FRANK D GILROY (1925 - )
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Frank D Gilroy
Any Given Day |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1990 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: eighteen months in the life of family during 1942 and 1943, follow on to 'The Subject Was Roses' | ||||
Come Next Tuesday |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1972 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in Present Tense, French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Contact With the Enemy |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: The Smithsonian Holocaust Museum in Washington provokes diametrically different recollections from two men recalling their sight of concentration camps | ||||
Dreams Of Glory |
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1980 | ||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Far Rockaway |
| 1st Produced: | Chanel 13, NYC | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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Fore |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1991 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in A Way With Words, French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Two screenplay writers are diverted by the game of golf | ||||
Getting In |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: A returning GI finds life difficult upon returning from the Second World War | ||||
Give The Bishop My Faint Regards |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1991 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in A Way With Words, French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Two squabbling film screenwriters carry on | ||||
Housekeeper, The |
| 1st Produced: | Apollo, London | 1982 | ||
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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 | |||
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Lake, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
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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 | - | Female | - |
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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 | ||||
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Last Licks |
| 1st Produced: | Broadway, New York | 1979 | ||
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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 | - | Female | - |
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Notes: aka The Housekeeper | ||||
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Match Point |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1990 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in A Way With Words, French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Middle World |
| 1st Produced: | Dartmouth College, NH | - | ||
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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 | - | Female | - |
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Next Contestant, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1978 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1978 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: a telephone converstion between a jilted girlfriend and a manipulative game-show contestant | ||||
Only Game In Town, The |
| 1st Produced: | Broadway, New York | 1968 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Random House, New York | 1968 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: In Las Vegas a compulsive gambling piano player falls in love | ||||
Piscary |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
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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: | short play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: part of the 30th annual marathon of new short plays | ||||
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Present Tense |
| 1st Produced: | Sheridan Square Playhouse, NYC | 1972 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in Present Tense, French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: includes Come Next Tuesday, Twas Brilling, So Please Be Kind | ||||
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Real To Reel |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in A Way With Words, French, NY | - | ||
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So Please Be Kind |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1972 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in Present Tense, French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Subject Was Roses, The |
| 1st Produced: | Broadway, New York | 1964 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1962 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: After three years in the army during the second world war a son returns home. | ||||
That Summer-That Fall |
| 1st Produced: | Broadway, New York | 1967 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Random House, New York | 1967 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Tragedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: The Phaedra-Hippolytus myth transposed to day New York. | ||||
Twas Brillig |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1972 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in Present Tense, French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Who'll Save The Plowboy? |
| 1st Produced: | Phoenix Theatre, NYC | 1962 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Random House, New York | 1962 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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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 | ||||