ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA   (1973 - )


Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
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Plays by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
Based on a Totally True Story
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc (2009)
ISBN/ASIN
9780822222248
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A contemporary comedy that moves at the speed of lightning, BASED ON A TOTALLY TRUE STORY chronicles the hilarious, bittersweet misadventures of twenty-something New Yorker Ethan Keene. A semi-successful comic book writer by day (he writes The Flash for DC Comics) and struggling playwright by night, Ethan's world is turned upside down when a veteran Hollywood producer decides she wants to turn one of Ethan's unproduced plays into a big-budget horror moviepossibly starring Nicole Kidman. With that tasty carrot clouding his vision, Ethan struggles to be a loving, supportive, giving partner to his boyfriend Michael Sullivan, a Village Voice reporter and budding novelist. On top of which, Ethan's lovable dad announces that he's leaving Ethan's mom for a married womanand can he please stay with Ethan and Michael until he finds a new place to live? Hearts are broken, lessons learned, and dreams deferred in this quirky, offbeat romantic comedy of manners.
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ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
Bloody Mary
1st Produced:
45th Street Theatre, NY
2006
Company:
Thursday Problem
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Short Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A teenage boy and his girlfriend are both horror movie fans. They go out to Shadow Lake where some camp counsellors were murdered to make their own documentary about the incident
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ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
Dark Matters
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc (2009)
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, 2003
Synopsis:
In a house at the edge of a cornfield, something almost beyond belief is happening to the Cleary family. A woman disappears, then returns, talking of otherworldly beings. Is she lying? Or are even darker forces at work, threatening to destroy a family already on the bring of coming apart?
nytheatre.com
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ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
Golden Age
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
Horse Trade Theater Group/Tobacco bar Theatre Company
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
a comic book fantasia that journeys through time and space, chronicling the life and times of freckled, red-headed, Archie-esque everyman Buddy Baxter - His rise from high school heartthrob to college misfit to struggling New York writer.
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ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
Good Boys And True
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY (2009)
ISBN/ASIN
978-0-8222-2318-4
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Brandon Hardy is the kind of young man that makes St. Joe's Preparatory School proud. But when he's implicated in a scandal that threatens to destroy his future, his mother must sort fact from fiction and try to pick up the pieces
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ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
King of Shadows
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
The Working Theater
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY (2009)
ISBN/ASIN
978-0-8222-2356-6
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Genre:
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Thriller
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
King of Shadows centers around Nihar, a 15-year-old homeless runaway selling sex to survive, who claims he's being pursued by supernatural demons. When Jessica, a young social worker, takes him in, he forms a dangerous bond with her teenage sister that threatens everything she values. The famous fog of San Francisco mixes with a fog of fantasy and fear as each try to protect against a danger they don't understand
- press release
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ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
Muckle Man
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
-
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ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
Mystery Plays, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Horror 2 one acts
-
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
THE MYSTERY PLAYS is two interrelated one acts, loosely based on the tradition of the medieval mystery plays. In the first play, THE FILMMAKER'S MYSTERY, Joe Manning, a director of horror films, survives a terrible train wreck'only to be haunted by the ghost of Nathan West, one of the passengers who didn't survive. As the police investigate Joe, he investigates Nathan, desperate to understand why he survived and what Nathan's specter could possible want. In the second play, GHOST CHILDREN, Joe's attorney and friend, Abby Gilly, travels to a small town in rural Oregon to make peace with the man who brutally murdered her parents and younger sister sixteen years earlier. The man'the murderer'is her older brother. Like the original medieval mystery plays, THE MYSTERY PLAYS wrestles with the most profound of human ideas: the mysteries of death, the after-life, religion, faith, and forgiveness'in a uniquely American way.
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ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
Picture Of Dorian Gray, The
1st Produced:
Round House Theatre, Bethesda, MD
2009
Company:
Round House Theatre
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
from novel by Oscar Wilde
Synopsis:
London 1988. A struggling artist paints a portrait of a handsome young friend. Upon seeing it, Dorian Gray strikes a Faustian bargain that allows his outward appearance to remain forever unchanged while the portrait reflects his true age and immorality. Plunging into a life of narcissism and depravity, he leaves those who love or befriend him either broken or dead before realizing that he has also destroyed himself.
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ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
Say You Love Satan
1st Produced:
Dad's Garage Theatre Company Atlanta, Georgia
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2005
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
7
Female
1
Parts Other:
doubling possible
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Late one rainy night in Baltimore, Andrew'an affable graduate student researching the works of Dostoevsky'meets a handsome stranger named Jack. The two immediately hit it off and start dating, despite the fact that Andrew already has a super-duper boyfriend and that Jack has the Mark of the Beast'you know, 666'burned into his forehead. 'Are you a satanist?' Andrew asks Jack. 'No,' he replies sheepishly. 'But my father - he's the Devil.' Intrigued-slash-slightly apprehensive (and against the urgings of his best gal-pal Bernadette), Andrew does his best to make a go of it with Jack. Until, as this seriously entertaining comedy unspools, Andrew slowly begins to realize, with mounting dread and horror'and, always, an undefeatable sense of humor'that Jack isn't the Devil's son at all. On the contrary, he's something far, far worse&truly, a boyfriend of the damned.
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ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
Weird, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY (2009)
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Short Play Collection
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
A Collection of Short Horror and Pulp Plays
Synopsis:
A collection of six short, creepy, pulpy plays, THE WEIRD is narrated by horror host M.T. Grave, who introduces each of the evening's ghoulish, funny delights. In BLOODY MARY, two oversexed teenagers play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse while driving along a deserted highway late at night. In INSECT LOVE, a scientist and his lab assistant fall in love&while the sci-fi classic The Fly plays in movie theatres across the country. In THE TEN-MINUTE PLAY ABOUT ROSEMARY'S BABY, a young couple moves into an apartment building with nosey neighbors&as well as a demonic presence. In SWAMP GOTHIC, a handsome college student risks man-eating alligators, voodoo and zombies to find his equally handsome missing best friend. In MORNING BECOMES OLESTRA, a conniving femme fatale plans her obese husband's murder&with the help of a vampire. And in DINNER WITH THE SUPERFRIENDS, two gal pals get together for some reminiscing&and crime-fighting.
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