MARIA IRENE FORNES (1930 - )
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Maria Irene Fornes
Abingdon Square |
| 1st Produced: | Seattle | 1984 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | American Theatre Magazine, NY - February | 1988 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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And What Of The Night? |
| 1st Produced: | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | 1989 | ||
| 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 | |||
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Annunciation, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1967 | ||
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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 or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Art |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1986 | ||
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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 or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: in Box Plays | ||||
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Aurora |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1974 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: music John FitzGibbon | ||||
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Blood Wedding |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1980 | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 11 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca | ||||
Synopsis: A young couple from rival clans plans to marry, much to the distress of the bridegroom's mother whose husband and other son have previously been murdered through clan rivalry. As the wedding day draws nearer the tension mounts and after the bride meets and elopes with former lover Leonardo, who is also married, the bridegroom's mother is caught in a dilemma of conscience, wondering whether she should cry for vengeance and bloodshed or protect the life of her remaining son. In a violent ambush Leonardo and the bridegroom are killed leaving the bridegroom's mother, the bride and Leonardo's wife united in their grief. | ||||
Cap-A-Pie |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1975 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: music Jos Raul Bernardo | ||||
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Cold Air |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1985 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group, New York | 1985 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Virgilio Pinera | ||||
Synopsis: Amidst the political and emotional turmoil of pre-Revolutionary Cuba, a seamstress struggles to support her family. | ||||
Conduct Of Life, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1985 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York | 1986 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Psychological brutality is the principal, inexhaustible subject | ||||
Curse Of The Langston House, The |
| 1st Produced: | Cincinnati | 1972 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: in Baboon!!! | ||||
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Dance |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1972 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: written with Remy Charlip | ||||
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Danube, The |
| 1st Produced: | Padua Hills, California | 1982 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York | 1986 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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Dr. Kheal |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1968 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Promenade and Other Plays", Winter House, New York | 1971 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Satire | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Foolish professor makes a mockery of knowledge by giving lessons on truth, beauty, hope and cooking. | ||||
Drowning |
| 1st Produced: | Urbana, Illinois | 1985 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Knopf, New York | 1986 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov; in Orchards | ||||
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Evelyn Brown, A Diary |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1980 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Eyes On The Harem |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1979 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Fefu And Her Friends |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1977 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Wordplays 1", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York | 1980 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 8 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Follows the lives of eight women in five different environments. | ||||
Hunger |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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In Service |
| 1st Produced: | Padua Hills, California | 1978 | ||
| 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 | |||
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Life Is A Dream |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1981 | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Pedro Calderon De La Barca; music George Quincy | ||||
Synopsis: set in Poland it tells the story of Segismundo, imprisoned in a tower from birth by his father, Jking Basilo, on account of omens predicting disaster | ||||
Lines Of Vision |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1976 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: lyrics only, book Richard Foreman, music George Quincy | ||||
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Lolita In The Garden |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1977 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: music Richard Weinstock | ||||
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Lovers And Keepers |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1986 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group, New York | 1987 | ||
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| Genre: | Three Vignettes | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: music Tito Puente and Ferrando Rivas | ||||
Synopsis: Examines love and commitment in the lives of three couples. | ||||
Lust |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||
| Company: | Colour Clinic | |||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Matter Of Faith, A |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1986 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Molly's Dream |
| 1st Produced: | Lenox, Massachusetts | 1968 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Promenade and Other Plays", Winter House, New York | 1971 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Satire | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: music Cosmos Savage | ||||
Synopsis: Unrequited love is the recurring dream of a saloon bar waitress. | ||||
Mothers, The |
| 1st Produced: | Padua Hills, California | 1986 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Mud |
| 1st Produced: | Padua Hills, California | 1983 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York | 1986 | ||
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| Genre: | Dramatic Realism | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A stark drama set amid the groping lives of the rural poor | ||||
Office, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1966 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Oscar And Bertha |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1991 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Promenade |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1965 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Promenade and Other Plays", Winter House, New York | 1971 | ||
Original cast recording: RCA (63333) | 1969 | |||
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| Genre: | Musical revue | - | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: music Al Carmines | ||||
Synopsis: Intermingling of the lives of an escaped prisoner, jailer and others. | ||||
Red Burning Light, The; Or, Mission Xqñ |
| 1st Produced: | Zurich | 1968 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Promenade and Other Plays", Winter House, New York | 1971 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Satire | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Inefficient and totally inadequate soldiers and their generals conduct a senseless war. | ||||
Sarita |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1984 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York | 1986 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play with Music | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: music Leon Odenz | ||||
Synopsis: A young Cuban woman in 1940s New York torn between the gentle man she wants to love and a jerk she can't stay away from. | ||||
Springtime |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Facing Forward" published by Broadway Publishing | 1995 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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Successful Life Of Three, The |
| 1st Produced: | Minneapolis | 1965 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Playwrights For Tomorrow Vol.2" University of Minnisota | 1966 | ||
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| Genre: | Skit for Vaudeville | Sketch | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Relationships in the drifting lives of two men and the women they share. | ||||
Tango Place |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Playwrights For Tomorrow Vol.2" University of Minnisota | 1966 | ||
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| Genre: | Modern Tragedy | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Terra Incognito |