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Jane Chambers

JANE CHAMBERS

  (1937 - 1983)
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Beth Allen Management  

JaNe CHaMBeRS won many awards for her plays, which appeared on stage in New York City, throughout the U.S.A. and abroad, as well as for her T.V. writing. Included among those awards were, in 1971 the Connecticut educational Television award, in 1972, a Eugene O'Neill fellowship, in 1973 a National Writer's Guild award and subsequently the Villager, Dramalogue, Critics Circle awards and the Gay artists Media award, the Robby, the Oscar Wilde award, the Betty award and the Fund for Human Dignity award, as well as a proclamation from Los Angeles for Outstanding Theatre. She also wrote articles for such publications as HaRPeRS and the New York Times. Ms. Chambers' prolific output was cut short by her untimely death from cancer in 1983. She left a legacy so compelling, that a playwriting award was named in her honor that same year and continues to this day singling out the exceptional feminist plays and their authors.

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

         Christ In A Treehouse         Common Garden Variety         Curfew!         Deadly Nightshade         Eye Of the Gull         Kudzu         Last Summer At Bluefish Cove         Late Snow, A         Marvelous Metropolis, The         Mine         My Blue Heaven         One Short Day At the Jamboree         Quintessential Image, The         Random Violence         Tales Of the Revolution And Other American Fables         Wife, The

Christ In A Treehouse

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Common Garden Variety

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Grandma, a strong-willed southern woman, has lived on a remote hilltop In North Georgia all her life. She watched her parents and her brother slaughtered by the Indians, her husband lynched by townies," her daughter Rachel run away to seek a better life. Grandma's only contact with Rachel now is the illegitimate child that she sent back for Grandma to raise. Sari, fourteen, is hungry for the world outside. Rachel returns to reclaim her daughter and three strong women, who love each other, are set against each other, each fighting for their lives, destroying each other's dreams and hopes

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Mark Taper Forum, Laboratory Theatre, Ca    1976

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Curfew!

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WNYC-TV (New Plays)    -

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Deadly Nightshade

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the richest men In the world are drowned in a yachting accident. their wives, suddenly unexpectedly in charge of the world economy, are being murdered one by one. Who stands to gain by their deaths? Only the sheriff knows - or does she? a merry murderous chase

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Play/Drama

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Eye Of the Gull

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Pat and Maggie run a bed and breakfast establishment - Gull House. the front of the building is decorated with a large painting of a gull with its "eye" being the attic window. Living with Pat and Maggie is Pat's sister Sara who although is 27 has the mind of a 12 year old. Pat is over protective of her sister. Maggie feels that Sara should be given more responsibilities and should not be sharing their bedroom. there are various guests at the b&b some longer term others for the weekend. Pat and Jessie are celebrating the anniversary of their first meeting at Gull House. Tally and Margo - Margo is a Broadway star and is afraid that she will be recognised and the fact that she is a lesbian will get out to the Media. Denny a school teacher who had had a long term relationship with Tally is teaching Sara to read. Margo thinks that Tally still loves Denny. Pat decides that it is time to repaint the gull - a job that falls to Maggie. Maggie makes a start but asks Sara to help. Whilst up the twenty foot ladder that is needed for the job - Sara sees the attic room. a room that has no access through the house. She also hears Pat and Maggie disagreeing on what is best for her. Pat is very angry that Sara is up the ladder and insists that she come down. Later unbeknown to the others Sara sneaks out with her 30 dollars of savings. When Pat realises that she is gone she is frantic and is convinced that Sara will come to harm. Search parties are organised - but there is no sign of her. When they are about to report her missing to the police - a light is seen in the attic window. Sara is in there - she had bought a blind for the window and is setting about putting it up. She had paid for it with her money and also got a part time job sweeping up at the general store. She announces that the attic room is now hers and that she will not give it up. Pat has to accept that Sara is starting to stand on her own two feet.

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revised version by Vita Dennis, see entry

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Gay & Lesbian Plays Today published Heinemann (US), 1993   -

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Play/Drama. - - Lesbian, full length

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Kudzu

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Last Summer At Bluefish Cove

Last Summer At Bluefish Cove
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the Glines, NYC    1980

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TnTClassic Books >>>,    1886586047

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Lesbian, full length

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Late Snow, A

Late Snow, A
a woman gets trapped by the snow with her first, current and next lover

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1st Produced:
Clark Center for the Performing Arts, NYC    1974

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TnTClassic Books >>>,    1886586047

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Marvelous Metropolis, The

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Mine

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Mine! is the cry of an old woman who stakes out a traffic circle and sets up housekeeping there. the old woman has had enough of feeding and tending others and is determined in her last days of life that something, this traffic circle, will be exclusively "Mine!".

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InterArt Theatre, NYC    -

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My Blue Heaven

My Blue Heaven
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TnTClassic Books >>>,    0935672036

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Lesbian, full length

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One Short Day At the Jamboree

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Town Hall (Playwrights Festival), NYC    -

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Quintessential Image, The

Quintessential Image, The
A television interviewer gets to interview her idol a photo-journalist

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-    1983

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in Short Plays Long To Remember, TnT Classic Books (2010)>>>
In anthology: amazon all Stars: Thirteen Lesbian Plays, ed. Rosemary Keefe Curb. Applause. 2000   978-1557832207

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Short Play

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Random Violence

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InterArt Theatre, NYC    1973

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Tales Of the Revolution And Other American Fables

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Wife, The

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the Wife is fifty, uneducated, has devoted her life to raising a family, none of whom turned out as she had hoped

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InterArt Theatre, NYC    -

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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