JEFFREY HATCHER
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Jeffrey Hatcher
Bill of (W)Rights |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2004 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy/Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 10 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Running time: 80-90 | ||||
Synopsis: Bill of (W)Rights is a political funhouse growing from a moment in history when self-censorship abounds and the populace is increasingly governed by fear. Nine playwrights offer ten plays, each based on one of the U.S. Constitution's first ten amendments. These pieces focus less on government interference and more on the interpersonal, from a father and daughter facing a criminal trial to the silence of an unfaithful husband "pleading the fifth" to his family -- not to mention a company of actors yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater. The creation of the script, encompassing a diversity of voices and opinions, was itself an act of democracy, demonstrating that theatre can be a voice of revelation and revolution. | ||||
Bon Voyage |
| 1st Produced: | Denver | 1993 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: from Noel Coward's 'sail away' | ||||
Synopsis: a 1930s luxury liner is left to float along the Riviera a each pot of call is quarantined during a freak flu epidemic | ||||
Comfort And Joy |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
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Compleat Female Stage Beauty |
| 1st Produced: | City Theatre Company, Pittsburgh, PA | 1999 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy/Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: In 1661 the most famous portrayer of female roles on the London stage was a performer named Kynaston. Like every other player permitted to enact such roles, Kynaston was a man. A celebrity artist shining bright at the crest of the Restoration, Ned or Mr. K, as hes called, is applauded onstage and off for his interpretations of Shakespeares tragic ladies: Ophelia, Cleopatra, especially his Desdemona and his famous death scene. Hes the toast of the town and the very secret mistress of the powerful Duke of Buckingham. But when an unknown named Margaret Hughes plays Desdemona one night at an illegal theater, instead of stopping the show, the ever-game King Charles II changes the law to allow women to act. By the stroke of a pen, Kynastons world is turned upside-down. He loses his cachet, his livelihood, his lover and his sense of self. And as such women as the kings own courtesan, Nell Gwynn, and Kynastons former dresser, Maria, become stars, his own light disappears until fate and his desire for revenge give him a chance to take the stage again. | ||||
Downtown |
| 1st Produced: | Louisville | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Ella |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Jeffrey Hatcher. Conceived by Rob Ruggiero and Dyke Garrison | ||||
Synopsis: A Tisket, a Tasket- only the marvelous vocals of Ella Fitzgerald could turn a children's play song about losing a yellow basket into a scat-wielding marvel and only the unassumingly delightful Tina Fabrique could make it swing. In this upbeat, sassy production Ella, at the newly revamped temporary home of Arena Stage, Ms. Fabrique hits her stride channeling the energy and pizzazz of legendary jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald with enough bee-bop to shimmy across the innovatively designed new stage. - ? Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson, DC theatre Scene | ||||
Good 'N' Plenty |
| 1st Produced: | Minneapolis, MN | 2000 | ||
| Company: | Illusion Theater -- Fresh Ink | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts Inc, NY | 2007 | ||
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| Genre: | full length | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Wintersville High School, 1976. Richard Miller is the hip new Social Studies instructor at his crumbling old alma matter, and decides to teach his students about the U.S. criminal justice system by staging a "drug game," where the students play pushers, buyers, narcs, cops, and lawyers, using Good & Plenty candies as the contraband of choice. Bad idea -- after a hilarious unraveling of authority, with switcheroos and betrayals galore, most of the school has landed in actual jail. A brilliant twist on high school madness, and a compelling meditation on democracy, as well. | ||||
Hanging Lord Haw-Haw |
| 1st Produced: | Seattle, WA | 2000 | ||
| Company: | Empty Space Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts Inc, NY | 2007 | ||
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| Genre: | full length | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Pro-Nazi broadcaster William Joyce (known as Lord Haw-Haw by the British) is brought to vivid life in this imaginative depiction of his career and relationships. Beginning in his Brixton Jail cell where he is being held on trial for treason after WWII, we flash back in time to follow Joyce through the churning politics of 1930s London and on to the unlikely position of broadcasting Nazi propaganda to the Allies from a radio station in Berlin. A brisk, smart, disturbing, and often humorous portrayal of a complicated man. | ||||
Jekyll and Hyde |
| 1st Produced: | San Jose Rep, Tucson, Arizona | 2007 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Korczak's Children |
| 1st Produced: | Children's Theater Company (Minneapolis, MN, United States) | 2003 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscrips, Inc - 1078 | 2006 | ||
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| Genre: | Drama for young audiences | - | Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 13 |
| Parts Other: | 13 females, 15 males; Running time: 100-120 mins | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: World War Two. The Nazi Occupation of Poland. Dr. Janusz Korczak -- writer, educator, physician, and passionate advocate for children -- tries to keep the 400 Jewish boys and girls of his famed Warsaw orphanage alive and hopeful in the face of unbelievabl | ||||
Mercy of a Storm |
| 1st Produced: | City Theatre Company, Pittsburgh, PA | 2002 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Mother Russia |
| 1st Produced: | Chicago, IL | 1998 | ||
| Company: | Theatre Building | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts Inc, NY | 2007 | ||
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| Genre: | full length | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Three distinctly different clients travel to post-Soviet Russia, looking to obtain three distinctly different things: an oil-rich plot of land, an old White Russian Estate, and a baby from an orphanage. Svetlana, a witch-for-hire, is ready to help meet each of their needs. But when it turns out that the land, the estate, and the orphanage are all the same place, and everyone descends upon it simultaneously, Svetlana's talents are put to the test. Chaos and hilarity ensue. | ||||
Murder by Poe |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
Notes: adapted from the stories of Edgar Allan Poe | ||||
Synopsis: A dark and dreadful night. A woman in white lost within a wood. And the only shelter is a house full of murderers. Mixing funhouse tricks, Grand Guignol and a deadly game of cat and mouse, MURDER BY POE is a theatrical reimagining of some of Edgar Allan Poes most famous tales of terror The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, William Wilson, The Purloined Letter, The Mystery of Marie Roget and The Fall of the House of Usher. As each haunted figure tells a story of crime and mayhem, the woman must solve the puzzle of the house and the riddle of the man who ushers her into its mysteries. | ||||
Murderers |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 2008 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Someone is murdering the inhabitants of retirement village Riddle Key | ||||
Natty Little Manners |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Neddy |
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: a helpless prep school teacher is abandoned by his wealthy wife and left to dissolve on the floor, his faculty friends use him as the focus of an experiment | ||||
Never Gonna Dance |
| 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 or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: by Jeffrey Hatcher; Music by Jerome Kern; lyrics by Dorothy Fields, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, P G Wodehouse, Jimmy McHugh and Edward Laska. Based on the film "Swing Time" RKO Radio. | ||||
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One Foot on the Floor |
| 1st Produced: | Center Theatre, Denver, Co | 1997 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau (Le Dindon) | ||||
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Picasso, A |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 2005 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A Picasso is a fascinating, thought-provoking exploration of art and its meaning, wrapped inside a taut, smart wartime suspense thriller. It takes place in a vault below the streets of Paris on an October afternoon in 1941. The Nazi occupation is in full force, and so even a famous man like Picasso isn't entirely surprised that a pair of trench-coated operatives have brought him to this prison-like, windowless room for no apparent reason. Enter Miss Fischer, a German cultural official attractive, but all business. She quickly explains to the artist why he's been summoned: the Nazis are planning an exhibition of confiscated "decadent" art and they want to make sure that they include in it a work by the master. They've got three small paintings that they believe are his, but they need to be authenticated. This exhibition is important: they're going to burn the works, and they don't wish to burn a forgery. They need a Picasso. So the brilliant painter finds himself confronted with an odd artistic version of Sophie's Choice: which of the three paintings will he choose to identify as he own, and thus sacrifice to the bonfire; which will he denounce and therefore save from destruction? The route to the resolution of Picasso's dilemma takes him and Miss Fischer who proves to be not so much his nemesis as his confessor and muse through a consideration of what his work actually signifies. Can a work of art be political? Can it not be? Can it change anything? What are the links between social consciousness and genius? nytheatre.com | ||||
Pierre |
| 1st Produced: | Grandville, OH | 1997 | ||
| Company: | Dennison University Theater | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts Inc, NY | 2007 | ||
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| Genre: | full length | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Based on Herman Melville's 19th century novel, Pierre is the story of a wealthy landed gentleman who discovers that his past is not the honorable one he has been led to believe it is. Moving from the bucolic Berkshire meadows to teeming New York City, Pierre is a melodrama involving passion, incest, murder, and suicide. | ||||
Princess Ivona |
| 1st Produced: | Philadelphia | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Witold Gombrowicz | ||||
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Rattan |
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Rule Of Threes, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1989 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | 3 * 1 Acts | One Act | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Fellow Travelers; & two others | ||||
Synopsis: three related comedies about plots and machinations of a variety of people intent on freeing an Eastern Bloc dissident towards the end of the Cold war | ||||
Scotland Road |
| 1st Produced: | Cincinnati | 1993 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Mystery | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT _ 1992 | ||||
Synopsis: In the last decade of the twentieth century, a beautiful young woman in nineteenth-century clothing is found floating on an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic. When rescued, she says only one word: Titanic. The woman, Winifred, is taken to an isolated spot on the coast of Maine where an expert on the sinking of the liner, a mysterious man named John, has arranged to interrogate her for six days. His goal: to crack her story, get her to confess she's a fake, and reveal her true identity; his one clue: her enigmatic references to an unknown place called "Scotland Road." In a stark, white room furnished only with a ship's deck chair, John, assisted by a skeptical doctor named Halbrech, plays a cat-and-mouse game with Winifred, probing and searching for ways to break her down. But Winifred is a formidable opponent, and as John is drawn closer to her, he becomes desperate. As time runs out, Halbrech tracks down the last, living survivor of the disaster, a reclusive old woman named Frances Kittle who has lived in seclusion for seventy-five years. Miss Kittle is brought to meet Winifred to test her, but the tables turn when Winifred recalls an earlier confrontation with Miss Kittle, one that took place on board the fated liner the night is sank, three quarters of a century before. By the play's end, one of the characters is dead, all the character's identities have been questioned, and John and Winifred's shared secret is revealed as they make one final journey to Scotland Road. | ||||
Servant Of Two Masters, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni. translated and adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher and Paolo Emilio Landi | ||||
Synopsis: cross between traditional Italian commedia and postmodern vaudeville, this new version of Goldoni's classic pits the madcap servant Truffaldino against masters, mistresses, lovers, lawyers and twenty-seven plates of meatballs. Imagine a Bob Hope or Woody Allen comedy written by Monty Python and performed with the physical bravura of Chaplin or Keatonwith places in the script for ad-libs and audience participation. | ||||
Show Business |
| 1st Produced: | 1999-00 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Phone Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Audience members enter one of several phone booths, pick up the receiver and listen to a three-minute play unfold in conversation | ||||
Smash |
| 1st Produced: | Carleton | 1995 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1997 | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: from G B Shaw's 'An Unsocial Socialist | ||||
Synopsis: Based on the novel An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw, the story centers on Sidney Trefusis, a millionaire Socialist who leaves his bride on their wedding day because he fears his passion for her will get in the way of his plans to overthrow the British government. Sidney vanishes "underground" - disguises himself as a common laborer called "Mengels" - and infiltrates Alton College, a girls' school where well-bred young women are "fitted and fatted to be put on the marriage market." His plan: Take over the school and plant the seed of radical Socialism into the fertile brains of the future consorts of cabinet ministers and kings. What he doesn't plan on is the presence of one Agatha Wylie, a sixth-form rabble-rouser, who falls hopelessly in love with both Sidney and his politics, and just happens to be his deserted wife's cousin. Love triangles, mistaken identities, Marx, Engels, pistols and the proletariat jostle for position in this adaptation of Shaw's last comic novel, written in 1883. | ||||
Sockdology |
| 1st Produced: | 1999? | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: about the day/night Abe Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre | ||||
Tango Delta |
| 1st Produced: | Louisville | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Tell-Tale |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
| 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 | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: part of Three Viewings | ||||
Synopsis: the story of Emil, the mild-mannered undertaker whose unspoken passion for a local real-estate woman who comes to all his funerals leads him to commit crimes and plot a way to confess his true feelings before timeand bodiesrun out. | ||||
Thief Of Tears, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
| 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 | - | Female |