NAOMI IIZUKA
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Plays by Naomi Iizuka
17 Reasons (Why) |
| 1st Produced: | Campo Santo + Intersection | 2003 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Breaking Ground": Adventurous New Plays from Adventurous Theaters | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | doubling of 31 characters | |||
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36 Views |
| 1st Produced: | Joseph Papp Public Theater/Newman Theater, Off Broadway, NY | 2002 | ||
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| 1st Published: | American Theatre Magazine, NY - February | 2002 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Taking its title from the series of woodblock prints by ninteenth-century Japanese artist Hokusai (which, contrary to its label, consists of fourty-six images of Mount Fuji), the play has several threads, but at its heart is an art dealer and an art historian who discover what they think is an ancient manuscript- a priceless Japanese pillow book-- and try to learn whether its authentic. Their search becomes an erotic game of greed, love, and mental hide-and-seek as the play explores the relationships between feeling and words, objects and photographs of objects, antiques and perfect copies, and a woman's heritage and her physical features. | ||||
Aloha, Say The Pretty Girls |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 1999: The Complete Plays, ed Michael Bigelow Dixon & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus | 1999 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: takes a quirky, wildly imaginative look at how people enter and leave each other's lives as they search for a family or a tribe. Crossing paths and sometimes colliding, a cast of waylaid strangers and friends struggles to evolve into grown-up versions of themselves. | ||||
And Then She Was Screaming |
| 1st Produced: | Source Theatre: Washington, DC | 1990 | ||
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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 | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Anon(ymous) |
| 1st Produced: | Minneapolis Children's Theatre | 2006 | ||
| Company: | Children's Theater Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts Inc, NY | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 |
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Synopsis: Separated from his mother, a young refugee called Anon journeys through the United States, encountering a wide variety of people -- some kind, some dangerous and cruel -- as he searches for his family. From a sinister one-eyed butcher to beguiling barflies to a sweatshop, Anon must navigate through a chaotic, ever-changing landscape in this entrancing adaptation of Homer's Odyssey. | ||||
At The Vanishing Point |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 2004: The Complete Plays, | 2004 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | Chorus: 3 used in the first production | |||
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Carthage |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre E: San Diego | 1994 | ||
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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 | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Coxinga |
| 1st Produced: | New York University: New York | 1994 | ||
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Crazy Jane |
| 1st Produced: | Hudson Theatre: Los Angeles | 1992 | ||
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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 | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Greenland |
| 1st Produced: | Reading: Audrey Skirball-Kenis: Los Angeles | 1992 | ||
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Hamlet: Blood in the Brain |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco, CA | 2006 | ||
| Company: | California Shakespeare Theater and Campo Santo + Intersection for the Arts | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts Inc, NY | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | full length | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: This adaptation of Shakespeare's classic relocates Hamlet's kingdom to the drug-ravaged world of late 1980s Oakland, California. When H's father is murdered, he must not only deal with the shock of a sudden loss, but also attempt to uphold the status of his community, and face his corrupted lineage as enemies begin encroaching. Featuring beat-boxing and battle rap, this is an intense, unflinching look at a place and people torn apart by drugs and violence. | ||||
Ikeniye |
| 1st Produced: | Nada: New York | 1994 | ||
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Language of Angels |
| 1st Produced: | Campo Santo + Intersection for the Arts (San Francisco, CA, United States) | 2000 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2002 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Running time: 70-80 | ||||
Synopsis: An eerie cycle of ghost stories, set in the cave country of North Carolina. After a young girl is lost in a cave on the edge of town, there is a Rashomon-like investigation of her disappearance and the fate of those who survive her. | ||||
Lizzie Vinyl |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Marolowe's Eye |
| 1st Produced: | Theater at St. Clement's Church, Off Broadway, NY | 1996 | ||
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
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Polaroid Stories |
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 1997: The Complete Plays, ed Michael Bigelow Dixon & Liz Engleman, Smith & Kraus | 1997 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
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Synopsis: To the sounds of transistor radios, video arcades and a thousand collect phone calls in the night, Naomi Iizuka transforms the chaotic life of a group of street kids into a fierce elegy of emptiness, sensation, desire and fear. By an abandoned pier at the edge of an old city, young "speed-racers" scan for "pharmaceutical treasure" while "neon girls" drink from the river of forgetfulness, echoing in their words and deeds ancient stories of gods and humans. This haunting evocation of Ovid's Metamorphoses reimagined for the 1990s lends mythic power and social immediacy to America's lower depths | ||||
Portrait of Bianca |
| 1st Produced: | Alice's Fourth Floor: New York | 1992 | ||
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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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Scheherazade |
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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 | |||
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Strike-Slip |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 2007: The Complete Plays | 2008 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Humana Festival 2007 | ||||
Synopsis: In the urban sprawl of Los Angeles, three diverse families each carry a dream, but a recent shooting creates an unexpected seismic shift that rocks each family's foundation. Faults that were once inactive or dormant suddenly appear and abruptly change the way they think about themselves, their community and their dream. | ||||
Tattoo Girl |
| 1st Produced: | Annex Theatre (Seattle, WA, United States) | 1994 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2002 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Serio-Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Running time: 70-80 | ||||
Synopsis: In this adaptation of Donald Barthelme's short story "Perpetua," a trumpet player and a tattooed pinup girl navigate a chaotic world populated by hops farmers, cathedral builders, and an aging Nadia Comaneci, all in pursuit of a little happiness. | ||||
War Of The Worlds |
| 1st Produced: | 1999-00 | |||
| Company: | Saratoga International Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Contact Saratoga International Theater Institute, Old Chelsea Station, PO Box 1922, New York, NY 10011 | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Conceived by Anne Bogart, created by the SITI Company, written by Naomi Iizuka | ||||
Synopsis: His radio broadcast War of the Worlds sent Americans into hysterical panic. He took Hollywood by storm with Citizen Kane, a larger-than-life film about a mover-and-shaker not so very different from himself. Mercurial, controversial, inspiring, infuriating -- Orson Welles entranced and enraged everyone. His fall from grace mirrored the magnitude of his talent -- and the massiveness of an ego steered straight to self-destruction. Director Anne Bogart, her remarkable SITI Company, and playwright Naomi Iizuka join forces to explore the myth and myth-maker, charlatanism and genius of Orson Welles. | ||||