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JONATHAN CAWS-ELWITT (1962 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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After graduating from Harvard University, Jonathan Caws-Elwitt (born Jonathan Elwitt) slowly began to make a name for himself as an alternative-pop songwriter (with his group The Silly Pillows), a prose humorist, and a playwright. His work can be seen places like Verbatim: The Language Quarterly, the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form, and the language-oriented comic strip Shoecabbage. Among his claims to fame have been selling a gag to cartoonist Bil Keane, writing magazine ads for the Rolling Stones, and appearing on Steve Allen's radio show.
Plays by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt
As Long as It's in the Script: A Sex Farce within a Sex Farce | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101183 | |||
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Genre: | Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Finalist, Cheshire Comedy's "Funniest Play on Earth 2008" contest. Finalist, 2006 Mountain Playhouse Comedy Playwriting Contest | |||||
Synopsis: | Helen has seen every sex comedy in the repertory, and she's decided that staging a private bedroom farce of her own is the key to revitalizing her sex life. Enter indulgent husband Mark and reluctantly cooperative best friend Julie. And just when it seems that they may be playing their parts a little too well, the action is complicated by the unscripted arrival of Julie's ex-boyfriend Fred, not to mention a cantankerous hotel plumber. From out-of-order bathrooms to double-booked suites, the cast and director grapple with the comical challenges of getting through the scripted business of a make-believe affair before it becomes real. | |||||
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Can of Yams, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Montrose, PA | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Endless Mountains Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Baker's Plays, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58334 | |||
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Genre: | Farce One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | There's only one thing standing between egotistical painter Alan Plum and the fame he craves . . . and it's a can of yams! To his sister Delphinia's dismay, Alan has cherished the can of yams since childhood. He has even chosen it as the subject of his unfinished masterpiece. But when gallery owner Heather Lyme announces a visit to Alan's studio, his insecurities rise to the surface, and an artistic crisis erupts around the still-incomplete still life. With Heather and her assistant on the premises, the panicked Alan makes frantic, ridiculous attempts to impress, stall, and paint. Meanwhile, the fast-talking, sardonic Delphinia tries to salvage her brother's career-and straighten out her own love life. Sharp-witted dialogue drives this frivolous, one-act farce. | |||||
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Seventies Sex Comedy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Olde Brick Theatre, Scranton, PA | 2011 | ||||
Company: | Scranton Public Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132634 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Commissioned as part of the Jason Miller Playwrights' Project Dyonisia '11 invitational. | |||||
Synopsis: | Leonard and Janice push the boundaries of classic neurotic-romance comedy. | |||||
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Surely, You Jest! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jason Miller Summer Theater Festival, Scranton, PA | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Scranton Public Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58335 | |||
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Genre: | 10-min. Farce Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | As the house jester at a small consulting company, Jeremy Quip keeps his co-workers tittering. But when the parent corporation eliminates his position, it's no joke. Will levity triumph and frivolity prevail? (Hint: It's a comedy!) | |||||
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Waffle Truth, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Milford, PA | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Endless Mountains Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58336 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | or 5m/6f | |||||
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Synopsis: | Maxine Manx is an inventor intent on selling the world a machine that extrudes the perfect waffle-her WaffeWonder. But before she can get her brainchild into the hands of home wafflemakers, she must sell the patent to a kitchen equipment company. While she schemes to impress Anthony Crebbs of Crebbs Kitchen Concepts, an eccentric poet, Professor Edgar Tiswell, is scheming his way into the Manx attic, where he believes the rare night-flying phalarope to be nesting. Maxine mistakes Tiswell for Crebbs, while two of her bickering daughters think that Crebbs' right-hand man is a courier in possession of the WaffleWonder's missing part. Meanwhile, eldest daughter Precocia thinks the executive has been sent by The New Yorker to buy her unfinished short story. Precocia's boyfriend Gene is certain he can help Maxine negotiate if he impersonates a rival kitchen equipment executive, but his charade only serves to scare the real buyers off. Mistaken identity and mysterious squeaking noises lead to hasty exits, absurd accusations, contentious Scrabble contests, and-finally-the sale of one patent to an unexpected purchaser. | |||||
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