FRANK D GILROY (1925 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Frank D Gilroy
Any Given Day |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN | 978-0573694281 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
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![]() | 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, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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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 | |||||
Contact With the Enemy |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN | 978-0573627304 | |||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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![]() | 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 | ISBN/ASIN | 978-0573621322 | |||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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![]() | 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 | |||||
Far Rockaway |
| 1st Produced: | Chanel 13, NYC | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Fore |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1991 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in A Way With Words, French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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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, | ISBN/ASIN | 978-0573627304 | |||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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![]() | 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, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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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 | 0 |
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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 | 0 |
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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, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Middle World |
| 1st Produced: | Dartmouth College, NH | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
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Next Contestant, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1978 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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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 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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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 | 0 |
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| Notes: | part of the 30th annual marathon of new short plays | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Present Tense |
| 1st Produced: | Sheridan Square Playhouse, NYC | 1972 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in Present Tense, French, NY, | 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: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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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. | |||||
Real To Reel |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in A Way With Words, French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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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. | |||||
So Please Be Kind |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1972 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in Present Tense, French, NY, | 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: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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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 | |||||
Subject Was Roses, The |
| 1st Produced: | Broadway, New York | 1964 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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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 | 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: | - | 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, | 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: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | Bob is the new writer at the film studio. His co-workers drive him mad | |||||
Who'll Save The Plowboy? |
| 1st Produced: | Phoenix Theatre, NYC | 1962 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1962 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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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 | |||||


