DONNA DINOVELLI
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Donna DiNovelli
12 Dancing Princesses |
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| 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: | Part dance, part theater | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Created by company artistic director Naomi Goldberg and Mark Taper Forum associate artistic director Corey Madden with Playwright Donna DiNovelli adapting the story and text from the Brothers Grimm tale of the same name. | ||||
Synopsis: Princesses captivated from beginning to end in this 90 minute retelling of female royalty | ||||
Crushed Tomatoes |
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| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: A young teenage girl vies for the title, "Most Like the Virgin Mary", as the Cold War heats up and a saucepot simmers with a secret. A coming-of-age play with the voices of the saints and the Everly Brothers as dance score | ||||
First Eff, The |
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| 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 | |||
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Synopsis: A collection of dream narratives too real to be unreal; and archetypal tea scenes of domestic riffs. For video and an ensemble of women who wear their black cardigan sweaters buttoned up the backand anything else they want. | ||||
Florida |
| 1st Produced: | Lyric Opera, Cleveland | 2006 | ||
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| 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: | - | Opera | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: music by Randall Eng, text by Donna DiNovelli | ||||
Synopsis: A highly-stylized work, FLORIDA investigates the community response to the murder of Florida's mother. The idiosyncratic script and score takes us from the time preceding the murder to the subsequent courtroom rituals. Throughout the piece, the ordinary life of the eponymous heroine, and the extraordinary events that surround her are at play, along with the vowels that create her, constrain her and potentially free her. | ||||
Hildegard: A Measure Of Joy |
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| 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: | music theatre piece | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Commissioned for Chanticleer, Text by Donna DiNovelli, New music by Regis Campo and Steven Stucky | ||||
Synopsis: Twelve Cardinals meet in Rome to decide whether Hildegard of Bingen should be canonized a saint. Moving from skeptics to believers, they take us through her life, her miracles, and finally, her defiance of Rome. The story is theirs: it is a journey of how they come to define and discover what is holy; what is blessed. The structure allows for a variety of music, sometimes medieval, sometimes contemporary, i.e., joyfully anachronistic. As Hildegard's sanctity is questioned in arenas both sacred and practical so, too, the music reflects worlds of exalted spirituality and profound simplicity | ||||
No God But Yearning |
| 1st Produced: | Joes Pub | - | ||
| Company: | Public Theaters New Work Now! Festival | |||
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| 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 | |||
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Notes: Text by Donna DiNovelli, Music by David Rodwin | ||||
Synopsis: NO GOD BUT YEARNING looks at the planting of anemones; a bar room toast; an act of eco-terrorism; the naming of a cottage; the elemental cry of an S.O.S.; and calls them all prayer. As the 5 characters transform we witness the similarities between a young teenage docent named Lucy and a powerless Saint; between Guillermo Marconi and a Sailor who names his brethren who have died at sea; between the letter s that seduces Marconi to Annie Dillard, the center of a teenage cult; between the taxi driver Hafiz and a fog horn that calls out its warning. The center of the piece is Santa Lucia where the environment of the sea comes alive to take part in a calling home | ||||
Prairie |
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| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: music by Rachel Portman, lyrics by Donna DiNovelli, book by Beth Hanley | ||||
Synopsis: As American as wanderlust and rebellion, PRAIRIE is the story of one family's adventures during the country's massive land give-away that was Homesteading. It is the story of how a people poor and uprooted, persevered by fighting the emptiness of their larder with a generosity of spirit. When a promise of free land lured them to the unyielding sod, homesteaders relied on their wit and their will in a battle to stay alive and stay together. Out on that endless prairie, one girl embodies the pioneer spirit by refusing to bow to the forces of conformity and despair. Eventually, the spirited Laura must sacrifice the freedom she so cherishes to protect the family she loves. | ||||
Red |
| 1st Produced: | Dixon Place | - | ||
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| 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: | music theatre piece | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Book and lyrics by Donna DiNovelli, music by Ada, Cohen | ||||
Synopsis: Donna DiNovelli wields one clever, lyrical mind, this time providing libretto for a psychologically savvy, fractured fairy tale involving a wolf, grandmother's lore and the feeling that eating an omelet will get you gobbled - or confine you to a kitchen forever. - The Village Voice | ||||
Route Of Wolves (Myth) |
| 1st Produced: | BACA Downtown | - | ||
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| 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 | |||
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Synopsis: A radio play for the stage that deconstructs the folk tale. 4 characters and a foley artist. | ||||