LISA DILLMAN
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Lisa Dillman
Curse of the Horned Babby, The |
| 1st Produced: | Estrogen Fest, Chicago | 2007 | ||
| Company: | Estrogen Fest, Estrogenius Festival, Sydney Short & Sweet Festival | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: What happened to all the men of the wee peaceful hamlet of Grunterville? The women of the village have a story to tell. . . and it ain't pretty. | ||||
Detail of a Larger Work |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Detail of a Larger Work received developmental support from Steppenwolf Theatre, Victory Gardens, and Chicago Dramatists. It was the winner of the Third Annual Midwestern Playwrights Festival. In addition to its Chicago premiere at Steppenwolf, the play was produced by New York's Hypothetical Theatre Company. | ||||
Synopsis: In a small Mexican village, an elderly American painter and his wife befriend a young couple visiting from the U.S. When the young man, a photographer, asks to make the older artist the subject of a photo essay, the visit takes a complex turn. Detail of a Larger Work explores the intricate relationships of four people bound together by art, friendships, and the secrets they keep. | ||||
Flung |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing | 2006 | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Flung was commissioned by Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, IL. | ||||
Synopsis: Four adult children gather at the family summer cottage two years after their father's death to scatter his ashes from atop his favorite sand dune. During a long Fourth of July weekend, this disparate group of estranged siblings attempt to cobble together the elusive and contradictory memories of growing up with (and without) their difficult patriarch. As they struggle to come to terms with their past and present lives, they each learn something about themselves, their father, and each other. Flung is a laugh-filled drama about family, fireworks, and finally growing up. | ||||
Ground (A Play About Borders) |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | Northlight Theatre Company, Skokie, Illinois | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Ground (A Play About Borders) was commissioned by Northlight Theatre Company. | ||||
Synopsis: Zelda Preston inherits her father's pecan farm located just steps from the U.S. border with Mexico and struggles to maintain it without help from undocumented workers. Ines Sandoval, a dangerously ill young mother-to-be, lobbies for the return of her recently deported Aunt Rosita. And Carlos Zelaya defends to his community and family his choice to work for the Border Patrol. Ground examines the very human costs of current immigration issues, and the strength of personal beliefs about family, home, and civil and human rights in the face of the shifting American political and social landscape. (2 acts) | ||||
Half of Plenty |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Half of Plenty was presented as part of Arielle Tepper's Fourth Annual Summer Play Festival, New York. The play received developmental support from the William Inge Center for the Arts, Independence, KS. | ||||
Synopsis: When Holly and Marty Tindall become caregivers to Marty's ailing father, Jack, they hope to forge a utopia in the midst of urban chaos. Instead a strange triangle evolves, and their home comes to serve as both a prison and a fortress against multiple threats from the outside world. In their search for safety and control, each achieves an increasingly chaotic level of isolation. Meanwhile, recurring visits from Mitzi and Hector Zook of the Ardour Park Neighborhood Ethics Association (APNEA) convince them that they have every reason to be terrified of what's happening beyond their own walls. When the new neighbors across the street begin exhibiting suspicious behavior, Marty is drawn into APNEA's shadowy world of surveillance and retribution. Half of Plenty is a pitch black comedy about isolation, the impact of fear on daily choices, and the high stakes of time passing by. | ||||
Rock Shore |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company | 2006 | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Rock Shore was a winner of the Sprenger-Lang New History Play Prize. The play was originally commissioned by Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, IL. | ||||
Synopsis: Saranac Lake, 1913. To the "lungers" at Rock Shore Cottage Sanatorium for the Tubercular, each day is filled with pulmonary calisthenics, gossip, and feverish inertia. Walled in by illness, their future depends on shaky promises and strict adherence to doctor's orders. Into this hothouse environment arrives a glamorous newcomer. The other patients' perception of her sexual freedom ignites passions that have long been held in check by rules and regulations, and ultimately illuminates each patient's innermost yearnings and hopes for the future. | ||||
Shady Meadows |
| 1st Produced: | Chicago Humanities Festival, Acts of Concern | 2007 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company | 2007 | ||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A young couple buys a house in Shady Meadows, a housing development built over a wetland. As nature tries to find its way back, the newest residents of Shady Meadows prepare for war. | ||||
Six Postcards |
| 1st Produced: | Goodman Theatre New Stages Festival, Chicago, IL | 2005 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Six Postcards received developmental support from Steppenwolf Theatre, Seanachi Theatre Company (Chicago), Famous Door Theatre's Women at the Door Festival, and the Dayton Playhouse Futurefest 2005. | ||||
Synopsis: Ethan has a house, a fiancée, and a steady job driving a forklift. He's also been sober for six months. But the church choir can't compare with Ethan's glory days fronting a band with his sister Mona. When she arrives in their small hometown to commemorate the anniversary of their mother's suicide, Ethan's tenuous grasp on stability is shaken by her promises of a demo deal and one more magic night in Austin. Six Postcards is an exploration of familial bonds, the lure of fame, and the haunting power of memory. | ||||
Walls, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Chicago | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | 2 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: The Walls was commissioned by Rivendell Theatre Ensemble in 2005 and developed in collaboration with the company over the following three years. The world premiere is scheduled for 2009. | ||||
Synopsis: The Walls takes a look at the effects of mental illness--and the various forms of separation it so often brings with it--on a group of women and their families in three different time periods. The play is an exploration of separation as a physical reality--the high walls of the dreaded asylums of the past--and as a multilayered metaphor--the often impenetrable walls of our own perception, the subjective walls that necessarily divide every human relationship, the walls between the sick and the well, and the lifesaving but potentially soul-deadening walls erected by psychotropic medications. (2 acts) | ||||