WILL ENO (1965 - )
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Will Eno
Flu Season, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 2005 | ||
| 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: | Tragicomedy | Tragedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: No one in the middle of being in love ever sat down to write a love story. It's only after the belongings are sorted and the shirts returned that the pencils are sharpened and the notebooks opened. So, in a serious way, love stories are never love stories. Love is their inspiration, yes, but the end of love is the reason for their existence. This is a problem. It proposes anti-journeys where we saw only journeys, directs things toward a new negative we hadn't intended. 'The Flu Season' tries to be a love story, anyway. It has a strategy. The play revels in ambivalence, lives in fits and starts, and derives a flailing energy from its doubts about itself. But these come at a price, which is paid by the characters in the play. A kind of clarity finally comes. In the end, is the end. | ||||
Intermission |
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY | 2006 | ||
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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: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Ensemble Studio Theatre's 28th annual presentation of the Marathon, featuring one-act plays | ||||
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Kid Blanco |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon, London | 2004 | ||
| 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 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Kid Blanco concerns, amongst other things, autism, interruption and, in the context of smalltown America, a couple of other large and difficult matters. Borrowing a lot from the Greeks and asking a lot out of language, the play, like life, goes and goes until it stops. | ||||
Lady Gray (In Ever Lower Light) |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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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: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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Oh the Humanity and Other Good Intentions |
| 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 | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Oh the Humanity and Other Good Intentions is five short plays about people like you, facing lives like yours. About life, in a word. Not suitable for children. The five pieces include: 'Behold The Coach,' 'In Sorrow, Uninsured,' 'Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rain,' 'Enter the Spokeswoman, Sideways,' 'The Bully Composition,' and 'Oh, the Humanity.' - press release | ||||
Oh, the Humanity |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc. | 2005 | ||
| 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 | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | 1 female, 2 males; Running time: 10-15 mins | |||
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Synopsis: Two people and their two chairs seek to find meaning and direction in life, seek to find just the tiniest shred of certainty, consistency. A stranger arrives -- though he doesn't do what strangers always do, when strangers arrive. If you were ever born, and expect to ever die, this might be a play for you. | ||||
Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Fringe Festival | 2004 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Books | 2004 | ||
| 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: | shaggy human story | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Oh hollow man. He stands on stage, smiling. He's charming, vacant, a reflection of ourselves staring back at us, a teasing smile playing across his lips. Toying with us, appearing to engage and pulling back, reaching out a hand that has no substance. He is simply a memory of person who was once there, of the child he once was. The child is in retreat, damaged and hurt. All that is left is a performance. It is a magic trick, a disappearing act that leaves behind the shell of a human being. A little walking, talking dust. - Lyn Gardner, Guardian | ||||
Tragedy: A Tragedy |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books | - | ||
| 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 | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: The sun has set over streets of houses, government buildings and American backyards everywhere. The world is dark. A news team is on the scene. Their report: someone left the lawn sprinklers on; someone's horse is loose; a seashell is lying in the grass; dogs run by. The Governor issues excited statements appealing for calm. It is night-time in the world. Everyone's afraid. Everyone doesn't know if the sun, once down, will ever rise again. But there is a witness, and the witness will speak. | ||||