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SHERRY KRAMER |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency |
Sherry Kramer. Sherry Kramer's work has been seen at theaters across the country and abroad, including the Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Yale Repertory Theatre, Soho Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York's Second Stage, Woolly Mammoth, and The Theater of the First Amendment. She is a recipient of NEA, New York Foundation for the Arts and McKnight Fellowships, the Weissberger Playwriting Award, and a New York Drama League Award (What A Man Weighs), the LA Women in Theater New Play Award (The Wall of Water), and the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award (David's Redhaired Death), and a commission from A.S.K. (The Mad Master). Other plays include: Things That Break, About Spontaneous Combustion, Napoleon's China (music theatre piece with Ann Haskell and Rebecca Newton), The Master and Margarita(music theatre adaptation with composer Margaret Pine), The Release of a Live Performance, Partial Objects, The World at Absolute Zero, Hold For Three, Before and After, Nano and Nicki in Boca Raton, The Long Arms of Jupiter, The Ruling Passion, The End of Radio, The Law Makes Evening Fall, and The Bay of Fundy. . . An Adaptation of One Line of the Mayor of Casterbridge. When Something Wonderful Ends was produced in 2007 at the Humana Festival as a co-production with Philadelphia's Interact Theatre, as well as at the Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, and will be produced in 2008 in Japanese as the first American play presented by the Tokyo International Arts Festival, at Actors Express in Atlanta, and in a co-production of Red Then and The Rude Mechanicals in Austin, TX. She was the first national member of New Dramatists, and teaches playwriting at Bennington College, and in the MFA programs of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and the Michener Center for Writers, University of Texas, Austin.
Plays by Sherry Kramer
About Spontaneous Combustion | ||
| 1st Produced: | Minneapolis, MN | - - - | ||||
Company: | Brass Tacks Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130002 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Human spontaneous combustion is not something that most people worry about, but Amalia Parker does, and that's why she won't sleep with Rob. Sex with someone she doesn't care about might not be so dangerous, but with the man she truly loves? Spontaneous combustion is a definite possibility. This is the kind of logic that only makes sense in the Parker household, where mom cooks obsessively, dad has turned the house into an interior 18 hole golf course, and ancient maiden Aunt Emily does laundry and practices the family art of selective sight. When Rob manages to talk Amalia into ignoring her fears, the worst happens. Amalia's sister Mary Catherine arrives for the funeral, and Amalia and Rob have a terrible choice to make. A sweet, quirky comedy. | |||||
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Bay of Fundy An Adaptation of One Line from the Mayor of Casterbridge, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ruth Easton Ellis Reading, Playwrights Center, Minneapolis | 2010 | ||||
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 | #130001 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | A highly visual play | |||||
Synopsis: | May eats dinner every night on the most valuable antique table in the world. But her husband wants to sell it. A troubled marriage, a mysterious malaise, and where is all that water coming from? How high will it have to get before someone does something about it? A play about American money and the American dream of a table big enough to feed the world. | |||||
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Before and After | ||
| 1st Produced: | Austin, TX | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Iron Belly Muses | |||||
| 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 | #16482 | |||
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Genre: | 10 minute play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Two women of the desert. They are wearing robes associated with Israelites in Biblical times, running shoes, and carrying expensive briefcases. One of them is still hungry for manna, the bread that fell from heaven, for the time before, when everything was easy. The other has made her peace with the cold hard facts: The party is over. A metaphor about America at war. | |||||
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David's RedHaired Death | ||
| 1st Produced: | Woolly Mammoth Theatre | 1991 | ||||
Company: | Woolly Mammoth Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House/Vintage | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19701 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2 non speaking | |||||
Notes: | Winner of the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award. Currently available in a single edition from Broadway Play Publishing and in Plays by Sherry Kramer, also Broadway Play Publishing. | |||||
Synopsis: | Two women find that they have everything in common until the death of a brother drives them apart. Part stand-up comedy, part stand-up tragedy for two. The redhaired mythology that glorifies and empowers two women leads them into a big love, but can't lead them safely out again. A play about the heaviness of the things we carry. | |||||
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Hold For Three | ||
| 1st Produced: | Broadmore Playhouse, Sydney, Nova Scotia | 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | In TAKE 10, New Ten Minute Plays Random House/Vintage, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #91107 | |||
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Genre: | Ten minute play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | A play for young performers and audiences of all ages-over a hundred productions world-wide. Also available from Broadway Play Publishing | |||||
Synopsis: | Three teenagers meet on a beach on a beautiful evening to watch the full moon come up. Two of them coach the third, helping him hold his breath while the moon rises. | |||||
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Ivanhoe, Arkansas | ||
| 1st Produced: | Reading, Theatre Squared Festival, Fayetteville, AR | 2009 | ||||
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 | #91108 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 6 | ||
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Notes: | Music: 2 actors play bluegrass fiddle | |||||
Synopsis: | An adaptation of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. Ivanhoe is a novel about the abuse of power and the betrayals of the ruling classes, written to offset the anti-Semitism in Shakespeare and books popular in Scott's time. The adaptation transplants the novel to the backwoods of Arkansas, in 1966--a time when hillfolk still roam the hills, practicing their own brand of magic. The Vietnam War is raging. The Woodstock Nation is gathering. Ivanhoe is a Vietnam vet, suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome. Rebecca, Scott's beautiful Jewish healer, is a psychiatrist. Jousting is replaced with stock car driving. The villain of the play is based on America's most infamous anti-Semite, a man known as the American Hitler, Gerald L.K. Smith. The play takes place beneath the shadow of his giant Christ of the Ozarks statue, as his private militia is poised to overthrow the American government. Just as in the original novel, the common people band together to destroy the ruling class villain and save the country they love. | |||||
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Law Makes Evening Fall, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | workshopped Sundance Institute | 1996 | ||||
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 | #19702 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | A play about hearing and the limits of language and forgiveness. Alan works at the Atkinson Center, a place where children with auditory processing problems go for help in understanding the simple things we all take for granted--why goodbye comes after hello, for instance. All seems pretty standard for Alan, until he meets Ava, a woman who makes him hear a language he cannot ever truly comprehend--passion. We follow Alan's descent into madness as his feelings for Ava make him doubt that he has ever understood a single word he has ever heard. The play is structured with past and present parts of Alan's story intermingled. The central image of the play is Alan's bathroom, where Ava's bloody, broken body haunts him. But the mystery of her death is not a simple one. Alan must find the courage to decide where, in the dream of his life, responsibility begins and ends. | |||||
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Long Arms Of Jupiter | ||
| 1st Produced: | McCall, Idaho | 2003 | ||||
Company: | 7 Devils Playwriting Conference | |||||
| 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 | #123745 | |||
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Genre: | Croquet Performance Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | All roles unisex | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An interactive performance piece for 6 croquet players and an infinite amount of chorus members. | |||||
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Master and Margarita, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | O'Neill Music Theatre Conference | 1990 | ||||
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 | #130004 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation/Music Theatre Piece with full score | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written with composer Margaret Pine. Music: Music Theatre Piece with full score. This is a full, faithful adaptation of the novel-one of the most adapted works in the world. | |||||
Synopsis: | The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, is one of the great novels of the 20th century. It begins on a hot spring night, when the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a beautiful naked witch and a huge talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka.Before it ends, heads will roll beneath trolleybuses, deals will be made with the devil, true love will overcome both good and evil, and it will be proven, once and forever, that great manuscripts don?t burn. A triumph of the artist's voice over a totalitarian state. A heartbreaking love story. | |||||
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Nano and Nicki In Boca Raton | ||
| 1st Produced: | Washington, D.C. | 1995 | ||||
Company: | Theatre J | |||||
| 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 | #91109 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 non speaking female role | |||||
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Synopsis: | Nicki drives her 84 year old grandmother down to Florida every year. But this year will be the last trip they take. Nano longs for the world she used to know, and Nicki is hell bent on dragging her into the present. A play about the genteel anti-semitism of the south, and the special way that grandmothers and granddaughters fight and forgive each other. | |||||
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Napoleon's China | ||
| 1st Produced: | Salt Lake City | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Salt Lake Acting 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 | #91110 | |||
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Genre: | Romantic play with songs | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | Female lead singer with small band | |||||
Notes: | Written by Sherry Kramer, Rebecca Newton and Ann Haskell. A two-hander with songs; the actors don't sing, the singer doesn't act. Music: Play with songs | |||||
Synopsis: | Claire is on a cyclone-like campaign against a past that is threatening to sink her. She is a mosaist who is breaking antique china that has been in her family for generations and using it to cover tables, vases, walls--every surface in sight. She is contemplating breaking and using the china Napoleon took to Elba, which belonged to her great, great, great, great, great, great, grandmother--Josephine. Naturally, the proposed destruction of Napoleon's historically significant dinnerware horrifies Shepard, the historian who lives across the hall. Will Claire break the china? Will Shep break Claire's heart? A play about history, the way we hide it and hide from it, and the way we carry it. | |||||
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Partial Objects | ||
| 1st Produced: | Roanoke, VA | 1994 | ||||
Company: | Mill Mountain Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, 2011 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130003 | |||
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Genre: | Romantic Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | The Faust story is one of our eternal myths--a story about striving, about always wanting more, about the struggle to know more, feel more, be more like God. Partial Objects is an adaptation of the myth with two Fausts-a man and a women. When the devil offers them a moment of perfect love, they eagerly agree to give their souls for it. But perfect love is harder to come by then they'd bargained for. A fairy tale about what happens in the night. | |||||
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Permanent Signal | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Fringe Festival | - - - | ||||
Company: | Attica Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Facing Forward - New one acts and monologues by American women playwrights on the crest of the Twenty-first Century" published by Broadway Play Publishing | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #91111 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | The Sirens return to Earth to harvest the sweetness they planted years before. The crop is not quite what they expected | |||||
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Release of a Live Performance, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Minneapolis, MN | - - - | ||||
Company: | Brass Tacks Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #50741 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A young man who sows his wild oats is a small hero-every woman he beds is a medal. The more medals, the bigger the hero. But a woman who does the same? Not a hero. The exact opposite. Some things never change. Nell has fallen so deeply in love with Brent that every man she sees reminds her of him. Sleeping with every man who reminds her of him&which is every man&is an act of love and belief for her. But that's not the way the world sees it. Her sister Coco comes back to their childhood home in Texas to rescue her, but Nell doesn't want rescuing. She wants to be alive. And then two men arrive who may be everything both sisters have been dreaming of. Nell will have to choose between the perfect, vivid life of obsession and the every-day world where love is less destructive, less powerful, but real. | |||||
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Ruling Passion, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | workshopped New Harmony Institute | 2000 | ||||
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 | #19703 | |||
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Genre: | Historical/Costume drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | potential crowd and texture roles for countless dozens | |||||
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Synopsis: | David Hume, Samuel Johnson, and James Boswell in a play about the moment when the modern age was born in the Enlightenment, and Fundamentalism first rose to crush it down. Also, a little love story. 1776. David Hume, the mind at the center of the Scottish enlightenment, is dying without fear of hell orhope of heaven. Samuel Johnson has completed his dictionary and reigns supreme as the authority of all things written in the English language. Both have the same disciple: James Boswell an alcoholic, diseased, sex obssed man who is driven by his fear of death to record every moment of his life in his journal. In a lifelong search for a father figure, he is torn between the Royalist, conservative Samuel Johnson and the Deist, progressive David Hume--men whose philosophies and religious beliefs are diametrically opposed and who are bitter enemies. At stake is the future biography Boswell will write, and the literary and cultural immortality it will grant. David Hume's peaceful acceptance of approaching death pushes Boswell to the very brink of madness, and proves to be the moment that determines Boswell's choice. | |||||
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Thing of Beauty, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Workshopped Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival, Seatle | 2010 | ||||
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 | #91106 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | The earth is being sucked into a giant black hole, and everyone will be stuck in a single, endless moment for the rest of time. Carson is hired by PharmaNOW to create a drug that manufactures everlasting beauty, the one "sure" way to insure that everyone's eternal moment will be happy. She must tackle the myth behind the meaning of beauty itself. As the world crashes to an end, we are left with the question: Can there be happiness without beauty? | |||||
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Things That Break | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre of the First Ammendment | 1997 | ||||
Company: | Theatre of the Fist Ammendment | |||||
| 1st Published: | in plays by Sherry Kramer, Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19704 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | chorus, as few as 4, as many as 7 | |||||
Notes: | Highly visual epic tragicomedy. Helen Hayes Award Nomination: Best New Play | |||||
Synopsis: | When you make glass for a living, you body breaks. Victor, the last in a long line of glassmakers, lies under the knife on the operating table for heart and lung surgery, while his family waits in the waiting room nearby. An inside-out surrealist ride on the wishes and fears of a family as they wait in a hospital waiting room, where every thought and terror becomes manifest. It is a play about the end of the American manufacturing era, a postmodern history of glass making, and a tale about the need we have to turn the story of our breakable lives into an unbreakable story. Highly visual, with large production demands/opportunities for designer/director collaborations. | |||||
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Wall Of Water, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Yale Repertory Theatre | 1998 | ||||
Company: | Yale Repertory Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, New York, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19705 | |||
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Genre: | Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | LA Women-in-Theatre New Play Award | |||||
Synopsis: | The perfect rent controlled NY apartment has one fatal flaw&the roommate from hell. The play takes place on the day the newest roommate can't take it anymore. Classic humor of mistaken identity mixed with new-age twists. The Wall of Water is farce with all the sharp edges showing--it is an intractably woven tale that tackles subjects as serious as death and as important as scientific inquiry, and everything in between. A farce about the nature of madness, the way it is infectious, how we treat it and how we know who is and who isn't. A play with 4 leading roles for young women about strong women and the men who love and sometimes sedate them. | |||||
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What A Man Weighs | ||
| 1st Produced: | Second Stage, New York | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, New York, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19706 | |||
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Genre: | Romantic Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of the Weissberger Award. Winner of the Marvin Taylor Playwriting Award. Time Magazine Best Bet. | |||||
Synopsis: | There is a rule in book conservation: You must never do something perfect. Perfection is forgery. Once a book is torn, it can be stabilized, but the tear may not be erased. Joan, a book conservator, dreams of the man who will erase all her imperfections, even though she's pretty sure that's against all the rules of love too. The man who can repair everything broken about her is Haseltine, a man who works in the book conservation lab. He is a seductive psychopath, addicted to seducing women-and then moving on. Joan knows this. But she can't help herself. She decides to let herself fall all the way in love with him. She decides to believe in the perfect moment of love, the moment without strings, without promises, without conventional rules-she decides to believe in the perfect repair. | |||||
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When Something Wonderful Ends | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #50740 | |||
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Genre: | One woman show/comedy/drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | After the death of her mother, Sherry's family home goes up for sale. Sifting through memories of a seemingly simpler time as she packs up her baby-boom childhood, Sherry begins to connect the dots between her Barbie collection and America's place in the rest of the world. A touching, funny, deeply personal and daringly global one-woman, one-Barbie play. | |||||
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World At Absolute Zero, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY | 1991 | ||||
Company: | EST Marathon | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, New York, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19707 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A first date on a rainy night. But Didi and Fred discover they have found each other too late-their last ounce of courage has deserted them. Even random animal passion fails them. Their hearts are as cold as absolute zero. What will happen to them now? Will they be able to make the human connection they so desperately need? A one act play for two actors, a refrigerator, and a 6 pack of coke. | |||||
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