MICHAEL HOLLINGER
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Plays by Michael Hollinger
Battle of the Backyard |
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Boxheads |
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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men |
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Notes: Written by Michael Hollinger, Scott Greer; Tony Lawton and Aaron Posner. Adapted from the short story collection by David Foster Wallace | ||||
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Clean Getaway |
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| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: Written by Michael Hollinger and Beth Dannenfelser | ||||
Synopsis: Three serious crimes.Three tell tale clues. | ||||
Empty Plate In The Cafe Du Grand Boeuf, An |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: No menu necessary at the world's greatest restaurant, the Café du Grand Boeuf in Paris. Why? "Because we have everything," headwaiter Claude admonishes waiter-in-training Antoine. On this hot July night in 1961, the two join waitress Mimi and chef Gaston in awaiting the imminent arrival of Victor, the Café's owner and sole patron. But when "Monsieur" returns from the bullfights in Madrid, disheveled and morose, his wish is simple: to die of starvation at his own table. The frantic staff, whose very lives depend on Victor's appetite, try all means to change his mind, but to no avail. Finally, they make a last-ditch plea: Out of respect for their life's work, will he let them prepare one final mealprovided they leave it in the kitchen? Instead they will describe it, course by course, over a series of empty platters. Victor reluctantly consents, and the "feast of adjectives and adverbs" begins&A "comic tragedy in seven courses" celebrating the joys of cooking, sex, bullfighting and the collected works of Ernest Hemingway. | ||||
Eureka! |
| 1st Produced: | Franklin Institute Science Museum (Philadelphia, PA, United States) | 1999 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2003 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: Running time: 45-50 | ||||
Synopsis: Between his incessant computer games and her endless chat rooms, Jenna and Justin engage in more than their share of sibling rivalry over the family computer. Each hopes to win a school essay contest and its grand prize -- a brand-new Archimedes 5000 computer. But when their school's own computer lab is mysteriously damaged, and Jenna and Justin become prime suspects, brother and sister must first work together to solve the mystery and prove their innocence. An engaging, fast-paced play for young audiences that shows how intuition, inquiry, and perseverance are more critical to problem-solving than even the most powerful technological tools. | ||||
Hot Air |
| 1st Produced: | Philadelphia Theatre Caravan (4-state tour) (Philadelphia, PA, United States) | 1997 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2003 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Notes: Running time: 45-50 | ||||
Synopsis: Jessica's got a great shot at setting a county record in the 800-meter run -- until she starts smoking again and her times start going up instead of down. Meanwhile, her father just landed the biggest advertising client of his life: J. R. Phillips, makers of Smooth menthols, Carolina Thins ("the feminine smoke"), and Chaparral, "rugged as the Wild West." Jessica struggles to keep her smoking secret from her father, while he is asked by J. R. Phillips to market to teens through loopholes in the Tobacco Settlement. When their secret pursuits are revealed, father and daughter square off and are challenged with difficult decisions. A lively, hard-hitting comedy for young audiences about tobacco marketing, use, and addiction. | ||||
Incorruptible |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Welcome to Priseaux, France, c. 1250 A.D.: The river flooded again last week. The chandler's shop just burned to the ground. Nobody's heard of the wheelbarrow yet. And Ste. Foy, the patron of the local monastery, hasn't worked a miracle in thirteen years. In other words, the Dark Ages still look pretty dark. All eyes turn to the Pope, whose promised visit will surely encourage other pilgrims to make the trek and restore the abbey to its former glory. That is, until a rival church claims to possess the relics of Ste. Foyand "their" bones are working miracles. All seems lost until the destitute monks take a lesson from a larcenous one-eyed minstral, who teaches them an outrageous new way to pay old debts. | ||||
Naked Lunch |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2004 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy/Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: Running time: 5-10 | ||||
Synopsis: Vernon can't handle his ex-girlfriend Lucy's decision to stop eating meat, and Lucy is unprepared for his reaction. Playscripts, Inc. | ||||
Opus |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | Primary Stages | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: Opus is a new play about a world-renowned string quartet that is struggling to prepare for their highest-profile performance, when the violist, and founder of the quartet, mysteriously disappears. When a young woman is hired as the replacement, her musical gifts inspire the musicians, and they decide on short notice to abandon their friendly Pachelbel Canon program and to replace it with Beethoven's difficult Opus 131. The rehearsal room becomes a pressure cooker as passions rise, personalities clash, and the musicians are forced to tackle the ephemeral nature of their life's work - press release | ||||
Red Herring |
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Synopsis: Three love stories, a murder mystery, and a nuclear espionage plot converge in this noir comedy about marriage and other explosive devices. It's 1952: America's on the verge of the H-bomb, Dwight Eisenhower's on the campaign trail, and I Love Lucy's on Monday nights. Meanwhile, Senator Joe McCarthy's daughter just got engaged to a Soviet spy, and Boston detective Maggie Pelletier has to find out who dumped the dead guy in the Harboror else lose out on a honeymoon in Havana. A blunt-nosed, sharp-eyed look at love and tying (and untying, and retying) the knot. | ||||
Senior Moment |
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Serviette |
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Tiny Island |
| 1st Produced: | The People's Light and Theatre Company, Malvern, PA | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: As little girls, nestled in the tiny projection booth of their family-owned cinema, Hazel and Muriel flew to exotic islands with their mother, lofted by the plane-like whir of the projectors. In her teens, Muriel found her first kiss there, underscored by the stirring music of a Hollywood romance. Now, in middle-age, Muriel returns to the fading movie palace where her estranged sister screens old films for a dwindling audience, and a new phenomenon called a video store has forebodingly appeared across the street. When Hazel, bitterly separated from her husband, insists she wants nothing to do with her sister, Muriel confesses she's been hearing voiceslittle girls' voices, late at nightand begs Hazel to help her resurrect the cinema and her own failing marriage. A poignant, powerful play about the limits of love and the limitless magic of the movies. | ||||
Tooth and Claw |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2004 | ||
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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: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: A new director at the Darwin Research Institute in the Galapagos Islands battles the illegal trade in endangered animals. | ||||
Trepidation Nation |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 2003: The Complete Plays, ed Tanya Palmer & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus | 2003 | ||
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| Genre: | phobic anthology, 80 - 100 min | - | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 12 |
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Synopsis: We all have instinctive fears -- but what if a fear becomes inexplicable, illogical, and just plain weird? Then you're dealing with a phobia, one of those most extreme and fascinating of terrors. Actors Theatre of Louisville asked 16 frighteningly creative playwrights to find inspiration in real phobias, and the resulting collection of pieces might prove that not only is fear humankind's oldest emotion, but it's also one of our silliest, most serious, and stage-worthy. | ||||
Truth Decay |
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Two Part Intervention |
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Wonderful Noise |
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Notes: Written by Michael Hollinger and Vance Lehmkuhl | ||||
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