JASON GROTE   (1971 - )


Jason Grote
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Plays by Jason Grote

JASON GROTE
1001
1st Produced:
Denver Center Theater
2007
Company:
Developed at Soho Rep
1st Published:
Samuel French, Inc - New York (2009) >>>
Chapbok, Denver Center Theater, 2007
ISBN/ASIN
978-0-573-66388-8
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Developed in 2004-05 Soho Rep Writer/Director & Phase 2 Labs and Colorado New Play Summit; read at Baltimore Centerstage and Last Frontier Conference (Valdez, AK)
1001
1001 spins themes and variations from the classic 'A Thousand and One Arabian Nights' to explore the incarnations of love, sex, religion, cruelty and war from ancient Baghdad to the post-9/11 era. Playwright Jason Grote combines savage wit, political insight, Borgesian time-warping, and theatrical ingenuity in a dazzling tour de force that Sheherezade herself would envy.
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JASON GROTE
(Anti)gone
1st Produced:
Williamstown Theatre Festival (workshop) (Williamstown, MA, United States)
2005
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
30-45 min
Comedy/drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
2 males, 2 females, 2 either (5-22 actors possible: 3-12 males, 2-10 females)
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Antigone is charged with the crime of burying her brothers -- even though the war left no bodies for her to bury. Haemon could take over the kingdom if he ever stops playing video games and trying to kill his father. And airline pretzels and huge corporate deals cannot satisfy Erisycthon's hunger. In this postmodern take on Antigone,daily life becomes mythic in the urban non-landscape of malls, highways, and airports.
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JASON GROTE
All You Can Eat
1st Produced:
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2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JASON GROTE
Box Americana: A Wal-Mart Fantsaia
1st Produced:
The Working Theater, NYC
2006
Company:
The Working Theater
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
In the extensively researched Box Americana: A Wal-Mart Retail Fantasia, the Ghost of Sam Walton is resurrected with his own personal chorus of Chinese workers to sing the praises of consumer Utopia. Located at Wal-Mart #24-2-128, the economic epicenter of Sprawlville, USA, the play takes place at a moment when the world's largest employer is defending itself against the largest class-action lawsuit in American history for gender discrimination. It follows Kelly, a delusional but passionate cheerleader for the Wal-Mart ideology, and Danae, an African American mother escaping the double threats of Hurricane Katrina and her violent, impoverished past. They both seek a future of advancement based on merit and hard work, but when push comes to shove with this corporate behemoth, they discover that the Promised Land is a swamp of inequity and empty rhetoric. Inspired by DUKES V. WAL-MART, the largest class action suit in history (info available at walmartclass.com), and described in Liza Featherstone's book SELLING WOMEN SHORT
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JASON GROTE
Cats
1st Produced:
Summerworks Short Play Event
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JASON GROTE
Christmas Carol, A
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
The Brick Theater
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee: Second Coming, a selection of world-premiere yuletide-themed plays
Synopsis:
Seven years have passed since Marley's Christmas death, and Scrooge has not changed a bit. But, on this particular Christmas, the shrimp boats lower their nets. Marley pushes his face against hers. She screams and flees back to Scrooge; on her cheek stands out in red the marks of two rows of teeth.
- nytheatre.com
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JASON GROTE
Darwin's Challenge
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
Ensemble Studio Theater
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Recipient of EST/Sloan grant
Synopsis:
On his trip aboard the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin wanders into a cave on Galapagos and finds himself on the set of the 21st-century realty TV show DARWIN'S CHALLENGE. He gets kicked off in act two.
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JASON GROTE
Hamilton Township
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
Soho Rep
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
developed in 2005-06 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab
Synopsis:
An autobiographical play set in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, in which the teenage author saves a prostitute from the legendary Jersey Devil.
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JASON GROTE
In His Bold Gaze, My Ruin is Writ Large
1st Produced:
24-Hour Plays / The Orchard Project (Hunter, NY, United States)
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
10-25 min
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
2 males, 3 females (5-8 actors possible: 2-3 males, 3-5 females)
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A comedic, free adaptation of Racine's Phaedra, combining the original story with Hitchcock, Iggy Pop, Mixed Martial Arts, and Slavoj Zizek.
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JASON GROTE
Island of Never Giving Way on Your Desires
1st Produced:
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Company:
-
1st Published:
Contained in Knock the journal of Antioch University, Seattle,
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
The secret origin of Roosevelt Island.
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JASON GROTE
Kawaisoo (The Pity of Things)
1st Produced:
chashama
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
Back Stage Books, 2004
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Tragicomedy
Tragedy
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
One-woman show, 20 min. long; winner of Swamp King, produced at NYU, The Makor, The American Living Room @ HERE
Synopsis:
A tragicomic meditation on groceries and catstrophe. Ellie takes us on a tour of a suburban grocery store in the wake of a personal - and national - trauma.
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JASON GROTE
Maria/Stuart
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
1
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Based on "Maria Stuart" by Friedrich Schiller
Synopsis:
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JASON GROTE
Moloch and Other Demons
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
American Living Room Festival
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Also appeared in Hell Festival; developed/read at Salvage Vanguard, Circle X, The Makor, The Ohio, New Dramatists
Synopsis:
PARADISE LOST meets FAST FOOD NATION in this fable of a 21st-century Hell. Mahu works in a meat plant that turns undesirables into fast food consumed by Moloch, an elder-demon. Faced with an invasion from Heaven, his daughter Dawn is forced to hide with two AWOL angel assassins to survive.
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JASON GROTE
Myth America
1st Produced:
TBG Theatre, NY
2007
Company:
Personal Space Theatrics
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
written by Arthur Kopit, Theresa Rebeck, Israel Horovitz, Rachel Axler, Ian Cohen, Brian Dykstra, Jason Grote, Julien Schwab, Matthew Paul Olmos, Saviana Stanescu, and Lloyd Suh.
Synopsis:
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JASON GROTE
New Jersey Book of the Dead, The
1st Produced:
The Bloomington Playwrights' Project
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
1
Notes:
Staged readings at the Flea, The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco, Coe College (Cedar Rapids, IA); winner of DRAMARAMA, Reva Shiner Award, Coe College Playwriting Award, runner-up for Princess Grace, semifinalist (top 5%) for Cesterfield Writers' Film
Synopsis:
Diana tries to unionize her workplace (a call-center in Jersey City), but faces OMNIVORE - a powerful computer surveillance program that invades her personal life and her dreams.
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JASON GROTE
Prometheus Rendered
1st Produced:
Culture Project (Impact Festival) (New York, NY, United States)
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
10-25 min
Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
1 male, 1 female, 2 either (4-6 actors possible: 1-5 males, 1-4 females)
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Blending the modern and the mythic, this free adaptation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Boundshows us a Prometheus subjected to the torture techniques used by U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay.
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JASON GROTE
Southridge High School Forensics Team Presents: Assorted Tales of Robin Hood, The
1st Produced:
Keen Teens at The Kirk Theatre (New York, NY, United States)
2009
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
25-35 min
Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
4 males, 2 females, 4 either (8-10 actors possible: 4-8 males, 2-6 females)
Notes:
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Synopsis:
Southridge High School has lost the annual forensics competition for the past ten years, but things really go haywire when the entire team is suddenly transported to Sherwood Forest midway through their performance of Robin Hood. As they act out their roles of Robin Hood, Maid Marian, the Sheriff of Nottingham, and the Merry Men, the real life dramas of love triangles, competitiveness, social and class distinctions unfold and further complicate things, turning the classic story of peasants vs. the aristocracy into a battle between the nerds vs. the jocks. (This play was specially commissioned by Playscripts for high school actors.)
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JASON GROTE
This Storm is what we call Progress
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
Soho Rep
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:
Comedy/Drama
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Developed in 2003-04 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab
Synopsis:
Part urban romantic comedy, part Kabbalistic horrorshow, part allegory for Israel and Palestine that doesn't quite add up, part cautionary tale about power, and part historically inaccurate look at Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin.
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JASON GROTE
Three Classics
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Various
Comedy/Drama
Parts:
Male
0
Female
0
Parts Other:
Various
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Three Classics combines the modern with the mythic in three adaptations that view classic stories through the lens of a post-modern, urban non-landscape. In(Anti)gone, the aftermath of war is explored in a world of shopping malls, highways, and airports. Racine's Phaedra is combined with Hitchcock, Iggy Pop, Mixed Martial Arts, and Slavoj Zizek in In His Bold Gaze, My Ruin is Writ Large. The final play, Prometheus Rendered, is an examination of the Prometheus myth using the torture techniques employed by U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay. To purchase this book of three plays, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
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