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MART CROWLEY (1935 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: International Creative Management |
Mart Crowley was born on August 21st 1935 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. His childhood was not a happy one - both parents were alcoholics and his mother spent time in a mental institution. After graduating he went to Hollywood and worked for a number of production companies. He met Natalie Wood as she hired him as her personal assistant - which gave him time to write "The Boys In The Band". The plays that followed were not the success "Boys" was and he was financially down in his luck. Natalie Wood suggested that he came to work on her husband's new television series. So in 1979 he became executive script editor for "Hart to Hart" and later executive producer.
Plays by Mart Crowley
Avec Schmaltz | ||
| 1st Produced: | Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, MA | 11 Aug 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0573600760 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #120382 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of the New Play Series | |||||
| A divorced couple who cannot live with each other - or live without each other | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Boys In The Band, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playwright's Unit, Vandam Theatre, NYC | 1968 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux, N.Y., 1968 | ISBN/ASIN: | B000PZMM2Y | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8385 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Michael, a homosexual, has invited a number of friends to his birthday party. A 'straight' friend of his, Alan, rings up and wants to see him. Though anxious about the outcome, Michael agrees to his joining them. Alan's presence acts as a catalyst to the emotions - never far from the surface - of those at the party. The result is a mixture of bitter humour and physical violence. Alan goes, leaving behind him the debris of the party. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Breeze From The Gulf, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope, PA | 1973 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Farrar Straus, New York, 1974 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8386 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | also at Eastside Playhouse, NYC | |||||
| 15 year old boy in Mississippi town suffers through adolescence through to adulthood and success as a writer. Your Mother is a junky, your Father is alcoholic & you are growing up gay. "I went to the funeral parlour today to see Dr Valkenberg & his Mexican Matador. What a scandal that's been." | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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For Reasons That Remain Unclear | ||
| 1st Produced: | Olney Theatre,Olney, MD | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47100 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A chance meeting brings Patrick face to face with the priest who abused him when he was nine | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Men From The Boys, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47241 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Follow up to Boys in the Band. The friends meet for the wake of Larry. "Jason's so common, I bet he smokes in the shower." | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Remote Asylum | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, california | Dec 1970 | ||||
Company: | Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles, CA | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-60077-7 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8387 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| In the heat of a blazing summer, three physically and spiritually exhausted Americans: Tom, a famous tennis pro; Dinah, his beautiful, cosmopolitan, not-yet divorced lover; and their mutual pal, Michael, a gay writer (first introduced in The Boys in the Band), try to " get away from it all" by visiting Dinahs enormously wealthy retired friends - the older, imperious Irene and her terminally ill husband, Ray - at their fabulous cliff-side villa on an island in the Mediterranean. But it turns out to be far from the perfect, restorative holiday they were so desperately seeking. This odyssey has not brought them or their hosts anywhere near the paradise they were seeking, but rather to an inferno where a painful, purgatorial breakthrough occurs, releasing them all and providing true escape from this distant and deceptively idyllic haven. Remote Asylum is a play which observes the classical unities of time, place and action, which remorselessly exposes a group of bruised souls - wanderers all, and forces them to deal with their fears of loneliness and mortality, to open past emotional wounds not yet healed. The event is one of forceful, dynamic transfiguration; the conversation is intelligent and adult, both witty and grave, best described as a kind of orchestrated tone poem. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tale At Both Ends, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #8388 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 13/4 | |||||
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