JACK GILHOOLEY   (1940 - )


Jack Gilhooley
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Plays by Jack Gilhooley

JACK GILHOOLEY
Afternoon in Vegas
1st Produced:
Theatre by the Sea, NY
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Genre:
full length
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Synopsis: This play concerns four women in Rocco Moranzo's Pussycat Lounge off "The Strip." Bunny, the roller-derby queen, represents a sort of vicarious glamor for the other three until Randy, a rich golfer arrives to jeopardize their comradeship.
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Avenue B
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Bigamist, The
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
3
Parts Other:
Various offstage voices
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Synopsis: Discreet nudity that can be altered. Since this deals with a radio personality, offstage voices are an important ingredient especially the role of young Cookie Farber who phones often as her roller coaster life is altered by Julie, a guru she's never met.
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Brixton Recovery, The
1st Produced:
Indiana Repertory Theatre, IN
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1982
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: boxer is an indestructible loser finds love with barmaid from Jamaica after yet another defeat
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Comeback, The
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Play/Drama
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Male
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Female
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Competitors, The
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Play/Drama
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Male
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Female
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Dancin' to Calliope
1st Produced:
Earplay
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Play/Drama
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Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Descendants
1st Produced:
Indiana Repertory Theatre, IN
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Genre:
full length
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Three generations of the Gavin family are reunited by the dying mother. The desperate attempts to bury the past animosities that have scattered the sons and daughters ultimately serve to reopen old wounds and initate the granddaughter.
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Elusive Angel, The
1st Produced:
1977
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Entrepreneurs of Avenue B
1st Produced:
Thirteenth Street Playhouse, NYC
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Ex-Isles
1st Produced:
County Limerick, Ireland
2008
Company:
Hilltop Players
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Genre:
Joycean dark comedy
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
1 to 5 (either gender)
Notes: written in 2007 and not produced in the US. A knowledge of Joyce's Ulysses is certainly not necessary.
Synopsis: Patrick McDonough and his beloved, Marion Feingold arrive in Dublin on the run from the US law. Marion is somewhat buoyed in this culturally alien land by her passionate devotion to James Joyce. They plan to hang out until things cool off with Patrick's twin cousins, Rory and Deirdre whom he last saw three decades ago when they were all pre-teens. But the Celtic Tiger roams this land now and the cousins have become master scammers in their own right. They've amassed a handsome nest egg via various schemes and the formerly affluent Americans find themselves beholden to the street-wise pair. Marion has strangely morphed into her own definition of Molly Bloom and when Patrick decides to go home and turn state's evidence he must leave her with the dangerously attractive twins. Danger ahead.
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Girl In The Back Of The Cab, The
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: Finished in late 2007, workshopped in 2008 (FL)
Synopsis: Like the pinter character in his Victoria Station, a sad young cabbie is mesmerized by the beautiful young fare in the back seat of his cab in an American city. But in The Girl in the Back of the Cab, Bruno's loneliness dissolves when inebriated and seductive Danielle desperately needs help. She's hell-bent upon suicide but Bruno rescues her and shelters her out of love triggered by compassion. When Danielle recovers her sense of self-worth, she realizes that he rhappiness is completely attreibutable to this tender, life-affirming young man. But that's the stuff of fairy tales and of course, in this harsh and venal twenty-first century there's no such magic in the air.
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Homefront Blues
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Journeymen
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
2m (one African-American), 3f (one African-American)
Notes: Completed in 2005 and covering the years from 1949 to the mid-1970s. Ostensibly about baseball but really about race and madness in mid-century America
Synopsis: Journeymen is a 90-100 minute play based loosely on the infamous, near-fatal shooting of Philadelphia Phillies first baseman, Eddie Waitkus at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago in 1949. The crime was committed by a 19-year old woman who had fallen uncontrollably in love with the ballplayer. She served one year in a mental institution but the player never really recovered. The characters have been fictionalized and team names have been fabricated a la Bernard Malamud in The Natural. But while the novelist dispensed with the shooting early-on, it's at the heart of Journeymen. As is the simmering racial conflict in America that is mirrored on the field.
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Last Act, The
1st Produced:
Thirteenth Street Playhouse, NYC
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Last Christian, The
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Play/Drama
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Female
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Mummers
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Female
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Mummer's End
1st Produced:
Folger Theatre, Wash., D.C
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Ravelles' Comeback, The
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Red Bessie
1st Produced:
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland
2003
Company:
Red Bessie Company
1st Published:
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Genre:
Drama with 12 royalty-free songs
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Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
the male plays passable guitar or banjo
Notes: written by Daniel Czitrom and Jack Gilhooley
Synopsis: Red Bessie is a conglomerate character based on an American woman of Eastern European
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Shirley Basin
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Shooters
1st Produced:
Focus theatre, Dublin, IRE
2005
Company:
PurpleHeart Co.
1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing, Inc., NYC
2006
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Genre:
Dark comedy
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
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Parts Other:
2 f (a version for a black Arlene)
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Synopsis: The Russian mob has created the "new hitmen'women" composed of unlikely teams of low profile Americans who have nonetheless tested positive for brutal efficiency. But when ex-corporate executive Lou and his partner Barry, a librarian blow an assignment - primarily over tantalizing femmes -- they are set upon by policewoman Arlene and her soccer mom partner, Molly. Given their hard-earned life lessons "the girls" are only too ready to bond in the cause of eliminating men. But their partnership becomes perilously strained when they can't find their assigned hits, Barry and Lou and they face the prospect of becoming the hunted.
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Time Trial, The
1st Produced:
New York Shakespeare Festival, NYC
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Company:
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1st Published:
in "Plays from the New York Shakespeare Festival, Broadway Play Publishing, New York
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Genre:
full length
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Seven auto-racing freaks in their twenties, restless and resentful from an inability to alter their dead-end existence in a small town, look forward to the return of the local hero (a world champion driver). But his racing death, under highly suspect circumstances, changes their lives and separates them forever.
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Timid New World
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Genre:
Eight short, dark comedies
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Parts:
Male
2-8
Female
2-8
Parts Other:
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Notes: Specifically written for a young company with a diverse composition and limited production budget. Completed in 2008
Synopsis: Timid New World is a series of short, dark comedies about our ominous future. The plays almost always feature young actors and require little in the way of scenery, costumes and props. The entire program runs about 3 hours but a producer/director is encouraged to cherry pick whatever plays meet the company's needs. Examples: Male Order (2w, 1m) about three San Franciscans who subscribe to "Straight Mate", the last hetero dating service in the city, Penitents (1m, 1W) in which a young nun - determined to be the first woman priest - surreptitiously hears confessions until her old lover shows up and Digital Love, a play about two pwople on a date who try to skirt around the nationally-mandated Sexual Disclosure Law.
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JACK GILHOOLEY
Warrior, The
1st Produced:
Capital Fringe (D.C.) and NYC Fringe
2008
Company:
Theatre of The First Amendment
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
1
Parts Other:
Offstage woman's voice
Notes: Puffin Foundation grant. Workshopped, Culture Project's Impact Festival, NYC, 2006, Backlot Arts (FL) 2007, Theatre of The First Amendment (Winner, First Light Festival Contest), 2007, Alternate Roots Festival, Baltimore, 2007. " Kilker, Total Theatre Online, "In addition to the cogent inherent drama of THE WARRIOR, it's the teamwork of all involved& the writer deserves more productions of his play."
Synopsis: In 2005 Tammy is a veteran of the 1991 Persian Gulf War as well as the 2003-???? debacle in Iraq. After two tours of duty in the latest conflict, she returns to civilian life with an honorable discharge but a diagnosis of PTSD. Tammy insists that she could deal with the combat but can't handle the fact that her husband left her while she was defending the country. What's more, he has abandoned her for her daughter's teacher who gained the affection of the child while her mother was away. Because of Tammy's psychological condition, her spouse has managed to gain custody of their twelve-year-old. Tammy has agreed to appear on-camera for Giselle, a former high school classmate who has become a recognized documentary filmmaker. In a makeshift sound studio, Tammy runs the emotional gamut as she tries to make sense of the war she has just left and the war at home she's determined to fight.
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