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CATHERINE BUTTERFIELD |
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Nationality: n/a Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: The Gersh Agency |
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Plays by Catherine Butterfield |
Backflip, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #5568 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An under-ten-minute play involving a therapist and a young man who claims he hears a live audience respond to every move he makes in his life and is convinced they are there, always, watching | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bobo's Birthday | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #82875 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Brownstone | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Laguna Playhouse | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82743 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Three points of time converge in a New York brownstone, spanning eighty years and encompassing the lives of three pairs of people. There are newlyweds Stephen and Davia who long to move to Paris, aspiring actresses Maureen and Deena who struggle to get their big break, and engaged Jessica and Jason who find their relationship complicated by an unexpected pregnancy. With nothing but the roof above their head in common, all these characters share in New York experiences of compromising ambition, falling in love, and making memories. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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John's Hand | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Forty, LA | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #5569 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A young woman goes to visit her scientist brother who has invented a robotic hand for the space program. Her (sometimes comically extreme) attempts to make contact with him are constantly foiled by his preoccupation with a telescope he is erecting which will enable his son to view and appreciate dad's handiwork. The young woman's frustration leads her to a conversation with his wife, who reveals her own anger over this man's neglect. In the end, all they can do is stare wistfully at the sky | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Joined At The Head | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Burnes/Mantle's "Best Plays of 1992", Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5570 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | flexible | |||||
Notes: | Awards: Roger L. Smith Award, Kennedy Center/American Express, New York Newsday's Oppenheimer Award, Obie Nomination for Best New Play of 1992 | |||||
Synopsis: | Maggie Mulroney is on a promotional tour for her novel JOINED AT THE HEAD when she gets an invitation to visit with her old high school flame, Jim, and his wife (also named Maggy) who is dying of cancer. The two women strike up an immediate friendship notwithstanding the total disparity in their characters: Maggie the novelist is intensely self-examining and analytical while Maggy, even in the throes of her illness, retains a warm and giving response to the world and others. Maggie acts as the play's narrator from time to time, commenting upon the process of her writing while also shrewdly dissecting her relationship to her former boyfriend's wife. As Maggy's illness becomes the central question in all their lives, Jim and Maggie begin to confront their own assumptions about mortality, ambition and what it means to make a truly lasting impression in this world. In this riveting portrait of self-awakening, art and life come fluidly to interact as Maggie's instinct for the fictitious collides with a newfound ye | |||||
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Life Expectancy | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #5571 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy in 3 Trimesters Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This play has had staged readings but not been produced. It also has a musical number that has not yet been set to music | |||||
Synopsis: | A married couple become pregnant in mid-life and go through the nine months with the aid of an unseen Narrator, who coaches them through the self doubts and often bizarre events surrounding the experience. A twisted take on the book "What to Expect When You're Expecting". | |||||
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Life In The Trees | ||
| 1st Produced: | GeVa Theatre, Rochester, NY | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5572 | |||
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Genre: | 3 * 1 Act One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | No Problem, Chemistry, The Last Time I Saw Timmy Boggs | |||||
Synopsis: | An amusing exegesis of urban Angst, 'Life in the Trees' places Catherine Butterfield among the premier ranks of disafffected playwrights whose humor derives from endearingly neurotic characters ravaged by the killing stress of big-city life. -- Los Angeles Times | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sleeper, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Little Rock | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5573 | |||
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Genre: | One hour ten minutes, plays without intermission | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | won the Kaufman and Hart award for Best New American Comedy | |||||
Synopsis: | A suburban housewife, shell-shocked by the new post 9/11 reality, finds herself irresistibly drawn to her son's tutor, a handsome young man with political leanings far different from her own. Her "awakening" leads to a bizarre series of events that blow the lid off her previously sheltered existence and change the lives of all around her. A dark and slightly zany comedy. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Snowing At Delphi | ||
| 1st Produced: | WPA Theatre, New York City | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5574 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Allan, a comic example of New Age male sensitivity, brings Brenda, a very young and very pregnant street-wise woman, to spend a non-traditional Christmas at the cabin of his yuppie friends in upstate New York. The two couples already there are suffering from grief and collapsing relationships. Nick and Sarah moved to the country for safety's sake. Tragically, their decision to move away from the city cost them the life of their unborn child in a freak accident. Marcy and Gary have been circling each other with arsenals of contempt and mutual infidelity, fueled by intellectual pursuits widely at odds with one another (he's a publisher, she's a puppeteer). Brenda shares the harrowing story of her pregnancy by rape, jolting the two couples away from their obsessive troubles. Through her humor, down-to-earth good sense and survivor's spirit, Brenda acts as the catalyst for a series of heartfelt, wickedly funny turns that result in the romantic shuffling of the couples, sometimes after explosive incidents, and som | |||||
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Under My Skin | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #5575 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 3g | |||||
Notes: | The author has adapted this to a screenplay which has been acquired by Atlantic Streamline films. It is slated to shoot in May of 2004 starring Annette Bening as Mrs. Danton. Play rights are still available | |||||
Synopsis: | The year is 1962. Pauline, a precocious and slightly unhappy pre-pubescent girl who is virtually growing up at her local country club, makes the acquaintance of Mrs. Danton, the town scandal. After a few false starts, Pauline and this charismatic and colorful woman form a friendship that yanks the girl into a new understanding of life, love, and the importance of forgiveness | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Where the Truth Lies | ||
| 1st Produced: | Irish Repertory Theatre, NYC | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5576 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | looks at what glues a family or marriage together and what makes it fall apart | |||||
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