MELISSA COOPER
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Melissa Cooper
Antigone Now |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
| Company: | Dallas Theater Center | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts Inc, New York, 2008 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | drama 55-70 min | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 4-11 actors possible: 2-10 females, 1-9 males | |||||
| Notes: | Commissioned as a touring project, Antigone Now was listed as one of the year's ten best performances by the Dallas Morning News. In addition to professional productions, it has been used as a college text, and is being produced at high schools and colleges across the country. | |||||
| Synopsis: | The real star was Ms. Cooper's brilliant writing, which transforms the visceral poetry of ancient Greece into contemporary but no less magnificent language. This is a white-hot script. . . | |||||
Little Medea |
| 1st Produced: | Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park | 2008 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Winner: Macy's New Play Prize for Young Audiences; Finalist 2009 Bonderman/Indiana Repertory Theater | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Mirandolina |
| 1st Produced: | Portland Stage Company | 1991 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Classic comedy | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni (La Locandiera) | |||||
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My Hideous Progeny |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | Doll/puppet | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Claire, a noted feminist scholar, is at odds with May, her brilliant and rebellious teenaged daughter who is obsessed with Frankenstein's monster. Past and present interweave as Mary Shelley meets her monster in the form of May's wise-cracking childhood doll. | |||||
Sternheim Project, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | comedy | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | translated by Paul Lampert and Kate Sullivan, adapted by Melissa Cooper, Paul Lampert and Kate Sullivan | |||||
| Synopsis: | Adapted from two plays by Carl Sternheim | |||||