LESLIE AYVAZIAN
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Plays by Leslie Ayvazian
Deaf Day |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: A young mother encourages her deaf son to interact with other children by creating a practice day at the park. She has to help her son overcome his fear of others teasing him. At the end of the day, the son is charged with determination but still fears the hearing world and requests the next day be spent at home as a quiet day | ||||
High Dive |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: An American woman about to turn fifty is standing on a high dive at a pool in a hotel in Greece. She is on vacation with her husband and eleven-year-old son. Her son has requested that she jump off the board. She, being terrified of heights, has managed to climb to the platform and now clings to the railings as she tries to will herself to leap into the blue Greek air and down into the water of the pool. As she stands on the board, she considers her life. She begins with the experience of her vacations themselves. At this point, she and her family are in Greece exactly at the moment that CNN has announced Athens as the hottest city in the world, one degree hotter than Cairo. Other vacations have included cold snaps in Florida that caused the fish to freeze in the ocean; the honeymoon in Hawaii during a hurricane season; waking up in Mexico to an 8.1 earthquake and so on. She includes other adventures as well: time spent in VISTA; work in dinner theatre with Dorothy Lamour and Mickey Rooney; an appearance on t | ||||
Lovely Day |
| 1st Produced: | Beckett Theatre, NY | 2006 | ||
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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: about a couple celebrating their wedding anniversary who learn of a military recruiter's visit to their only son's high school. Faced with the prospect of his enlistment, they find themselves on opposite sides of one of the most profound questions a mother and father can face. | ||||
Mama Drama |
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy/Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 |
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Notes: Music by the Roches; Written by Rita Nachtmann; Leslie Ayvazian; Ann Sachs; Donna Daley and Christine Farrell | ||||
Synopsis: Five friends are seen through five years of their lives. Divorce, infertility and angst at giving up a child for adoption. | ||||
Nine Armenians |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
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Synopsis: Three generations of an Armenian-American family yell, dance, carry food around, play tambourines, rollerblade, cry, scream, laugh and support each other. When daughter, Ani, 21, travels to Armenia, she learns more of her history and troubled heritage. When she returns, she learns much from her recently widowed her grandmother, Non, who teaches her how to incorporate this new knowledge into her life. In doing so, Ani empowers her mother, who embarks on her own pilgrimage to the homeland. These are kind-hearted people, embracing life even as they discover their historical tragedies. | ||||
Plan Day |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: One woman plays a mother to her only child, a son, in four different stages of her life: her 30s, 40s, 50s, and 70s. Each monologue begins "lights up" and ends with "blackout." This connotes the beginning and end of a day, as each decade passes and her love for her son ages and ripens. | ||||
Singer's Boy |
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||
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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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Notes: World Premiere | ||||
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Twenty Four Years |
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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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