DAVID (2) JOHNSTON
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by David (2) Johnston
Busted Jesus Comix |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Candy & Dorothy |
| 1st Produced: | Theater Three, NY | 2006 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | This comic fantasy finds Dorothy Day (the activist who founded The Catholic Worker) trapped in the bureaucracy of the afterlife with Candy Darling (the Andy Warhol discovery) as her caseworker. Forced to come to terms with each other, they end up appearing on cooking shows and giving lectures on Warhol and Karl Marx. When a young librarian on the Lower East Side finds her life coming undone, Candy and Dorothy begin popping up. | |||||
Conversations on Russian Literature |
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
| Company: | Blue Coyote Theater Group | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | short play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | In Conversations on Russian Literature, we return to Russia where post-Cold War espionage and intrigue collides with Russia’s literary masters. - press release | |||||
Cow |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Short play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Effie Jean in Tahiti |
| 1st Produced: | 03 Sep 2009 | |||||
| Company: | Blue Coyote Theater Company | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
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| Notes: | book David Johnston; music and lyrics Stephen Speights | |||||
| Synopsis: | This is a new musical for kids and their families, loosely based on the Greek myth of Iphigenia. This description is from the press release: "Princess Effie Jean has made a bargain with Proteus, the Old Man of the Sea, and now she's stuck in Tahiti guarding his jewels. Boring! Even worse, she's supposed to kill any strangers that land on the island, and the first one who shows up is her own brother. Can the wily brother-sister duo find a way to trick Proteus? With the help of vain Cassiopeia (Queen of the Night Sky), a school of flounder, and some good old-fashioned song and dance, YOU BET THEY CAN!" - nytheatre.com | |||||
Eumenides, The |
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 09670234-8-3 | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Aeschylus | |||||
 | A modern adaptation of the last play of The Oresteia of Aeschylus. | |||||
For Those of Us Who Have Lived in France |
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
| Company: | Blue Coyote Theater Group | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | short play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | The Francophile desires of Henry Kissinger, Mary, Queen of Scots, and modern-day American Lunelle Snead converge in For Those of Us Who Have Lived in Franc - press release | |||||
Leaving Tangier |
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| Company: | Blue Coyote Theater Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays 28 Samuel French Inc New York, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | Cooper has brought the ashes of his friend Oswin to be buried in the U.S. in accordance with his wishes. When Cooper was a young man they had been lovers. Oswin had also stipulated that he did not want a religious service but his sister is insistent that there will be a service. She strongly disapproves of her late brother's life style and the gay novels that he wrote. She cannot wait to get rid of Cooper. Her son, Tap arrives. He has read his uncles' novels and is keen to learn about him. Cooper tries to persuade Tap to come back to Tangier with him Tap refuses but says that he will try and get his mother to respect Oswin's wishes. | |||||
Letters |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Short play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Mothra is Waiting |
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
| Company: | Blue Coyote Theater Group | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | short play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | Mothra is Waiting finds two middle-aged chanteuses waiting for the cult-horror-classic bug Mothra to rescue them from their meaningless lives in Bridgeport to become Goddesses on Infant Island - press release | |||||
Oresteia, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
| Company: | Blue Coyote Theater Group & Access Theater | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 |
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| Synopsis: | Agamemnon returns from the Trojan War to find his wife may not | |||||
Play Russia |
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
| Company: | Blue Coyote Theater Group | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | short play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | upends the most revered Russian playwright, Chekhov, with hilarious results - press release | |||||
Standards of Decency Project |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
| Company: | Blue Coyote Theater Group | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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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. nytheatre.com | |||||
White Star |
| 1st Produced: | Turnip Theater Festival, New York | - | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Yes Yes Yes |
| 1st Produced: | Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, NY | 2009 | ||||
| Company: | 34th Off Off Broadway Samuel French Short Play Festival | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Yes, Yes, Yes, a seedy bar, a male stripper, a lonely customer, and a copy of Finnegan’s Wake cross paths, with interesting results. . . | |||||