CHARLES LUDLAM (1943 - 1987)
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Charles Ludlam
Adventure Of Karag1z, The |
| 1st Produced: | Festival Mondial de Theatre, Nancy, France | 1976 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Artificial Jungle, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1986 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1987 | ||
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| Genre: | Suspense Thriller | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | extra | |||
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Synopsis: man lives in the back of pet shop with his mother and bored wife, they hire a drifter to work in the shop who plots with wife to feed man to the piranhas | ||||
Big Hotel |
| 1st Produced: | Gate Theater, NYC | 1967 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 10 |
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Bluebeard |
| 1st Produced: | 1970 | |||
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| 1st Published: | in "More Plays From Off-Off Broadway", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis | 1972 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: a drawing room grotesque right out of Bela Lugosi with Noel Coward thrown in for good measure | ||||
Bourgeouis Avant-Garde, Le |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1983 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
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Notes: an adaptation of Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme | ||||
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Camille |
| 1st Produced: | Thirteenth St. Theater, NYC | 1973 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Alexandre Dumas fils (La Dame Aux Camelias) | ||||
Synopsis: seduction at the court of 1840's Paris | ||||
Caprice |
| 1st Produced: | The Performing Garage, NYC | 1976 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 |
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Notes: aka Fashion Bound | ||||
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Christmas Carol, A |
| 1st Produced: | Ridiculous Theatrical Co., NYC | 1979 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 17 | Female | 14 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: book by Charles Dickens | ||||
Synopsis: traces Scrooge's conversion from miserliness to benevolence | ||||
Conquest Of The Universe; or, When Queens Collide |
| 1st Produced: | Gate Theater, NYC | 1967 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 8 |
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Synopsis: Conquest is a comedy of the broadest sort, retelling (sort of) the story of Marlowe's Tamburlaine in a campy, kitschy, over-the-top, in-your-face, nothing-is-sacred style. Ludlam borrows liberally from sources as varied as Hamlet, "B" sci-fi exploitation flicks, and TV commercials to make Conquest a brazen pop culture pastiche; he revels in scatology and profanity, making the work a direct descendant of Jarry's Ubu; and he saturates the script with gender-bending, cross-dressing, queer politicking. nytheatre.com | ||||
Corn |
| 1st Produced: | Thirteenth St. Theater, NYC | 1972 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 |
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Notes: music & lyrics by Virgil Young | ||||
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Der Ring Gott Farblonjet |
| 1st Produced: | Truck and Warehouse Theater, NYC | 1977 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 17 |
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Notes: music by Jack McElwaine; an adaptation of The Ring Cycle | ||||
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Elephant Woman, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1979 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Enchanted Pig, The |
| 1st Produced: | Ridiculous Theatrical Co., NYC | 1979 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1989 | ||
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| Genre: | Fairy Tale | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 |
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Synopsis: camp free combination of King Lear, The frog prince, Cinderella and The Three Sisters | ||||
Eunuchs Of The Forbidden City |
| 1st Produced: | Berlin | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Scripts 6", New York, April | 1972 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 6 |
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Exquisite Torture |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1982 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
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Galas |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1983 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 |
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Grand Tarot, The |
| 1st Produced: | Millenium Film Workshop, NYC | 1969 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 8 |
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Hot Ice |
| 1st Produced: | Evergreen Theater, NYC | 1974 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Drama Review", New York, June | 1974 | ||
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| Genre: | full length | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | 1 narrator | |||
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Synopsis: The saga of an underground war between the Cryogenic Society (an organization which believes in freezing the dead in the hope of later resuscitation) and the Euthanasia Police (who are devoted to the ideal of the "good death") and is cast in the mold of the gangster epic. This play proved to be something of an expose when it was first performed. On closing night, the man who invented the cryogenic concept voluntarily came up on the stage after the play. Since the play used actors planted in the audience as a device, the audience thought he was part of the play. | ||||
How To Write A Play |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1984 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 7 |
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Isle Of The Hermaphrodites Or The Murdered Minion |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1976 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 2 |
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Jack And The Beanstalk |
| 1st Produced: | Brooklyn Academy, NY | 1976 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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Love's Tangled Web |
| 1st Produced: | Ridiculous Theatrical Co., NYC | 1981 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1989 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Medea |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1984 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1988 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Euripides | ||||
Synopsis: a succinct deconstruction retains the basic plot about a murderous mother with high camp vision | ||||
Mystery Of Irma Vep, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1984 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1984 | ||
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| Genre: | Penny Dreadful | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Quick change action from Hampstead to Egypt | ||||
Production Of Mysteries, The |
| 1st Produced: | Bennington, Vermont | 1980 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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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Professor Bedlam's Educational Punch & Judy Show |
| 1st Produced: | Evergreen Theater, NYC | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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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Reverse Psychology |
| 1st Produced: | Ridiculous Theatrical Co., NYC | 1980 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1989 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Farce | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: psychiatrist couple each having an affair with a patient of the other | ||||
Salammbo |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1985 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 |
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Secret Life Of The Sexists |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1982 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Stage Blood |
| 1st Produced: | Evergreen Theater, NYC | 1974 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Theatre of the Ridiculous", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York | 1979 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: family acting company continuously tours hamlet in the USA, father, now playing the ghost tries to make his son the Hamlet he was | ||||
Tabu Tableaux |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1975 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Turds In Hell |
| 1st Produced: | Gate Theater, NYC | 1969 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Drama Review", New York, September | 1970 | ||
| 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 | |||