Life, The
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Play/Drama
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Male
3
Female
2
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Notes:
Reading at ASF in Irvine, CA, in October, 2007. June, 2008. PannDora Productions gave a reading in Long Beach, CA.
Synopsis:
Henry, a successful and powerful man, frustrated by the drift and malaise in his life, weds Madeline, a woman half his age, because he wants to revive, renew, refresh, rejuvenate. But as the ravages of time and the shock of events conspire against him, Madeline is left alone to perform one final act of mercy. The Best Years of her Life is a full-length version of my award-winning short play, Team Player.
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DALE ANDERSEN
Better Place, A
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Genre:
full length
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
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Notes:
A Better Place had readings at The Asylum Theatre in Las Vegas in 2004 and Off-Broadway in 2006 by Ten Grand Productions. It was developed at the South Coast Repertory Practicum. And it made the 2004 O'Neill Playwrights Conference shortlist. The inspiration to write this play came from my short play, A Dogs Christmas (listed below).
Synopsis:
A Better Place is a full-length play about six dogs trapped in a pound. And what is a pound, but a kind of death camp. In which the culture is up or out. As in, move up to a new owner or be carried out paws first. A dog eat dog world. Introducing Becky, the high-spirited and courageous Aussie Cattle Dog. She arrives at the pound, having been dumped there by her owners and immediately sets about shaking things up. there's Cyril, the sinister, power-hungry German Shepherd. And Artie, the irrepressible Pug. And Brick and Shawna and Ali. How these six interact to keep clear of the Grim Reaper serves to conjure up the magic of the play.
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DALE ANDERSEN
Bobby Monologue, The
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Genre:
Monologue, Drama
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Male
1
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Notes:
This was written for a monologue competition at the University of Idaho. They gave out an extensive back story for the Bobby character, including that he was an injured veteran of Operation Desert Storm and now going to a university somewhere in the Midwest. I chose Kent State and used the massacre there in the early 70's as my theme.
Synopsis:
A monologue about war and peace and the brother you never knew
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DALE ANDERSEN
Christmas Truce
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2003
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
A Christmas play
Synopsis:
Think of George and Martha from Albee's "Virgina Woolf" and you'll have a fair idea of the yuletide lunacy in this short play.
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DALE ANDERSEN
Dead Angel
1st Produced:
First Stage, Hollywood, CA
2005
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Genre:
Dark Comedy
One Act
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Male
1
Female
1
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Synopsis:
Two lovers spend a night of stolen love in a hotel room. They both wake up, but one of them is dead.
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DALE ANDERSEN
Dog's Christmas, A
1st Produced:
2002
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
This play, A Dog's Christmas, was the inspiration for my full-length, A Better Place
Synopsis:
It's Christmas Eve at the Dog Pound, the humans are all snug in their beds and four mutts gather together for a game of cards and to discuss life and death and God and what happens when your card comes up.
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Fourth Daughter, The
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Genre:
Drama, full length
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Parts:
Male
5
Female
4
Parts Other:
2b
Notes:
The Fourth Daughter had a staged reading at the South Coast Repertory Practicum in 2005
Synopsis:
What's in a name? Well, for starters, a name can define you. Or disguise you. Or hide you. Or defile you or destroy you. Or even change you. Introducing Cuarta, a twenty-something Hispanic woman. Cuarta means "the fourth daughter." Cuarta's three older sisters all have flower names. Yolanda which means violet. Orquídea which means orchid. Flor De Oro which means goldenrod. So something bad must have happened, right? Uh, did I forget to mention that the mother died giving birth to Cuarta? That's why there were no flowers for Cuarta. Just a number for a name for a bad luck girl. Cuarta goes to America and marries Atilano. Atilano is Spanish for Atilla the Hun. Cuarta believes in luck. Both kinds of luck. The good and the bad. And throughout the play, there are signs and symbols and personifications of its hold over her. There's the psychic. And the deck of cards. And the lucky numbers and the feng shui. All of which culminate in Cuarta and Atilano's going for all the marbles on a single spin of a roulette wheel.
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DALE ANDERSEN
From Whore To Pimp To Crackhead
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Genre:
Monologue, Drama
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Male
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Notes:
This monologue has been incorporated into my new full-length, The Best Years of her Life, as a scene.
Synopsis:
A monologue about Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron and why no one cares about baseball anymore.
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DALE ANDERSEN
Half-Eaten Chilidog
1st Produced:
2002
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Also produced at Stages in Fullerton, CA, in 2003.
Synopsis:
Take a man and a woman and put them in a room together, each on a cellphone with the same third person. Would they ring off and get personal? Or would they keep chattering away on the cell?
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DALE ANDERSEN
Leaving The Light On
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
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Male
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Female
1
Parts Other:
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Synopsis:
This play is a what-if. It's twenty years into the future. A down-on-his-luck Kobe Bryant is now in his forties, long out of basketball and limping from a career-ending injury. He checks into a hotel in Colorado and meets up by sheer accident with the woman who sued him for sexual harrassment years before when he was a big sports star. Except now, she's the hotel manager.
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DALE ANDERSEN
Little Jimmy
1st Produced:
Minnesota, USA
2007
Company:
Hill-Murray Young Performer's Workshop
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
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3 teenaged boys
Notes:
This play was inspired by the high school shooting in Santee, CA, in 2001
Synopsis:
Three boys into video gaming react to a recent shooting at their high school
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DALE ANDERSEN
Lost Nation Morning Show, The
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Genre:
Full-length Dark Comedy
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Male
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The entire play takes place in the on-air studio of a mom and pop radio station
Synopsis:
An aging small-town radio personality, about to be fired, barricades himself in the on-air studio with his sidekick/girlfriend for one last roll of the dice.
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DALE ANDERSEN
Merry Christmas, Bitch!
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2001
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
2
Parts Other:
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Synopsis:
A theatre owned by a Christmas Grinch is invaded by a troupe rehearsing Dickens' A Christmas Carol. And it isn't long before no one has the Christmas spirit.
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DALE ANDERSEN
Missing
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Genre:
Dark Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
November, 2008. SCR Practicum gave a reading on the South Coast Repertory's Nicholas Stage.
Synopsis:
Take two marginal characters, a blown-up Seven-Eleven, and a man who stores his dead uncle in the walk-in freezer. Mix in some threatening phone calls from Sudan and a missing hand. Stir well.
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DALE ANDERSEN
Mohammed's Moon
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Genre:
full length
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
This play had a reading at the South Coast Repertory Practicum in 2006. It was inspired by the events of Nine-Eleven.
Synopsis:
Mohammed's Moon is about nine-eleven, the title inspired by the moon having been in waning crescent phase the morning of the attack. It's a 61 page, fast-paced piece, with eight actors taking on 29 roles and a landscape littered with witches, a street preacher, prophecies, omens, burning Bibles & Qur'ans & books on Dianetics. There's a commuter train and an airplane on collision course. And a man convinced Mia Farrow is sending him telepathic messages of love. At rise, it's early morning nine-eleven, as Mohammed Atta boards a plane for the last time, while 300 miles to the south, a New Jersey Transit commuter train sets out from Gladstone station for Summit, NJ, with connections to the World Trade Center. The passengers we meet seem to be on weirdly destructive personal missions. Mister Atta encounters four tempters, among them Santa Claus and Hitler. Santa shows him nude pictures of a martyr's brides. Hitler declaims on the "truth of lobsters." And all the while shining down, the moon spawns its own dark lunacy.
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DALE ANDERSEN
Nine Ten
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
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Male
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Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
This play was developed at the South Coast Repertory Practicum in 2005. Scenes were read and critiqued there.
Synopsis:
Nine Ten is a thirty-four page, three-character play. Two women, Molly and Erica, thirty-ish, cousins, roommates, one an American, the other British. Their relationship is an unnourishing, unsatisfying, uncommunicative, mutually antagonistic one. This night, the night before nine-eleven, Molly comes home with bad news. She's been sacked from her job. Hafez, a friend, an Arab man from work, will soon stop by to comfort her and try to cheer her up. And when he enters the apartment, all the submerged poisons in their relationship will bubble to the surface, giving us a foretaste of things to come. Of course, Erica, the American, represents the USA. Molly represents the UK. Hafez represents the Arab world. This play contains nudity and violence and cruelty to animals.
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DALE ANDERSEN
Once There Was A Boy Named David
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2006
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Genre:
Full-length Musical
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Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
This play was developed at the South Coast Repertory Practicum in 2006. Scenes were read and critiqued there
Synopsis:
Introducing a new musical about the Old Testament hero, David, designed for eight performers. There are seventeen songs. "Once There Was A Boy Named David" tells the story of the young David on his journey from Shepherd Boy to Giant Killer to Bandit Prince to Newly-Crowned King. Satan figures prominently. You can't have a good Bible story without the Prince of Darkness in there somewhere. Early on, Satan recognizes David as a dangerous adversary. During the course of the drama, Satan serves as an unreliable narrator. Additionally he assumes various guises in his efforts to block or divert David from achieving his destiny.
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Report From The Republican National Convention
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Genre:
Monologue, Comedy
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Male
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Synopsis:
A homeless man tells a story about crashing the 2004 Republican Convention on the night George W Bush was nominated and how he ended up sitting on stage right near George and Laura.
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DALE ANDERSEN
Solidarity
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Genre:
Short Play
One Act
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Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Synopsis:
A banned artist's family tries to hang tough and survive in a dictatership.
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DALE ANDERSEN
Starman
1st Produced:
This Woman's Work Theatre, NY
2006
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Genre:
political monologue
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Parts:
Male
1
Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
This play was also produced in Hollywood and Off-Broadway in 2004. Reading at ASF in Irvine, CA, in December, 2007
Synopsis:
A powerful man, who in life was a prominent politician, an astronaut and a gay-basher, is dead. His gay son, long estranged, has come home to pay his respects and heal. Based on a true story.
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DALE ANDERSEN
Team Player, A
1st Produced:
Boston, MA
2006
Company:
Devanaughn Theatre
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
This play was the inspration for my full-length, The Best Years of her Life (see above). Based on a true story. This play was also produced in Orange County, CA and in Ohio. It received readings in Hollywood and Off-Broadway. And it was a winner in the 2006 Theatre In The Raw One-Act Competition
Synopsis:
Henry, a successful man, frustrated by the drift and malaise in his life, weds Madeline, a woman half his age because he wants to revive, renew, refresh, rejuvenate. But as the ravages of time conspire against him, Madeline is left alone to make one last life or death decision.
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DALE ANDERSEN
Thank You
1st Produced:
New York
2004
Company:
Love Creek Productions
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
This play was also produced in Hollywood and Orange County, CA. It received a reading at Edward Albee's Last Frontier Theatre Conference
Synopsis:
It is Christmas Eve and Joan and Toni are about to have their Commitment Ceremony. But first, some unfinished business. A lesbian romance.
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