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DAVID GRIMM (1965 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: International Creative Management |
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Plays by David Grimm |
Chick | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #100871 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | based on the book Magician of the Modern by Eugene R. Gaddis | |||||
Synopsis: | n 1927, a passionate and rebellious young man, A. Everett ("Chick") Austin, was made director of America's oldest public art museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut. What followed was a career that shook up the city and reinvigorated the arts in America. But what is the cost-both personal and professional-of blazing such a trail? A play in three monologues based on the life and career of "Chick" Austin and his marriage to Helen Goodwin. | |||||
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Christmas Golem | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #90401 | |||
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Edgar | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1996 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71156 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Edgar was born and raised in a madhouse. Now 21 years old he longs to see the outside world. | |||||
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Enough Rope | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98684 | |||
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Following Eva | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1993 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71157 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Eva Braun and the young soldier ordered to guard her. | |||||
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Following Wolf | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98685 | |||
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Gaming Table, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Folger Theatre, 201 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC | 24 Jan 2012 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #136414 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Susannah Centlivre with additional material by David Grimm | |||||
Synopsis: | It's not that men are nothing in Susanna Centlivre's 1705 comedy, but it's clear that they're not everything to the bold, surprising, and enterprising women who inhabit this play. Centlivre's early 18th-century society, brimming with how-dees and powdered wigs, might seem odd to us at first, but the attitudes and sentiments expressed are quickly recognizable and, often, marvelously contemporary. We find a lady scientist delivering a broadside on female education, a lady gamester asserting independence (and ensuring that her House always wins), and other women manipulating the system far more astutely than the men who purportedly control it. You might say these women are bent on preserving - or wrangling for - a place in that 'one percent.' Centlivre's women take charge of cash, credit, and chicanery and much of this is made possible by a deck of cards. The ease with which these characters gamble at tremendously high stakes is alarming. (We've done the math; Mrs. Sago's in the hole for what amounts to millions.) In fact, anyone with enough daring (and the purse to back it) could have been made or broken by Basset. The risk was so great that the French set limits on wagers made by the general citizenry, and English law would aim eventually to penalize all who played. The nature of the threat is clear: it's not just a concern for folks losing their shirts, but there's the worry of which class might wear them home. The distinctions between richer and poorer, winner and loser are forever in flux around the gaming table and expose the instability that permeates boundaries of all sorts. Centlivre is a skilled gamer herself, playing with social prescripts and class and gender hierarchies while toying with theatrical convention. Morality plays were all the rage on the late Restoration stage but so, too, was a kind of suggestive, frisky fun. The play opens with an attempt to divide the good from the gaming, but as the story progresses it becomes more and more difficult to know in which camp virtue lies. Even the self-proclaimed righteous characters are attracted to the naughty so that the greatest risks engage the players beyond Lady Reveler's tables; and everyone's suit is hearts. Because this is a Restoration Comedy, we expect that 18th-century notions of decency will be restored by the play's end and female power inevitably will be contained. Critics suggest that Centlivre somehow fails us with this or, as Nancy Copeland writes, they find the play deficient in the feminism they expected (Staging Gender). It would be easy to question the validity of those expectations, but I'd wager that those lady characters are not as altered by the play's end as the males might wish. David Grimm's clever contributions to our script underscore this possibility. It could be that centuries of reading Centlivre's play without the complement of performance has narrowed critical perception. Of course, no woman making her living by writing for the stage (as Centlivre did for years) could stray too far from convention. Still, the playwright serves and subverts it. The method by which order is restored to Sir Richard's estate is so problematic that, though it may deliver the illusion of male victory, it invites us to loathe it at the same time. The wines, chocolates, and gilded coins embezzled by the ladies are far less odious than the goods Sir James would seize. And marriage - a common enough conclusion for a comedy - is hardly presented as a condition of feminine restraint. If the men's tricks appear to grant them the upper hand, we should remember that each hand in Basset lasts approximately 90 seconds and then a sonica changes things entirely. When it comes to gaming, we've seen only men walk away from the tables; the women, on the other hand, continually signal Game on. | |||||
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I Wake Up Screaming | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98686 | |||
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Killing Hilda | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1999 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71158 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A gay gynaecologist and mass murdered finds true love | |||||
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Kit Marlowe | ||
| 1st Produced: | Public Theatre, NY | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14796 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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Synopsis: | Hungry for adventure and a way to make his mark, poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe becomes a spy for a dark wing of the British government and seals his hero Sir Walter Raleigh's fate and his own. Set in the seedy underworld of Elizabethan England, this story of the meteoric rise and fall of Kit Marlowe-playwright, poet, spy and sexual outlaw-charts the ambitions of youth in a cold and unforgiving world. | |||||
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Last Stand of Owen Tobias, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98687 | |||
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Learned Ladies of Park Avenue, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hartford Stage | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47710 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | translated and freely adapted from Moliere's LES FEMMES SAVANTES | |||||
Synopsis: | A jazz-age screwball comedy riff on Moliere's biting satire of pretense and learning. Betty wants to marry Dicky. Her mother Phyllis, a self-proclaimed intellectual and political activist, has another man in mind-namely, the hack poet and scheming opportunist Upton Gabbitt. Set in 1936 Manhattan against the backdrop of the Great Depression and impending war, this romantic comedy skewers those who wear their so-cial conscience on their sleeve and affirms that love conquers all. | |||||
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Living Expenses | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98688 | |||
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Measure for Pleasure | ||
| 1st Produced: | Public Theatre, NY | 2006 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47711 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/farce Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Will Blunt is in love with Molly, a young transvestite prostitute. But when Blunt rescues him from a life on the streets, he doesn't count on Molly falling in love with Dashwood, the handsome womanizing rake. Restoration comedy meets modern sex farce in this romantic adventure, exploring the elusive na-ture of happiness and featuring mistaken identities, duels and double-dealings, gay marriage and the obligatory sex cave. | |||||
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Miracle at Naples, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-2459-4 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115306 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A motley band of traveling commedia players in Renaissance Italy arrives in Naples just in time for the Feast of San Gennaro. The passions of the actors and the locals are ignited when lustful lovers romp through the town piazza seeking pleasure and discovering the many forms of love in this outrageously smart and bawdy comedy. | |||||
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Once in Elysium | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71159 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | The 18th Century Art Historian, Jonathan Wincklemann is on his way to Greece. He stops in Trieste and finds himself drawn into passion - a passion that costs his life. | |||||
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Orpheus In His Underwear | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98689 | |||
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Savages of Hartford, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71160 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Two brothers - one thrown out onto the streets, the other returning from war seek a meaning to their life | |||||
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Sheridan, or, Schooled In Scandal | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse, La Jolla, CA | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14797 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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Synopsis: | Set in a London rife with gossip, blackmail and political intrigue during the reign of mad King George III, this darkly comic tale follows the development of the friendship between famed playwright, theatre manager and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan and young poet Lord Byron. In this complicated world where everybody seems to be doing the wrong thing for the wrong reason, Sheridan comes to con-front the classic choice between doing the right thing and suffering personally, or betraying his conscience and profiting from it. | |||||
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Steve and Idi | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83571 | |||
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Synopsis: | Steve's life is spinning out of control. His work is going nowhere, his lover dumps him, his friendships are strained and, as if that's not enough, the ghost of General Idi Amin, the Ugandan dictator, bursts into his life with a very strange demand | |||||
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Theatrophy | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98690 | |||
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This Country's Wife | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98691 | |||
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Twisted (Five Scenes of Love and Folly) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71161 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Originally titled: "The Ballad of Lily From Hell" | |||||
Synopsis: | On the run from the law, two petty criminals take refuge in a widow's house. | |||||
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