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CASEY WIMPEE (1980 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Casey Economy (Casey Wimpee), born 18 Dec 1980, is a Brooklyn-based fiction writer and playwright from Dallas, Texas, and co-founder of the Aztec Economy. His plays include Lavaman (Ice Factory 2009, Ohio Theatre, NYC), National Diet of Japan (P.S. 122, NYC), Pontiac Firebird Variations (Ice Factory 2011, Ohio Interrupted @ 3LD, NYC) The Battleplays Trilogy (The Brick / Monkeytown, NY), Adventures in the OK Skin Trade (The Fridge, DC), and Arms & The Octopus (Ohio / Galapagos, NY), for which he was nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre award. His short plays, The Queen is Dead and Amphibians were selected to be performed in Samuel French's 2008 and 2009 OOB Festival, respectively.
Plays by Casey Wimpee
9 Yodels | ||
| 1st Produced: | KGB Bar, NYC | Sep 2009 | ||||
Company: | Aztec Economy | |||||
| 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 | #104891 | |||
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Genre: | song / poem play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | a study in voices, focusing on oranges, tangerines, clementines, mountain goats, clouds, candles, smoke, fire, earth, bonsai and sake | |||||
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Adventures in the OK Skin Trade | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Fridge, Washington, D.C. | Feb 2011 | ||||
Company: | Aztec Economy | |||||
| 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 | #124993 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Gravely burned from a barn fire and heartbroken over the disappearance of his one true love, a retired football quarterback-cum-pig baron dies encircled by three competitors, each staking their own separate claims to his fortune: an opium-addicted prostitute for his fertile Oklahoma acreage, a black market organ broker for his mysterious 'Black Book', and his own livestock auctioneer for something even more inhuman. | |||||
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Alabama Goddam | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shaolin-Do Martial Arts Studio (Backyard Ballroom Annex), NOLA | Nov 2011 | ||||
Company: | Aztec Economy | |||||
| 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 | #136311 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | a high-speed hurricane of a twisted family history as played out between two brothers: through role-playing memories, we're introduced to a story involving the conquistador Hernando de Soto, Hank Aaron and the Atlanta Braves, Tropicana Florida Orange Juice, Mississippi River Water, Walt Disney, Witch Doctors, Indian Burial Mounds, and a Giant Animatronic Robot Possum. A violent storm of childhood guilt ritually expressed. | |||||
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Aletheia | ||
| 1st Produced: | Texas State University, San Marcos, TX | 2003 | ||||
Company: | SWTSU Theatre Department | |||||
| 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 | #68952 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | aka The Search Party | |||||
Synopsis: | Lethe, an amnesiac, and a woman with whom he shares a vaguely troubled psyche attempt to recollect their histories after a horrific accident. | |||||
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Amphibians | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Blue Theatre, Austin, TX | 2008 | ||||
Company: | The Search Party | |||||
| 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 | #93686 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | amphibians. noun. a play written by casey wimpee about a longstanding extramarital affair between two lovers in a cheap hotel, somewhere between a dream and a shout. see also: the definitions of black, white, sex, race, word, god, heaven, death, dreams, solar eclipse, lighter fluid, shoe polish, glossolalia. | |||||
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AntiGone With The Wind | ||
| 1st Produced: | Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Aztec Economy | |||||
| 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 | #63644 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 2 voices 1/m, 1/f | |||||
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Synopsis: | Mixing densely-layered audio sequences including voice-overs, environmental compositions, 70's femme-disco pop, battle field effects, and a chorus of barking dogs,this one-woman live show reveals a girl named Sara who can't find the center of the room.Trapped on the periphery of a large room, she performs a psychological gesturing to an audiobook of romance, fantasy, humor and suffering. | |||||
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Arms and the Octopus | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ohio Theatre | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Working Man's Clothes, Thursday Problem, Jeffrey Schulman | |||||
| 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 | #68953 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | A suicide bomber encounters his promised virgins in a heaven which turns out to be a nightmare. | |||||
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Atlas, or Constellation Golf | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street, New York, NY 10012 >>> | 2007 | ||||
Company: | The Thursday Problem, Working Man's Clothes, The Reanimation Library | |||||
| 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 | #73880 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2 gender non specific | |||||
Notes: | aka The Map Is Not The Territory | |||||
Synopsis: | X and Y. X is half blind. Y is half deaf. The earth is heavy and dark, but the heavens float above them, light and radiant. Constellations rise and fall with the rigor and grace of a golf swing, and all that is required for reckoning the stars or winning the PGA tour is simply to connect the dots. Only beware of apocryphal texts. | |||||
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Bloody Elephants | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jimmy's No. 43, NYC | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Working Man's Clothes Productions | |||||
| 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 | #68954 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Two alcoholic brothers discuss everything from prostitution to conflict diamonds over copious amounts of bourbon. | |||||
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Bring Me the Head of John Ford | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Aztec Economy | |||||
| 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 | #85549 | |||
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Genre: | Multimedia Western | |||||
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Synopsis: | Part psychological western, part solo performance art, part Noh movement piece, part Greek mystery play. Josh Fid is a video store clerk with a dark past in a sleepy west Texas town. On the surface a quirky and slightly withdrawn young man, the true nature of this emerging sociopath can only be perceived in the confines of his trailer, in which he devotes all of his waking hours to watching westerns and nurturing an increasingly turbulent dexedrine addiction. A mono-maniacal relationship develops between Josh and a classic spaghetti western into which he soon projects all of his innermost desires and memories. But as the film keeps playing and Josh spirals ever more out of control, it becomes progressively more difficult to distinguish not only the boundary between good and evil, but between film and fan and, ultimately, actor and audience. | |||||
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Exit, Pursued by Bears | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | Aztec Economy | |||||
| 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 | #99349 | |||
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Genre: | psychodrama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | many bears | |||||
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Synopsis: | In one life, portly Leon is the vice president of Chicago's leading sanitation union. In another, he is Tickle Bear- the warm, furry, happy heart of an online, anonymous sex community. But after a union strike, an S.T.D. & a progressively bizarre series of nightmares draw him deeper into the promising world of travel brochures, his fellow furries are compelled to do whatever it takes to keep their precious Tickle Bear in the clan. The pursuit of happiness is intricately woven into an opera-travelogue of fantasy football, furrydom, and spiritual friction. A darkly comic psychodrama, Exit, Pursued by Bears is an exotic, erotic journey into the maze of one man's search for selfhood. | |||||
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Hot Damn | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jimmy's No. 43, NYC | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Working Man's Clothes Productions, in association with My Little Gumbo | |||||
| 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 | #72777 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 3 burlesque dancers | |||||
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Synopsis: | rare thunder. strange calm. august 29. 97% humidity. room 312. a celebrity chef is dying. his nurse, tee-tee, and felix the bellhop prepare his final meal as a horrifying storm approaches outside | |||||
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Kansas City Book of the Dead | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ohio Theatre, NY | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Working Man's Clothes, Aztec Economy | |||||
| 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 | #85548 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | ra! ra! ra! ra! squawk! squawk! squawk! squawk! tick-tock-tick-tock. kaw! kaw! kaw! kaw! cluck-cluck-cluck-cluck! chick-chick-chick-chick! gallus-gallus-gallus-gallus. a play about onomatopoeia, barbecue, jazz, death, and american football. all aboard. | |||||
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Lavaman | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ohio Theatre, NY | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Aztec Economy | |||||
| 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 | #100724 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | This is part of Ice Factory 2009; this description is from the press materials: "A shy comic illustrator in Queens quietly expresses his repressed aggression in an unpublished graphic novel, 'Lavaman', featuring the daily life of a retired volcano and an alcoholic tombstone. An evening of extreme recreation with his rock-and-roll roommate and his day-trader buddy cracks open his sweet facade with an eruption that incinerates everything in its path. A hardcore punk rock mini-epic of friendship, repression and brutality. With video animation." | |||||
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Marfa Lights | ||
| 1st Produced: | Secret Locations in Brooklyn | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Aztec Economy | |||||
| 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 | #93013 | |||
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Genre: | Drama / Nativity Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Welcome to marfa (pop. 2,121), a sleepy city in the high desert of far west texas, where two couples have come seeking solace under the open sky, hoping to see the unexplained phenomena known as the 'marfa lights'- mysterious lights which appear after dusk outside of town. as night falls, and an unexpected visitor wanders into camp, they each begin to pursue their own drastic methods of recovering from devastating personal losses. a nativity play about crickets, fairies, pink elephants, bizarre owl migrations, insomnia, horoscopes, delirium tremens, paraphilia, UFOS, tennis, and the joy of magnets. | |||||
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More Songs From The Neo-Fascist Nursery Players Troupe | ||
| 1st Produced: | Starr Space, Brooklyn | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Michael Mason and The Wimpee Twins | |||||
| 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 | #82007 | |||
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Genre: | burlesque | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Veteran Fascists Goose and Bruno are back to entertain children of all ages with their instructive songs about Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini. Only where are the children? | |||||
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My Kind of Blood | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brooklyn Fireproof East, NYC | Jun 2010 | ||||
Company: | Aztec Economy | |||||
| 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 | #115258 | |||
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Genre: | Jazz Noir | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | Saxophone / Shadow | |||||
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Synopsis: | A 60 minute live performance that uses Miles Davis's classic recording as a launching pad, My Kind of Blood mixes modal jazz, cheap porn, psychedelic furs, street crime photos, gettysburg battle maps, hard-boiled pulp, german burlesque, police scanner radio & Tide with Bleach to explore addiction & obsession in an urban noir setting. | |||||
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National Diet of Japan | ||
| 1st Produced: | P.S. 122 | Jul 2010 | ||||
Company: | Aztec Economy | |||||
| 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 | #60040 | |||
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Genre: | Kabuki/Noh/Butoh | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A narrative exploring old school Nintendo games, parliamentary debates, rural Americana, sacred lotteries, zen garden rituals, samurai codes, wind chimes, rabbits, and the human digestive system. | |||||
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Pontiac Firebird Variations | ||
| 1st Produced: | 3LD Art & Technology Center | Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | Aztec Economy | |||||
| 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 | #129951 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | This is part of Ohio Interrupted's Ice Factory 2011; this description is from the press materials: "A fractious New York crime family enlists six potential killers, pitting them against each other across a traffic jam of alternative realities. Filled with nagging consciences, dreams of murder, car shoptalk and 80s pop culture, this revving-engine riff off Shakespeare's Richard III (Act I, Scene IV only!) disassembles the origins of desire and murder in a fatal pileup of tragi-comic proportions." | |||||
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Psychojelly | ||
| 1st Produced: | Big Sky Works, Williamsburg, BK | Apr 2012 | ||||
Company: | Aztec Economy with Den Svarta Fanan | |||||
| 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 | #140549 | |||
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Genre: | one act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | bass, drums, sax | |||||
Notes: | Developed with Den Svarta Fanan, Psychojelly is a half-hour performance with live music and video blending aquatic creatures, exotic footwear, computer codes, espionage films, past lives, moon cycles, and the Apache Sunrise Ceremony to explore repressive dreamscapes as seen backwards from a sedan in a world where low-fi cold-war technology and nuclear paranoia are in a constant loop of distortion. | |||||
Synopsis: | 3 siblings share a squalid garage space with no car on the Black Sea Coast circa 1987: Penka is an aspiring dancer who spends all her nights watching a pirated floppy disk of 'From Russia With Love', while dreaming of bombs in New Mexico; Little Boy is a programming wizard suffering from retrograde amnesia who's writing a highly-infectious computer virus called 007; Fat Man is a paralyzed commissar of the Bulgarian People's Party who is addicted to radioactive jelly and wants to bury himself in ever-deepening layers of the Communist Dream State. But when a stranger arrives, their reality is infected and infinite reversals ensue. | |||||
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Queen Is Dead, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, NYC | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Working Man's Clothes / Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival | |||||
| 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 | #87354 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | Ace sends the Queen to see the King and his Jack. Mayhem ensues: bourbon, horses, heroin, bette midler, and belorussian roulette. | |||||
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Ship of Fools | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Steamship Lilac, NYC | Oct 2009 | ||||
Company: | Aztec Economy | |||||
| 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 | #105254 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | quadruple mutiny on a sinking ship with a mad Navigator, a sadistic first mate, an errant deckhand, and a word-plagued Captain | |||||
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Take Out Chinese | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wings Theater, 154 Christopher Street, Basement, New York, NY 10014 >>> | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Working Man's Clothes / Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival | |||||
| 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 | #87989 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | It's the Year of the Rat, and the TV is all: War, Xenophobia, Incest, Infomercials, the Olympics. In a world of instant gratification, there's no room for regret- only anorexia. In this new fortune cookie by Casey Wimpee, we're taken on a darkly humorous path to consumerism in the American Heartland by way of the TV Guide and the I Ching. | |||||
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What The Hell | ||
| 1st Produced: | Center Stage, NYC | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Evil Eye Productions | |||||
| 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 | #82055 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | Three professors are interrupted from their lunch break by a 'satanic' gunman who insists on lessons in literature, history, and the earth sciences before he murders them. | |||||
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