FRANK D GILROY   (1925 - )


Frank D Gilroy
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Plays by Frank D Gilroy

FRANK D GILROY
Any Given Day
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1990
ISBN/ASIN
978-0573694281
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
3
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Notes:
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Any Given Day
eighteen months in the life of family during 1942 and 1943, follow on to 'The Subject Was Roses'
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FRANK D GILROY
Come Next Tuesday
1st Produced:
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1972
Company:
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1st Published:
in Present Tense, French, NY,
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Louise is reminiscing about their eighteen year marriage with husband Harvey - when he hears a noise coming from the bedroom
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FRANK D GILROY
Contact With the Enemy
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,
ISBN/ASIN
978-0573627304
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Genre:
Play
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Parts:
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-
Female
0
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Notes:
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Contact With the Enemy
The Smithsonian Holocaust Museum in Washington provokes diametrically different recollections from two men recalling their sight of concentration camps
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FRANK D GILROY
Dreams Of Glory
1st Produced:
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1980
ISBN/ASIN
978-0573621322
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Dreams Of Glory
Many years ago at the High School Prom the Tommy Dorsey Band was engaged to play. When the piano player fell ill George took his place. Tommy Dorsey gave him his card with his home telephone number and asked George to 'phone him some time. Now in his forties and the chairman of his company George has finally made the telephone call
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FRANK D GILROY
Far Rockaway
1st Produced:
Chanel 13, NYC
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Female
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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FRANK D GILROY
Fore
1st Produced:
New York
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
in A Way With Words, French, NY,
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Two screenplay writers are diverted by the game of golf
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FRANK D GILROY
Getting In
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,
ISBN/ASIN
978-0573627304
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Getting In
A returning GI finds life difficult upon returning from the Second World War
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FRANK D GILROY
Give The Bishop My Faint Regards
1st Produced:
New York
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
in A Way With Words, French, NY,
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Two squabbling film screenwriters carry on
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FRANK D GILROY
Housekeeper, The
1st Produced:
Apollo, London
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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FRANK D GILROY
Lake, The
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
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1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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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
Synopsis:
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FRANK D GILROY
Last Licks
1st Produced:
Broadway, New York
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
aka The Housekeeper
Synopsis:
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FRANK D GILROY
Match Point
1st Produced:
New York
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
in A Way With Words, French, NY,
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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FRANK D GILROY
Middle World
1st Produced:
Dartmouth College, NH
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Company:
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1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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FRANK D GILROY
Next Contestant, The
1st Produced:
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1978
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
a telephone converstion between a jilted girlfriend and a manipulative game-show contestant
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FRANK D GILROY
Only Game In Town, The
1st Produced:
Broadway, New York
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1968
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
In Las Vegas a compulsive gambling piano player falls in love
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FRANK D GILROY
Piscary
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
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1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
short play
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Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
part of the 30th annual marathon of new short plays
Synopsis:
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FRANK D GILROY
Present Tense
1st Produced:
Sheridan Square Playhouse, NYC
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Present Tense, French, NY,
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
includes Come Next Tuesday, Twas Brilling, So Please Be Kind
Synopsis:
The wife knows that the person ringing the doorbell is her husband's other woman and refuses to open the door. The husband wont open the door either.
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FRANK D GILROY
Real To Reel
1st Produced:
New York
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
in A Way With Words, French, NY,
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
A film critic has been saved from a mugging by a young film director. The critic has never liked any of his films and is due to review his latest.
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FRANK D GILROY
So Please Be Kind
1st Produced:
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1972
Company:
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1st Published:
in Present Tense, French, NY,
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
A man and woman in an hotel room in New York. She is desperately trying to remember the name of an actor and finally telephones her ex to ask him
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FRANK D GILROY
Subject Was Roses, The
1st Produced:
Broadway, New York
1964
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Comedy Drama
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
After three years in the army during the second world war a son returns home.
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FRANK D GILROY
That Summer-That Fall
1st Produced:
Broadway, New York
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1967
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
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Tragedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
The Phaedra-Hippolytus myth transposed to day New York.
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FRANK D GILROY
Twas Brillig
1st Produced:
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1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Present Tense, French, NY,
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Bob is the new writer at the film studio. His co-workers drive him mad
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FRANK D GILROY
Who'll Save The Plowboy?
1st Produced:
Phoenix Theatre, NYC
1962
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1962
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
about a middle aged failure, he was going to be a farmer so his wartime buddies called him Plowboy, but he failed at this as in all else
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