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JEFFREY SWEET (1950 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency |
Born May 3, 1950 in Boston. Father, James Sweet (writer). Mother, Vivian Roe Sweet (violinist). Spent most of childhood in Evanston, Illinois, graduating from Evanston Township High School in 1967. Graduated from NYU in 1971 with a BFA in film, where teachers included Martin Scorcese (film), Clive Barnes (criticism) and Paul Simon (songwriting). Also studied with Lehman Engel at the BMI Musical Theatre workshop. Wrote an oral history of Chicago's Second City troupe called SOMETHING WONDERFUL RIGHT AWAY (Avon, 1978, currently published by Limelight Editions) and two books on playwriting, THE DRAMATIST'S TOOLKIT (Heinemann, 1993) and SOLVING YOUR SCRIPT (Heinemann, 2001). Forthcoming anthology of plays to be published by Northwestern University Press in 2007. Member of playwrights ensemble of the Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago. Divorced. Father of son, Jonathan Brian Sweet. Member of the Council of the Dramatists Guild.
Plays by Jeffrey Sweet
Action Against Sol Schumann , The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33797 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | won a playwriting prize from the American Theatre Critics Association | |||||
Synopsis: | As told by the Chicago Tribune: "Jeffrey Sweet's deeply felt and profoundly moving new play confronts its characters, and its audience, with a complex moral dilemma. Sol Schumann, a devout American Jew and beloved father of two grown sons, in 1985 is accused of unspeakable crimes he allegedly had committed many years earlier. That is all the story you need to know or should know, for part of the strength of Sweet's drama is the surprising twists and turns it takes in its plot, character, psychological and moral development. Like his earlier drama The Value of Names this is a tale, loosely based on a real case, of children and parents. It tells of the bond that links them and of the gulf that separates them. And though Sol Schumann is the title character, the two central forces of the drama are his sons, who in the course of tracking through the maze of legal, moral and personal issues on the sins of their father, also must come to terms with their relationships with him as their father's children. An unusuall | |||||
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After the Fact | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York, 1981 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33798 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A man confronts a newspaper reporter over inaccuracies in the obituary of a friend | |||||
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American Enterprise | ||
| 1st Produced: | Organic Theatre | 1991 | ||||
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 | #43752 | |||
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Notes: | won a playwriting prize from the American Theatre Critics Association | |||||
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Award, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | in The Value of Names and Other Plays, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83590 | |||
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Genre: | short piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Berlin '45 | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | in The Value of Names and Other Plays, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43754 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Bluff | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43750 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | tells the story of a young couple in New York who are doing fine until her brash and vulgar stepfather comes to town for a convention, bringing with him all of the contradictions she has been trying to bury. | |||||
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Chords | ||
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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 | #98055 | |||
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Class Dismissed | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
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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 | #89675 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Poor little rich kid in the 1960s. His father wants him to join the family firm. His friends who do not know he is rich just want to turn on and chill out. | |||||
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Court-Martial at Fort Devens | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83591 | |||
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Genre: | 85-95 min Historical drama on a black theme | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | 4 males, 6 females (8-19 actors possible: 3-9 males, 5-10 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | When a group of young black women join the Women's Army Corps during WWII, they're promised training as medical technicians. But a racist Colonel at Fort Devens has other ideas, and demotes them to cleaning duty. The battle of wills leads to a confrontation in which the colonel makes comments so offensive that the WACs pull an immediate strike. Though a visiting general is able to compel most of the women to go back to work, two refuse and are held for trial. Defended by a civilian lawyer who's never tried a court-martial, they embark on an uphill fight to change the status quo. Based on a true story, this gripping and inspiring drama explores the complexities of standing up for one's rights. | |||||
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Cover | ||
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| 1st Published: | in The Value of Names and Other Plays, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83592 | |||
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Genre: | short piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Falcon's Pitch, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1998 | ||||
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 | #94894 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | adapted from Henry VI by Shakespeare | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Flyovers | ||
| 1st Produced: | 21 May 1998 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69870-5 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43753 | |||
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Genre: | Dramatic comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | won Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Award for best new script | |||||
| Flyovers is a play about a film critic who finds himself caught up in a culture clash of economics, sex, and long-submerged resentment when he returns to the small Ohio town where he grew up. | |||||
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George's File | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 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 | #94895 | |||
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Hitch | ||
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles, CA (showcase) | - - - | ||||
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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 | #98053 | |||
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Holding Patterns | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Express, Pittsburgh, PA | - - - | ||||
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 | #98058 | |||
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Notes: | written by Jeffrey Sweet, Stephen Johnson, Sandra Hastie, Christine Plapp, Tom Toce | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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I Sent A Letter To My Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | North Shore Music Theatre | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43751 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | book and lyrics by Jeffrey Sweet, music by Melissa Manchester, based on the novel by Bernice Rubens | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Immoral Imperatives | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Value of Names and Other Plays, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #46402 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | aka Stay Till Morning | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | Audrey Wood Theater, New York | 1984 | ||||
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: | Studio cast recording: TER (1171) 1989 | doollee no | #64984 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | by Jeffrey Sweet; Music by Howard Marren; lyrics by Susan Birkenhead | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Narrow Escape | ||
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles, CA (showcase) | - - - | ||||
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 | #98054 | |||
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Neighbours | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Aquarias, Hamilton, Ontario | 1975 | ||||
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 | #93919 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music and lyrics by David Warrack; book by Jeff Sweet | |||||
Synopsis: | A husband discovers that his wife used to be the lover of the man who has moved in next door | |||||
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Parental Guidance | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actors Studio, NYC | - - - | ||||
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 | #98056 | |||
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Porch | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arena Stage, Washington, DC | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33799 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | woman, her father and an old boyfriend confront one another on a Mid western front porch in open warfare and buried love | |||||
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Responsible Parties | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vineyard Theatre, New York | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33800 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | The scene is the lobby of the Ventura Oasis Motel, in a rundown section of Los Angeles. The owner, Randolph, is debating whether to tear the building down or turn it into a fast-food franchise. In the meantime he occupies himself by meddling in the life of his manager, a world-weary ex-convict named Cornell, and in those of his guests. Included in the latter are an out-of-work song writer and guitarist; a down-on-their-luck Texas couple whose only valuable possession is a luxury car; and, as the action progresses, a pretty but brashly aggressive former girlfriend of Cornell's who has tracked him down and is determined to revive their relationship. Although strangers all, for the most part, the various characters are inevitably drawn into each other's lives as crises are dealt with, confidences exchanged, and each learns that he or she is, in a very real way, his brother's keeper. In the end they go their separate ways again-but for a fleeting moment, at least, they have known a sense of caring and humanity al | |||||
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Routed | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33801 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1b | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Having recently been let go after a dispute with his employer, Clark is free to take over his son's newspaper route during the boy's illness. Intending only to fill in for a few days, Clark quickly develops a manic enthusiasm for the job, and is even able to take revenge on his former boss (who is on the route) by tearing the comics page out of his newspaper. Turning aside his wife's pleas that he look for another job, and ignoring his son's readiness to take the route over again, Clark stubbornly plunges on until the supervisor of the newspaper company informs him that his services are no longer required. The crisis reached, Clark turns against his family and, in the disturbing, yet touching denouement of the play, tries to wrest the delivery bag away from his son by force, only, once again, to be done in by circumstances, from within and without, which he cannot control or, sad to say, fully comprehend. | |||||
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Seperate Vacations | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Value of Names and Other Plays, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83593 | |||
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Genre: | short piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Shortstack V4: The Lunchbox Diner Plays | ||
| 1st Produced: | Page to Stage Festival. John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, DC, USA >>> | 2008 | ||||
Company: | AccokeekCreek Theatreco. | |||||
| 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 | #88830 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Playwrights residing in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia present a series of short plays set in a standard American diner at Christmas. Playwrights include Renee Calarco, Audrey Cefaly, Joe Dennison, Deborah Finkelstein, Lynne Lerych, Mark Harvey Levine, Steve Lewis, John Shanahan, Gwydion Suilebhan, Jeffery Sweet, and Walter Thinnes. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Sneaks | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2008 | ||||
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 | #94896 | |||
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Stops Along The Way | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lincoln Center Theatre | 1981 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33802 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Larry, a teacher, is anxious to break up the recent affair he started with his former student Donna. As Larry drives Donna home to her husband, the play captures the mounting discomfort that follows. Linda tries delaying tactics as they stop along the way, struggling to rekindle the passion they had shared. When finally they stop at a motel, to Larry's increasing exasperation, Linda attempts to seduce him. In the end the demands of convention and existing commitments prevail, illuminated by Jeffrey Sweet's wisdom on the ongoing battle of the sexes. | |||||
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Ties | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33803 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Invited by an old friend, who is now a faculty member, to guest-direct a student production at a small Midwestern college, Walker, whose New York theatre career has reached a standstill, warily accepts. Sharp-witted, humorously caustic and bohemian in conduct, Walker quickly shakes up the tightly knit academic community, which his candor sweeps across like a hurricane. While hard-pressed to fathom Walker's laid-back nature, the others, students and faculty alike, quickly find themselves confiding in him, and emotional attachments soon develop-principally one between Walker and his friend's divorced sister, an affair which dashes the hopes of another young professor and yet is doomed, for both, by the ghosts of past loves. In time the central questions are whether Walker will accept an offer to stay on at the college, and, beyond that, how he will deal with the possibility of another kind of love put forth by his old friend-and it is in the working out of these questions that the warmth and wit and sensitivity | |||||
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Unreasonable Man, The | ||
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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 | #98057 | |||
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Value Of Names, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | 20 One-Act Plays From 20 Years Of The Humana Festival, Edited by Michele Volansky and Michael Bigelow Dixon, Smith & Kraus, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33804 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Benny Silverman, a celebrated comic, has revived his career via television after many years of forced inactivity following his having been named on the Hollywood blacklist of the Fifties. Now his actress daughter, Norma, has been cast in a play to be directed by Leo Greshen, the man who had testified against him before the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, and suddenly Benny must deal again with a moral crisis that he has tried to put behind him. At his daughter's urging he meets with Leo, a confrontation in which initial reserve gradually gives way to a provocative and increasingly passionate exchange of ideas and convictions until Benny, rising to the occasion with biting, devastating wit, lays to rest the sense of outrage and injustice that has preyed on his conscience for so many bitter years. | |||||
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What About Luv? | ||
| 1st Produced: | Holland Park, London | 1992 | ||||
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 | #63763 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Howard Marren, Susan Birkenhead, Jeffrey Sweet. Original title "Love". Based on the play "Luv" by Murray Schisgal | |||||
Synopsis: | Harry is about to throw himself off a bridge when he is saved by an old half-forgotten school friend - Milt. Milt wants to get married but his wife wont let him. So if Harry could seduce the wife Milt can get what he wants&. | |||||
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Wicked John and the Devil | ||
| 1st Produced: | Earplay; Manhattan Theatre Club, NYC | 1975 | ||||
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 | #94897 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Musical, book, music and lyrics | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Winging It! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, WI | 1970 | ||||
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 | #94898 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | (Musical, book, music and lyrics, based on The Birds by Aristophanes | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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With And Without | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33805 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Shelly and Mark have rented a lake-side house for a week to relax. They are sharing the house with Jill, who waits to be joined by her husband, Russ. The fact that Russ does not show, and does not call or return calls, foreshadows a rough week. Jill and Russ are having marital problems and Shelly and Mark are feeling put in the middle. Do they advise, make a call, or lie about who is where? Because of the connections to their old friends, feelings of guilt and obligation prevail, whether real or imagined. While they wait for Russ, Jill decides to go rent a bad movie. At the video store she meets, Glen, a recently divorced father, and invites him back to the house for a one night stand. But Mark hears their conversation, intervenes and proceeds to tell Jill she's about to make a mistake. Jill doesn't want anyone to tell her what to do, but while she and Mark argue, Glen drives away. Furious at Mark for causing Glen to leave, Jill decks him and goes after Glen. The next morning, when Jill returns, Shelly gives | |||||
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You Only Shoot the Ones You Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York International Fringe Festival | Aug 2011 | ||||
Company: | Artistic New Directions | |||||
| 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 | #130540 | |||
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Genre: | 1h 15m Comedy Solo Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | www.artisticnewdirections.org | |||||
Synopsis: | How I found a second family in improvisational comedy, including a crazy uncle named Del Close, and inadvertently became the illegitimate grandfather of the Upright Citizens Brigade. With special regards to the Cossacks for not quite killing my grandmother. | |||||
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