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RALPH TROPF (1956 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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RALPH TROPF holds an MFA in Playwrighting and has completed 13 full length scripts. His plays The Hourglass and Squid and Fishy each won awards from the Kennedy Center/ACTF. Shadow Hour is published by Samuel French. His screenplay, The Orchid and the Cross was a semifinalist for a Nicholl Fellowship. A former producer for FOX Television, he now teaches Humanities in Los Angles. He is a member of the Dramatist's Guild and Neo Ensemble Theatre.
Plays by Ralph Tropf
21 Century Romance | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Neo, Los Angeles | - - - | ||||
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 | #126275 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy, ten minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This play requires sound cues and two specially rigged answering machines. The playwright will provide a CD of the cues and the machines at no charge provided the producer returns them by mail at the end of the production. | |||||
Synopsis: | A young couple meet, date, fall in love, plan to marry and then break up all over their answering machines. | |||||
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Animal Within, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #126273 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A single set; the kitchen of a well-to-do home in Malibu, California. | |||||
Synopsis: | When socialite Sylvia Argus hires a sexy young girl as a live-in housekeeper, it awakens her long-suppressed attraction to women. The girl seduces both Sylvia and her husband, driving them both crazy. | |||||
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Falling Headlong | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #126272 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A unit set with two locations: a doctor's office and an apartment living room | |||||
Synopsis: | The Supreme Court of the United States has overturned Roe V. Wade, and abortion is illegal again. Sara Pindar, an obstetrician in her first year of practice, must find ways to give her patients the best care possible within the restrictions of the law. Her patients include a devout Christian woman who needs a life saving abortion procedure but refuses consent. Also, an impoverished woman who tries to self-abort when she feels she has no other option. There's funny stuff in it, too. | |||||
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Green Spaniard, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | In Way Out West Broadway, seniortheatre.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #120860 | |||
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Genre: | 5 min Single Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 0 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hourglass, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of Nevada, Las Vegas | 1994 | ||||
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 | #126274 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Seriocomedy. full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Set in a diner, with an upstairs apartment. | |||||
Synopsis: | After an accident in his laboratory, a scientist finds that he can remember the future as he forgets the past. He wanders into a diner where he meets a waitress and instantly knows he loves her. After convincing her that he is sincere, he slowly begins to forget who she is. An apparently demented old man turns out to be more than he seems, and leads the scientist on a path to his future. | |||||
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Impression: Sunrise | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rockford, IL | 2003 | ||||
Company: | New American Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #39001 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Multiple locations on a unit set. It is intended to be produced with minimal technical requirements. | |||||
Synopsis: | Terry, a fashion design student in a small private college, has a one-night stand with a local photographer. She becomes pregnant. Shortly after, she is offered an internship with a top designer in New York. She must decide whether to remain in her small town an build a relationship with the photographer, or leave for New York and deal with the pregnancy on her own. | |||||
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Laying the Boogie Woogie | ||
| 1st Produced: | Colony Theatre, Los Angeles | - - - | ||||
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 | #126278 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, ten minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A hotel room. | |||||
Synopsis: | After a weekend of drinking and sex, two teenage girls realize that the man they thought was Elvis Presley is an imposter. For adults only. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Love Sucks | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Southwest, Houston | - - - | ||||
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 | #126277 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy, ten minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A living room set with a vacuum cleaner. | |||||
Synopsis: | A woman seduces a man in order to sell him a vacuum cleaner. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Public Service | ||
| 1st Produced: | Madhouse Theatre, Philadelphia | - - - | ||||
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 | #126276 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy, ten minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 m/f | |||||
Notes: | The set requires one desk, two chairs, one telephone and one newspaper. That's all. | |||||
Synopsis: | The Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe (from the nursery rhyme) applies for welfare. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Serendipity | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Neo, Los Angeles | - - - | ||||
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 | #126280 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 m/f | |||||
Notes: | This play takes place in several scene in the audience over the course of an evening of ten minute plays. | |||||
Synopsis: | A man and woman are breaking off their relationship while in the audience of a play. The audience doesn't know it's a play until a cab driver comes in to pick up the man. He invites the audience to vote on whether then couple should stay together or break up. Two endings are written depending on how the audience votes. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Shadow Hour | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stella Adler Theatre, Los Angeles | Oct 1998 | ||||
Company: | All Roses Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-62714-9 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39000 | |||
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Genre: | Courtroom Drama, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | play 23 characters | |||||
Notes: | Multiple locations on a unit set. Scenes change with lighting and a few simple props. | |||||
Synopsis: | A United States Senator is on trial for sexual assault. As the jury deliberates the evidence, it becomes clear that each person remembers the testimony differently, filtered through his or her own experience. Flashbacks to the trial show the witnesses giving widely divergent accounts of the events. The truth, it seems, is lost in a shadow hour. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Shoe, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Neo, Los Angeles | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Neo | |||||
| 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 | #39003 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy, 10 minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Multiple locations on a unit set. Scenes are changed with lighting, and by changing tablecloths on the tables. | |||||
Synopsis: | A film noir parody of Cinderella. Charlie Knuckles, a hard-bitten from the mean streets of the dirty city, is hired by the Prince of Wall Street to find a girl who lost her shoe at a charity ball. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Squid and Felicity | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of Nevada, Las Vegas | 1995 | ||||
Company: | University of Nevada, Las Vegas | |||||
| 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 | #39002 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy, one act, 45 minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This one act recieved a meritorious achievement award from the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival. Multiple locations on a unit set. | |||||
Synopsis: | Squid and Fishy are a punk couple who run a used clothing store on New York's Lower East Side. Fishy is pregnant, and tries to convince Squid that its time to grow up and get serious about their lives. | |||||
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War Story | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #126279 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | In a poor woman's hovel during a war. | |||||
Synopsis: | Madeline has been wounded, and is deaf, blind and mentally scarred. A holy woman cares for her, but insists that Madeline observe religious rites. When a soldier takes refuge in her home, Madeline sees her chance for a moment of happiness. | |||||
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