JANE MARTIN   


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Plays by Jane Martin

JANE MARTIN
Anton In Show Business
1st Produced:
1999-00
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
madcap comedy follows three actresses across the footlights, down the rabbit hole, and into a strangely familiar Wonderland that looks a lot like American theatre -- the resemblance is uncanny! As these women pursue their dream of performing Chekhov in Texas, they're whisked through a maelstrom of "good ideas," power politics and competing agendas -- each of which offers a unique answer to the Three Sisters' need to have life's deeper purpose revealed. In the great tradition of backstage comedies -- from The Royal Family to Noises Off -- Anton in Show Business conveys the joys, pains and absurdities of "putting on a play" at the turn of the century. May you live in interesting times.
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JANE MARTIN
Audition
1st Produced:
1981-82
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
Monologue
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of Talking With&
Synopsis:
An actress auditions for a role she covets in a new play
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JANE MARTIN
Back Story
1st Produced:
1999-00
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
Dramatic Anthology
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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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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JANE MARTIN
Bill of (W)Rights
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc
2004
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama
Comedy
Parts:
Male
13
Female
10
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Running time: 80-90
Synopsis:
Bill of (W)Rights is a political funhouse growing from a moment in history when self-censorship abounds and the populace is increasingly governed by fear. Nine playwrights offer ten plays, each based on one of the U.S. Constitution's first ten amendments. These pieces focus less on government interference and more on the interpersonal, from a father and daughter facing a criminal trial to the silence of an unfaithful husband "pleading the fifth" to his family -- not to mention a company of actors yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater. The creation of the script, encompassing a diversity of voices and opinions, was itself an act of democracy, demonstrating that theatre can be a voice of revelation and revolution.
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JANE MARTIN
Boy Who Ate the Moon
1st Produced:
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Jane Martin: Collected Plays 1980 - 1995, Smith and Kraus
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-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
-
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JANE MARTIN
Cementville
1st Produced:
1990-91
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, Inc; by Smith & Kraus in Jane Martin Collected Works: Vol I; and by Heinemann in A Decade of New Comedy: Plays From the Humana Festival.
1991
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
5
Female
9
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
portrayal of America's fascination with fantasy entertainment with a scurvy bunch of professional lady wrestlers
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JANE MARTIN
Clear Glass Marbles
1st Produced:
1981-82
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
Monologue
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of Talking With&
Synopsis:
A young woman reminisces about her mother's courageous encounter with death
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JANE MARTIN
Clucks
1st Produced:
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
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Genre:
SouthernComedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
7
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
it is later that night and the local rednecks have gathered outside the home of Dr. Kennedy, the black dentist who had the audacity to appear as Rhett Butler. Talk of lynching and fire bombing is rife, but the good ole boys are hilariously inept and Dr. Kennedy, a Vietnam vet, is more than they bargained forall of which leads to a very funny and most revealing stand-off.
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JANE MARTIN
Coup
1st Produced:
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Plays From Actors Theatre Of Louisville , Edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon, Broadway Play Publishing
1989
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Genre:
SouthernComedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
the leaders of local society are preparing their annual Fourth of July presentation of" Gone With The Wind" with the aging Miz Zifty expecting, once again, to be cast as Scarlett O'Hara, much to the disdain of her Negro maid, Beulah. The burning question, however, is who will play Rhett Butler, a problem compounded by the aspirations of a number of unsuitable candidates, including a flighty hairdresser and a gawky high school boy. In the end the role goes (heaven forbid) to an extremely bright and personable black dentistleading to great consternation and the last minute substitution of Beulah in the part of Scarlett!
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JANE MARTIN
Criminal Hearts
1st Produced:
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Jane Martin: Collected Plays 1980 - 1995, Smith and Kraus
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
An unlikely friendship begins as a lifelong victim awakes to find a burglar in her apartment.
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JANE MARTIN
Cul-De-Sac
1st Produced:
1981-82
Company:
-
1st Published:
Jane Martin: Collected Plays 1980 - 1995, Smith and Kraus
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Genre:
Monologue
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of Talking With&
Synopsis:
A potential rape victim turns on her assailant and forces him to perform self-emasculation
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JANE MARTIN
Dragons
1st Produced:
1981-82
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
Monologue
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of Talking With&
Synopsis:
A woman in labor speculates about dragons and her soon-to-be-born child.
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JANE MARTIN
Fifteen minutes
1st Produced:
1981-82
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
Monologue
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of Talking With&
Synopsis:
As an actress prepares for a performance, she ponders her position as an entertainer and her relationship with an audience
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JANE MARTIN
Flags
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
Firefly Theater
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Flags uses the structure of a Greek tragedy to explore how the grief of a single American family must inevitably ripple through us all. Eddie, a Vietnam vet and lifelong garbage collector, is outraged when he learns that his elders son Carter, a military specialist, has been killed and mutilated after reassignment to garbage duty cleaning the streets of Baghdad. A military chaplain brings Eddie and his wife a US flag and, in his absent-minded grief, Eddie hands it on his roof upside down, a military signal of distress. Eddie's refusal to right the flag when community members demand it leads to first local and then national controversy and media attention
- press release
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JANE MARTIN
Flaming Guns Of The Purple Sage
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
Humana Festival 2001: The Complete Plays, ed Tanya Palmer & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus
2001
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Set in deepest Wyoming, Jane Martin's macabre comedy pits the code of the West against the contemporary darkness. There is a rodeo hellion, a demonic biker, stolen drug money and enough spare ribs for all the carnivores circling the wagons. Jane Martin's bodacious crossover comedy mixes horror and hilarity. Imagine Hopalong Cassidy dating Carrie, or Miss Kitty chasing Chuckie in an Addams Family version of Gunsmoke. Oh, how to be good in the new century!
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JANE MARTIN
Handler
1st Produced:
1981-82
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
Monologue
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
part of Talking With&
Synopsis:
A young country woman, having lost faith in God's role in the act of snake-handling, relies on her own spirit to protect her
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JANE MARTIN
Heaven and Hell (On Earth): A Divine Comedy
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
Humana Festival 2001: The Complete Plays, ed Tanya Palmer & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus
2001
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Genre:
Short Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
written by Robert Alexander, Jenny Lyn Bader, Elizabeth Dewberry, Deborah Lynn Frockt, Rebecca Gilman, Keith Glover, Hilly Hicks, Jr., Karen Hines, Michael Kassin, Melanie Marnich, Jane Martin, William Mastrosimone, Guillermo Reyes, Sarah Schulman, Richar
Synopsis:
In this comic anthology - a collection of scenes and monologues - an array of devilishly talented playwrights put a contemporary spin on a fascinating eternal obsession. Grappling with their own diverse experiences of vice and virtue, salvation and damnation, characters from the twentysomething generation interpret their world with amusing revelations and surprising insights
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JANE MARTIN
Jack and Jill
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, Inc. and by Smith & Kraus in Humana Festival '96, The Complete Plays.
1995
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Genre:
Romance
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Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
4 extras
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
mines the subtle and often treacherous depths of modern wedlock. To love, honor and cherish--those are the easy parts of the union. It's where one person leaves off and the other begins that proves the stumbling block. By turns funny, sensual and fierce, this poignant drama captures the essential humanity of relationship--for better or worse
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JANE MARTIN
Keely And Du
1st Produced:
1993
Company:
-
1st Published:
Humana Festival 1993: The Complete Plays, ed Marisa Smith, Smith & Kraus
1993
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
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Synopsis:
a volatile full-length drama about abortion. Du, a radical Right To Life activist, and Keely, the pregnant rape victim she confines, transcend their circumstances and the ideological issues that separate them. Jane Martin develops their unlikely bond with a deeply felt humanity that refuses to become political
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JANE MARTIN
Listeners
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc
2006
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Genre:
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Satire
Parts:
Male
6
Female
1
Parts Other:
1 female, 6 males; Running time: 10-15 mins
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Eleanor Leftwich is a law-abiding citizen, but technology has identified her to the government as someone who might be holding a few grudges. When her assigned listeners descend to offer her the chance to speak directly to the big guy, she speaks freely -
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JANE MARTIN
Marks
1st Produced:
1981-82
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
Monologue
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of Talking With&
Synopsis:
A woman covers her body in tattoos commemorating the major events in her life.
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JANE MARTIN
Middle-Aged White Guys
1st Produced:
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, Inc.; by Smith & Kraus in Jane Martin Collected Works: Vol I; and by Smith & Kraus in Humana Festival '95, The Complete Plays
1994
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Meeting in one of this country's finer landfills, three middle-aged white guys discover they've got one last chance to salvage their slice of American culture. But salvation can be painfully funny when God gets really angry. By airing America's dirty laundry, this hilarious satire probes the most sensitive place--what it means to be a member in the white guy club
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JANE MARTIN
Mr Bundy
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
Humana Festival 1998: The Complete Plays, ed Michael Bigelow Dixon & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus
1998
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Genre:
Short play
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
1g
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
When a convicted child molester moves into the neighborhood, the quality of everyone's mercy is strained. Weighing Mr. Bundy's rights against the risks to their own daughter, one working couple falls prey to two outsiders--crusaders with a vengeful cause. This provocative drama pits Christian ethics against the Juggernaut of parental fear, as fate and justice waver between vigilance and vigilantes, especially as Mr Bundy's conviction was for getting teenage boys to put on women's clothes and apply make-up.
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JANE MARTIN
Pomp and Circumstance
1st Produced:
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Jane Martin: Collected Plays 1980 - 1995, Smith and Kraus
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-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JANE MARTIN
Rodeo
1st Produced:
1981-82
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
Monologue
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of Talking With&
Synopsis:
A cowgirl comments on commercialism's destruction of the rodeo
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JANE MARTIN
Scraps
1st Produced:
1981-82
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
-
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Genre:
Monologue
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of Talking With&
Synopsis:
A young housewife escapes the tensions and confinements of her life by dressing as the Patchwork Girl of Oz while doing her housework
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JANE MARTIN
Sez She
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
-
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Five women tell their stories. From the Pekinese dog with a stake through its heart to bicycling across Massachusetts with 23,000 lawyers.
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JANE MARTIN
Shasta Rue
1st Produced:
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Jane Martin: Collected Plays 1980 - 1995, Smith and Kraus
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-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JANE MARTIN
Singles Clear Glass Marbles
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JANE MARTIN
Stuffed Shirts
1st Produced:
1998-99
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
Genre:
T(ext) Shirt Play
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Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Anyone can perform this play by an award-winning playwright simply by wearing the t-shirt upon which it is written
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JANE MARTIN
Summer
1st Produced:
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Jane Martin: Collected Plays 1980 - 1995, Smith and Kraus
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