WILLIAM MISSOURI DOWNS   


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Plays by William Missouri Downs

WILLIAM MISSOURI DOWNS
Cockeyed
1st Produced:
St Louis: Hotcity Theatre
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ISBN/ASIN
978-0-573-69716-6
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
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Cockeyed
Phil, an average nice guy, is madly in love with the beautiful Sophia. The only problem is that she’s unaware of his existence. He tries to introduce himself but she looks right through him. When Phil discovers Sophia has a glass eye, he thinks that might be the problem, but soon realizes that she really can’t see him. Perhaps he is caught in a philosophical hyperspace or dualistic reality or perhaps beautiful women are just unaware of nice guys. Armed only with a B.A. in philosophy, Phil sets out to prove his existence and win Sophia’s heart
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WILLIAM MISSOURI DOWNS
Dead White Males: A Year in the Trenches of Teaching
1st Produced:
1999
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Genre:
110-120 min
Dark Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
3 males, 4 females
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Synopsis:
Meet Janet, a rookie history teacher who goes from idealist to burnout as she fights insidious internal politics in her effort to truly affect her students. During her tenure Janet learns how to write a proper self-evaluation, censor musicals, and cultivate paranoia in a system dominated by constant accountability and deep corruption. When Janet's mentor has a nervous breakdown while being forced to teach creationism, Janet is called to testify against her, and then something even more tragic occurs in this biting satire of the public school system.
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WILLIAM MISSOURI DOWNS
Innocent Thoughts
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
0
Parts Other:
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Synopsis:
A Jewish anthropologist is called in as an expert witness in a murder trial. The accused a white police officer is alleged to have murdered and buried a black man twenty years previously. The witness is surprised to find that the defence lawyer is black
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WILLIAM MISSOURI DOWNS
Kosher Lutherans
1st Produced:
University of Wyoming Summer Theatre
2007
Company:
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1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
978-0-573-69715-9
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Kosher Lutherans
Kosher Lutherans centers on Hanna and Franklyn, the seemingly perfect couple who desperately want to have a child of their own, but are unable to do so. As the couple begins to wonder if they'll ever become parents, they have a chance encounter with a God-fearing pregnant girl from Iowa who offers to let the couple adopt her out-of-wedlock baby. Just before the adoption papers are signed, Hanna and Franklyn discover the girl is unaware that they are Jewish. Knowing the revelation could throw a ratchet into the whole works, the couple poses as Lutherans to appeal to the girl's apparent Midwestern sensibilities. But how far are they willing to go to have a family?
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