CARY BARNEY (1957 - )
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Cary Barney
All Or Nothing |
| 1st Produced: | Madrid | 1994 | ||
| Company: | V. O. Inglesa | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A television game show is hijacked by four of its former champions, who testify to the misery winning brought to their lives and try to take revenge on the smarmy host. A black comedy about greed and disillusion | ||||
Bleach |
| 1st Produced: | Madrid | 1994 | ||
| Company: | V. O. Inglesa | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A veteran director tries to coach a gifted but problematical actress through the taping of a bleach commercial. | ||||
Buttercup |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1992 | ||
| Company: | Pulse 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: | full length | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | flexible | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A preschool teacher is accused of sexually molesting her charges in a case ignited by a mysterious utterance of a child and fanned into flame by overzealous investigators and sensationalist media, destroying lives, marriages and innocence. A near documentary, with much black comedy. | ||||
Cancun |
| 1st Produced: | Madrid | 1994 | ||
| Company: | V. O. Inglesa | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A couple in trouble visits their marriage counselor, who turns out to be at least part of the problem. A short farce about keeping your story straight. | ||||
Children of Argos |
| 1st Produced: | Madrid | 2002 | ||
| Company: | Madrid Players | |||
| 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: | full length | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | flexible | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A modern retelling of the House of Atreus story, focusing on Orestes and Electra and exploring how children grow up in an environment of violence and depravity and whether of not they can escape becoming that way themselves. The play mixes tragedy and black comedy, pseudo-classical verse and Simpsons wisecracks, ancient and modern Greece (and Astoria, Queens). | ||||
Disclaimer |
| 1st Produced: | London | 2006 | ||
| Company: | Practicum | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 2 (gender neutral; 1 silent) | |||
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Synopsis: Written in response to the cancellation of My Name is Rachel Corrie at the New York Theatre Workshop, this brief metatheatrical piece is an attack on self-censorship. | ||||
Dudley and Waldo |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 (one silent) | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Dudley, a nursing home resident in his nineties, thinks he recognizes another patient as Waldo Dickman, the gangster he thought he'd shot and killed many years before. Is his memory playing tricks on him, or is Waldo? | ||||
Hey Bosnia |
| 1st Produced: | Madrid | 1995 | ||
| Company: | V.O. Inglesa | |||
| 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: | full length | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | flexible | |||
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Synopsis: A slightly over the hill rock star and his slightly over the hill model wife try to rejuvenate their marriage and careers by accompanying a humanitarian relief convoy during the Bosnian war. The nun in charge, and her mercenary sidekick, have a secret which turns the mission into a fight for survival. An adventure story melded to a dark satire of celebrity do-goodism. | ||||
Idyll |
| 1st Produced: | Madrid | 1996 | ||
| Company: | ETSIT | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Three strangers meet in the park on a beautiful afternoon. Al paints a landscape, Sue reads poetry, and Bob flies a kite. This peaceful scene is repeatedly broken by contentious cell phone conversations in which they are not strangers at all, but business associates vying for the top spot. A light, surreal comedy which leaves its paradox unresolved. | ||||
Lysistrata Now |
| 1st Produced: | Madrid | 2005 | ||
| Company: | Saint Louis University | |||
| 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: | Full length adaptation | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | flexible | |||
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Synopsis: A scene-for-scene adaptation of Aristophanes' comedy, with new jokes and topical references, set against a contemporary east/west conflict. | ||||
Molly on the Stump |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 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: | monologue | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: The Daughter of the Next President of the United States introduces her father at a rally but departs from the teleprompter script, injecting a possibly lethal dose of candor into politics. | ||||
Olympic Dinner, The |
| 1st Produced: | Madrid | 1994 | ||
| Company: | V. O. Inglesa | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Two female runners on the US Olympic Team address a banquet, but their forces smiles slip and their deadly rivalry breaks the surface. A black comic look at sports. | ||||
Sandy Takes the Stand |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 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: | monologue | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A poised, patrician woman who has just been convicted of murdering her husband thanks the jury for their verdict and holds forth on the extremes of love, devotion and possession. | ||||
Son of Elvis |
| 1st Produced: | Madrid | 1994 | ||
| Company: | V. O. Inglesa | |||
| 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: | monologue | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: The so-called Son of Elvis sings and plays guitar, both badly, and interrupts his performance to muse on his purported father and on our obsession with Elvis. | ||||
Undermined |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 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: | full length | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A sequel to Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara, picking up Barbara and Adolphus thirty years later during the Spanish Civil War, and then following them into the Afterlife for a showdown with the Christian Right. A questioning of Shaw's faith in human evolution in the light of the intervening century. | ||||
Wannsee Wedding, The |
| 1st Produced: | New Haven | 1986 | ||
| Company: | Yale Cabaret | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | flexible | |||
Notes: Originally produced under the title Suicidal Romance. | ||||
Synopsis: German writer Heinrich von Kleist arranges a romantic double suicide with a dying married woman, leaving her husband to puzzle out what's going on and why. Wistful rather than heavy, the play is largely comic. | ||||