JAKOB HOLDER (1978 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Jakob Holder
And The Spirit Of Christmas Passed |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
| Company: | 2007 Baby Jesus One Act Jubilee | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | 12 minutes comedy drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part of The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee: Second Coming, a selection of world-premiere yuletide-themed plays | |||||
| Synopsis: | It's a typical family Christmas: Mom's addressing cards, Connie's dreaming of snow, and Ryan's patiently awaiting Santa's arrival. Only, Connie's sweating like crazy, Ryan's locked and loaded, Mom won't listen to anyone but Dad, and Dad is completely two-dimensional. | |||||
Bananafly / Reality T.V. / Words |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
| Company: | Monarch Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | varies | |||||
| Notes: | These are three one minute plays, but as they were written specifically for this festival I chose to list them here as one. | |||||
| Synopsis: | Bananafly: One man's entire life explored in one minute. Reality T.V.: Three contestants vie for their lives in a Rubik's Cube contest. Words: A man facing execution tries to find something more to say. | |||||
Bedtime Solos |
| 1st Produced: | 08 Sep 2009 | |||||
| Company: | Across The Pond Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 50 min | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A portrait of the fragility of human relationships. We see and hear a couple's intimate thoughts over the course of an apparently normal evening together, becoming privy to the deepest, darkest secrets of their subconscious minds. | |||||
Darktime In Skipland |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
| Company: | The Brick Theater / Ontological-Hysteric Theater Tiny Theater! Fest | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | In CB-radio lingo "Darktime" is night and "Skipland" is the special occurence in which, during optimal environmental conditions, a short wave signal can jump countless miles to reach a distant station. This is a short play about methods of communication, tightened proximities, fatal assumptions, hasty wishes attained and overdue wishes hung-up. It utilizes CB radios, cellphones, answering machines, shouting, barking, and a bullet to tell a wide story within a small space. | |||||
Housebreaking |
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
| Company: | Cherry Lane Theatre, NYC | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Running time: approx. 2 hours, one intermission. | |||||
| Synopsis: | Chad's tired of his job, his family, his thirty-five-year-old life; Carmine is tired of life on the streets. Chad brings Carmine home-grooms him and trains him, and forgets that stray animals tend to be wild and cunning survivors. | |||||
Not An Island |
| 1st Produced: | Ohio Theatre, NYC | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | Clubbed Thumb | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 2 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A one-minute paean to the beauty, rarity, and eminent breathable air, of the state of Alaska (as compared to the other 49 states of the USA.) | |||||
Repeat Play |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Running time: approx. 2 hours, one intermission. | |||||
| Synopsis: | You find yourself in your mid 40s; your spouse has gotten there, too. Neither of you seem to remember the trip. You'd both call "Do over" if you really could. Your teenage son might have found the way. | |||||
Shoulder, The |
| 1st Produced: | Polk Art Museum, Lakeland, FL, USA | 2005 | ||||
| Company: | Pied Piper Players | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Running time: approx. 90 minutes, no intermission. This play was once known as Dirge (for a failed bris) | |||||
| Synopsis: | Picture a flat tire, a binocular stand, and a stretch of mudflats at high tide. Two strangers meet at the side of a road in a play about the connections we make, the connections we hold onto, and the connections we're forced to let slip away. | |||||
Sumatra Mandheling |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | Hunger Artists Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A man sipping coffee on his way to work slips into dreaming, taking him from his spot on a New York City subway car to the coffee fields of Sumatra, Indonesia and back again; the calming voice of the conductor playing the part of his internal monologue and inquisitor. (15 minutes in length). | |||||