DAN BANCROFT (1950 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Dan Bancroft
Choices |
| 1st Produced: | BU Playwrights' Theater, NY | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | Playwright's Platform, MA | |||||
| 1st Published: | Heuer Publishing, | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | Drama | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Winner of Audience Choice Award – Best Play. Two scenes, minimal set change. Playwright has musical rights for bridge music between scenes. Choices is an adaptation of a full length play, still in development, based upon the playwright’s mother’s escape, at age 14, from Nazi Germany | |||||
| Synopsis: | A Jewish family in Nazi Germany, 1939, is shattered by their teenage daughter’s decision to save herself by leaving the country, alone | |||||
Five Guns, Four Bullets |
| 1st Produced: | 8 Minute Madness Festival, NY | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | Turtle Shell Production, NY | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Produced and Highlighted in New York Magazine, August, 2006. Second production in September 2007 as part of the Mill City Minutes Festival in Lowell, MA. | |||||
| Synopsis: | An imagined dialogue between a condemned man and his executioner explores and reveals their motives, anxieties, and ultimately, their need for forgiveness. | |||||
Smoke |
| 1st Produced: | BU Playwrights' Theater | 2009 | ||||
| Company: | Playwrights' Platform | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Winner of Playwrights' Choice and Audience Choice - Best Play. | |||||
| Synopsis: | A dying man's love of cigarettes and Lauren Bacall | |||||
What's Really Good |
| 1st Produced: | 8 Minute Madness Festival, NY | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | Turtle Shell Production, NY | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | Absurd | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Included in Ghostplay Series of 2008 Tennessee Williams Festival and New Provincetown Players, Provincetown, Massachusetts. | |||||
| Synopsis: | A bizarre conversation at a cemetery about missed opportunities and the importance of human connections. | |||||