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DIANE LEFER |
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Plays by Diane Lefer |
American Buggery | ||
| 1st Produced: | Trustus, Columbia, SC | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Trustus Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lilies and Cannonballs (literary magazine), 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #68708 | |||
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Genre: | Musical One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Humans double as animals. Instrumentation is kazoos and overturned tin pails played by the cast, so trained musicians are not necessary. Music and lyrics are by the playwright. | |||||
Synopsis: | Subversive but (more or less) true, based on court records from colonial New England about men hanged for bestiality, the play uses highminded dialogue, simple folk-based music, and ridiculous staging. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ave AtqueVale | ||
| 1st Produced: | TACT Studio, New York | 12 Nov 2011 | ||||
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 | #133845 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Harvest | ||
| 1st Produced: | Studio-Stage, Los Angeles, CA | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Playwrights' Arena | |||||
| 1st Published: | Excerpt in More Scenes and Monologs from the Best New Plays (Meriwether Publishing), 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #68702 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | O/S radio announcer | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A wealthy and privileged young lady from Hong Kong thinks she'll get to know a typical American family when she volunteers to work the potato harvest on a struggling family farm. Tensions in this home are about to explode, and the visitor gets more than she bargained for. | |||||
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Majikan | ||
| 1st Produced: | Summit Rock in Central Park, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Ciona Taylor 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 | #68148 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 m/f | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A conservationist in the Borneo rainforest is offered extraordinary support by a visitor who in return wants intelligence maps of Southeast Asia. It's tempting, but the final say is up to Majikan--an orangutan. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Nightwind | ||
| 1st Produced: | REDCAT (Roy & Edna Disney CalArts Theatre), Los Angeles | 2004 | ||||
Company: | REDCAT Studio | |||||
| 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 | #68703 | |||
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Genre: | 35 min solo Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Musician (optional) | |||||
Notes: | A 35-minute physical theatre piece created by Diane Lefer in collaboration with Hector Aristizabal who performs it. | |||||
Synopsis: | The true and harrowing account Hector Aristizabal's arrest and torture by the US-supported military in Colombia; the abduction, torture, and murder of his brother, and the channeling of his rage away from violent retaliation and instead into the peace movement. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tell Me Which Way a Hanged Man's Feet Will Hang | ||
| 1st Produced: | Secret Rose Theatre, Los Angeles, CA | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Triumvirate Pi | |||||
| 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 | #68704 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Adapted from the playwright's short story, "Voluntaries," collected in her book Very Much Like Desire (Carnegie Mellon University Press) | |||||
Synopsis: | A mother reacts to the suicide of her son, a police officer who committed suicide after accidentally killing a man who resisted arrest, by joining the anti-abortion movement. Two homeless men who come into the Right-to-Life office (to use the bathroom and to keep warm) challenge her brokenness and lead to the emergence of a resisting self. | |||||
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