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DONALD MARGULIES (1954 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Creative Artists Agency NY UK representative The Agency (London) Ltd |
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Plays by Donald Margulies |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22413 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Back Story | ||
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| 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 | #22414 | |||
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Genre: | Dramatic Anthology | |||||
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Notes: | by Joan Ackermann Courtney Baron Neena Beber Constance Congdon Jon Klein Shirley Lauro Craig Lucas Eduardo Machado Donald Margulies Jane Martin Susan Miller John Olive Tanya Palmer David Rambo Edwin Sanchez Adele Edling Shank Mayo Simon Val Smith. Based | |||||
Synopsis: | When Ethan is born in the worst blizzard of the century, two-year-old sister Ainsley nearly sacrifices a toe trying to clear a path for the baby's arrival. That initial gesture of devotion blossoms into a tale of sibling loyalty, rivalry and love that spans two decades. Inspired by Joan Ackermann's narrative "Back Story," each of the eighteen playwrights in this collective creation puts a distinctive spin on Ainsley's and Ethan?s amusing and poignant struggles with life, with each other, and with the phantom dad who abandoned them for the wilds of Alaska | |||||
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Broken Sleep | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
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 | #22415 | |||
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Genre: | Short Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written with Michael-John La Chiusa | |||||
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Brooklyn Boy | ||
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| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1559362528 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45470 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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| The play isn't about Brooklyn, nor is it about a boy-it's about a man without a home | |||||
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Collected Stories | ||
| 1st Produced: | South Coast Repertory Theatre, California | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22416 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | The conflict between the established artist and the adulatory fan who becomes a protege, disciple, colleague and friend-and finally threatening rival-is one of those great topics&It resurfaces in Donald Margulies's provocative new play, COLLECTED STORIES, which confronts the prominent short-story writer Ruth Steiner with her student turned confidante turned competitor Lisa Morrison. What is new here is that the women are teacher and student both in academia and in life, that they come from different social milieus, and that for her first novel, Lisa has also cannibalized Ruth's experiences, to wit her youthful, shattering affair with the poet Delmore Schwartz. As always, Margulies is literate, intellectually stimulating, and able to create characters of both dramatic and human interest. And he sustains this interest through six scenes covering six years that only briefly leave Ruth's cozily messy, book-infested Greenwich Village apartment. Here two worlds clash in age-old, ecumenical dueling, led up to by great mutual emotional investment, and all the more bitter for it. -NY Magazine. | |||||
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Death In The Family | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22417 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Dinner With Friends | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 1998: The Complete Plays, ed Michael Bigelow Dixon & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22418 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | As described by New York Magazine: "Two married couples have been best friends for years. In their Connecticut home, Karen and Gabe, international food writers, are giving a dinner for Beth and Tom, which he doesn't attend. It emerges from the heartbroken Beth that he has left her for another woman. Gabe and Karen are almost as crushed, having expected to grow old and fat together, the four of us. When Tom shows up at his home in the next scene, late at night, he is enraged that Beth broke the news of their breakup in his absence. Late as it is, he rushes over to his friends in the next scene to present his side of the story. Act Two begins with another dinner, twelve and half years earlier, in a summer house on Martha's Vineyard, where Karen and Gabe are introducing Beth to Tom. Then we skip five months after the events in Act One, as Beth reveals to Karen&that she has fallen in love with an old friend whom she intends to marry&Later that day, in a Manhattan bar, Tom, a lawyer, tells Gabe about his [newfound | |||||
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Father And Son | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22419 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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First Love | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22420 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Found A Peanut | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22421 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | The setting is the backyard of a Brooklyn tenement on the last day of summer vacation, where a group of children aged five to fourteen (portrayed by adult actors) are at play. Finding a dying bird they decide to have a ritual burial, which leads to the discovery of a bag of money, probably buried by a reclusive miser who had recently died in the adjacent building. This discovery, in turn, results in squabbles and bitterness among the children, as the microcosm of their games gradually yields an awareness of greed, betrayal and violence-elements of life heretofore unknown to them but, regrettably, so much a part of the grownup world which they are approaching. In a sense the play, with deft irony and lively humor, marks the coming of age of the children, as the carefree innocence of youth is sobered by the emergence of emotions which, while not yet fully comprehended, will have a profound effect on their lives in the years to come. | |||||
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Gifted Children | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1983 | ||||
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 | #22422 | |||
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God Of Vengeance | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22423 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 8 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Sholom Asch, based on a literal translation by Joachim Neugroschel | |||||
Synopsis: | Pultizer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies has transported Sholom Asch's 1906 Yiddish melodrama from Asch's native Poland to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1923 and in the process has transformed a classic morality tale into a drama of spellbinding power and sweep. Jack Chapman lives on the second floor of his tenement with his ex-prostitute wife, Sara, and seventeen-year-old daughter, Rivkele, and runs a brothel downstairs. The brothel has made Jack prosperous, but he aspires to something more-respectability, and towards that end, he hopes to marry his precious daughter to a Talmudic scholar. But the sheltered Rivkele has struck up a friendship with Manke, Jack's most-desired prostitute, and the gentle and genuine love affair that develops between the two young women threatens to destroy Jack's dreams for the future | |||||
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Homework | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22424 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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I Don't Know What I Am Doing | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22425 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Joey | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22426 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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July 7 1994 | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 1995: The Complete Plays, ed Marisa Smith, Smith & Kraus, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22427 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | Capturing a recent day of disturbance and fear, Donald Margulies' play, set in an inner-city clinic, charts the vital signs of our society. As a woman physician struggles to reconcile the extremes of hope and despair that define a typical day in her life, we are given a unique window on the way we live now | |||||
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Kibbutz | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22428 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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LA | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22429 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | a washed-up young movie star explains to a willing fan in a bar how he went from a happy, married young novice to a wealthy, gambling, overnight sensation, and back to a hungry, divorced wanna-be who only wants to recapture his original dream of having "enough," and being married for life. | |||||
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Last Tuesday | ||
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| 1st Published: | American Theatre Magazine, NY - July/August, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22430 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | finds commuters on a train from New York to New Haven absorbed with the sometimes comical, quotidian details of their lives as the horror of the outside world insistently-and shockingly-intrudes. | |||||
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Lola | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22431 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Loman Family Picnic, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1989 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Garden City, NY, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22432 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | music by David Shire | |||||
Synopsis: | The setting is a new "luxury" high-rise apartment with Spanish decor in Coney Island, the home of a middle-class Jewish family struggling to put up a good front even though continually short of cash. The father, Herbie, who sells lighting fixtures, is chronically overworked and underpaid; his wife, Doris, tells herself (and whomever may be listening) that she loves her life-even though, as the play begins, she is shredding her wedding dress to make a Halloween costume; their older son, Stewie, eagerly awaits his bar mitzvah with an eye less on its religious aspects than on the potential loot to be gained in gifts; and the youngest son, Mitchell, is absorbed in writing a musical version of Death of a Salesman (entitled Willy!) for his class at school. While they all strive to present an appearance of contentment and closeness, the family is beset by underlying tensions which burst forth when Herbie seizes his son's bar mitzvah money and, after an unseemly confrontation with everyone about how the bills for the | |||||
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Louie | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22433 | |||
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Luna Park | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1982 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22434 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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Manny | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22435 | |||
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Misadventure | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22436 | |||
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Model Apartment, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22437 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
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Synopsis: | A brilliant and bizarre black comedy about a pair of elderly Holocaust survivors and their outlandish, deranged daughter, which, in a series of sometimes hilarious, sometimes moving scenes, traces the pervasive, baleful effect of their earlier trauma on the "better life" they have tried to build. Having retired to Florida, Max and Lola are dismayed to find that their new condo is not yet ready for occupancy and that they are obliged to stay temporarily in a "model apartment" - a tacky, gaudily decorated horror with a fake television set and refrigerator where even the ashtrays are cemented in place. Max and Lola had hoped to escape not only the nagging memories of their earlier lives, and the terrors of present-day Brooklyn, but also their fat, schizophrenic daughter, Debby, whom they had tried to "pay off" with generous amounts of cash before their hasty departure. But Debby, who seems to symbolize for them the awfulness of their past and their failures in the present, soon appears, followed in short order b | |||||
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New Year's Eve | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22438 | |||
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Nocturne | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22439 | |||
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Pitching To The Star | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Best American Short Plays 1992-93, Applause Boofks, NY, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22440 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | When Peter finally gets a good break for his Hollywood script, he finds himself PITCHING TO THE STAR of the pilot show. Promised control over something he's worked long and hard on, he finds his integrity and his story line attacked every time the star makes a suggestion to completely change his script and make the lead character exactly like herself. | |||||
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Resting Place | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1982 | ||||
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 | #22441 | |||
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Shipwrecked! An Entertainment - The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself) | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | Primary Stages | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-2341-2 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94303 | |||
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Genre: | adventure Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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Synopsis: | A tale of adventure that left England spellbound in the 19th century is the center of attention in Donald Margulies's play. Louis de Rougemont, a would-be explorer, invites you to hear his amazing story of bravery, survival and celebrity. Dare to be whisked away in a story of exotic islanders, rustic vessels, and the high seas. Shipwrecked! An Entertainment examines how far we're willing to blur the line between fact and fiction in order to leave our mark on the world | |||||
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Sight Unseen | ||
| 1st Produced: | Costa Mesa, California | 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1992 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22442 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Jonathan Waxman is the artist as superstar, plunged into the exorbitant hype of the American art world where a publicist is as necessary as a brush and canvas. Just before his works are celebrated at an exhibition in London, Jonathan journeys to the village where his former lover, Patricia, lives with her British husband, Nick. Archaeologists working on a dig, their spare existence is spent sifting through a Roman rubbish heap to discover the past. In their cold, remote house, Jonathan discovers an early painting of Patricia he'd done when they were young lovers. The subsequent struggle for the painting embodies the unreconciled passions of the past. Patricia has never forgiven Jonathan for leaving her, Nick despises Jonathan and the kind of art he produces, and Jonathan has never been able to recapture the inspiration and purity he felt when he painted Patricia. In taut scenes that dart from past to present and back, the characters are forced to deal with the unanswerable question of anti-Semitism, the legac | |||||
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Somnambulist | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22443 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Space | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22444 | |||
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Synopsis: | The SPACE in this play of the same name covers what comes between couples, what is out in the universe and even time spent between friends. Relaying the story of his break-up with his girlfriend, one friend reveals to another how space-in whatever form-invades all his thoughts about himself and his world. | |||||
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Time Stands Still | ||
| 1st Produced: | Geffen playhouse, Los Angeles | 11 Feb 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group; 1 edition (April 1, 2010) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1559363655 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #108905 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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| This is from the press release: "Are we supposed to deny ourselves ordinary happiness because there's misery in the world? This is one of many questions Donald Margulies (Brooklyn Boy, Sight Unseen, Dinner With Friends) poses in his intelligent and timely new play. James and Sarah, a journalist and a photographer, have been together for nine years and share a passion for documenting the realities of war. But when injuries force them to return home to New York, the adventurous couple confronts the prospect of a more conventional life. Time Stands Still is a blazingly important new work about responsibility-to ourselves, to our loved ones, to our community, and to our world." | |||||
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Two Days | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22445 | |||
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Genre: | Short Plays One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | With TWO DAYS, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Donald Margulies offers a gripping evening of theatre that explores the impact of enormous external events on our daily lives. This double-cast double-bill opens with a twenty-minute chamber piece, LAST TUESDAY, which finds commuters on a train from New York to New Haven absorbed with the sometimes comical, quotidian details of their lives as the horror of the outside world insistently-and shockingly-intrudes. (2M, 4W). JULY 7, 1994 is a haunting hour-long exploration of a day in the life of a female physician working in an inner-city health clinic. (2M, 4W) | |||||
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What's Wrong With This Picture | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 1988 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22446 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
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Synopsis: | L.A. Weekly writes: "Donald Margulies' very Jewish Blithe Spirit is full of surprises&Opening at the end of shiva, the play is the story of grief-stricken dry-cleaner Mort, whose wife, Shirley, died the week before after choking on a tough piece of moo shoo pork, leaving a house full of extra furniture because she was in the middle of redecorating. His all-too-loving but increasingly less supportive family is telling him 'enough already, it's time to live your life.' Once Mort is left uncomfortably alone with his teenage son, Artie, the play begins to take its odd turns which happily removes it from the path of Neil Simon family farce. As he convinces Artie to wear his dead mother's sexiest dress, Mort seems to be losing his mind, while Artie does his best to humor him. Then the sudden arrival of a very much alive Shirley explodes everything. The play continues to take every unexpected path as the three try to cope with the situation among themselves and with the rest of the family. Margulies skillfully tosse | |||||
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Women In Motion | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22447 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | Two WOMEN IN MOTION, work together and take a tropical vacation together, surveying the territory and the men. When Monica reveals to Libby her crush on a co-worker, Mike, Libby takes little interest, but when Libby's island date sours, she interrupts Monica's fling to tell her Mike has no interest in Monica and, in fact, he gave Libby a long passionate kiss by the copy machine right before this trip. The women travel home in silence | |||||
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Zimmer | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22448 | |||
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Synopsis: | We meet ZIMMER in the record store where he advises young buyers about the real rock and roll, before their time. He knows it all, and imparts his storehouse of knowledge while relating his experiences growing up: the expectations, his family, the friends who freaked out, the expectations, where he was when Kennedy died, his Bar Mitzvah, his girlfriend, and maybe a few more expectations. Always there is the music to tie it together, and tide him over. | |||||
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