JULES TASCA (1928 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Jules Tasca
Alive and Kicking |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company | ISDN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | When her youngest son announces that he has just got married Gloria feels her life is over. She tries to sell the family home so that she can move into an apartment near to the funeral parlour | |||||
Alopacia Plot |
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| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers, | ISDN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Bald headed men of the world unite - it is time to take over! | |||||
American Beauty |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company | ISDN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | Mark is a very jealous husband - he even punched the best man at the wedding for kissing the bride. Mona can stand things no longer and runs away to New York and moves in with her friend Ginger. However, every male she encounters falls in love with her. And when Ginger's boyfriend falls for Mona and poisons his own brother because he too has fallen for her - Ginger gets in touch with Mark | |||||
Angels On A Train |
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| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| 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: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Background, 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: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Baker's Neighbour, 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: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Balkan Women, The |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISDN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | meditation on the horror of war set in 1990 brings the spirit of Euripides to a Serbian detention camp for Muslim women | |||||
Beautiful Princess Sasha, The |
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| 1st Published: | Pioneer Drama Service Inc | ISDN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||||
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| Synopsis: | A princess is so beautiful that her father has always kept her hidden away. He finally gives a party in her honour. Two young men fight over her and one is killed. Full of remorse as to what has happened the princess swops faces with an ugly witch | |||||
Cannibalism In Cars |
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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: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | from story by Mark Twain | |||||
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Chip Off Olympus |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1976 | ISDN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Deus X |
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| 1st Published: | Contained in "The Best American Short Plays 1998-1999" published by Applause Books, | ISDN | - | |||
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| Genre: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| 1st Produced: | American Theatre of Actors, NY | 2008 | ||||
| Company: | Curan Repertory Company | |||||
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | It is the final months of Dr. Jekyll's life as he and Mr. Hyde are fighting for life and control. They are battling for Jekyll's body, money, status, and the love of the same woman. - nytheatre.com | |||||
Finding The Love Of Your Life |
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| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| 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: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Forbidden Fruit |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1984 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| 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: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | story by Guy de Maupassant | |||||
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Friar Falstaff |
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| Genre: | comedy | Short Play | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | A new take on one of Shakespeare's most beloved characters. Recently dismissed by the king for his dissolute ways, Falstaff arrives at the monastery where his only brother is a novice. Falstaff has been evicted by his landlady, and can't stand living with his mother. He tells his brother that their mother desperately want him to leave the monastery and father children because she's afraid that their line will die out. The brother believes Falstaff's story and escapes from the monastery | |||||
God's Honest, The, An Evening Of Lies |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1987 | ISDN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Eight Minatures | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
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| Notes: | Angel on the Train, Between the Lines, Brothers, Hardstuff, Opening Act, The Rape of Emma Bunche, Second Vows, The Twin Mendaccios | |||||
| Synopsis: | eight one act plays tied together with the theme of lying | |||||
Going To The Catacombs |
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| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| 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: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Goodbye, Fay Wray (Chip Off Olympus) |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISDN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 2m extras | |||||
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| Synopsis: | set in Los Angeles a funny bizarre family each in their separate ways attempt to find something in life that will give them an illusion of greatness | |||||
Hardstuff |
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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: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Hen, 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: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Hubie's Best Friend |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company | ISDN | - | |||
| 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 | 2 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | Two college room mates the studious one and the jock. The jock keeps stealing the girl friends of the studious one. So the studious one invents a fictitious girl to keep the jock at bay | |||||
Inflatable You |
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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: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Music by Thomas Tierney; lyrics by Ted Drachman; book by Jules Tasca. Based on the novel by C S Lewis | |||||
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Live Drawing: The Mona Lisa |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company | ISDN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
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| Synopsis: | It took three years for Leonardo da Vinci to paint the Mona Lisa - what went on during the sessions | |||||
MacDuff Tragedy, The |
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| 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: | Melodrama | Short Play | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | A new take on characters from Shakespeare's Macbeth. As Macduff surveys the carnage and the corpses of his dead family, they come to life and vent their recriminations against him for his actions. It's better to be alive and in sorrow than to be dead | |||||
Make-Up |
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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: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Mind with the Dirty Man, The |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1975 | ISDN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | small community film censor has problems when his son takes over the local cinema and wants to show 'foot fetish' | |||||
Mission, The |
| 1st Produced: | American Theatre of Actors, NY | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | The Curan Repertory Company | |||||
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Two men in a prison: One a convict for attempted murder, the other a priest who has decided to rehabilitate this prisoner. Things are not what they seem in this game of seduction, power and revenge press release | |||||
Narnia |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company | ISDN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Originally entitled "The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe" | |||||
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Necklace, The |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1984 | ISDN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | story by Guy de Maupassant | |||||
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Old Goat Song |
| 1st Produced: | Staged Reading, Jose Quintero Theatre, New York City | 2002 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company | ISDN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
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| Notes: | written by David Reiser and Jules Tasca | |||||
| Synopsis: | Bill Fast, a 71-year-old widower, becomes friends with Cara, a 17-year-old waitress who reminds him of his late wife when she was that age. Bill's sister Cora, who lives with him, is jealous of the attention he pays to the young girl and fears that Cara will wheedle her way into her brother's will. Angry over the expensive gifts Bill has lavished on the girl, Cora accuses Bill of falling in love with her and storms off. Alone, Bill sings, "I'm not in love with her - am I?" Throughout the musical Bill is visited by the memory of his late wife, Danielle, both as a young girl (portrayed by the same actress who plays Cara,) and as an older woman. | |||||
Outrageous! |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1997 | ISDN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Passion Comedy |
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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: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Fema |