JOAN HOLDEN   (1939 - )


Joan Holden
   Nationality:
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Plays by Joan Holden

JOAN HOLDEN
1985
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1985
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written with others
Synopsis:
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JOAN HOLDEN
Americans; Or, Last Tango In Huahuaenago
1st Produced:
Dayton, Ohio
1981
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Parts:
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Female
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Notes: written with Daniel Chumley
Synopsis:
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JOAN HOLDEN
Back To Normal
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1990
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written with others
Synopsis:
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JOAN HOLDEN
Dragon Lady's Revenge, The
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "By Popular Demand", San Francisco Mime Company, San Francisco
1980
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written with others
Synopsis:
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JOAN HOLDEN
Eating It
1st Produced:
San Francisco Mime Troupe
2000
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Musical
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: Written by Joan Holden and Michael Gene Sullivan; music and lyrics by Jason Sherbundy, Bruce Barthol and Ellen Callas
Synopsis: Futuristic sci-fi musical with rampant genetically modified plants.
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JOAN HOLDEN
Factperson
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "West Coast Plays 15-16", Berkley, California
1983
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written with others
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JOAN HOLDEN
Factwino Meets The Moral Majority
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1981
Company:
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1st Published:
in "West Coast Plays 15-16", Berkley, California
1983
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Parts:
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written with others
Synopsis:
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JOAN HOLDEN
Factwino Vs Armaggedonman
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "West Coast Plays 15-16", Berkley, California
1983
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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JOAN HOLDEN
False Promises/Nos Enganaron
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "By Popular Demand", San Francisco Mime Company, San Francisco
1980
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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JOAN HOLDEN
Frijoles; Or, Beans To You
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "By Popular Demand", San Francisco Mime Company, San Francisco
1980
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written with others
Synopsis:
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JOAN HOLDEN
Frozen Wages
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1972
Company:
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1st Published:
in "By Popular Demand", San Francisco Mime Company, San Francisco
1980
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written with others
Synopsis:
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JOAN HOLDEN
Great Air Robbery, The
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1974
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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JOAN HOLDEN
Hotel Universe, The
1st Produced:
La Rochelle, France
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "West Coast Plays 10", Berkley, California
1981
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: music by Bruce Barthol
Synopsis:
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JOAN HOLDEN
Independent Female, The: Or, A Man Has His Pride
1st Produced:
Los Angeles
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "By Popular Demand", San Francisco Mime Company, San Francisco
1980
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Female
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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JOAN HOLDEN
L'Amant Militaire
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The San Francisco Mime Troupe: The First Ten Years", Ramparts Press, Palo Alto, California
1975
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni
Synopsis:
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JOAN HOLDEN
Loon's Rage, The
1st Produced:
on tour
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "West Coast Plays 10", Berkley, California
1981
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written with others
Synopsis:
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JOAN HOLDEN
Marriage Of Figaro, The
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
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Genre:
farce
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
7
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes: Original Playwright - Beaumarchais
Synopsis: Writing a few years before the French Revolution, barely concealing himself in his hero, Beaumarchais pours his class rage into a stock-comic vessel that barely contains it under pressure. Three years after the happy ending ofThe Barber of Seville, its the valets turn to marry. But his master the Count has tired of his lovely Countess, and lusts for Figaros bride-to-be, Suzanne. He determines to revive the ancient droit de seigneurthe lord of the manors right to bed her. Figaro and the women concoct a counter-plot; the Counts page, Cherubin (Mozarts Cerubino) makes hash of it through his passionate crush on the Countess. The double/triple/quadruple misunderstanding yields one of the most perfect farce scenes of all time, featuring a chair and a closet, and one of the finest master-servant scenes, featuring a razor. The play, as great in its kind as the opera Mozart made from it, proclaims Figaro a better man than the Count and the women better humans than the men. This version restores two revolutionary passages that the author cut to save his liberty: a confrontation between the Count and his vassals in the final scene that anticipates the guillotine, and a searing indictment of sexual inequality by Figaros mother, Marceline.
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JOAN HOLDEN
Mozamgola Caper, The
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Theater", New haven, Connecticut, Winter
1986
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Notes: written with others
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JOAN HOLDEN
Nickel and Dimed
1st Produced:
Seattle
2002
Company:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
2005
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
5
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes: based on Nickel And Dimed, On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Synopsis: Can a middle-aged, middle-class woman survive, when she suddenly has to make beds all day in a hotel and live on $7 an hour? Maybe. But one $7-an-hour job wont pay the rent: shell have to do back-to-back shifts, as a chambermaid and a waitress. This isnt the first surprise for acclaimed author Barbara, who set out to research low-wage life firsthand, confident she was prepared for the worst. Barbara Ehrenreichs best-seller about her odyssey is vivid and witty, yet always deeply sobering. Joan Holdens stage adaptation is a focused comic epic shadowed with tragedy. Barbara is prepared for hard work but not, at 55, for double shifts and nonstop aches and pains; for having to share tiny rooms, live on fast food because she has no place to cook, beg from food pantries, gulp handfuls of Ibuprofen because she cant afford a doctor; for failing, after all that, to make ends meet; or for constantly having to swallow humiliation. The worst, she learns, is not what happens to the back or the knees: its the damage to the heart. The bright glimpses of Barbaras co-workers that enliven the book become indelible portraits: Gail, the star waitress pushing fifty who can no longer outrun her troubles; Carlie, the hotel maid whose rage has burned down to disgust; Pete, the nursing home cook who retreats into fantasy; Holly, terrified her pregnancy will end her job as Team Leader at Magic Maids, and with it her 50-cent raise. These characters wage their life struggles with a gallantry that humbles Barbara, and the audience. The play shows us the life a third of working Americans now lead, and makes us angry that anyone should have to live it.
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JOAN HOLDEN
Pope And The Witch, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1997
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
15
Female
5
Parts Other:
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Notes: Original Playwright - Dario Fo
Synopsis: Pope John Paul II explains it all in this wild send up of Catholicism and politics
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JOAN HOLDEN
Power Play
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1975
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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JOAN HOLDEN
Ripped Van Winkle
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1988
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written with Ellen Callas
Synopsis:
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JOAN HOLDEN
Ruzzante; Or, The Vetran
1st Produced:
Hayward, California
1968
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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JOAN HOLDEN
San Fran Scandals
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1973
Company:
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1st Published:
in "By Popular Demand", San Francisco Mime Company, San Francisco
1980
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written with others
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JOAN HOLDEN
Seeing Double
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1989
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written with others
Synopsis:
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JOAN HOLDEN
Seize The Time
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1970
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written with Steve Friedman
Synopsis:
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JOAN HOLDEN
Spain/36
1st Produced:
Los Angeles
1986
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts Other:
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Notes: music Bruce Barthol
Synopsis:
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JOAN HOLDEN
Steeltown
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1984
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Parts Other:
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Notes: music Bruce Barthol
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