BLAKE BRADFORD (1981 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Blake Bradford
Bitter, Bitter, Burnt |
| 1st Produced: | American Theater of Actors, NYC | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | Love Creek Productions | |||||
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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 | - |
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| Synopsis: | David's lover has just left him. For France. He's not too pleased about this. Bitter, Bitter, Burnt takes place over the course of David's first night alone after being dumped. His sardonic wit is all he has to keep him company in this dark comedy that explores that first night alone after a breakup. | |||||
Blessed Dachshund |
| 1st Produced: | Kenan Theater, NC | 2003 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 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: | Comedy/farce | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | When Satan gets an insider tip from Katie Couric that God is roaming the streets of Manhattan, she decides to pay a visit to Earth, where she learns of God's plan to turn a befuddled gay lawyer into the patron saint of wiener dogs. | |||||
Cherry Orchard, The |
| 1st Produced: | Beckmann - American Theater of Actors, NY | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | Phare Play Productions | |||||
| 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: | Adaptation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | |||||
| Synopsis: | Set in the 1920's in Charleston, South Carolina amidst the oncoming industrialism and decline of the slave-owning class, "The Cherry Orchard" is the story of one woman's return to her plantation after five years in Paris, where she fled after the death of her husband and young son, only to have to face the sale of her home to pay off debts. Presented with live music from the period and an ensemble cast of twelve, the fast paced comedy is sure to please Chekhov scholars and novices alike. | |||||
Dance at Bataan |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
| Company: | Phare Play Productions | |||||
| 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 | 4 | Female | 5 |
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| Synopsis: | While researching Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for her graduate thesis, Hannah Swindon comes across suspicious files regarding a WWII survivor of the Bataan Death March. Slowly becoming friends with Mr. Edwards, she becomes engrossed in the incredible story of three friends that created a 'university' while POWs in order to survive brutal Japanese treatment. When Hannah finds out the incredible truth to Mr. Edwards' time at Bataan, she is forced to decide whether to protect a friend or use his story to graduate - press release | |||||
Gay Slave Handbook |
| 1st Produced: | Producers Club 2, NY | 2005 | ||||
| Company: | Phare Play Productions | |||||
| 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 | 1 |
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| Notes: | By Blake Bradford. Also available as three stand alone one-acts (Graceland, Gay Slave Handbook, Redemptive Wedding) | |||||
| Synopsis: | After the death of a local gay teen rocks a small Southern town, the lives of Giulia, Sebastian, and Jimmy become forever entwined. What starts as youthful love and exuberant innocence becomes a destructive pathological relationship that could have deadly consequences. Set in three different periods in their lives, these friends and lovers must find a way to move forward or stay bound to the past. | |||||
House of Bernarda Alba |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
| Company: | Phare Play Productions | |||||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 11 |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca | |||||
| Synopsis: | After the death of her husband, Bernarda Alba imposes a traditional mourning period of eight years on her household. Bernarda has always ruled her home with an iron fist and kept her five daughters on 'short chains'. Now that she is the sole dictator, her daughters are left with little escape from her oppression. As a consequence of their father's death, the eldest daughter is left wealthy, while the younger sisters are left with little. This new wealth attracts a suitor, which ignites jealousy and passion among the sisters whom have never been allowed a romance of their own. Each of the sisters copes with their mother's violence, their sisters' jealousy and their repressed desires in her own way, but when the youngest decides to break free at all costs, her actions threaten to destroy them all. - press release | |||||
I, Undertow |
| 1st Produced: | American Theatre of Actors, NY | 2009 | ||||
| Company: | Phare Play Productions | |||||
| 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 | 3 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Everyone has issues. All of Justin's live in North Carolina. Justin's an up and coming artist thriving in NYC whose world grinds to a halt when the worse thing possible happens to him - he gets the call to come home due to his grandmother's failing health. Slinking back to small town North Carolina with his latest one night stand forced upon him, he finds himself back neck deep in the family issues that he had been avoiding for more than a decade and facing the girl he left behind. In the midst of the culture clash between small town quirkiness and big city society behavior, Justin may actually discover what he had been running from for all of those years. Phare Play Productions is proud to present the world premiere of Blake Bradford's newest play - a hard look at the humor and heartache of going home. | |||||
Last Cloud, The |
| 1st Produced: | Producers Club - The Grand Theatre, NY | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | Phare Play Productions | |||||
| 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 | 3 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | Taking place over the course of a year, The Last Cloud follows five friends as they navigate life after college, in the awkward phase before they have the skills to 'be' anything. Things go awry when Laura's younger brother moves in for the summer, showing everyone that there is more to life than office politics. Set against the metaphor of a Rubik's Cube, The Last Cloud is a coming-of-age story of how friends can get so intertwined that they lose their individuality. - press release | |||||
Pathetique |
| 1st Produced: | Arizona Rep | 2004 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 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: | Historical drama | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 3 ensemble | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The tumultuous life of Tchaikovsky, from his disastrous married and failed suicide attempt to his redemption and salvation found in his nephew, Vlad Davidov, culminating in his mysterious death following the premiere of his masterpiece "fate" symphony, Pathetique. | |||||
Unfortunate Honeymoon of Tony and Steve, The |
| 1st Produced: | Toronto, Canada | 2008 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | 3 female singing ensemble | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Tony and Steve meet up again in a rundown Bahamas resort run by an aging Country Western showgirl when both decide to go on their prepaid honeymoon. When the friends they brought along fall madly in lust, the now bitter enemies are forced to deal with the underlying problems that caused the demise of their relationship. | |||||