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Alan Ball

ALAN BALL

  (1957 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    United Talent Agency  

Alan Ball's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Alan Ball's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         All That I Will Ever Be         Amazing Adventures Of Tense Guy         Bachelor Holiday         Five Women Wearing the Same Dress         M Word, The         Made For A Woman         Power Lunch         Table         Tro         Your Mother's Butt

All That I Will Ever Be

Synopsis:
about two young men in contemporary Los Angeles: Dwight, a privileged native angeleno, and Omar, an enigmatic immigrant from the Middle east.
nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New York Theatre Workshop, Ny    2007

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2008   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Amazing Adventures Of Tense Guy

Synopsis:
The quest of one man to rise up the corporate ladder

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Paradise Theatre, New York    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Bachelor Holiday

Synopsis:
a mouse, caught in a glue trap, causes three roommates to discuss the meaning of life, death, yuppiedom, karma and the harsh reality of their place on the food chain.

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Five One-act Plays by alan Ball, Dramatists Play Service, New York,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Five Women Wearing the Same Dress

Synopsis:
During an ostentatious wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tennessee, estate, five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below. they are Frances, a painfully sweet but sheltered fundamentalist; Mindy, the cheerful, wise-cracking lesbian sister of the groom; Georgeanne, whose heartbreak over her own failed marriage triggers outrageous behavior; Meredith, the bride's younger sister whose precocious rebelliousness masks a dark secret; and Trisha, a jaded beauty whose die-hard cynicism about men is called into question when she meets Tripp, a charming bad-boy usher to whom there is more than meets the eye. as the afternoon wears on, these five very different women joyously discover a common bond in this wickedly funny

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1st Produced:
Manhattan Class Company, Ny    1993

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1998   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  5            Other:  -

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M Word, The

Synopsis:
two ambitious executives decide that they are good for each other and proceed to negotiate a future together. as they're so caught up in the corporate lifestyle, this truly is a negotiation and in the end, they agree to "merge."

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Five One-act Plays by alan Ball, Dramatists Play Service, New York,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Made For A Woman

Synopsis:
the perfect young woman and her perfect young boyfriend in MaDe FOR a WOMaN are perfect examples of the image conscious society in which we live. She has everything and he does too, and they have each other. all is fine until she feels duped by a case of over-packaging, her world falls apart, and she decides to take matters into her own hands in a dangerous way

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Five One-act Plays by alan Ball, Dramatists Play Service, New York,    -

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Power Lunch

Synopsis:
a highly ambitious couple battle for power and control of their relationship even though they've just met. So serious are they that they even use the wait staff as tools of jealousy.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Five One-act Plays by alan Ball, Dramatists Play Service, New York,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Table

Synopsis:
A waiter dances on the table with two customers

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Downtown Art Company, New York    Apr 1994

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Tro

Synopsis:
It is love at first sight for one man

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Downtown Art Company, New York    Apr 1994

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Gay one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Your Mother's Butt

Synopsis:
focuses on a therapist desperately searching for clues to help her seriously disturbed young patient. as the patient rattles on about shoes and belts, he recalls a dream he had about his mother and the therapist thinks she's got her answer

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Five One-act Plays by alan Ball, Dramatists Play Service, New York,    -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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