CATHERINE FILLOUX
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Catherine Filloux
All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go |
| 1st Produced: | Playwrights Theatre of Baltimore (Baltimore, MD, United States) | 1994 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2004 | ||
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| Genre: | Dark comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Running time: 90-110 | ||||
Synopsis: A quirky comedy about a group of Amish and a group of transvestites stranded together at a motel during a blizzard. Jacky, a stressed-out businessman who cross-dresses on weekends, hopes to have a relaxing retreat with his friend Barbie -- only to discover he's never been closer to home. | ||||
Beauty Inside, The |
| 1st Produced: | HB Playwrights Foundation & Theatre (New York, NY, United States) | 2001 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2004 | ||
| 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: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Running time: 15-20 | ||||
Synopsis: A young girl in southeastern Turkey becomes the target of an honor killing. In a terrifying clash of value systems, the girl's traditionalist mother and her Westernized female lawyer struggle with one another to seal her fate. | ||||
Eyes Of The Heart |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2007 | ||
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| Genre: | Full-length, 80-90 minutes | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: When Thida arrives from Cambodia to join her brother and niece in the U.S., she refuses to speak and is completely blind, although her family's doctor cannot find any physical reason for her loss of sight. Thida suffers from a psychosomatic blindness developed by hundreds of Cambodian women after witnessing the atrocities collectively known as the "killing fields" in the chaos of Cambodia during the 1970s. As the family comes to understand her pain and her courage, Thida teaches her sophisticated American doctor the ways of the human heart. With humor, poetry, and gorgeous theatricality, East and West intersect in this story of survival and hope. | ||||
Killing The Boss |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
| Company: | Thea Productions | |||
| 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 | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Killing the Boss follows Evea typically peaceful American playwright with a grant to work in a nuthouse of a countryas she plots to assassinate the country's head of state a.k.a. The Boss out of fury, frustration, and addiction to her fight against social injustice - nytheatre.com | ||||
Lemkins House |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh, Roxy Art House | 2005 | ||
| Company: | Kamemi Teatar 55 Theatre 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 | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: The play is set in the afterlife of Raphael Lemkin, the Polish American lawyer whose family died in the Holocaust and who invented the word "genocide." He dedicated his life to the fight to have genocide declared an international crime. Lemkin is bombarded by people bursting into his home with complaints of more recent genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia. Lemkin must recognize that even his law is not enough to change the world. He weighs his ethical accomplishments against his guilt for deserting his own doomed family, ultimately seeking not only justice but also forgiveness. | ||||
Lessons of My Father, The |
| 1st Produced: | HB Playwrights Foundation & Theatre (New York, NY, United States) | 2000 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2004 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Running time: 15-20 | ||||
Synopsis: Odile, a French-Algerian woman, vividly recollects her just-deceased father, through the eyes of her childhood self. How can you go on breathing when the man who taught you how is gone? | ||||
Lights Up! |
| 1st Produced: | Players Theatre, NY | 2007 | ||
| Company: | Wizard Oil Productions | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Arlene Hutton, Silvia Gonzalez S., Catherine Filloux, Neena Beber, Wendy Hammond, Liz Duffy Adams, Barbara Wiechmann | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Photographs from S-21 |
| 1st Produced: | HB Playwrights Foundation & Theatre, "The Museum Plays" (New York, NY, United States) | 1998 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2004 | ||
| 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 | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Running time: 15-20 | ||||
Synopsis: Two photos come to life in an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. They are a young Cambodian woman and man whose photos were taken by the Khmer Rouge right after removing their blindfolds, moments before their execution. | ||||
Price of Madness |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2003 | ||
| 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 | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Running time: 80-100 | ||||
Synopsis: Henri, a young painter, enjoyed early success in the roller-coaster New York art scene, but now he finds himself creatively blocked and increasingly alienated from his wife. He turns for inspiration to his reclusive, schizophrenic aunt, Aloise. Her drawings thrill and challenge Henri, tempting him with thoughts of selling her work as his own. Aloise is based on a Swiss "outsider artist" born in 1886, who spent most of her life in an asylum and whose work was exhibited by Jean Dubuffet as part of the Art Brut movement. | ||||
Venus in the Birdbath |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2004 | ||
| 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: | Dark Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Running time: 90-100 | ||||
Synopsis: A darkly comic menage of characters revolves around Salome, a woman who can't get out of bed. The country singer from Tennessee, the disturbed sitcom writer, Salome's fashionable mother, the polite New Yorker hoping to evict Salome, the young California Senator who can't stay out of her bed -- all of them are lost at sea, endearingly unable to cope with the world. | ||||
White Trash |
| 1st Produced: | Women's Project & Productions (New York, NY, United States) | 1997 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2004 | ||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 2 either | |||
Notes: Running time: 10-15 | ||||
Synopsis: Based on a true story: At a wildlife refuge in Cape Cod, thousands of common seagulls are poisoned in order to save their endangered cousin, the piping plover. In this play, one of these gulls spends its final moments alongside a plover, equally traumatized but chosen for survival. | ||||