MELISSA JAMES GIBSON
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Melissa James Gibson
Brooklyn Bridge |
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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: | Childrens play | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | Sasha has a grade paper to write but cannot find anything to write with. She knocks on the door of the next apartment even though she does not know who lives there | |||||
Current Nobody |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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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 | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | A sideways take on Homer's Odyssey, CURRENT NOBODY explores the personal costs of epic ambition, the stories we tell ourselves on our way home, | |||||
Dog's Paws |
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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 | 3 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | Father has disappeared and the dog has run away. Or is it the other way round? | |||||
Given Fish |
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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: | Black comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | A woman watches an old 1941 film on her VCR. A hatcheck girl plays cards and tells a story. Artistic twins are hired to help with medical experiments | |||||
Nuda Veritas |
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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 | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | Four women in the night thinking over loss of love and teeth | |||||
Sic |
| 1st Produced: | 14 Nov 2001 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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| Notes: | Winner Of Obie Awards For Playwrighting, Set Design And Direction | |||||
| Synopsis: | and the many things that absence makes. | |||||
Six Fugues |
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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: | Black comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | A photographer, a railroad engineer, a locksmith, an unhappily married couple and a lost young woman | |||||
Suitcase or, Those That Resemble Flies from a Distance |
| 1st Produced: | Jan 2004 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2005 | 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: | Comedy of Manners | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | The boyfriends of two Ph.D. candidates are trying to talk their way into the women's apartments. Dissertations go nowhere; objects get found; boyfriends won't get lost; love figures in there somewhere. | |||||
This |
| 1st Produced: | 02 Dec 2009 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN | 978-0-8222-2454-9 | |||
| 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: | comedy drama | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | Jane is not okay. She's a promising poet without a muse, a single mother without lessons to pass along. Her dating life's a shambles, and her helpful friends are only helping make things more complicated. This bright, witty, un-romantic comedy captures the uncertain steps of a circle of friends backing their way into middle age. - nytheatre.com | |||||