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in "A.M./P.M.", Dramatists Play Service, New York

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in "A.M./P.M.", Dramatists Play Service, New York

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Los Angeles

1982

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in "A.M./P.M.", Dramatists Play Service, New York

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Los Angeles

1981

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Pittsburgh

1977

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Los Angeles

1976

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Mark Taper Forum, in Los Angeles

1965

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1970

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Play

One Act

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Synopsis:
This humorous, touching and revealing monologue is concerned with an exasperated mother who attempts to entice her twelve-year-old daughter (unseen) out of the tree (imaginary) in which she has taken refuge. In the course of her brief recital the woman, her daughter, her late husband (who fell to his death climbing a tree) and the very nature of their lives together are revealed with startling and affecting clarity and compassion.

Los Angeles

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Samuel French, London

1987

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Comedy with music

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written with members of the playwrighting workshop

Synopsis:
depicts a Happy Hour at a neighbourhood bar

New Haven, Connecticut

1962

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Washington D.C.

1970

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1973

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Comedy

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Synopsis:
Lucille and Cullum are wealthy New Yorkers living as virtual prisoners in their lavish Fifth Avenue apartment, the entire block being held in a state of siege by rebelling domestic servants. They are, however, allowed a visit by their new in-laws, "Mr. John" and Mae, who hail from Arkansas and qualify as simple folk themselves. Thereafter the complications multiply uproariously, as the urbane Cullum struggles (at no small peril) to be civil to the surly Mr. John (who is in the garbage business and a confessed murderer as well); while his wife tries to persuade Mae (who is dazzled by "money people") that she need not repay their hospitality by cleaning house furiously and doling out copious samples of her homemade pickled pigs feet. And so it goes until, in a final irony, Lucille (with Mr. John) runs the blockade disguised as her house guestleaving Cullum to hold the fort and fend off the down-home ministrations of her starry-eyed replacement.

Los Angeles

1969

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1970

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Confrontation between crucifix making father and hippie son who hopes to fill Santa's empty sack and give everything away.

Philadelphia

1984

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1984

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Adaptation

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Original Playwright - August Strindberg

Synopsis:
One of Strindberg's most famous works, the play deals with a brilliant but erratic military officer and scientist who clashes with his wife on the question of whether their daughter should be sent away for her schooling or kept at home. A renowned misogynist, Strindberg used the play to dramatize what he considered to be the weaknesses and failings of women, and the diabolical way in which they sought to poison the hearts and minds of the men who had the misfortune to love them. But while Strindberg's view of the female sex may have been somewhat lopsided, in the present adaptation the motherher thoughts, and feelings, and aspirationsis given equal attention. While the laws of the time gave a father unreasonable control over his children, and the mother was forced to use her wiles to fight against this, the present version makes it clear that this was not always done with the sinister reasons which Strindberg ascribed in mind. Here the father and the mother are given equal voicemaking, at last, for a fair fight, and conveying a heightened theatricality which brings added power to one of the modern theatre's truly great plays.

Los Angeles

1970

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1971

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Comedy

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Left with their alimony, their children, and neighboring apartments on New York's posh Upper East Side, three divorcees share their loneliness, their often hilarious thoughts on sex and marriage, and their bitter memories of lost trust and closeness. When their ex-husbands arrive for a Father's Day reunion they are all, at first, as civilized and sophisticated as the situation demandsbut then the veneer begins to crack, and beneath the fusillade of funny lines their aching emptiness and hurt show through. In the end they face the truth about themselves and the rejection that they must accept, as the biting humor of the play gives way to a moment of touching, revealing, yet quietly shattering resignation.

New York

1966

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Fischer, Frankfurt

1967

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Trinity Square Repertory Company, Providence, R.I.

1974

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1975

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Comedy

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The time is winter, the place a chilly summer house on Long Island, where Allen and Charlotte, after twenty spendthrift years together, are "hiding out" burning bogus art works for heat and raiding a neighbor's back porch for food. They are joined, unexpectedly, by Terry, a nun facing a crisis of belief, and then by Martin, a failed Broadway playwright, and his new wife. Terry and Martin are brother and sister and Charlotte, years ago, was the girl whom Martin's mother had chosen as his intended bride. But this, like so many well meant plans, never came to passnor, for that matter, did most of the hopes and dreams which all had held in their promising, and much happier, youth. The house they had come together in belonged to Bess, departed mother of Martin and Terry, who appears as a "vision" now and again to evoke the past or comment on the presentand to bring into focus the funny, albeit desperate and ultimately touching, plight to which all these zany yet very human and believable people have come.

New Haven, Connecticut

1962

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in "The Yale School of Drama Presents", Dutton, New York

1964

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Romantic Comedy

Comedy

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Ashley Knight (real name Orville Sheden), a leading man, has decided to live onstage in the set of his current hit. The play being a sophisticated comedy, the set is quite lavish. As he is settling down, brandy in hand, a woman comes out of the empty orchestra and asks directions for getting out of the theatre. She has fallen asleep during the performance, and now the doors are locked. This is Lula Roca, a rather plain and frumpy young widow whose husband, a stagehand, was recently killed by a falling sandbag. Ashley persuades her to come onstage, and then to stay with him for the night. Soon she is drawn into the realms of illusion in which Ashley has sought escape from his own rather drab reality. The next morning she goes off to round up her best friend to show her the magical life into which she has fallen, and while she is gone Ashley is visited by his oafish sonthe inescapable reminder of the limiting responsibilities from which he has tried to remove himself. From then on, it is a matter of conflicting worlds. Eventually the pressure of the "outside" one forces the two lovers to flee to another theatre, this time with a drab, prison set, but Ashley (with an assist from the light man) manages to conjure up a sense of excitement and beauty just the same. In the end, however, the truth must be faced. Sooner or later reality will come nipping at their heels, with responsibilities that cannot be ignored. Their idyll is illusive at best. Ashley goes back to his family, Lula to what's left of her own lifea little sadder, but a little wiser too.

New London, Connecticut

1964

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Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival, KY, USA >>>

1979

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Short Play

One Act

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in Holidays

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On Memorial Day, a mother and father try to visit the grave of their son who was killed in Vietnam

Buffalo

1980

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Samuel French, NY

1982

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Comedy/Drama

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a paraplegic's brother, a Hollywood celebrity, is murdered, whodunit as relationships develop between paraplegic, his sister and young starlet

Dallas Theatre Centre

1986

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Coming together for the funeral of their father (whom they all detested and, on occasion, tried to kill off) three bothers assemble at the family homestead in rural Texas. The eldest, Darryl, is a thrice-divorced ne'er-do-well who relishes the memory of having forcibly introduced his siblings to the world of aberrant sex; Big Boots, the middle brother, is a confused and threatening type who has been serving a jail sentence for strangling his wife; while Tommy Joe, the youngest of the three, is a "sensitive" sort who gives piano lessons and has been looking after Little Boots, his brother's young son, during the latter's stay in prison. Completing the cast are Charlene, the town bawd, whose favors all the brothers have shared, but who now believes that she is on the verge of a permanent relationship with Tommy Joe; and Sarah, the recently widowed (and now pregnant) housemaid who has also conceived a desperate, but unrequited, passion for Tommy Joe. Trouble looms when Big Boots, who now earns his living massaging males in Dallas, demands the return of his son, much to the distress of his brother. Questions of sexual confusion arise hilariously from the rowdy, macho confrontations which ensue, and long-standing resentments test whether blood is, indeed, thicker than water. In the end, however, a sort of tenuous truce is achieved, with passions still simmering but with the reassuring hope that family feeling will, in the long run, bring order out of the antic chaos which still reigns as the curtain falls.

Los Angeles

1970

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Off-Off-Broadway's Caffe Cino, New York

1965

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1970

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One Act

3

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Enlisting the help of two fellow students, Jay attempts a "demonstration" to reenact (and perhaps fathom) a disconcerting episode from his past. The action centers on a photo of a back-country, East Texas wedding party which Jay has hung over his desk, and the violence which erupts from the normally placid "Little David" (impersonated by one of the other students) in reaction to Jay's cruel taunts about the bumpkins shown in the picture. But this time, at the crucial moment, the person playing "Little David" balks at attacking Jayso the third student (who has been assuming the part of "Al") steps into the role and sends Jay crashing to the floor. For a moment the demonstration becomes all too realand when Jay offers the others their pay for taking part in it "Al" disdainfully passes his share on to "Little David." Then they go, leaving Jay to recall the chilling, even darker nature of the original event, and to ponder the reverberations that still emanate from it.

Minneapolis

1977

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1979

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Play/Drama

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The setting is a comfortable middle-class living room, probably suburban, and the time is early morning. Three couples, after a pleasant party, are preparing to leave for their homes, but the host suggests that, because of the hour, they all stay over. Uneasy at first, the other couples agree, and while their intention is to go to their separate rooms the inevitable complications result. Before long there is a mix-up of partners which reveals not only latent desires but also frustrations, enmities and dissatisfactions heretofore unspoken. In the end it appears that none of them will ever be, or feel, quite the same again, and that their marriages may now be in jeopardy. But, in the surprising conclusion, a quite different situation develops as the three couples decide to go on living as a grouphoping to find in a communal arrangement the excitement and fulfillment which have eluded them in their separate relationships.

Kalamazoo, Michigan

1984

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Los angeles

1978

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Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles

1967

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Random House, New York

1969

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Comedy

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2

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Synopsis:
The setting is an East Texas small-town bar, and the action covers three periods in the main character's life, at six, sixteen and twenty. He and his resilient, but resigned, mother frequent the bar so that the boy may at least get to know his fatherwho comes there every day with his girlfriend, a waitress named Faye Precious. As the years pass a sort of whimsical accommodation is achieved between these very different people, and the boy grows up divided between avenging his mother for the father's disloyalty and getting back at him for his own hurts, while still trying to win the paternal love and approval he so desperately wants. The son's talent for song writing eventually gives him the means to get awaybut when he asks his mother to join him she refuses. Once before she had tried to leave, but couldn't, and she has learned that it is better to shed her pride and keep even a share in the man she loves than to stand on this and have nothing.