MICHAEL CRISTOFER   (1945 - )


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Plays by Michael Cristofer

MICHAEL CRISTOFER
Amazing Grace
1st Produced:
Public Theater, Pittsburgh, PA
1995
Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
5
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
a lonely middle aged woman's journey to redemption from drugs, God and sexual abuse
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MICHAEL CRISTOFER
Americomedia
1st Produced:
Street Theatre, East Coast
1973
Company:
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1st Published:
not available
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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MICHAEL CRISTOFER
Black Angel
1st Produced:
Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
1984
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
10
Female
1
Parts Other:
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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
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MICHAEL CRISTOFER
Breaking Up
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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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
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MICHAEL CRISTOFER
C.C.Pyle And The Bunyon Derby
1st Produced:
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
auth manuscript
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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MICHAEL CRISTOFER
Ice
1st Produced:
Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
auth manuscript
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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MICHAEL CRISTOFER
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:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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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
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MICHAEL CRISTOFER
Love Me Or Leave Me
1st Produced:
Woodstock, New York
1989
Company:
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1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
screenplay by Lennart and Fuchs
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL CRISTOFER
Mandala, The
1st Produced:
Theatre of the Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
not available
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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MICHAEL CRISTOFER
Plot Counter Plot
1st Produced:
St. Clements Theatre, NYC
1971
Company:
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1st Published:
not available
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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MICHAEL CRISTOFER
Shadow Box, The
1st Produced:
Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1977
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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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?"
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MICHAEL CRISTOFER
Tabarjaby
1st Produced:
(reading) Gramercy Arts Theatre, NY
2006
Company:
Shotgun Productions
1st Published:
-
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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