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DAVID FOLEY |
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Literary Agent: Gordon Dickerson |
David Foley has written nine plays, ranging in subject from the Trojan War to a turn-of-the-century Naval sex scandal. His work has been presented by Here, the Lark Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Ohio Theatre in New York, and the Hampstead Theatre in London. He lives in New York City.
Plays by David Foley
Cressida Among the Greeks | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47159 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | post 9/11 version of the Troilus and Cressida legend. Cressida Among the Greeks takes place during the last days of the Trojan War. The story of the doomed lovers is woven together with the foibles of the Trojan royal family as they try to stave off teh impending disaster. | |||||
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Deadly Murder (as If/Then) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Workshop of Owensboro | 14 Jun 2007 | ||||
Company: | International Mystery Writers' Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69830-9 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #97386 | |||
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Genre: | Mystery | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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| It's got everything you associate with the venerable dinner theatre's thriller oeuvre - recognisable faces in the cast, a high standard of realism in the set design, guns and knives in the props cupboard, and blackmail, murder, cross and double cross aplenty in the script. | |||||
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Hole In The Fence, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Box of Tricks Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840027908 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #68899 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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| It's 1919 and the US naval base in Newport, Rhode Island, is mired in 'conditions of vice'. Mr Vole has a plan to clean it up. He orders a group of young sailors to infiltrate Newport's dens of depravity, meet other young sailors and have sex with them; then uses their graphic reports to conduct a string of arrests. Only when the investigation snares an Episcopal priest does it explode in a scandal that reaches up to the highest level of government. Based on a real-life sex scandal, A Hole in the Fence is a comic exploration of desire, duplicity, and the slippery terrain of public morality. | |||||
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Last Days of Madalyn Murray O'Hair In Exile, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Three Plays by David Foley published by Oberon, | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840024739 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47160 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | imagines an alternative conclusion to the real-life disappearance of a notorious atheist. | |||||
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Mother Caldwell | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Three Plays by David Foley published by Oberon, | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840024739 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63799 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | a devout conservative standing for office is tricked into believing that she has heard the voice of God | |||||
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Murders At Argos | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | Hyperion Theatre, Seattle | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840023236 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #68900 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 10 | ||
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| The Murders at Argos retells the Oreseia story with Orestes and Electra as murderous teens. The play is set in Ancient Greece but the world of the play is hilariously, horrifyingly modern: the absent father, the self-involved mother, the alienated children sinking into violence and madness in society gone terribly awry. | |||||
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Nance O'Neil | ||
| 1st Produced: | Access Theatre | 15 Sep 2010 | ||||
Company: | Blue Coyote Theater 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 | #118964 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | When actress Nance O'Neil arrived in Boston in 1904 with her repertoire of tragic heroines, the critics hailed her as "the American Sarah Bernhardt." But it was her relationship with the infamous Lizzie Borden that caused the bigger sensation. David Foley's Nance O'Neil, imaginatively elaborated from a historical footnote, examines the fascinating relationship between these two women. Were they in love? Or were there other motivations at play? | |||||
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Paradise | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
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 | #47158 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | follows three Manhattan couples and a dissolute priest who inadvertently set off a chain of events that leads to consequences none could have foreseen. The press release says, "Pieced together like a beautiful mosaic, this somber comedy-drama eavesdrops on their poignant and often very funny musings on love and faith as each couple searches for connection, lasting passion, and (perhaps) redemption." | |||||
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Sad Hotel | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840020857 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11944 | |||
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Genre: | Biographical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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| Sad Hotel is a fictionalised account of Tennessee Williams' relationship with his lover, Frank Merlo. Set in a house on the Florida coast in the early sixties, the play traces the dissolution of a 15-year relationship under pressures of fame, failure and addiction. | |||||
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Standards of Decency 3: 300 Vaginas Before Breakfast | ||
| 1st Produced: | Access Theatre | 02 Jun 2011 | ||||
Company: | Blue Coyote Theater 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 | #138142 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Notes: | written by David Johnston, Matthew Freeman, David Foley, Mac Rogers, Jordan Seavey, Bruce Goldstone, Jacqueline Christy, Cheri Magid, Adam Szymkowicz | |||||
Synopsis: | Blue Coyote Theater group commissioned eight of their favorite playwrights to create new short plays meditating on new media and pornography. Presented in a stripped-down style, the plays are raunchy, funny, and surprisingly tender. Is our pornutopia breaking down our capacities for empathy and reflective thought, for intimacy and sustained attention? Standards of Decency 3: 300 Vaginas Before Breakfast uses a very old medium to explore what the new media are doing to us, publicly and privately, for better and for worse, at the place where technology, sex, and relationships collide. | |||||
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Standards of Decency Project | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Blue Coyote Theater Group | |||||
| 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 | #58888 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
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Notes: | The playwrights are: David Johnston, Mathew Freeman, David Foley, Brian Dykstra, Boo Killebrew, Laura Henry, Kristen Palmer, John Yearley, and Stan Richardson | |||||
Synopsis: | Blue Coyote Theater Group presents a program of nine new short plays that collectively the notions of decency and obscenity. The playwrights were asked to write a piece that includes at least one of these elements--nudity, blasphemy, and violence--in a manner that is fully warranted and justified (that is, that avoids mere gratuitousness or sensationalism), while also intended to offend conventional standards of decency. Blue Coyote says that it seeks to spark a discussion about the uses and abuses of transgressive performance onstage with this presentation. | |||||
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Suffering the Witch | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Three Plays by David Foley published by Oberon, | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840024739 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63800 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | a young woman returns to her God-fearing home town to confront her troubled past. | |||||
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