LIZ DUFFY ADAMS
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Plays by Liz Duffy Adams
Aphra Does Antwerp |
| 1st Produced: | The Women's Project and Productions Tandem Acts Festival (New York, NY, United States) | 2001 | ||||
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| Genre: | 12-15 min | Restoration comedy in verse | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 1 male, 2 females | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Antwerp, 1660. Aphra Behn -- Englishwoman, poet, spy, and soon to become the first professional female playwright -- is flat broke and waiting to meet her contact and ex-lover, the double agent William Scot. She must use all her wiles and wit -- and a dalliance with the landlord's daughter -- to pay off her inn bill and get safely back to London. A brief Restoration-style comedy in rhyming couplets. | |||||
Breathing 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | Music by Timothy Huang; lyrics and book by Liz Duffy Adams | |||||
| Synopsis: | A lone American spaceman marooned on Mars when his mission goes wrong. He is proud to be the first American on Mars. He now considers himself a Martian - and then a real one turns up | |||||
Cantaloupe From Ten |
| 1st Produced: | Summerworks Short Play Event | 2005 | ||||
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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 | |||||
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Dog Act |
| 1st Produced: | Portland Stage Company (Little Festival of the Unexpected, workshop) (Portland, OR, United States) | 2000 | ||||
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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: | 100-105 min | Post-apocalyptic comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 3 males, 3 females | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Post-apocalyptic wilderness was never funnier. Follow the adventures of Zetta Stone, a traveling performer, and her companion Dog (a young man undergoing a voluntary species demotion) as they wander through the former northeastern United States. Zetta, Dog and their little troupe are on their way to a gig in China, assuming they can find it. . .and survive the journey. A theatrical, darkly comic variation on the classic doomsday genre, with five original songs. | |||||
Last Woman on Earth, The |
| 1st Produced: | The Women's Project and Productions Tandem Acts Festival (New York, NY, United States) | 2000 | ||||
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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: | 10-12 min | Science fiction comic-drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 1 male, 2 females (3 actors possible: 1-2 males, 1-2 females) | |||||
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| Synopsis: | It's the year 2509, exactly ten minutes before the end of the world -- and the Oldest Living Human, a 512-year-old Earthling, refuses to evacuate. Can the Captain of the last transport and her Lunatic adjunct persuade the memory-choked old woman to leave her home? | |||||
Lights Up! |
| 1st Produced: | Players Theatre, NY | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | Wizard Oil Productions | |||||
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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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | written by Arlene Hutton, Silvia Gonzalez S., Catherine Filloux, Neena Beber, Wendy Hammond, Liz Duffy Adams, Barbara Wiechmann | |||||
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Listener, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2007 | ||||
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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 | |||||
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Neon Mirage |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
| Company: | The 2006 Apprentice Company from Actors Theatre of Louisville | |||||
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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: | Comedy Musical | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | written by Liz Duffy Adams, Dan Dietz, Julie Jenson, Lisa Kron, Tracey Scott Wilson and Chay Yew, Music and Lyrics by Rick Hip Flores. VENUE #5: Henry Street Settlement - Harry de Jur Playhouse | |||||
| Synopsis: | 38 million people visit Las Vegas every year for the glitz, the tits and the gold. But what's it like to live and work in America's Disneyland for grown-ups? Could you tell what's real and what's just a mirage? | |||||
One Big Lie |
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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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
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| Notes: | Music by David Rhodes | |||||
| Synopsis: | Lulu the Goddess of Lies is banished and whilst she wanders amongst mortals she plots her revenge | |||||
Or |
| 1st Produced: | Julia Miles (WPP) Theatre, NY | 03 Nov 2009 | ||||
| Company: | Women's Project | |||||
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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 | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | Aphra Behn is getting out of the spy trade and into show biz, if she can only write her play without interruptions from her love life—celebrity Nell Gwynne, King Charles II, and double-agent William Scott, among others. While war rages and Aphra and her friends celebrate free love, cross-dressing and pastoral lyricism, the 1660s start to look a lot like the 1960s. Verse or prose, now or then, love or death...and a lot of kissing - press release | |||||
Poodle With Guitar and Dark Glasses |
| 1st Produced: | Lincoln Center Directors Lab, HERE (workshop) (New York, NY, United States) | 2002 | ||||
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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: | 45-55 min | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 2 males, 3 females (5 actors possible: 0-5 males, 0-5 females) | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Four late nights, five lost souls, one poodle gone Elvis. Above an after-hours club in an urban art slum, a painter loses control of her brush, a romance writer loses control of her heroine, an ESL teacher loses control of the to-be verb, a neighborhood activist turns into a migratory sea bird -- and a photographer called Jerry is not what he seems. A dark rhapsodic comedy about the perils of living by formula. | |||||
Reckless Ruthless Brutal Charge of It, or, The Train Play, The |
| 1st Produced: | Crowded Fire (San Francisco, CA, United States) | 2002 | ||||
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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: | 75-90 min | Comi-threnody | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 5 males, 3 females | |||||
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| Synopsis: | A scientist in flight from a terrifying truth she's only glimpsed. A twelve-year-old superhero in flight from her ordinary life. A goddess on the lam from boredom, and a trio of Russian brothers on a musical mission. Eight strangers face the end of the universe one night on a train in America, hurtling along a comic-poetic collision course with time, history, and a supernatural climax. | |||||
Wet or Isabella The Pirate Queen Enters The Horse Latitudes |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2003 | ||||
| Company: | Cutting Ball Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | Three women pirates and a drag queen seize Captain Joppa's ship. | |||||