JORDAN HARRISON
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Plays by Jordan Harrison
Act A Lady |
| 1st Produced: | Illusion Theatre (Minneapolis, MN, United States) | 2005 | ||||
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| Genre: | 90-100 min | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 3 males, 3 females | |||||
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| Synopsis: | When the men of a small Prohibition-era town decide to put on a play dressed in "fancy-type, women-type clothes," the whole community is affected: gender lines blur, eyebrows raise, identities explode, and life and art are forever entangled. A thoughtful and exuberant Midwestern fable about the woman in every man, the man in every woman and the power of theatre to uncover both. Accompanied by accordion. (This play is also available in the collection Humana Festival 2006: The Complete Plays.) | |||||
Amazons and Their Men |
| 1st Produced: | Ohio Theatre, NY | 2008 | ||||
| Company: | Clubbed Thumb | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 978-0573662461 | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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 | The Frau used to direct beautiful films for a fascist government. Now she's trying to make a film that's simply beautiful. The Frau casts herself in the lead role of the Amazon queen Penthesilea, who falls in love with Achilles on the battlefield of the Trojan War. She recruits a man from the Jewish ghetto to play her Achilles. Her own sister, a long-suffering extra, plays all the nameless Amazons killed in the background. With chariot crashes and adoring close-ups, it all has the makings of a glamorous war. But when telegrams start to arrive from the Minister of Propaganda, it becomes impossible for the Frau to ignore the real war outside her sound stage. A darkly comedic look at the role of artists during wartime, Amazons and Their Men is inspired by the life and work of Leni Riefenstahl. | |||||
Dead Act |
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Doris to Darlene - a Cautionary Valentine |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | Doris to Darlene, A Cautionary Valentine: In the candy-colored 1960s, biracial schoolgirl Doris is molded into pop star Darlene by a whiz-kid record producer who culls a top-ten hit out of Richard Wagner's "Liebestod." Rewind to the candy-colored 1860s, where Wagner is writing the melody that will become Darlene's hit song. Fast-forward to the not-so-candy-colored present, where a teenager obsesses over Darlene's music -- and his music teacher. Three dissonant decades merge into an unlikely harmony in this time-jumping pop fairy tale about the dreams and disasters behind one transcendent song. | |||||
Finn in the Underworld |
| 1st Produced: | The Playwrights' Center (reading) (Minneapolis, MN, United States) | 2004 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | finnintheunderworld | ||||
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| Genre: | 80-90 min | Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 2 males, 2 females | |||||
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 | In this contemporary Gothic tale, Gwen and her sister Rhoda are packing up the belongings -- and the secrets -- in their crooked childhood house. When Gwen's wayward son Finn arrives to harvest the more fashionable heirlooms, he meets a neighbor who is not what he seems. Finn's sexual curiosity draws him down into the fallout shelter, and into the heart of an unfinished ghost story. A sexually-charged thriller about what can happen when grief goes unspoken. | |||||
Fit For Feet |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Humana Festival 2003: The Complete Plays, Edited by Tanya Palmer and Amy Wegener, Smith and Kraus, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | As Claire's wedding approaches she has one problem - her fiance thinks he is Nijinsky | |||||
Kid-Simple: a radio play in the flesh |
| 1st Produced: | Brown New Plays Festival (workshop production) (Providence, RI, United States) | 2002 | ||||
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| Genre: | 90-100 min | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 3 males, 3 females, 1 either (6-11 actors possible: 3-6 males, 3-5 females) | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Moll, a girl who invents things, wins the science fair with a machine for hearing sounds that can't be heard. But when a shapeshifting Mercenary steals the invention (and her heart), she must embark on a quest to save noise as we know it. Accompanied by the last boy-virgin in the eleventh grade, Moll crosses chasms and rafts rivers into a world where sound is always more than what meets the ear. A quirky fable of innocence and experience, featuring live sound effects, mutinous onomatopoeia, and a host of woodsy temptations. | |||||
Museum Play, The |
| 1st Produced: | Polybe + Seats (reading) (New York, NY, United States) | 2002 | ||||
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| 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: | 70-80 min | Comedy/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 3 males, 3 females | |||||
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| Synopsis: | When the mastodons escape, Jame needs another exhibit for the Museum. Luckily, he has a friend with wonderful bones. The Curator is delighted with her new specimen, but she can't help wondering: Who, or what, is behind the mysterious exodus of flora and fauna? An elegiac and absurd look at the intersections of memory and desire, set to the tune of a music box. | |||||