E MACER-STORY (1945 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by E Macer-Story
Aphrodite/The Witch Play |
| 1st Produced: | Theater For The New City, NYC | 1979 | ||
| Company: | Magick Mirror Communications | |||
| 1st Published: | University of Michigan-USA-second production intercut for length Available through Magick Mirror reprint in original, uncut version | 1981 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: A poetical and yet satiric show | ||||
Synopsis: A contest between the goddesses Aphrodite and Diana for the attentions of Hippolytus which gives a new twist to the ancient legend since Diana and her moon people bring Hippolytus back to life after he has been tangled in the machinations of Aphrodite and the other demi-gods. | ||||
Applied Ecological Authority |
| 1st Produced: | University of the Streets-Theatre-Cosmos, NY | 2006 | ||
| 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: | Full Length Interdimensionalist Play | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | Loudspeaker; bleating lamb puppet | |||
Notes: This is an Interdimensionalist play using the expressionist style of theatrical performance. The characters have quite real thoughts and emotions and are not simple facades Yet the world in which they exist has many more operative dimensions than the literal three dimensions of mundane physical appearance. | ||||
Synopsis: Displaced and confused within the properties & programs of the "Ecological Authority" which has been controlling all natural process on the planet, people attempt to go forward with their lives under bizarre circumstances. An "Inspector" from the Ecological Authority seems to escape from the situation with the help of several Demi-gods who are not supposed to exist. | ||||
Archeological Politics |
| 1st Produced: | St. Marks In Bowrey, NYC | 1987 | ||
| Company: | Magick Mirror Communications | |||
| 1st Published: | Woodstock, N.Y. Bicentennial Celebration-video Telecast: cable Channel 3 (now 23) | 1987 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Available through Magick Mirror reprint .Note that there is a premonition in the play of Al Quaida cartel terrorist concerns | ||||
Synopsis: A group of 1950's-60's radical thinkers sit at a café musing over old times during the "black list" days and fail to notice that an agent of the neo-Fascist oil empire is in their midst. She eventually murders one of the group whose information is embarrassing to the cartel. But does she escape this cartel's ruthless machinations? | ||||
Ars Chronicon Sylvestre |
| 1st Produced: | Theater For The New City, NYC | 2002 | ||
| Company: | Magick Mirror Communications | |||
| 1st Published: | Available through Magick Mirror reprint or through http://realvault.com | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 12 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original production raw video on Real Player files at Magick Mirror site | ||||
Synopsis: Set in 1000 A.D. in Dacia (Eastern Europe),and in present and future timespace, the play depicts the timeless quality of supernatural and religious conflicts between what people might feel on any one occasion is "good" or "evil" and the dilemma of refugees who attempt to escape these conflicts. Sometimes satirical. | ||||
Autobiography Of Morgan Lefay, The |
| 1st Produced: | Psychic Awareness Weekend. Americana Hotel, NYC | 1977 | ||
| Company: | Yankee Oracle | |||
| 1st Published: | Available through Magick Mirror reprint | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | Play - 1 Act mummers musical | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Yankee Oracle is the original company name used by Magick Mirror Communications for chapbooks and expo performances | ||||
Synopsis: In Arthurian music hall style, a knight meets the enchantress Morgan LeFay on the Hill of Stones and narrowly escapes a tragic fate | ||||
Blues Deduction, The |
| 1st Produced: | Playwrights Platform, Boston, MA | 1977 | ||
| Company: | Playwrights Platform repertory | |||
| 1st Published: | Available through Magick Mirror reprint | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | poetical-expressionist American tale with blues music intervals. Full length | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Produced under Dramatists Guild grant | ||||
Synopsis: As in a folk revenge ballad, three siblings are called back to the provincial household they had fled for a reading of their parents' will. One of the siblings is a musician who was not well-liked by his family. Thus, the Blues Deduction as in a tax deduction | ||||
Cancelled And Interrupted Perfomances |
| 1st Produced: | Alchemical Space, NYC | 1988 | ||
| Company: | Alchemical Space Staff | |||
| 1st Published: | Available through Magick Mirror reprint | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: One performance cancelled due to hurricane | ||||
Synopsis: Documentary account of the number of off-off Broadway productions by E.Macer-Story which were cancelled and/or interrupted for a variety or reasons, giving rise to the suspicion of occult or political conspiracy. The role of the narrator was played by the author and a hurricane which happened to occur on the dates of the production, interrupting the process once again, was written into the performance , with a tabloid account of the hurricane displayed at the end of the show | ||||
Ceremonies 17 |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
| 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: | - | Piece | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: These are ceremonies we devise to explain our place in the cosmos. The style of performance is a combination of techniques taken from traditional Asian zen theatre and Western circus and carnival shows. Much of the play, as experienced by the players within a mechanism of fate they cannot understand, is an enigma. For with a formal sense of ceremony, we transcend and sanctify the enigma, never exactly mastering the entire situation. Sometimes events remain unexplained, as when someone may narrate again and again the experience of finding a familiar restaurant transformed, offering items on the menu which may never be seen again - press release | ||||
Commander Galacticon |
| 1st Produced: | Waverly Place Theater Lab, NYC | 1991 | ||
| Company: | America West Players | |||
| 1st Published: | Available through Magick Mirror reprint | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Special expressionist techniques to represent spiritualist mediumship | ||||
Synopsis: A woman begins "channelling" a military "Commander" and warning for a catastrophe involving poison gas and a terrorist santoria cult. No one believes her including various officials. Then at the end we see the green gas begin to fill her apartment | ||||
Conquest Of The Asteroids |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | Magick Mirror Communications-78th Street Theater Lab staff | |||
| 1st Published: | Available through Magick Mirror reprint | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | banjo | |||
Notes: Music hall style with banjo-part of one act festival | ||||
Synopsis: A surreal musical about the botched Mars expeditions-both U.S. and Russian-- and the final rescue of the situation by the transformation of the General into an alien reptile. | ||||
Desiderata: An Alchemical Satire, |
| 1st Produced: | Theater For The New City, NYC | 1978 | ||
| Company: | Yankee Oracle | |||
| 1st Published: | Available through Magick Mirror reprint | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 10 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Special visuals (b&w sketches on slides) by author available | ||||
Synopsis: Desiderata, the housemaid of alchemist Joseph Balsamo, steals the elixir from her employer and lives throughout history as a vagabond artist who can never have children. For she will always be the same as she was when she took the potion. We see her encounter and escape various people who are in need of a young servant, including a 19th century Bird seller, American homesteaders, Nazis and a French bohemian author | ||||
Divine Appliance |
| 1st Produced: | Filmed On Location, Kingston, NY | 1989 | ||
| Company: | Cuomo Co-Operative | |||
| 1st Published: | Available through Magick Mirror reprint & on video | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | Play -long 1 Act | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Filmed on site of previous actual supernatural apparitions | ||||
Synopsis: A man brings his date to the town dump because he believes that "god works through the dump" and that if one needs anything, including true love, it will appear there. His date is not as confident about this philosophy | ||||
Double Or Nothing |
| 1st Produced: | Theater For The New City, NYC | 1988 & 1995 | ||
| Company: | Theater for the New City staff | |||
| 1st Published: | Available through Magick Mirror reprint | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Needs set of adult male twins or seeming twins | ||||
Synopsis: A group of radical activists is hiding in a deserted NYC tenement building with explosives stored for future use. A Harvard University dropout and a woman student from Spanish Harlem develop a romance just as the lost twin of the Harvard dropout, now an impoverished city college professor, accidentally encounters the group in a deli. There is a recognition after a few comic misunderstandings but later an unplanned explosion | ||||
Fetching The Tree |
| 1st Produced: | Polyarts, Boston, MA | 1973 | ||
| Company: | Yankee Oracle | |||
| 1st Published: | Available through Magick Mirror reprint & on video.1988 at Theater for the New City Xmas police benefit | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | banjo | |||
Notes: All roles can be played by male or female comics | ||||
Synopsis: Two forest rangers go up into the hills to choose a tree for a Xmas conservation project. A UFO (comic in a coolie hat) descends to rescue the tree and wish earth a Merry Holiday | ||||
From Sidhe |
| 1st Produced: | Int'L Conference Of Women Playwrights, Galway, Ireland | 1997 | ||
| Company: | International Festival Participants | |||
| 1st Published: | Available through Magick Mirror reprint | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | Play -full length with songs | - | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: An expressionist identity quest | ||||
Synopsis: A woman tourist seeking her roots in Ireland suddenly encounters strange supernatural roots of her situation as she falls into a dream and is arrested for inexplicable reasons | ||||
Handsel And Gretal Meet The Ghost Of J Edgar Hoover |
| 1st Produced: | Fanuiel Hall, outdoors, Boston, MA | 1972 | ||
| Company: | Yankee Oracle | |||
| 1st Published: | Available through Magick Mirror reprint | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | banjo | |||
Notes: Based on the actual sighting of ghost of J. Edgar Hoover (U.S. FBI founder) by the author on the night of his death in 1972 | ||||
Synopsis: Children who have grown a giant radio plant accidentally conjure the ghost of J. Edgar Hoover. Who blesses them with the news that the founders of the U.S. and designers of the U.S. dollar bill were all adept magicians | ||||
Honky Tonk Tornado Warnings |
| 1st Produced: | Magick Mirror Space Gallery.NYC | 2004 | ||
| Company: | Magick Mirror Communications | |||
| 1st Published: | Available through Magick Mirror reprint | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: American tale of the supernatural connected with ancient ruins on North American continent | ||||
Synopsis: A Hollywood screen writer who seems to have devised a successful fictional series on banshee wind hauntings and phantoms in a rural location is really a "mora" individual writing compulsively of his own background and experience. As people detect this ruse, strange and amusing events occur. | ||||
I Was Madelaine |
| 1st Produced: | Harold Clurman Theater Studios, NYC | 1986 | ||
| Company: | Magick Mirror Communications | |||
| 1st Published: | Available through Magick Mirror reprint | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Although the play is funny at moments, the impact is dark as the dilemma is insoluble | ||||
Synopsis: A man with compulsive memories of having been the mistress of French playwright Moliere seeks a fortune-teller to help him. As the situation progresses, he recognizes the fortune-teller as someone, perhaps Moliere reincarnated, whom he offended in his lifetime as Madelaine | ||||
If You Break The Rules, You May Meet The Family |
| 1st Produced: | Polarity Wellness Center, NYC | 1992 | ||
| Company: | Magick Mirror Communications | |||
| 1st Published: | Available through Magick Mirror reprint | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: The situation is played directly, as absolutely real, without special effects yet it is a study in alternate realities | ||||
Synopsis: A snake handler finds a woman fabric merchant alone in a house with the invisible family of the landlord. Though she believes he has come to move her furniture, he has been employed to exterminate snakes. But there are no snakes | ||||
Just 45 Minutes From Paradise |
| 1st Produced: | NYC Midtown Location | 2004 | ||
| Company: | Around the Town Productions | |||
| 1st Published: | Available through Magick Mirror reprint | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | Play-full length play with songs | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | 4 musicians | |||
Notes: A modern Zen tale with banjo music. Requires a banjo band | ||||
Synopsis: A wealthy woman and her daughter have been living for many years in a mansion surrounded by fences, expecting the return of the Mother's lover, a musician. No one visits but a psychiatrist. Finally, the Mother decides to hold a party anyway, and hires a banjo band which has been blessed by the gypsies. Inexplicably, her lover returns | ||||
Lady Video And The Ecosensor |
| 1st Produced: | Boston Commonwealth Armory, MA | 1974 | ||
| Company: | Yankee Oracle | |||
| 1st Published: | Funk Fest Boston-1974. Available through Magick Mirror reprint | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | scripted happening | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | banjo | |||
Notes: A happening featuring the song "half moon" which later appears in the book :"Doing Business in the Adirondacks: True Tales of the Bizarre and Supernatural" 2004 as indication of E. Macer-Story's original mindset. | ||||
Synopsis: Lady Video (E.Macer-Story) dressed in a black and silver cape with black leather slacks outfit and the "Ecosensor" a more "environmental "and alarmist individual dressed in white martial arts garb sit in a Fair booth, sketching people and giving them neck massages. People are asked to sit down and watch, bring others and so on. Much is made of a humorous duality involving the paradox of good/evil and/or sensual/intellectual. A scenario of the event plus song lyrics was published and distributed at the original event | ||||
Liberation of Little Lulu, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| 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: | Expressionist play | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: This is an expressionistic play about the assistance which can be provided to confused members of the middle class, no matter what color or nationality, by those who have less material means but do have a mysterious link to certain spirits and angels who manifest in the midst of crisis | ||||
Synopsis: The play is set during the riots in the United States following the assassination of Martin Luther King on April 3, 1968 & in the Elysian Fields, that timeless realm wherein all spirits enter into the Palace of Judgment. | ||||
Little Old Hermit Of The Northwest Woods, The |
| 1st Produced: | Hamilton-Kirkland College -New Paltz, N.Y | 1972 | ||
| Company: | Hamilton-Kirkland students | |||
| 1st Published: | Available through Magick Mirror reprint | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | Full length musical | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 1b 6 chorus | |||
Notes: E. Macer-Story was not employed as a professor nor was a student. A director at the college commissioned the work | ||||
Synopsis: A light hearted search for the Little Old Hermit of the Northwest Woods, who turns out to be a glamorous, wise and down-to-earth witch sitting in a tree surrounded by enchanted birds. Rather than attacking the finders, she transforms them | ||||
Miester Hemmelin |
| 1st Produced: | Theater For The New City, NYC | 1995 | ||
| Company: | Magick Mirror Communications | |||
| 1st Published: | Chapbook available through Magick Mirror reprint & video | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Listed in Books in Print | ||||
Synopsis: A small town in the rural New England mountains of the U.S. knows of the reality of the diabolic spirit they discuss as folklore. Tourists sometimes disappear there. A woman who barely escaped this fate as a child comes back with her grown daughter and others to confront the community. But they meet Meister Hemmelin and the small town hypocrisy once again | ||||
Mister Shooting Star |
| 1st Produced: | Fringe Festival, NYC | 1998 | ||
| Company: | Magick Mirror Communications-Theater for New City staff | |||
| 1st Published: | Available through Magick Mirror reprint | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Fictional treatment of actual Native American history involving the "Trail of Tears" relocation of tribes in early 19th Century U.S. Aspects of Native American identity within a Colonial cultural overlay are shown in the character of Tecumseh | ||||
Synopsis: Tecumseh, a missionary educated Indian, tries to get his brother, a Shaman who uses the Old Ways, to adapt to modern unified warfare techniques. When his brother attacks by inspiration during an eclipse instead of waiting for reinforcements, the rebellion is defeated | ||||
New Day |
| 1st Produced: | City of Boston, New Years Celebration, MA | 1977 | ||
| Company: | Friendly Tea Room Players | |||
| 1st Published: | Available through Magick Mirror reprint | - | ||
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | electric guitar | |||
Notes: Scheduled again for New life Expo Yankee Oracle production October 2004. New Yorker hotel-NYC | ||||
Synopsis: A modern Pilgrim is wandering through the seasons looking for a new day and encounters the guardians of the four directions as she moves about this wheel, suddenly realizing she is actually always in a new day of some sort | ||||
Observation Chamber, The |
| 1st Produced: | 18th Street Theater, NYC | 1983 | ||
| Company: | 18th Street Theater Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Available through Magick Mirror reprint & on video | - | ||
| 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 | |||