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MARISHA CHAMBERLAIN |
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Marisha Chamberlain is best known for her play Scheherazade, which won the Dramatists Guild/CBS regional and national awards and has been produced widely throughout the United States and in London and Toronto. Her other plays include The Angels of Warsaw, winner of the Midland Authors Award, and Snow in the Virgin Islands, winner of the Twin Cities Drama Critics Circle Award. Besides Young Jane Eyre and Little Women, which played at the Stratford Festival Theater, Ms. Chamberlain has adapted a number of works for the stage including Nancy Drew, Aesop's Fables, The Canterville Ghost, and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She is currently director of The Seneca Falls Project which features her chamber opera, Meeting at Seneca Falls, created with composer Carol Barnett, with whom she also wrote The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass. Ms. Chamberlain is a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships and lives with her family in Hastings, Minnesota.
Plays by Marisha Chamberlain
Animal Fables from Aesop | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | http://www.playsforyoungaudiences.org | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111948 | |||
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Genre: | Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 15 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Barbara McClintock, author; Marisha Chamberlain, playwright; Roberta Carlson, music | |||||
Synopsis: | A play-within-a-play operetta led by the narration of a goat. We are swept into a peaceable kingdom where the players at a country fair weave together 16 of Aesop's enchanting fables. We learn the classic morals of "slow and steady wins the race" and "practice makes perfect" along with the more obscure "shun the quack" and "fancy dress cannot change the body inside" and are rewarded with real life lessons in a fun and exciting setting. | |||||
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Canterville Ghost, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51188 | |||
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Genre: | 85-100 min Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 6 males, 3 females (9-10 actors possible: 6-7 males, exactly 3 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A no-nonsense American family buys an old mansion in rural England, scoffing at warnings of a fierce and violent resident ghost. The spirited Americans -- Mother, Father, young Virginia, and her mischievous little twin brothers -- may have found their match in the equally spirited and clever ghost, who is determined to scare them out or worse. He's outnumbered, however, and in the end, kind-hearted Virginia helps him fulfill the terms of the legend that allow him release into the afterlife. | |||||
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Evergreen: A Christmas Story | ||
| 1st Produced: | Phoenix Theater (Red Wing, MN, United States) | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6517 | |||
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Genre: | 75-90 min Family drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 5 males, 4 females, 10 either (15-30 actors possible: 5-15 males, 4-15 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Toby McGarvey returns from his first semester as a freshman at New York University, home for the holidays to the small town of Hopely, Minnesota. He expects to find Hopely preserved as he left it, but now in awe of him. A rude awakening: His girlfriend has dumped him for his brother, and his dad has published in the town paper the letters he wrote home, exaggerating his adventures in the big city and sneering about his hometown to cover up his profound homesickness. Toby is in for a discomfiting but humorous journey toward rediscovering his home. Can he rise above his boiling anger as he watches his brother's demonstrative affection toward his old girlfriend? Is he falling in love with his eccentric old grade school teacher? Can the secret life of Christmas be just as good as or even better than the sentimental Christmas everybody's supposed to want? | |||||
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Hope for Breakfast | ||
| 1st Produced: | Horizons Theatre (staged reading) (Washington, DC, United States) | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #50042 | |||
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Genre: | 130-145 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | 5 males, 5 females (10-13 actors possible: 5-8 males, exactly 5 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Hope for Breakfast intertwines the beloved story of Little Womenwith what actually went on in the family life of the novel's author, Louisa May Alcott. Living in the intellectual hub of Massachusetts, circa 1840, young Louisa strives to keep her family together and safe from starvation, despite the harebrained schemes of her father, the Transcendentalist philosopher Bronson Alcott, who has sworn off working for money. At points of unbearable tension, Louisa retreats to an imaginary world -- the harmonious family life of her novel,Little Women -- whose publication ultimately leads to a precipitous and ironic rise in her real family's fortunes. | |||||
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Little Women (full-length) | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6518 | |||
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Genre: | 100-110 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | 4 males, 7 females (11-24 actors possible: 4-12 males, 7-12 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Under the guidance of their beloved mother, the four young March sisters -- tempestuous Jo, motherly Meg, shy Beth, and spoiled baby Amy -- struggle to keep their family going while Father's away in the Civil War. In this beautifully dramatized adaptation of the classic novel, even as privation, illness, and sibling rivalry cast their shadows, each girl strives to find her true self. (A one-act version of this play is also available.) | |||||
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Little Women (one-act) | ||
| 1st Produced: | N. B. Forrest High School (Jacksonville, FL, United States) | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #90798 | |||
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Genre: | 35-45 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | 4 males, 7 females | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Under the guidance of their beloved mother, the four young March sisters -- tempestuous Jo, motherly Meg, shy Beth, and spoiled baby Amy -- struggle to keep their family going while Father's away in the Civil War. In this beautifully dramatized adaptation of the classic novel, even as privation, illness, and sibling rivalry cast their shadows, each girl strives to find her true self. (A full-length version of this play is also available.) | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Nightingale, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Children's Theatre Company-Minneapolis. | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | http://www.playsforyoungaudiences.org/scripts/the-nightingale | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131929 | |||
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Genre: | TYA 90 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 17 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | ensemble | |||||
Notes: | adapted from Hans Christian Andersen | |||||
Synopsis: | The majesty, grace and poetic ritual of ancient China are vividly depicted in this enthralling tale of the Emperor who neglects the lyrical song of a humble nightingale for the artificial splendor of a mechanical bird. The real nightingale is banished from the empire. Years pass by unhappily until one day the Emperor falls gravely ill. As the figure of death lingers near his bed, the Emperor cried out for music from the artificial bird. But the bird does not respond; there is no one to wind it up. Suddenly, from the window, the song of the real nightingale fills the room. She had heard the Emperors suffering and had returned to bring him hope and comfort. Death retreats from the Emperors chambers and he rises from his bed, giving thanks to the nightingale. | |||||
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51189 | |||
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Genre: | 110-125 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | 5 males, 9 females (14-21 actors possible: 5-7 males, 9-14 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farmtells the story of a wild and mischievous girl who eventually wins the hearts of not only her doting Aunt Jane but her severe Aunt Miranda. Rebecca leaves her widowed mother, her six brothers and sisters, and her beloved farm to go live with her aunts in town and get an education. A spirited girl, she gets herself into all sorts of scrapes, to her Aunt Miranda's disgust and dismay. At the heart of the play is a debate: whether or not children are basically good at heart, and whether or not it's a sin to be poor. | |||||
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Scheherazade | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6519 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | As the play begins, Eve, arriving home in the late evening, is seized by a man in a ski mask who forces her to take him to her apartment. Once there he rapes her-and announces that, as she has ripped away his mask, he will have to kill her. But first there is a chilling pas de deux in which Eve stalls for time and the rapist (Joe) reveals that he has been watching her for months from a nearby rooftop and knows even the smallest details of her daily life. Controlling her fear and loathing, Eve tries to convince Joe that she finds him attractive, that she is ready to give herself to him willingly. Although suspicious at first, Joe's vanity overrules his caution, and Eve seizes the moment to flee, fortunately into the hands of two policemen who are patrolling outside her apartment. The trapped Joe tries to convince the officers that Eve is hysterical, that she has invited him to her apartment, but the ruse fails, and he is taken off. Yet the ordeal is not over, for Eve must exorcise the shock and repugnance whic | |||||
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Young Jane Eyre | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6520 | |||
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Genre: | 90-100 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 30 | ||
Parts other: | 4 males, 30 females (28-40 actors possible: exactly 4 males, 24-36 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In this adaptation of the first nine chapters of Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece, 10-year-old Jane Eyre is driven from Gateshead Manor, where she lives as a despised poor relation, to a harshly disciplined boarding school where she nevertheless makes true friends, faces her past, and prepares herself for an independent future as a governess. | |||||
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