CHRISTINA HAM
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Christina Ham
626 Broadway |
| 1st Produced: | Staged Reading by Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theatre, Los Angeles | 1996 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | full length | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Five bookies jockey for position in a South Central Los Angeles basement. This gritty morality play is an examination of the men whose lives and values are warped by an environment in which they must lie, cheat, and steal in order to survive. | ||||
After Adam |
| 1st Produced: | Staged reading by The Playwrights' Center, Minneapolis, MN | 2005 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Full-length Supernatural Drama | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A dynamic, but subtle take on the Oedipus myth as conceived in a working class neighborhood in San Pedro, California. Two estranged brothers must learn to cope with their father's suicide as psychological warfare ensues in an effort to reclaim family legacy, psyche, and identity. A dramatic meditation on death, grief, mourning, and its cyclical nature, this play is a vigil to one man's life and its self-fulfilling purgatory. | ||||
County Line |
| 1st Produced: | Staged Reading by The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN | 2006 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscrips, Inc - 1025 | 2006 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Running time: 25-30 minutes | ||||
Synopsis: Seven high school friends witness their relationships disintegrate after their post-Homecoming game caravan has a mysterious encounter on a deserted highway. | ||||
Cul De Sac |
| 1st Produced: | Staged Reading by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington, DC | 2007 | ||
| Company: | The Actors' Center | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Full-length Absurdist Drama/Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: As the quest for Homeland Security leads to continued xenophobia across our nation, a nascent tribe of suburban Red-Imported Fire Ants decide their mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. A post-modern look at the war on terror | ||||
Lion's Tale, A: Somali Folktales |
| 1st Produced: | SteppingStone Theatre, St. Paul, MN | 2007 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Children's Musical for ages 8-15 | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Christina Ham, Said Salah Ahmed; music by Gary Rue | ||||
Synopsis: Cultures collide as two young Somali immigrants attend their first American birthday party. What their friends see as generous and fun, Ali and Aasha take as materialistic and greedy. This fantasy-musical incorporates exciting Somali stories and traditional music in a play that celebrates generosity, friendship, and cultural understanding. | ||||
Priceless |
| 1st Produced: | Stella Adler Theater, Los Angeles | 2006 | ||
| Company: | Unity Players Ensemble | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Running time: 30 min | ||||
Synopsis: Two insurance adjusters try to make sense of the value of life in a post-9/11 America. Naturally, the numbers just don't add up. | ||||
Root of the Home Team |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | full length | Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Recipient of the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project Commission | ||||
Synopsis: Can the concept of physical reality as seen through the eyes of Einstein and his associates be used to fix the World Series? | ||||
Wives' Tale, A |
| 1st Produced: | Workshopped by the Summer Play Festival, NYC | 2006 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Full-length Futuristic Drama | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 8 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: An island of women off of the coast of South Carolina survive a nuclear holocaust and conspire to create the perfect society. | ||||