PETER SNOAD (1949 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Peter Snoad
And Anyone in Leopard Skin Tights |
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| 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: | Comedy (15 minutes) | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: There's been a regime change in Heaven. The new guy in charge is real picky, and you need a good fashion sense to get in. Which could explain why the man in line at the Pearly Gates is wearing a Nazi helmet, chugging a Budweiser, and carrying an autographed picture of a famous football quarterback. And why he teams up with a confused and emotional priest. On the other hand. . . | ||||
Apple Pie |
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| 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: | Short comedy (12 minutes) | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: After meeting him at a party, Abigail brings Assaf her homemade apple pie and the offer of a date. The Lebanese immigrant is reluctant to accept either. A touching tale about love, fear and cultural difference in a small Midwestern town in the U.S.A. | ||||
Boiling House, The |
| 1st Produced: | ART/New York Spaces, New York, New York, USA | 2007 | ||
| Company: | Reverie Productions, New York, NY | |||
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| 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 drama (90 minutes) | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: When a hurricane threatens a tiny Caribbean island, the residents of Mama Aida's guesthouse are forced to seek refuge in the one stone building nearby: the Boiling House on the old sugar plantation. For years, Mama Aida has kept the Boiling House off limits to tourists because it harbors a painful family secret: her great great grandparents who were slaves were brutally tortured and murdered there after leading an unsuccessful slave rebellion. Once inside the building, Mama Aida feels the presence of her ancestors, and hears sounds and sees visions from the past. After surviving the hurricane, the group returns to the guesthouse to find it largely destroyed. One of the guests, a wealthy young rap star, offers to pay for its reconstruction. He also wants to turn the Boiling House-which contains original machinery and equipment-into a living museum celebrating the history of slave resistance. But Mama Aida is now determined that the Boiling House remain a private sacred space where the ancestors' spirits and the power of memory hold sway. Mama Aida gets her way-but not before an emotionally bruising battle with the young rapper. | ||||
Entitled |
| 1st Produced: | Center for Arts, Natick, MA | 2004 | ||
| Company: | Center for Arts, Natick, MA | |||
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| 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: | Short comedy drama (12 minutes) | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: Craving silence, a wealthy businessman buys a remote Pacific island as his final resting place. But can his young female companion stop the sounds of waves and frolicking dolphins? | ||||
Fresh Start, A |
| 1st Produced: | Devanaughn Theatre, Boston | 2006 | ||
| Company: | Devanaughn Theatre | |||
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| 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: | Short comedy drama (13 minutes) | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: In a world of violence and anarchy, what will solve a young couple's relationship problems: makeovers or poetry? | ||||
Greening of Bridget Kelly, The |
| 1st Produced: | Fort Point Theatre Channel, Boston, Massachusetts, USA | 2008 | ||
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| 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: | comedy drama | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Bridget Kelly is a climate change activist with a dark secret and revenge on her mind. In the confessional, she tells all to her priest-and it's more than he wants to hear. Especially when it comes to his homegrown organic tomatoes. | ||||
Guided Tour |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | Hinton Battle Theatre Lab | |||
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| 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 drama (90 minutes) | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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Notes: Winner of the Stanley Drama Award (Wagner College, New York, USA) in 2007; the Arthur W. Stone New Play Award (Louisiana Tech University, Louisiana, USA) in 2007; and the 2006 New Play Festival of Centre Stage-South Carolina in Greenville, South Carolina, USA. | ||||
Synopsis: Joe Bell was a celebrity-a popular tour guide at Elmwood Hall, a famous Gilded Age mansion in Rhode Island, U.S.A. But for the last 14 years, Joe has been in jail. The African American guide known for his encyclopedic knowledge and folksy charm was convicted of burning down the historic mansion he once so proudly showed to visitors. It's now 1986, and the world has forgotten about Joe Bell. But not Susanna Hatch. The young law student is convinced Joe was framed by the FBI as part of its campaign against black militants in the turbulent Civil Rights era. To find out the truth, Susanna visits Joe in the prison psychiatric unit where he's confined. She has a compelling reason for believing in his innocence: Joe had a passionate-and scandalous-affair with the mansion's blueblood owner, Lindsay Pettigrew. Why would Joe have hurt Lindsay by destroying something so precious to her? Their discussions take Susanna and Joe on a tortuous journey across the rocky terrain of love, loyalty and cultural identity. Joe must come to terms with a startling revelation about the past. And Susanna, forced to confront her own demons, learns a wrenching lesson about the blinding and irrational power of love. | ||||
I'm Not At Liberty To Say |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | Alarm Clock Theatre | |||
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| 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: | Comedy drama, full-length (100 minutes) | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: This play has been re-named. It was first produced under the title "Rosa" | ||||
Synopsis: A middle-class American couple are about to fly to Guatemala to collect Rosa, their new adopted baby daughter. But on the eve of their departure, fire destroys their car. A government investigator insists that the cause of the blaze is a terrorist bomb. And he asks Cynthia and James Spalding some oddly pointed questions. About their "foreign" adoption. About the vanity plate on their car. About an old friend who works in the U.S. embassy in Beirut. Suddenly, bizarrely, the Spaldings are terrorist suspects. Their house is searched, they lose their jobs, friends desert them, and the adoption is imperiled. Why, they ask, is this happening? Months later, broke and desperate, they receive a shocking explanation: they have been guinea pigs in a secret government-sponsored counter-terrorism research project that paradoxically involves terrorizing, maiming and killing Americans in order to "make the country safe." But is it true? Can it be? The experience challenges some of the Spaldings' most cherished assumptions-about individual freedom, democratic values, and "the American way". And it changes their destiny, and Rosa's, forever. | ||||
Life of Trees, The |
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| 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: | Short comedy drama (12 minutes) | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: When Jack receives word that his estranged brother is dieing, he is reluctant to contact him. But he changes his mind after his seven-year-daughter describes the loving care she and her friends provide to an ancient Chinese cork tree in a local park. | ||||
Lucky Thirteen |
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| 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: | Short comedy (12 minutes) | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: A woman seeking a job at the Department of Veteran Affairs encounters a bizarre new world on the 13th Floor. The department is now a for-profit corporation, and she's required to pay for her interviews and for certification as a bona fide Christian. What price job security in an age of desperation? | ||||
My Name Is Art |
| 1st Produced: | Devanaughn Theatre, Boston | 2006 | ||
| Company: | Devanaughn Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | Original Works Publishing | 2007 | ||
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| Genre: | Short comedy (13 minutes) | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: Selected Best of Fest in the 2007 Frontera Fest at Hyde Park Theatre in Austin, Texas, USA | ||||
Synopsis: A plumber and an architect argue the merits of a massive modern art installation. They are joined by a "living" art exhibit who is not quite what he seems. | ||||
Orbiting Mars |
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| 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 comedy drama (110 minutes) | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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Notes: This play requires a minimum of nine actors (with doubling), but can be performed by as many as 12. | ||||
Synopsis: A community theatre company in the wealthy suburb of Nirvana, California-which is also home to a nuclear weapons plant-is determined to win a statewide drama contest with its production of Noel Coward's Present Laughter. But it can't find anyone suitable to play the lead. Enter a man dressed as the Roman god Mars who blackmails the artistic director into giving him the part. Is "Mars" crazy, a terrorist, or just a harmless eccentric? This wacky anti-war satire features a teenager who speaks fluent Latin, a reworking of the Coward classic (under the title Present Slaughter), a movie crew filming "reality theatre", and a secret CIA plot to foment war with Iran. | ||||
Resistance |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
| Company: | Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre | |||
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| 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: | Short comedy drama (13 minutes) | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: An elderly couple's debate about whether to ditch the phone turns into a bittersweet exchange about love, family and the challenges of growing old. | ||||