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Ellen Byron

ELLEN BYRON  

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Literary Agent:    United Talent Agency  


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

 Asleep On The Wind         Election Year         Graceland         Old Sins, Long Shadows         So When You Get Married

Asleep On The Wind

Synopsis:
The time is ten years before the time of GRaCELaND, the place, a small clearing in Bayou Teche, Louisiana, the "special place" that Rootie refers to in the other play. This is where Rootie and her favorite brother, Beau, a handsome, sensitive and restless young man of thirty come to talk in private and to escape her other brothers, two high-spirited hot rodders who seem to delight in pestering their shy, reclusive sister. This time Beau has a double purpose for their meeting: to persuade Rootie to try to stick it out at home and in school and to reach beyond him for companionship; and also to tell her that he has enlisted in the army and has requested service in Vietnam. Inevitably the news comes as a deep shock to Rootie, but it is the way of its telling that makes the play so touching and evocative-and that in the end, allows Rootie to accept the fact that her life, for better or worse, will never again be the same.

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Election Year

Synopsis:
Set during the final months of the Reagan-Mondale presidential campaign, the action of the play is comprised of a series of lunchtime get-togethers between two young, unattached "yuppies." Rachel, in her mid-30s, and apparently more concerned with food than romance, is both a sharp-tongued cynic and a confirmed liberal; while her slightly younger friend Wendy, an incurable romantic who is recovering from a painful breakup with her latest boyfriend, is desperate to find another meaningful relationship. Looking for something to do, Wendy offers her services to the Mondale campaign, whereas Rachel, the supposedly committed Democrat, finds herself sounding more and more like a doctrinaire Republican. Ironically Wendy (who really doesn't care much about politics) quickly strikes up a promising acquaintanceship with one of her fellow volunteers (a handsome young actor), while Rachel, solacing herself with the joys of chocolate cake, faces the sobering realization that she has moved far to the right of her original

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Play One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Graceland

Synopsis:
The place is the front entrance of Graceland, the late Elvis Presley's Memphis mansion, the time, five o'clock in the morning, three days before the estate is to be opened to the public. Two ardent Presley fans, Bev and Rootie, are camped out before the gates, each determined to be the first to enter the sacred precincts. Bev is a bewigged, middle-aged lady with too much make-up and a brassy down-home style; Rootie is a young and shy and somewhat intimidated by the raucous Bev. Wary at first, the two soon progress from dispute to shared confidences and a growing compassion that, in the end, moves the essentially warm-hearted Bev to defer the place of honor to her waif-like and touchingly sincere rival.

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1st Produced:
Festival of New Plays in Philadelphia    -

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Old Sins, Long Shadows

Synopsis:
a squabbling Kentucky family. One sister who has married into money persuades her brother to "kidnap" her and demand a high ransom

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1st Produced:
The Theater at St Stephens Church, Hollywood    1999

Organisations:
Write act Repertory Company

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  -

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So When You Get Married

Synopsis:
The place is a ladies powder room, where three members of an Italian-American family, a grandmother, her daughter, and her granddaughter, retreat to discuss family business away from the distractions of a noisy wedding reception. The grandmother, an old world matriarch, is concerned that her granddaughter is not the one getting married, as it is definitely time for her to settle down and start raising a family. The granddaughter, however, has other ideas, specifically an art career and an apartment of her own-for which she needs the money her grandmother has set aside for her as a dowry. The generations clash uproariously and with much Italian "brio" as the flinty grandmother refuses to budge an inch-no money until her granddaughter agrees to find herself a husband; the granddaughter makes it very clear that marriage is the farthest thing from her mind; and the mother, caught in the middle, tries to calm things by plying the others with staggering amounts of food and drink carted in from the groaning buffet.

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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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

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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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