SHERRY KRAMER   


Sherry Kramer
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Plays by Sherry Kramer

SHERRY KRAMER
Adaptation of One Line From The Mayor of Casterbridge
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SHERRY KRAMER
David's RedHaired Death
1st Produced:
Woolly Mammoth Theatre
1991
Company:
Woolly Mammoth Theatre
1st Published:
Vintage
1997
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
2
Parts Other:
2 non speaking
Notes: currently available from Broadway Publishing in Plays by Sherry Kramer
Synopsis: Two women find that they have everything in common until the death of a brother drives them apart
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SHERRY KRAMER
Hold For Three
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Ten minute play
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SHERRY KRAMER
Ivanhoe MO
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Synopsis: The Ivanhoe story set in Missouri during the Vietnam War
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SHERRY KRAMER
Law Makes Evening Fall, The
1st Produced:
workshopped Sundance Institute
1996
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
Tragi-comedy
Tragedy
Parts:
Male
1
Female
4
Parts Other:
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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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SHERRY KRAMER
Mad Master, The
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commissioned by ASK
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Synopsis: The Mad Master is about sex, time travel, women of a certain age, beauty, memory, the now, and the end of the world. The play is about what would happen if the world were ending. Really. If there were scientific proof that it would be gone, in 10 years. Not long enough to live a life. But too long to go on a bender, at least not yet. Normalcy continues. But there is nothing normal left. The bedrock of reality has been shattered by a single, singular event, and nothing will be the same again. The play follows four American women near the end of that 10 years grace period. The assurance that the next moment will follow this one in peace and privilege and infinite do-over-ability is now gone. All of them are searching for a bedrock faith to sustain them and an ultimate, transcendent moment of "now" which will perhaps create, in the final dissolution of the world, a magical safe pocket of time for them to inhabit for all eternity - in other words, heaven. The play is an investigation into how the smallest possible moment love or hope can be the porthole through which to view the choices of a person's whole life. Of an entire culture's choices.
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SHERRY KRAMER
Nano and Nicki In Boca Raton
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SHERRY KRAMER
Napoleon's China
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Notes: Written by Sherry Kramer, Rebecca Newton and Ann Haskell
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SHERRY KRAMER
Permanent Signal
1st Produced:
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
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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 Publishers
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One act
Parts:
Male
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Female
3
Parts Other:
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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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SHERRY KRAMER
Ruling Passion, The
1st Produced:
workshopped New Harmony Institute
2000
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
Historical/Costume drama
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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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SHERRY KRAMER
Things That Break
1st Produced:
Theatre of the Fist Ammendment
1997
Company:
Theatre of the Fist Ammendment
1st Published:
in plays by Sherry Kramer, Broadway Play Publishing, New York
2001
To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Tragi-comedy
Tragedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
5
Parts Other:
chorus, as few as 4, as many as 7
Notes: Highly visual epic tragicomedy
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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SHERRY KRAMER
Wall Of Water, The
1st Produced:
Yale Repertory Theatre
1998
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1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing, New York
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Farce
Parts:
Male
4
Female
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Synopsis: Four strong female roles at the heart of eloquent craziness
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SHERRY KRAMER
What A Man Weighs
1st Produced:
Second Stage, New York
1990
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Broadway Play Publishing, New York
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Genre:
Romantic Comedy
Comedy
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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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SHERRY KRAMER
When Something Wonderful Ends
1st Produced:
2007
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1st Published:
Humana Festival 2007: The Complete Plays
2008
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Play/Drama
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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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SHERRY KRAMER
World At Absolute Zero, The
1st Produced:
Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY
1991
Company:
EST Marathon
1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing, New York
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Genre:
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One Act
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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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