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Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival, KY, USA >>>

1990

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in Six Plays, Theatre Communications Group, NY

1993

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Play/Drama

9

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Synopsis:
April, 1945. The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials against the leaders of Nazi Germany are about to begin. Hermann Goering, in the place of Adolf Hitler, leads the accused and with his German counsel, prepares his defense. Drug free and healthy from a spartan imprisonment, Goering is once again the formidable man who more than any other made Hitler Chancellor of Germany and built the engines of the Third Reich. He defies the Tribunal with wit and ferocity, refuses to blame Hitler for his actions, denies the right of any conqueror to fairly prosecute the conquered, and foretells a disturbing future for crimes of war. As the horrors of what he is responsible for come to light, he demonically refuses to accept them as anything but the natural consequences of human conflict, and after manipulating his own suicidal escape from hanging, asks the audience, "What do you think men are?"

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Short Play

One Act

2

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Synopsis:
Akhmatova is summoned to the Kremlin upon the death of Stalin and must resist the ruthless Commissar's search for the words of her masterpiece, which has been committed to her memory and to the memories of her trusted friends.

New York

1992

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in "Seventeen Short Plays", Smith and Kraus, Newbury, Vermont

1992

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Short Play

One Act

5

2

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Freely adapted from Matthew Lewis' 18th century gothic novel, The Monk, Ambrosio, the play, deftly transposes our own contemporary concerns about sexuality, desire and abstinence on to the original novel's voluptuous setting and, atmosphere. As the monk Ambrosio confronts temptation, first in the form of a seductive young male novice, and then in a young woman who begs Ambrosio to be her confessor, a mysterious fisherman named Don Pedro looks on. Is he, as Ambrosio suspects, really the devil, offering up inducements for Ambrosio to renounce his vows? Is this vision of the devil simply a case of delirium brought on by Ambrosio's life of denial? Is either answer part of a plot by the Inquisition to shore up their own power? Ultimately, the crux of Ambrosio's dilemma lies in the realm of spirituality, where what distinguishes fantasy from reality has yet to be decided.

Carolina Readers Theatre Tour

1975

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Costa Mesa, California

1983

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in "Three Plays", Dramatists Play Service, New York

1989

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One Act

4

2

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Synopsis:
a deeply felt study of love and loneliness involving an aging writer and the women who have figured most significantly in his lifeone of his four ex-wives, and a young protégé, forty years his junior, who rekindles his long-lost passions. But, as this bittersweet comedy makes eloquently clear, old wounds are slow to heal, and happiness can be the most elusiveand illusoryof human conditions.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Comedy

One Act

2

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a tenth-century nun, Hrosvitha, the only female playwright of her time, confronts an outraged monk who is shocked by her contention that love is both spiritual and sensual.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Comedy

One Act

1

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a poignant and telling fugue of overlapping soliloquies in which an ex-GI recalls his brief love affair with a French girl, while a Nashville housewife tells of the strange bond she feels for an older country woman.

Phoenix Theatre, NYC

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1981

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Short Play

One Act

4

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Attempting a novel based on his late grandmother's diary, Bertram Shedman, a struggling young writer, is bemused by her extravagant tales and high-flown poetry. Trying to sort out the truth of this remarkable and singular woman he conjures up the fleshly spirit of Pixie herselfas she steps into the action of the play and attempts to persuade this quizzical young man that the lurid events and twisted relationships put down in her family history are indeed the stuff of real life. Their confrontation brings forth other ghosts; his domineering great-grandfather, who whisked Pixie off to Washington after his election as a U.S. Senator; his hard-drinking physician grandfather, who stole Pixie away from his father but looked for solace in the arms of a local waitress; and his own unhappy father, who led a life ordained by others and died of cancer while still a young man. In the end these apparitions step back into the past once more, but their legacy is now one of truth and a guide to the present descendant in reconciling the tangled strands of his own life.

Virginia Museum Theatre, Richmond, Virginia

1977

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1981

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Play/Drama

4

4

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As the play begins, Ada, the Countess of Lovelace, who was Byron's only legitimate daughter, is writing her will. She is thirty-six (the same age at which her father died) and dying of cancer. While she had been estranged from her father during his lifetime, and had reviled his memory, now, as her own end is drawing near, she is seized with a desire to know more about her profligate father. Stimulated by the drugs she is taking for her illness, she summons him to life and, in sharp, sarcastic exchanges, probes into the truth behind the myth. Aided by a chorus of six other actors who impersonate a variety of characters, the life and art of Byron are unfolded; his tempestuous youth; his incestuous relationship with his sister; his homosexual escapades; the scandal surrounding his brief marriage; and his castigation by the society of his day. In the end the private man, the public figure and the protean poet are reconciled, and the rare dimension of this remarkable figure, who became the symbol of the Romanticism of his time, is made movingly real.

Newhouse Theatre, Lincoln Center, NYC

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Milwaukee Repertory Theater, WI, USA >>>

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1997

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Adaptation

19

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(flexible casting): 20 total

Notes:
book by Charles Dickens

Synopsis:
An adaptation of the story of Ebenezer Scrooge's journey from an embittered, ungenerous creature into a giving, caring human being at the hands of three spirits, who, one Christmas Eve, show him what life means. Of his new stage version of the story Linney writes, "When the Milwaukee Repertory asked me about adapting its new A CHRISTMAS CAROL for them, I did not remember actually reading the book, nor had I seen any of its numerous stage versions. I was only acquainted with the film starring Alastair Sim, done in England years ago, which I had liked, but only dimly remembered. So when I read A CHRISTMAS CAROL, I was able to pretend I had never heard of the great story before. I was of course amazed not only at its beauty and durability, but at its blazing theatricality. It is part Hamelt &part Everyman&and part Charlie Chaplin. I vowed to stick to the bones of the story as closely as I could to take the evolution of Scrooge seriously, and to try and find, as he goes, the child within him that slowly emerges from his ordeal to such bountiful happiness." This richly textured play brings the full spirit of the book, as well as those of Christmases Past, Present and Yet To Come, to life on the stage. Directions are included for a simplified version of the play.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Comedy

One Act

1

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Synopsis:
finds an older, retired couple basking in the solitude of Florida, while reminiscing, with some regret, about their chronically hell-raising children

New England Chamber Opera, Boston

1979

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1984

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Short Play

One Act

2

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music by Paul Earls

Synopsis:
Set in colonial America, the play tells the story of Mary Rowlandson, who is abducted with her baby son during an Indian uprising that left a dozen New England settlements in ruins. At first we meet Mary as a woman of sixty recalling the momentous event of her youth; then Mary at thirty appears and acts out the events themselvesher capture by the Indian leader, King Philip; and the retribution exacted by her fanatical minister husband, Joseph Rowlandson, and the other settlers. In a series of deftly written, compelling scenes, the irony of the situation in which the protagonists find themselves is made clear: The noble, dignified Indian leader is forced into savage acts of vengeance against his will; while the God-fearing Puritans, despite the teachings of their church, counter with equally terrible acts. In the end King Philip, accepting the inevitable, lays down his arms and surrenders to his fate; yet, as the play so eloquently confirms, the end result is not a matter of victorybut, rather, of the sowing of the seeds of white racism which will bear bitter fruit in succeeding generations.

H.B. Playwrights Foundation, NYC

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1976

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Comedy/Drama

Comedy

4

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aka Democracy and Esther, from novels by Henry Adams

Synopsis:
In the presidential society of Washington in the spring of 1875, two beautiful American women are courted by two dashing American men. Madelaine Lee, a wealthy widow from New York, and Esther Dudley, an agnostic photographer from Washington, are pursued by Silas Raitcliffe, Senator from Illinois and candidate for the presidency, and by the Reverend Stephen Hazard, a handsome Episcopal priest whose spellbinding oratory packs his church. Around them move Baron Jacobi, the cynical Bulgarian Ambassador; Esther's unmarried Aunt Lydia, who played at the feet of George Washington when she was a child; Mrs. Essy Barker, an outrageous female lobbyist; and the President and his wife, the world-famous Grants themselves, innocent, blundering and touching. The two women must decide whether to marry the two men, knowing they will also marry what their men believe, about America, about religion, about final truth and untruth, about success and reality. Their courageous decisions, in two highly charged scenes, are the same; they will not marry men they may or may not love, but whose fundamental beliefs they cannot share. Henry Adams' comic vision of American democracy is scathing, passionate, funny, and in the deepest and best sense, loyal to his country.

Milwaukee

1975

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Harcourt Brace, New York

1973

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Adaptation

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aka Democracy, from novels by Henry Adams

Synopsis:

Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY

1981

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1981

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Short Play

One Act

5

3

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Synopsis:
The time is 1954, the place a seedy bar in San Francisco where two soldiers, one an eager draftee, the other a leathery veteran, are looking for a good time before being shipped overseas. Two attractive Hispanic women enter the bar, and the GI's move in quicklyBuddy, the older one, is all bravado and macho charm, while Frazier, the younger man, tries to ingratiate himself with his schoolboy Spanish. With the arrival of the girl's brother, Esteban, a note of menace arises, as he attempts to explain that his sisters are ladies of breeding and good family fallen on hard times, while the cynical Buddy is convinced that he is their pimp, haggling over price. Unable to bridge the gulf of culture and language, Buddy and Esteban fight but are quickly separated by Frazier, who realizes that the brother, unable to comprehend the rules of a game he has never played, can only fall back on the ways of his old world to meet the confusing challenges of the new.

Philadelphia

1982

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in "Laughing Stock", Dramatists Play Service, New York

1984

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Drama

One Act

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takes place in a creative writing class, where a rather prim teacher is at first appalled and then awed by the earthly brilliance of one of her pupils, a whiskey-guzzling, dirty-mouthed rough diamond whose primitive genius puts his dilettante classmates to shame.

New York

1982

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Play/Drama

4

5

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Synopsis:
Gint unfolds like a strange dream, beginning with Pete Gint, a ragged young man in the Appalachian Mountains in 1917, who spends most of his time lying, drinking and getting into trouble. Gint is determined to become "something great grand and glorious," but he's not sure just what that is. The first act follows Gint's sexual misadventures with a married woman and a woman who turns out to be a razorback hog, but Gint's true love is Sally Vicks. At first Sally disdains Gint, finding him rough and loud, but slowly he wins her over. As they move into a humble mountain cabin, however, the hog woman shows up with Gint's bastard son. Not wanting Sally to be hurt or disgraced by "this nastiness," Gint decides to leave Appalachia and travel far away. Years pass, and the second act finds Gint at 75 and a billionaire. He has called together several other powerful billionaires for he has a dream of founding a new country, based solely on corporations. The billionaires have other plans, however. They have secretly taken over Gint's companies and he is cast out and goes back into the wilderness. Gint then begins a nightmarish journey home, battling lunatics and devils until he arrives back in the arms of Sally Vicks, who accepts him and all his past history

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Comedy

One Act

1

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Synopsis:
a touching monologue about boyhood and first love in which the sole character is the author himself.

E.S.T. Marathon

1999

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Drama

One Act

2

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It is Oscar Wilde's last moment on earth. He thinks of his trip to the United States, when a young bellhop was sent to his hotel room as a "gift." It is obvious to Oscar that the youth does not want to be there. Oscar asks him what his troubles are, finds out, and sends him away with $100. Then he thinks of himself at a dingy café in France, meeting the same young man, now dressed as a British gentleman, who knows all about him. Why? When he discovers that, Oscar Wilde understands that he is dead and accepts the love of heaven.

New York

1982

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in "Laughing Stock", Dramatists Play Service, New York

1984

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Short Play

One Act

2

4

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Synopsis:
set in a North Carolina hospital, where three aging (and rich) spinster sisters wait for news of their brother's death. They are worried about how their mother (who must be 100) will react to the sad tidings an eventuality which is ameliorated by the intrusion of a brash young man who seems to lack the proper respect for the aged, and the dying

Denver

1986

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1988

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Adaptation

4

2

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from his own novel

Synopsis:
Set in the 1860s, the action of the play centers on the desire of the Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina to bring the word of God to a valley so remote and untamed that brothers marry sisters and the people live lives of brutal violence and grinding poverty. Accompanied by an ex-convict named Starns, who once lived in the area and knows its ways, and a young orphan boy, Billy, the sometimes overbearing bishop sets about bringing "order and decency" to the valley. Returning to civilization to raise funds, he leaves Starns behind as his deacon, and before long Starns, aided by Billy, has indeed worked wonderstransforming a wild woman and her deranged lover into a respectable married couple, leading the grizzled mountaineers in hymns and building a church which, to allay local superstitions, has no corners. When the bishop returns he is amazed, but also disturbed that perhaps earthly pleasures are replacing the poverty that is more befitting for beholding the glory of God. He also announces that he has decided to renounce his calling and embrace the Roman churchwhich leaves Starns bereft of his illusive authority and, ironically, powerless to halt the slide of his now questioning flock back to the easy and evil ways of old.

East Carolina University

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Harcourt Brace, New York

1977

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Play/Drama

10

5

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Synopsis:
Seeking to retrieve his runaway wife (and the possessions she has taken with her), Coleman Shedman arrives at the rural meeting house of a southern pentecostal sect with a lawyer in tow. But his wife, Nancy, is unwilling to forsake the love and protection of her new "husband," the Reverend Obediah Buckhorn, and return to the brutal, hard-drinking Coleman. And when the strapping Reverend Buckhorn himself arrives, it is quickly evident that Coleman will not be able to take her back by force. Rich with atmosphere and the feel of southern rural life, the play blends humor and poignancy as it probes into the circumstances and stories of the various cult membersculminating in a gripping snake-handling scene in which the cynical Coleman, to his own amazement, is himself converted to a true believer.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Short Play

One Act

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Hrosvitha has her play acted before Mother Superior and a censoring monk, who have a furious battle over her work and leave her to decide how dedicated a poet she is.

New York

1988

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in "Three Plays", Dramatists Play Service, New York

1989

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Short Play

One Act

2

2

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Synopsis:
explores the debate between an intense and brilliant young director and his temperamental leading lady about their differing interpretations of Ibsen's "Ghosts." He wants to do the play "straight"exactly as written by the master; while she insists on inserting an upbeat ending to relieve "all that Scandinavian depression." But his reasoned arguments that no grown man's mother would act as the actress suggests are unexpectedly challenged by the sudden appearance of his own mother, a lonely older woman who, ironically proceeds to give the lie to his theories

New York

1978

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Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT, USA >>>

2002

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

2007

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