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VERNON HINKLE (1935 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Born in Amsterdam, NY on June 23, 1935. B.A. from Ithaca College, NY and M.F.A. from Yale Drama School, 1961. Bradford College, MA, Head of Drama Dept. until 1971. Eclectic writing career including magazine articles, speeches for corporate executives, etc. Novels: Music to Murder By (Tower Pub.) and Murder After a Fashion (Crime Court Pub.); five other novels under pseudonym, -H V. Elkin.
Address 33 Bump Hill Rd., Greenfield Ctr., NY 12833. (518) 893-2111
Plays by Vernon Hinkle
After Charlotte | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Artists Workshop, East Norwalk, CT | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Artists Workshop of Westport | |||||
| 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 | #70208 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This play could be combined with Doing It For Company in a full evening for three women. | |||||
Synopsis: | With the sudden resignation of its founder Charlotte, a once-six-member poetry-writing workshop has dwindled to two combatants, Jo and Cynthia, who can't keep it going without a third member to mediate the tension between them. Enter Millie, a hopeless amateur with a terrible poem. Desperately needing to keep Millie around but not knowing how to discuss her poem, Jo and Cynthia confine their comments to the title, soon getting into such a row over it that Millie starts to inch her way out. Jo blocks the doorway, demanding an explanation. Realizing that only the truth will unblock the door, Millie reveals that she is really a psychotherapist, that at least three of the former members of this workshop are in therapy because of it, and that she foolishly hoped to stop the epidemic at its source. With the worst poem she could write? Just to divert Cynthia and Jo from each other? Or is she afraid that she really is a poet? In the end, she is drawn into the group and the three of them make plans for a next meeting, this time with everyone trying to write a terrible poem and then finding the good one that may be hidden inside it. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Another Ship | ||
| 1st Produced: | Little Theater, New Haven, CT | 2005 | ||||
Company: | New England Academy of Theater | |||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #70213 | |||
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Genre: | satire Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In the Captain's cabin of an old sailing ship, Seaman Grundy, while bound in a chair, is dressed down by the Captain. Grundy has been concerned, possibly to the point of mutiny, that the ship's carpenter is building something unknown and is cannibalizing the ship itself to do it. Though it may seem this will sink the ship with all aboard, the Captain points out, it will not. Grundy should have more faith in the system, The carpenter is actually building another ship. Enlightened, and once again a believer, Grundy is released to return to being a productive member of his society. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Characters in a Play | ||
| 1st Produced: | La MaMa E.T.C., 82 Second Avenue on the second floor, NY, USA >>> | 13 Aug 1964 | ||||
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 | #44689 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In a world of yesteryear, a living room wall disappears, exposing the two ladies who live behind it to an audience and to the unexpected demands of being characters in a play. Not feeling up to the challenge they solicit the aid of three women friends. The collaborartion results in a greater meaning to their ordinary lives. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Circus Once, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading, HB Studio, NYC | 1967 | ||||
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 | #44690 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In a time of great distractions, two men find themselves locked in an old-fashioned fallout shelter, leaving them nothing to cope with but each other. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Close | ||
| 1st Produced: | Westport (CT) Arts Center | 1988 | ||||
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 | #70106 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Harvey Fancher emerges from mourning for his wife into the realization that his own life is not over. A member of Mensa, he advertises for a pen pal among the international membership. Christina Drivas responds from Greece. The forty-years difference in their ages is unimportant during their warm correspondence, and it appears to remain so when they meet in New York. Over their evening together they drink champagne and compare, one by one, the numbers they have played in the New York Lottery with the winning numbers, Harvey contriving to make the adventure last as long as possible. Reverting to a narrative form more like their correspondence, he tells her a story that shows an Asian concern for savoring the moment. The story she tells in return shows a personal need which cannot be satisfied under her circumstances in Greece. The final lottery number reveals Harvey has narrowly missed a three-million dollar jackpot. Exhausted by the evening, she retires and he lingers to finish the champagne. In a final bit of correspondence, he tells her he is leaving her because he needs to get on with the rest of his life and her needs apparently exceed his days. He encloses his lottery ticket-a winner after all-because such a windfall has no place in his life though she certainly needs it for hers. What he does not realize is that he has given her the independence to find him in his home town. | |||||
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Concept, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1969 | |||||
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 | #16646 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | In NYC Public Library | |||||
Synopsis: | See "Showcase" | |||||
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Country Matters | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich Arts Center, Greenwich, CT | 1990 | ||||
Company: | Maxwell Anderson Playwrights Series | |||||
| 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 | #70202 | |||
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Genre: | four related one acts One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The individual plays in the collection are called Two Guys in the Woods, (see elsewhere in the listings), The Playground (omitted from the Greenwich production), Local Motive (see elsewhere in the listings), and Wingding. If fully produced, they can be performed in a single forest setting with changing set pieces. | |||||
Synopsis: | A city couple moves to twenty idyllic acres of forest where they become neighbors to a local building contractor. At the beginning each of the trio has a rather clear sense of identity. In the next six years, everything changes, and changes, in a round robin of encounters as serious, and as funny, as real life. The Greenwich News wrote, this is a serious play about how people relate to each other and their environment in the last years of our troubled (20th) century. | |||||
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Deus Ex Machina | ||
| 1st Produced: | Westport (CT) Arts Center | 1997 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Artists Workshop of Westport | |||||
| 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 | #70207 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This play can be combined with Close and May to December to form a full evening starring an older actor. | |||||
Synopsis: | In the Big City around 1952, Judy knocks On Alan's door, and he lets her in. The situation soon heats up between this 21-year-old man and the girl just under 18 and technically underage. At a decisive moment they are interrupted by the appearance of Detective Williams, who soon sends Judy home, then confronts Alan with the dire consequences that he claims have been averted by the well-timed official visit. In fact, Williams, not a detective at all, seems to know all about Alan's past as well as his future. The future will be a dismal existence for Judy as well as Alan, falling far short of the young man's grandiose fantasies, unless he agrees to accept a considerable amount of money now and never see Judy again. Unable to accept the miracle at face value, Alan needs to know who Williams really is. Williams offers to be anyone Alan can believe in, proposing and briefly becoming several choices, in the end resorting to being the man with the gun. Alan promises to abandon Judy for her own sake. Williams says if Alan wavers he will be back with the gun. Soon after Williams leaves there is a knock at the door, but it is Judy, and Alan doesn't open the door. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Doing It For Company | ||
| 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 | #70209 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This play could be produced with After Charlotte for a three-actors, full-length evening. | |||||
Synopsis: | Elizabeth, assisted by sister Jane, conducts a celebration of life, apparently a memorial service for their mother Luella, until Luella appears to participate herself, turning the event into a celebration of another kind. While Jane is overjoyed, Elizabeth resists the change, especially since it threatens to involve her in collaborating on a one-woman show for Luella, which in turn threatens Elizabeth's sense of identity. We gradually realize that what we are seeing, including both versions of the event, is partly Elizabeth's scripting of what has happened to lead up to the present`, which is also the one-woman show itself, except with three women, and that we are part of a college audience in a student lounge. Elizabeth had warned us that the context would be complicated, though she manages to find a simplicity within it that helps her resolve some long-standing anxieties. | |||||
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Edna | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kansas Wesleyan U | 1973 | ||||
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 | #44691 | |||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Dr. Robert Worth, image conscious and grant greedy, finds himself in a delivery room with an unwed mother, Babs, who refuses to have her baby because of all the pain and suffering in the world. Then Robert's inability to change her mind is suddenly being broadcast on TV. Fearing this will endanger his receiving a Foundation grant, he promises to protect the baby for the rest of its life, and Edna is born. Turning it to his advantage, Robert uses Edna to prove his theory that life without tension produces eternal youth. Edna lives her early years in a cloistered environment where she is programmed for later forays. She remains relatively immune to life's problems despite the efforts of Gerard who, in several roles, tries to expose her to them. However, the ten-sions Gerard intends for Edna are absorbed by Robert. This, plus Robert's inability to satisfy some "need" Edna cannot articulate, causes his insanity and death. Then, over Bab's objections, Gerard is able to lead the now sixty-year-old but still childlike Edna out into the real world where there is pain but also love. | |||||
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If I'm Dead, Start without Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | Polka Dot Playhouse, Bridgeport, CT | 1982 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Aran Press, Louisville, KY, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #44692 | |||
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Genre: | full length play mystery Mystery | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A doctor, an artist and a novelist return to the lakeside house they shared ten years ago as college roommates. Two of their number are missing, a ukulele player having drowned in the lake before graduation and a teacher who died recently. A woman who had been the object of a love triangle among them joins them and, fulfilling the teacher's deathbed wish, the foursome hold a seance to summon the departed roommates to the reunion. In the darkness, the novelist is strangled to death by a ukulele string. Enter the detective-landlord, and a complex plot begins to unravel, with many surprises and nothing turning out to be what it seemed. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Local Motive | ||
| 1st Produced: | Westport (CT) Arts Center | 1990 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Artists Workshop of Westport | |||||
| 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 | #70201 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | Offstage dog barks | |||||
Notes: | This one-act can be performed separately or as the third of four one-acts in the collection called Country Matters. | |||||
Synopsis: | In a time and place where even cute little greeting-card bunnies can have rabies, people's true motives can be as hidden from themselves as well as they are from each other. The neighbor's wife drops in because she's alone and her phone went out in the storm, but though it is still light out she carries a flashlight. He keeps handy medical certification about his good sexual health. From the beginning, it seems inevitable that these two will end up in bed together, but not how. For her, he represents a chance for the survival of her spirit in a life turned pallid since her reluctant separation from the city and her career there. For him, an independent contractor constantly fighting for his financial survival, she could become the other half of a profitable business deal. The excitement of the deal, and of survival, becomes the common ground for these two dissimilar people, bringing them together in a briefly satisfying relationship. | |||||
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May to December | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of Miami Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, Coral Gables, Florida | 1997 | ||||
Company: | City 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 | #70206 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This 10-minute play also exists in a three-character, twenty-minute version. Either can be combined with Close and Deus Ex Machina to form a full evening starring an older actor. They were first presented in combination at the NYC Westbeth Theatre Center in 1999. | |||||
Synopsis: | May, who is fighting an eating disorder, discovers that virtually all the furniture has disappeared from her Uncle John's house. Emulating the Indian chief he once invented for her, he is divesting himself of all his possessions before willing his own death. He uses humor and irascibility to ward off any sentiments to the contrary, but in the end his shell is broken through by his niece's need for him and their love for each other, making him decide to stick around a while longer. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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May to December | ||
| 1st Produced: | Westport (CT) Arts Center | 1995 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Artists Workshop of Westport | |||||
| 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 | #70205 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This play that runs 20-25 minutes also exists in a two-character, ten-minute version. Either can be combined with Close and Deus Ex Machina to form a full evening starring an older actor. They were first presented in combination at the NYC Westbeth Theatre Center in 1999. | |||||
Synopsis: | May, who is fighting an eating disorder, discovers that furniture is disappearing from her Uncle John's house, then sees him giving away his last chair to the Meals-on-Wheels man. Her uncle is emulating the Indian chief he once invented for her and is divesting himself of all his possessions before willing his own death. He uses humor and irascibility to ward off any sentiments to the contrary, but in the end his shell is broken through by his niece's need for him and their love for each other, making him decide to stick around a while longer. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Musicians of Bremen | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse in the Park, Philadelphia, PA | 1963 | ||||
Company: | Level II 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 | #44693 | |||
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Genre: | children's musical Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 4 Animals | |||||
Notes: | Originally Produced with all (11) females. Contact the composer: Sally Applegate (978) 352-8457 | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on a Grimm's fairy tale of the same name, four unhappy animals (a donkey, a rooster, a cat, and a dog) set out to find better lives as musicians. They attempt to serenade a nest of robbers and frighten them away, leaving the animals comfortably situated in the house with the loot. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Our Present Needs | ||
| 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 | #70214 | |||
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Genre: | satire Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Bill Argersinger, near the very end of his days, has been granted, by some do-good society, his last wish. As a result he sits in the editor's office of a prestigious magazine that has rejected every submission Argersinger has ever sent during his entire writing life. Before he dies, Argersinger wants to know why. The answer turns out to have nothing to do with the quality of his writing but rather with the offensive look of his signature on the cover letter. | |||||
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Reflections | ||
| 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 | #44102 | |||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 10 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Not Available | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Santorini | ||
| 1st Produced: | Harold Clurman Theatre, New York City | 1997 | ||||
Company: | Love Creek Productions | |||||
| 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 | #70204 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Running time: about 20 minutes | |||||
Synopsis: | Milburn and Sarah, vacationing on the Greek island Santorini, are as foreign to each other as to their surroundings. Trying to deal with this, Milburn persuades Sarah to share portions of her travel diary, one of which is about the revelatory, confrontational light of Greece. Suddenly, Fred Bailey, an acquaintance from back home, blunders onto the scene. Coarse and awkward, he is the last person Sarah would want to see now, and she soon leaves. Alone with Milburn, Fred launches unexpectedly into an explanation of why he is traveling without his wifeshe needs some space to think things overrevealing an affection for her in separation that he probably never showed when they were together. Milburn suggests that if Fred kept a travel diary, like Sarah's, he might have things to share with his wife after he got home. When Sarah returns and Fred goes off on a quick tour of the island, Milburn holds onto Sarah's diary so that they can speak directly to each other rather than through it. The play concludes with a little coda about the light. | |||||
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She's Been Away | ||
| 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 | #70210 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The play was a finalist in the 2002 Theatre Three (Port Jefferson, NY) Competition, and won the 2003 competition at the Market House Theatre (Padukah, KY). | |||||
Synopsis: | After two years in Europe, Claire returns to the Big City that has become dreamlike and unfamiliar to her. Her brother Richard has married, left his job, and become a professional artist who sells blank canvases out of a cluttered, rundown apartment in a rat-infested neighborhood. His ethereal wife Ruby seems to have a special hold on him, and the two of them will, without warning, slip into replays of events from the past, in one of which Ruby portrays Claire. Before Claire can adjust to any of this, it changes on her, keeping this normally businesslike control freak constantly off balance with nothing to hold onto until, in the end, she is forced into dealing with issues her single-mindedness had previously helped her avoid the importance of control in her life, the conflict between power and love, and the frightening potentials in a world gone awry. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Showcase | ||
| 1st Produced: | O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference, CT | 1969 | ||||
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 | #44103 | |||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | First produced as "The Concept." | |||||
Synopsis: | Three actors and a professor assemble in a workshop situation to stage the professor's thesis about dreams and reality. The professor sits at an electronic console providing lights and sound effects he considers appropriate, as, in comic scenes four years apart, the young actor plays a character in search of his adolescent dream (a dream girl); an ingenue and a character woman play the women in his life (four each). The professor's objective commentaries on the action become irritating to the subjective actor, leading to a conflict between them. As a result, the actor, the character he plays and, vicariously, the professor, discover reality is a better kind of dream | |||||
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Since Day One | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Gettysburg College | |||||
| 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 | #70212 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | There is a loud crash in the darkness, and the lights come up on Anna in limbo (a coma) where she is met by her Journal in the form of a younger man carrying a box of hand puppets. As Anna's surroundings have vanished, she senses that her life is also disappearing. Attempting to distract her away from this idea, fighting for his own life as well as that of his only friend's, Journal starts a search through himself for a special and illusive quotation, promising Anna that it will make all the difference once it is found. The search, which involves past mentors played by Journal and the puppets, uncovers key moments in Anna's creative but conflicted life. One other character, husband Bill, appears of his own volition as a shadowy figure. Not a mentor, Bill is a caring listener who is unable to return Anna's passion for idea and feelings; his life is a dumb show. This, plus the realization that the quote Journal seeks does not exist, leads Anna and her Journal to the place of letting go, the real dumb show, the blank pages. | |||||
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Suicides in Limbo | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading, HB Studio, NYC | 1970 | ||||
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 | #44104 | |||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Not Available | |||||
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Travel Play | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich Arts Center, Greenwich, CT | 1991 | ||||
Company: | Maxwell Anderson Playwrights Series | |||||
| 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 | #70203 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | This early version of the play later called Santorini was also translated into Greek (Greek version available) and presented twice over Greek national radio. | |||||
Synopsis: | (See Santorini ) | |||||
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Two Guys in the Woods | ||
| 1st Produced: | Westport (CT) Arts Center | 1989 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Artists Workshop of Westport | |||||
| 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 | #70200 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | This one-act can be performed separately or as the first of four one-acts in the collection called Country Matters. | |||||
Synopsis: | A building contractor and his new neighbor stop in a hemlock grove while determining the boundary line between their two properties. The contractor is a beer-drinking, gun-toting litterbug, and the neighbor is a politically-correct conservationist. There is the inevitable confrontation, and then, with new purpose, they resume determining the line between them. | |||||
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Who He Was When He Knew Who He Was | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Artists Workshop, East Norwalk, CT | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Artists Workshop of Westport | |||||
| 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 | #70211 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Patrons of the town diner, recently renamed a cafe, are confronted with a man they don't recognize but who insists he is a regular. Perhaps they just never noticed him before, as they don't seem to pay much attention to him now, and the waitress insults him by asking if he wants a menu. The man's name is Zeke, a name he has never felt comfortable with and that others can't remember, and he is a Native American as well as a displaced construction worker. His frustration in the role of newcomer leads to his climbing onto the counter, as though it were a girder, and refusing to come down until he is acknowledged. This play about identity has some worldwide, as well as national, implications. | |||||
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