LINDA FAIGAO-HALL
| Nationality: | Asian American |
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Plays by Linda Faigao-Hall
Americans or How We Met |
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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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A-Word, The |
| 1st Produced: | Diverse City Theater | 2005 | ||||
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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 mother is confronted by her son about her past. | |||||
Duet |
| 1st Produced: | Ma-Yi Theater, New York | - | ||||
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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 | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | Two Asian-American siblings are up for a music scholarship - but only one of them can get it. | |||||
Dying In Boulder |
| 1st Produced: | 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | Ensemble Studio Theatre presents Project 35, a festival celebrating their 35th Anniversary season. It consists of concert readings of 35 new plays in 35 days by 35 E.S.T. members and guest artists | |||||
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Female Heart, The |
| 1st Produced: | Nee A Woman At Heart) (Diverse City Theater Co. | 2004 | ||||
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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 Woman at Heart revisits "Smokey Mountain, "the infamous garbage dump outside Manila. Although demolished in 1993, it has been replaced by several dumpsites that still exist today. In July 1996, one of them, in the city of Payatas, collapsed killing hundreds of people living at its base. The play takes place in the late 1980's and tells the story of two siblings living in the so-called "Smokey. "When Anghel, the elder sibling, succumbs to a life-threatening disease, Adelfa, his sister, decides to become a mail-order bride to a Brooklyn man who is willing -- at a price -- to send money to pay for Anghel's medical expenses. - http://www.aatrevue.com | |||||
God, Sex and Blue Water |
| 1st Produced: | Women's Project | 1997 | ||||
| Company: | Women's Project and Productions | |||||
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | This unconventional farce about religion and family love, set in the Filipino community of Hoboken, focuses on the Kintanar family's attempts to assimilate in America. Laling, a deeply religious woman, plans on crucifying herself during the Easter pasyon, which puts her in conflict with the local parish priest. Her brother Dadong runs a successful business and tries to discourage her. Her daughter, a Clarita, a healer with a secret, has just arrived in the US from a childhood in a convent, and has met Brian, an American "master of the universe" badly in need of salvation. - http://www.aatrevue.com | |||||
Interview, The |
| 1st Produced: | Ma-Yi Theater, New York | - | ||||
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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 | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | A Filipino woman flees to New York to escape her past | |||||
Lay of the Land |
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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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Men Come and Go |
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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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Pidgin' Hole |
| 1st Produced: | Women's Project & Productions, NY | 1996 | ||||
| Company: | Women's Project and Productions | |||||
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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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Requiem |
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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 | - | Female | 0 |
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Salad Days |
| 1st Produced: | Ma-Yi Theater, New York | - | ||||
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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: | - | Fifteen minute play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | Three short plays: "Duet" is a one-act play about two talented and accomplished Asian-American siblings competing for a music scholarship offered by their clan which only one can win. "The Interview" is one-act play about a Filipino woman fleeing from her painful past in the Philippines looking for an apartment in New York City. "Salad Days" A 15-minute play set in a restaurant about a woman who must absolutely have the perfect meal. - http://www.aatrevue.com | |||||
Sparrow |
| 1st Produced: | Lion Theatre, NY | 2008 | ||||
| Company: | Living Image Arts | |||||
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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: | short play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | part of Coming Home | |||||
| Synopsis: | New York artist Tina has returned to the Philippines after ten years, eight months and twenty-seven days, in search of her childhood friend Cris. But when she finds her, Tina discovers that Cris has become entangled with The Sparrows, a pseudo-terrorist organization, bent on bringing down the corrupt Capitalist Regime. Now they must both face the choices that life has forced upon them and the consequences of their lives apart. But before Tina is allowed to go home Cris has one more surprise for her long lost friend. - press release | |||||
St. Nicola Cycle, The |
| 1st Produced: | Starfish Theatreworks | 2001 | ||||
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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: | The St. Nicola Cathedral in Italy is the focus of The St. Nicola Cycle, two new short plays being given their world-premiere productions by Starfish Theatreworks. Pusong Babae (Heart of a Woman) by Linda Faigo-Hall is about a young Filipina who travels to America as a mail-order bride in order to support her mother and ailing brother. Double Cross by Gail Noppe-Brandon is about the plight of a 49-year-old nun who becomes pregnant following a sexual assault. - http://www.aatrevue.com | |||||
State Without Grace |
| 1st Produced: | Pan Asian Repertory Theater | - | ||||
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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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Walking Iron |
| 1st Produced: | Working Theatre | 2002 | ||||
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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: | Walking Iron explores homophobia in a working class setting: a gay iron worker outs himself on the construction site and to his straight best friend. Seen from the iron worker gang's perspective, it examines homosexuality from the point of view of sympathetically drawn heterosexual working class men, forced to confront their own feelings about homosexuality, friendship and loyalty.. - http://www.aatrevue.com | |||||
Woman From The Other Side Of The World |
| 1st Produced: | David Hwang Theater, Los Angeles | 1997 | ||||
| Company: | East West Players | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 1 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 1 boy | |||||
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| Synopsis: | The disillusionment of escaping a troubled past in an adopted culture emerges when Emiliya, a seemingly Americanized Filipina, encounters Ines, her new yaya (nanny) and a "Woman From the Other Side of the World." Their oft comical confrontations gradually darken to reveal the world as well as the secrets of Emiliya's past. - http://www.aatrevue.com | |||||
