MICHAEL CRISTOFER (1945 - )
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Michael Cristofer
Amazing Grace |
| 1st Produced: | Public Theater, Pittsburgh, PA | 1995 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
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Synopsis: a lonely middle aged woman's journey to redemption from drugs, God and sexual abuse | ||||
Americomedia |
| 1st Produced: | Street Theatre, East Coast | 1973 | ||
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| 1st Published: | not available | - | ||
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Black Angel |
| 1st Produced: | Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA | 1978 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1984 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: The action is set in a small village in France where Martin Engel, a former SS officer accused of officiating over the massacre of 247 Jews in that very town during World War II, has come (after being released from prison) hoping to build a house and live | ||||
Synopsis: The action is set in a small village in France where Martin Engel, a former SS officer accused of officiating over the massacre of 247 Jews in that very town during World War II, has come (after being released from prison) hoping to build a house and live out his days in peace and solitude. Although the war crimes authorities are satisfied that Engel has paid his debt to society the local townspeople are not of the same mind and his presence becomes a growing irritant. In his conversations with the local mayor, his only friend in the village, it becomes a clear that Engel is a thoughtful and intelligent man who served his country out of duty rather than desire, and who had actually given orders only to keep peace among the villagers and not to slaughter them. But the massacre did happen, and Engel cannot absolve himself from guilt by association. In the chilling climax of the play, therefore, he offers no resistance as the hooded figures of the townspeople, bearing torches, close in for his execution - raisin | ||||
Breaking Up |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: made for each other couple continual split and then make up until finally they marry others, have children and live separate lives, until they meet again | ||||
C.C.Pyle And The Bunyon Derby |
| 1st Produced: | Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio | 1978 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | auth manuscript | - | ||
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Ice |
| 1st Produced: | Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | auth manuscript | - | ||
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Lady And The Clarinet, The |
| 1st Produced: | Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA | 1980 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1985 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: The scene is the chic New York apartment of Luba, a woman successful in business but less fortunate in her private life. She is awaiting a male dinner guest and has engaged a clarinet player to provide romantic background music. Falling into a reverie, Luba begins to reminisce about the three men who have meant the most to her in her life thus far-which leads to a series of intriguing flashbacks. In the first Luba is sixteen and meets Paul, a young employee of her father's, who initiates her into the mysteries of sex, but bores her otherwise. Then comes Jack, a high-powered television producer who is successful, exciting and funny, but also married to someone else. Finally there is George, a rich widower who keeps the house for her but looks elsewhere for love. As the play ends the unanswered question is whether her new dinner companion will, at last, be "the man" she has been searching for-but, as the nonspeaking clarinet player so eloquently suggests with smiles, shrugs and instrumental trills, the prospect | ||||
Love Me Or Leave Me |
| 1st Produced: | Woodstock, New York | 1989 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: screenplay by Lennart and Fuchs | ||||
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Mandala, The |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre of the Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA | 1968 | ||
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| 1st Published: | not available | - | ||
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Plot Counter Plot |
| 1st Produced: | St. Clements Theatre, NYC | 1971 | ||
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| 1st Published: | not available | - | ||
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Shadow Box, The |
| 1st Produced: | Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA | 1975 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1977 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: Three patients at a hospice. One, Brian has a young companion, Mark. "What is he today? Your nephew, cousin or butler?" | ||||
Tabarjaby |
| 1st Produced: | (reading) Gramercy Arts Theatre, NY | 2006 | ||
| Company: | Shotgun Productions | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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