JOAN HOLDEN (1939 - )
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Joan Holden
1985 |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1985 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: written with others | ||||
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Americans; Or, Last Tango In Huahuaenago |
| 1st Produced: | Dayton, Ohio | 1981 | ||
| 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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Notes: written with Daniel Chumley | ||||
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Back To Normal |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1990 | ||
| 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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Notes: written with others | ||||
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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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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: written with others | ||||
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Eating It |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco Mime Troupe | 2000 | ||
| 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 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. | ||||
Factperson |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1980 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "West Coast Plays 15-16", Berkley, California | 1983 | ||
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Notes: written with others | ||||
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Factwino Meets The Moral Majority |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1981 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "West Coast Plays 15-16", Berkley, California | 1983 | ||
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Notes: written with others | ||||
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Factwino Vs Armaggedonman |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1982 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "West Coast Plays 15-16", Berkley, California | 1983 | ||
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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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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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: written with others | ||||
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Frozen Wages |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "By Popular Demand", San Francisco Mime Company, San Francisco | 1980 | ||
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Notes: written with others | ||||
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Great Air Robbery, The |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1974 | ||
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| 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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Hotel Universe, The |
| 1st Produced: | La Rochelle, France | 1977 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "West Coast Plays 10", Berkley, California | 1981 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: music by Bruce Barthol | ||||
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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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L'Amant Militaire |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1967 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "The San Francisco Mime Troupe: The First Ten Years", Ramparts Press, Palo Alto, California | 1975 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni | ||||
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Loon's Rage, The |
| 1st Produced: | on tour | 1977 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "West Coast Plays 10", Berkley, California | 1981 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: written with others | ||||
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Marriage Of Figaro, The |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1990 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | farce | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 |
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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. | ||||
Mozamgola Caper, The |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1986 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Theater", New haven, Connecticut, Winter | 1986 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: written with others | ||||
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Nickel and Dimed |
| 1st Produced: | Seattle | 2002 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 2005 | ||
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| Genre: | - | 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. | ||||
Pope And The Witch, The |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1997 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 5 |
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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 | ||||
Power Play |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1975 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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Ripped Van Winkle |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1988 | ||
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| 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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Notes: written with Ellen Callas | ||||
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Ruzzante; Or, The Vetran |
| 1st Produced: | Hayward, California | 1968 | ||
| 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 | - |
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San Fran Scandals |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "By Popular Demand", San Francisco Mime Company, San Francisco | 1980 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: written with others | ||||
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Seeing Double |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1989 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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Notes: written with others | ||||
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Seize The Time |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1970 | ||
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| 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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Notes: written with Steve Friedman | ||||
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Spain/36 |
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1986 | ||
| 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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Notes: music Bruce Barthol | ||||
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Steeltown |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1984 | ||
| 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 | |||
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Notes: music Bruce Barthol | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||