PHYLLIS NAGY (1962 - )
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Phyllis Nagy
Awake |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Dark Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: stage reading at Royal Court | ||||
Synopsis: apocalyptic set in an alley that dead-ends onto the Jehovah's witness Watchtower complex in Brooklyn Heights | ||||
Butterfly Kiss |
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 1994 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Synopsis: A multi layered play about matricide, set in the actual and imagined past, present and future | ||||
Disappeared |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1995 | ||
| 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: | - | Mystery | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Synopsis: a woman travel agent who has never left New York goes missing after leaving a bar | ||||
Entering Queens |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||
| Company: | Gay Sweatshop | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Part of "Threesome" | ||||
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Girl Bar |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | the Loft Theater | |||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Dark Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: a non-naturalistic excursion into the girl bar of our dreams | ||||
Never Land |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1998 | |||
| 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: | Family Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: a moving and heartbreaking exploration of the final days of a singular French family whose one dream is to settle in England | ||||
Plaza Delores |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Dark Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: a beautician, a convict, a Marine and a would be singer keep trying to reach Miami Beach - unsuccessfully | ||||
Scarlet Letter, The |
| 1st Produced: | Denver | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1995 | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||||
Synopsis: a non naturalistic classic tale of obsession and revenge | ||||
Seagull, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov,. Version by Phyllis Nagy based on a literal translation by Helen Molchonoff | ||||
Synopsis: A family gathers at the lakeside to watch a new play. Afterwards nothing will be the same again. | ||||
Strip, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 1995 | ||
| 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 | 5 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Synopsis: A female impersonator, a love struck repo man and a lesbian journalist cross America in search of fame. | ||||
Talanted Mr Ripley, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1999 | |||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: novel by Patricia Highsmith | ||||
Synopsis: all about pretending to be someone else, with Ripley taking over the identity of gilded yout, Dickie Greenleaf, whom he casually murders. Robert Dawson-Scott, The Times | ||||
Trip's Cinch |
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 1994: The Complete Plays, ed Marisa Smith, Smith & Kraus | 1994 | ||
| 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 | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A wealthy man. A working-class woman. A random meeting over a pitcher of gin and tonics. When these worlds collide, a controversial scholar tries to exploit the politics of sexual pursuit. Caustic and wry, this uncompromising drama pushes the William Kennedy Smith and Mike Tyson trials one step further--Phyllis Nagy gives us both the truth and the lie. | ||||
Weldon Rising |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays By Women Vol.10" Methuen, London | 1994 | ||
| 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: | Dark Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Synopsis: hottest night of the year in New York as inhabitants of the meat packing district contemplate some gay bashing | ||||