BOB HAYDEN (1938 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Bob Hayden
10th Toy, The |
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| Company: | Minneapolis Conservatory | |||||
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| 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: | Christmas Play | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | Two friends relax at Christmas and remember the amazing gifts one of them has received from a minor devil, one in charge of flat fizzy water and sticking upside down cakes. The devil granted the young lady ten gifts, nine of which she could choose, and the last would be his choice. The last gift is an innocent one, but one that her young son turns into a constant hell. | |||||
12 Step Conga Line |
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| Company: | Phare Players Theatre Company | |||||
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| 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: | Erotic Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | A young couple are thrown together at a meeting of a 12 Step Program for people with a sexual addition. They open up to each other . . . literally . . . and find they may be soul mates on their addiction. A Flash in the Afternoon | |||||
Another Zoo Story |
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| 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 Minute Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Two strangers meet at a funeral and discover they have both been intimately involved with the deceased. There'll never be another Barbaro | |||||
Beloved Catamite |
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| 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: | Full Length | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 or 3 | Female | 5 or 2 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
| Notes: | Written for very simple, abstract forms to represent various multiple locations. | |||||
| Synopsis: | Rob and Kyle become teenage lovers. Kyle meets Jean in college and they marry, even though she is aware of Kyle's affair with Rob, and she demands he be dumped. This seems to put the kabosh on the Kyle-Rob liaison, but a devious scheme using Kyle's dedication to sexual conquests forces Jean to view Rob as her ally rather than the enemy. A disastrous love triangle morphs into a loyal menage a tois, as Kyle, Jean and Rob all get what they want. Love and marriage go together like . . . a troika. | |||||
Bimini at Dawn |
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| Company: | Lakeshore Players | |||||
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| 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: | Character Comedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | Manny is dying and he tries to convince his devoted wife to eschew the standard Jewish funeral and give him an Irish wake. His reasons and rebellious but average life flash back during lunches with Hymie, his friend and colleague | |||||
Decisive Action |
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| 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: | Political Comedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | George Bush and Karl Rove deal with an uprising attacking the White House. Assisted by Karen Hughes and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, they act as decisively as they did to the early warnings of a terrorist attack on America. | |||||
Don't Truffle with Me |
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| 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: | Character Comedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | An old man spends his life trying to grow unsuitable crops (maple trees, truffles) in the dessert. He is convinced that persistence will win the day. His wife holds an opposite view. | |||||
Easter in the Park with George |
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| 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: | Social Comedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | Many characters to be found in an urban park on a Sunday cross paths. Their private concerns contrast with the idiocy of government sponsered fear of terrorism. | |||||
Father Halloween |
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| 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: | Halloween Play | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | Two god-fearing women worry that children of the parish are being abducted my a child molester. Their priest's attention to Johnny arouse their suspicions, and when Johnny doesn't come home on Halloween, they confront the priest. They discover a horror that relieves their suspicions. | |||||
Gasoline |
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| 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 | 2 or 3 | Female | 2 or 3 |
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| Synopsis: | Obesity and oil shortages are conquered as the world's largest oil company buys the FBI and turns fat into fortunes. A devout young environmentalist is enlisted by them, and ruined in the process, but his devoted Korean fiancee stands by him. He triumphs by a unique discovery in Tibet, then ruined again by rumors of Mad Bean Disease. His fiancee's father saves the day selling a secret recipe. But you can't really fight city hall . . . or the people who own it. URINETOWN . . . but without the class | |||||
Going There |
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| 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 | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | A reformed pedophile is confronted in his home by the youth he molested. The youth is seeks a strange sort of revenge, aimed more at the pedophile's wife than at his lover. | |||||
Immaculate Pedophiles, The |
| 1st Produced: | Australian Tour | 2005 | ||||
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| 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: | short comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 1 m/f | |||||
| Notes: | 3 characters, table and chair set. Has been done in an actual bar | |||||
| Synopsis: | Michael Jackson collaborates with J.M. Barrie for testimony at future trials charging him with improper behavior | |||||
Killing Christopher Rhone |
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| 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: | Full Length | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Stage largely set as a dormitory commons room, but with a small area as the loft of a bell tower. | |||||
| Synopsis: | Three boys bond together at a military school as do real soldiers. One of them, Christopher, who is gay, is obsessed with a family secret, and his stability is their problem. Despite their efforts, despite an elaborate deception that succeeds, his roommates realize that he is a falling knife that they cannot save. Christopher Rhones love of Christopher Rhone kills them both. | |||||
Letter from Mount Idy, The |
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| 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: | Full Length Drama Giocosa | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 to 3 |
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| Synopsis: | An Amish and a Mormon boy meet, move to a farm in Kansas, marry and adopt children, but not without grave initial misgivings.. Some of the community resent their intrusion and harass them. As their lives together unfold over half a century, they become cherished members of their town. When an irresistible libido meets and immovable credo . . . | |||||
Liebesfreud and Liebesleid |
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| 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 | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | An old man meets Fritz Kreisler and discovers he has wasted his entire life and a great talent trying to do what others wanted. | |||||
Montezuma's Real Revenge |
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| 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 | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Two marines are enmeshed in gay sensitivity training as Don't Ask Don't Tell is abolished in the military. Hey reveal their reactions as they dance and reveal more of their characters than they might wish. | |||||
My Sad Sack Swain |
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| 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: | Character Comedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | A young man takes his intended to dinner, planning to propose to her. His record of missteps sets the stage for a clever proposal to go comically wrong. | |||||
Nun, Set and Match |
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| 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: | Full Length Social Issue Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | A Boston hustler is saved by a pedophile willing to ruin his life and career to marry him. His sexually precocious twelve year-old girl friend marries a viscous swindler who murders her. A rogue nun attacks accepted moral values to save the boy and the pedophile he loves. She brings the husband to justice, and deals decisively with her paramour, a politician who capitulates to the media's hysteria about children. Auntie Mame for Pedophiles | |||||
Play About the Boys and the Dog, The |
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| 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: | Tragi-Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | A viscous hound threatens schoolboys on their beer runs. Lawrence of Arabia does limericks and chews gum at the same time. Practical jokes (some sexual) set the stage for three roommates coming to terms with mortality. | |||||
Shanghai Virgin of Front Street, The |
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| 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: | Serio-Comedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | A young woman shills for her lover as a would be prostitute on San Francisco's Barabry Coast, luring seamen into a trap. Most action takes place in a fog, where only the audience can see the actors, although some bits occur in the dark where the actors can supposedly see each other. The outcome mirrors the reversal of light as the male lover and his accomplice double cross the virgin. | |||||
Sleeping Beauties |
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| 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: | A Short Gay Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Two old men navigate through obstacles represented by traffic cones. They reminisce in clipped terms about life before gay liberation. | |||||
Stalling |
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| 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: | Gay Play | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Two gay men meet in a restroom, but one is unaware that if you want sex you should ask. The other leaves his stall and arranges a date for the first that is a shock. There are overtones of politics and fictional pedophilia. | |||||
Trotsky's Variations on the Death of Edward II |
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| 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: | Naughty Comedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Six variations on how Edward II was put to death, in imitation of David Ives. | |||||
What the General Said |
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| 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: | Social Comedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Taking advantage of the military's strange honor codes, a soldier protects himself from being found out as gay by drinking himself into oblivion. | |||||
What's Your Line? |
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| 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 | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | Abu, a simple pretzel and pickle cart vender on Wall Street is interrogated by the FBI as a terrorist suspect. Never denying his guilt, Abu confounds his inquisitioners with wordplay, readily confesses when finally threatened with torture, and reveals that he has wiped out much of the American financial system with anthrax. In fact, three dozen slang words in the dialogue have announced the subterfuge from the beginning. Listen to the words . . . | |||||