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David Ives

DAVID IVES   (1950 - )

Nationality:   USA    Email:   n/a   Website:   n/a

Literary Agent:  Abrams Artists Agency  (agent: Peter Hagan)

David Ives is probably best known for his evenings of one-acts, collected as All in the Timing (Vintage Books) and Time Flies(Grove Press). His full-length work to date has been collected in Polish Joke and Other Plays (Grove). He is also the author of two young-adult novels, Monsieur Eek andScrib. He lives in New York City with his wife, Martha.

Plays by David Ives

DAVID IVES

All In The Timing

1st Produced:

Nottingham Playhouse >>>

1996

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

American Theatre Magazine, NY - July, 1994

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Six 1 Act Comedies

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Sure Thing; Words, Words, Words; The Universal Language; Philip Glass Buys A Loaf of Bread; The Philidelphia; Variations on the Death of Trotsky.

Synopsis:

Sure Thing: Two people meet in a cafe and find their way through a conversational minefield as an off-stage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux-pas on the way to falling in love. Words, Words, Words recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce Hamlet and asks: what would monkeys talk about at their typewriters? The Universal Language brings together Dawn, a young woman with a stutter, and Don, the creator and teacher of Unamunda, a wild comic language. Their lesson send them off into a dazzling display of hysterical verbal pyrotechnics-and, of course, true love. Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread is a parodic musical vignette in trademark Glassian style, with the celebrated composer having a moment of existential crisis in a bakery. The Philadelphia presents a young man in a restaurant who has fallen into "a Philadelphia," a Twilight-Zone-like state in which he cannot get anything he asks for. His only way out of the dilemma? To ask for the opposite of what he wants. Variations on the Death of Trotsky shows us the Russian revolutionary on the day of his demise, desperately trying to cope with the mountain-climber's axe he's discovered in his head.

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DAVID IVES

Ancient History

1st Produced:

45th Street Theatre (formerly Phil Bosakowski Theatre)
354 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036

20 Jan 2011

Company:

Good Foot Productions, LLC & Michael Chekhov Theatre Company

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Ruth and Jack, both in their mid-thirties, believe themselves perfectly suited to each other. But when Ruth suddenly mentions marriage, a subtle but ominous change is felt in their relationship. As it happens, Ruth is Jewish, Jack is a lapsed Catholic who scorns religion; she is career oriented and bent on success; he is a poorly paid teacher who is happy to settle for what he has; she fears her stern parents would never accept her marrying a non-Jewish man; he has already been through one failed marriage and is wary of repeating his mistake. And while the mood at first is light-hearted and filled with brightly humorous lines, it is also punctuated by the random ringing of an unseen phone-at which times the protagonists quickly vary the mood and express their secret feelings and recriminations in brief, often caustic, monologues. Later, no holds are barred, and the irreconcilable differences that were largely sublimated in the beginning now burst forth in full fury, leading to a monumental explosion and, appa

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DAVID IVES

Arabian Nights

1st Produced:

Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival, KY, USA >>>

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

comedy Ten Min

Parts:

Male

2

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Utterly normal Norman walks into utterly ordinary Flora's shop looking for a souvenir of his travels and together they find whirlwind romance, spurred on by a wacky translator.

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DAVID IVES

Babel's In Arms

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy One Act

Parts:

Male

3

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Two blue-collar Mesopotamian construction workers are handed a provocative task: Build the Tower of Babel-or else. How many stones does it take to get to heaven, anyway?

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DAVID IVES

Blizzard, The

1st Produced:

American Airways Theatre, New York

2006

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2008
in 24 by 24: The 24 Hour Plays Anthology, Playscripts Inc

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0-9709046-9-0

Music:

-

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Genre:

One act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

In 1995, a group of writers, directors and actors gathered on Manhattan's Lower East Side for what was supposed to be a one-time-only event: write, direct, produce and perform new plays with the span of 24 hours. More than a decade and just over 300 plays later, The 24 Hour Plays have been produced on Broadway, in London, Los Angeles, Chicago and across the globe.

Blizzard, The

The Blizzard brings Salim and Natasha into the country house of Jenny and Neil on a fateful night when the house's owners must decide whether to put their trust in a pair of strangers

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DAVID IVES

Captive Audience

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A cautionary fable tells how Rob and Laura face a menace in their living room: a television that talks back to them and threatens to swallow them whole.

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DAVID IVES

Cornered

1st Produced:

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street, New York, NY 10012 >>>

2006

Company:

EMEE Theater Group

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#81850

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

by David Ives, Jacquelyn Reingold, Richard Lauchman, Antony Sportiello

Synopsis:

n/a

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DAVID IVES

Degas C'est Moi

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

3

Female

3

Parts other:

flexible

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A man wakes up one morning and decides to be the French artist Degas. The best place to do that is in New York City where he encounters all that makes great art

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DAVID IVES

Don Juan In Chicago

1st Produced:

Shetler Theater 54, NY

2005

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1997

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male

5

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Don Juan is a handsome, rich, sexually naive nobleman in sixteenth-century Spain. His servant, Leporello, urges him to find a girlfriend and lead a normal life, but the Don is more interested in finding the meaning of life through books and alchemy. Afraid he won't have time to find it, Don Juan calls up the Devil and cuts a deal that grants him (and Leporello) immortality-as long as Don Juan seduces a different woman every day. Unfortunately, the first woman he seduces is Dona Elvira, his true love. Infuriated by the Don's abandonment, Elvira cuts her own deal with the Devil: She won't die until she sleeps with Don Juan a second time. Four hundred years later, exhausted by endless sex and still pursued by Elvira, Don Juan and Leporello grapple with the sexual mores of contemporary urban America as embodied by Sandy, a woman of wide and wild sexual experience. Don also meets the young and innocent Zoey-who happens to be his daughter by Sandy. With never any time to pursue the meaning of life, Don Juan swears

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DAVID IVES

Dr Fritz

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Vaudeville reigns as an American tourist in pain seeks medical help from a wacky souvenir seller named Maria who channels an even wackier German surgeon named Dr. Ringsvwandl. The comedy steps up when the doctor recommends an operation

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DAVID IVES

English Made Simple

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A young man and woman meet at a party, and their immediate romantic attraction is translated into comically unromantic grammar lessons as they struggle to free themselves from the banal constrictions of party talk.

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DAVID IVES

Enigma Variations

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#17806

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Genre:

Comedy One Act

Parts:

Male

3

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Zany hijinks as a pair of lookalikes named Bebe W.W. Doppel-gangler solve an identity crisis with the help of Dr. William W. Williams and his nurse Fifi, who may or may not be Aphrodite the Goddess of Love. Or is she a male gym-teacher in a dress?

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DAVID IVES

Flea In Her Ear, A

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2007

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#63428

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Genre:

farce Adaptation

Parts:

Male

9

Female

5

Parts other:

doubling

Notes:

Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau. Winner of a 2006 Jefferson Award for best adaptation.

Synopsis:

A FLEA IN HER EAR is the greatest of French farces, perhaps the greatest farce ever written. Raymonde Chandebise suspects that her husband, Victor, a placid and successful insurance executive, is secretly having an affair. To find out, she and her friend Lucienne write him an anonymous love letter suggesting a rendezvous at theshady Frisky Puss Hotel. Thinking the letter was intended for his coworker, the gigoloTournel, Victor sends Tournel off to make the rendezvous in his place. Lucienne'sjealous Spanish husband, meanwhile, finds the letter, recognizes his wife's handwritingand takes his pistols to the Frisky Puss, hoping to catch her in the act. Meanwhile,Victor's nephew Camille tries to warn everyone about the mix-up, but his ridiculousspeech impediment prevents anyone from understanding him. In Act Two, all decampto the Frisky Puss where, it turns out, the drunken bellboy Poche is the exact double ofthe proper Victor Chandebise. Meeting Poche and thinking she's been caught by herhusband, Raymonde keeps trying to escape from the hotel with Tournel, but arevolving bed keeps flinging them from room to room, as more and more of theinvolved parties pile into the hotel in a climax culminating in the entrance of thejealous Spaniard and his pistols. In Act Three the vortex spins even faster as all theparties return to the Chandebise home utterly confused about what actually happenedand who was who at the Frisky Puss. The drunken bellboy arrives, is mistaken onceagain for Victor, and all the threads of the multiple mix-ups are sorted out as Victorand Raymonde recognize their mutual confusions and are reunited.

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DAVID IVES

Foreplay, or, The Art Of The Fugue

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

3

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Chuck, a young man with a Don Juan reputation, brings his date to play a round of miniature golf and to seduce her. He philosophizes and jokes, slipping in as much sexual innuendo as he can. When they move to the second hole, a slightly older Chuck II appears with another date. His technique more slick, but his date is suspicious of him. Both couples continue their conversations and games, the dialogue comically interwoven. Finally a third Chuck, now in his late thirties, arrives with a young date. He is somewhat rumpled, tired and things are not going well for him. His latest date doesn't get his jokes and, worse, she is beating him at golf.

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DAVID IVES

Heir Apparent, The

1st Produced:

Lansburgh Theatre, 450 7th Street NW, Washington, DC 20004 >>>

06 Sep 2011

Company:

Shakespeare Theatre Company

1st Published:

Smith & Kraus (October 1, 2011)

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1575258096

Music:

-

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Genre:

adaptation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Jean-François Regnard - "Le Legataire Universel"

Heir Apparent, The

an adaptation of Jean-François Regnards 1706 masterpiece, directed by Artistic Director Michael Kahn. Eraste desperately wants to marry Isabelle, but first he needs to secure an inheritance from his miserable old uncle, Geronte. Geronte wont make it easy for Eraste, though, as he's bequeathed his money to distant relatives. Can Erastes resourceful servant save the day with his powers of disguise and his quick wit? Love, family and intrigue join to make this a hilarious French farce that shouldn't be missed.
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DAVID IVES

Is He Dead?

1st Produced:

Lyceum Theatre (Broadway) (New York, NY, United States)

2007

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Playscripts, Inc - New York

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

105-120 min Comedy

Parts:

Male

7

Female

4

Parts other:

7 males, 4 females (11-16 actors possible: 7-12 males, 4-6 females)

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Jean-Francois Millet, a young painter of genius, is in love with Marie Leroux but in debt to a villainous picture-dealer, Bastien Andre. Andre forecloses on Millet, threatening debtor's prison unless Marie marries him. Millet realizes that the only way he can pay his debts and keep Marie from marrying Andre is to die, as it is only dead painters who achieve fame and fortune. Millet fakes his death and prospers, all while passing himself off as his own sister, the Widow Tillou. Now a rich "widow," he must find a way to get out of a dress, return to life, and marry Marie.

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Ives Six Pack, The

1st Produced:

ArcLight Theatre, NY

2006

Company:

The Bang Theatre Collective

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#75299

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

n/a

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DAVID IVES

Land Of Cockaigne, The

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy Drama Comedy

Parts:

Male

2

Female

4

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

three poignant scenes depict a small family birthday party in a Midwestern yard on a summer day. Each scene presents a different angle on the group, what they say and who they may be. Is this the ideal American family, exactly the opposite, or something in-between?

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Liar, The

1st Produced:

Lansburgh Theatre, 450 7th Street NW, Washington, DC 20004 >>>

06 Apr 2010

Company:

Shakespeare Theatre Company

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service Inc, NY, 2011

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0-8222-2511-9

Music:

-

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

5

Female

4

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Pierre Corneille (1643 French Comedy)

Synopsis:

Dorante is charming, handsome . . . and a pathological liar! When he arrives in Paris, Dorante's outlandish tales amaze and convince all who hear them, but for each problem his clever lying solves, it creates two new ones. Will he manage to keep his stories straight, his dupes none the wiser and somehow still get the girl?

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DAVID IVES

Lives of the Saints

1st Produced:

Philadelphia Theatre Company, Philadelphia, PA

1999

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#17809

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Genre:

comedy One Act

Parts:

Male

3

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A tender and gently comic meditation. Two women preparing a funeral breakfast in a church basement muse on life, death, and the meaning of Polish jokes-and along the way achieve a kind of sanctity.

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DAVID IVES

Long Ago And Far Away

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#17810

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

a domestic drama of a troubled young wife who finds herself crossing through time-and identities-on a fateful winter evening in an empty apartment

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DAVID IVES

Mere Mortals

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1998

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

3

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

eavesdrops on a lunch hour on a girder 50 stories over the street, as three construction workers share increasingly amazing secrets of their past

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DAVID IVES

Moby Dude: Or the Three Minute Whale

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Talk to Me: Monologue Plays" Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Monologue One Act

Parts:

Male

1

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

I think it was originally written for Public Radio International for a program entitled Studio 360

Synopsis:

a stoned-out surfer of seventeen proves to his teacher that he has in fact read "Moby-Dick" over the summer by summarizing the book in under two minutes. It is only a short piece, but it is very funny.

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Mystery At Twicknam Vicarage, The

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#17812

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Genre:

Comedy One Act

Parts:

Male

3

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A body on the carpet, three ridiculous Masterpiece Theatre-style suspects and a bumbling Scotland Yard detective solve philosophical quandaries as they investigate: Who killed Jeremy Thumpington-Fffienes?

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New Jerusalem

1st Produced:

Classic Stage Company, NY, USA >>>

2007

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2010

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0-8222-2385-6

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

5

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656

Synopsis:

Baruch de Spinoza is a young merchant and the heir apparent of Saul Mortera, the chief Rabbi of Amsterdam. But Amsterdam's Sephardic Jews have made a fatal arrangement with the city: They have agreed to police their own community for unorthodox beliefs. When the city accuses Spinoza of atheism, Mortera must summon Baruch to the synagogue to defend himself. Spinoza's best friend, his sister and the woman he loves are all drawn into the controversy, a historical event that shook up not only the entire Jewish community of Amsterdam, but changed Spinoza's and Mortera's lives-and all of Western thought-irrevocably. No written record survives of what was said at Temple Talmud Torah on July 27, 1656. In this eloquent and masterful drama, David Ives attempts to open the temple doors and let us listen in on a dispute whose philosophical and political echoes still reverberate today.

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DAVID IVES

Other Woman

1st Produced:

Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY

2006

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2008

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play One Act

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Ensemble Studio Theatre's 28th annual presentation of the Marathon, featuring one-act plays

Synopsis:

a dark drama of sexual obsession within a marriage, as Thomas's sleepwalking wife, Emma, becomes his mistress without knowing it

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DAVID IVES

Philadelphia, The

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#17813

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Part of All In The Timing

Synopsis:

presents a young man in a restaurant who has fallen into "a Philadelphia," a Twilight-Zone-like state in which he cannot get anything he asks for. His only way out of the dilemma? To ask for the opposite of what he wants

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DAVID IVES

Philip Glass Buys A Loaf Of Bread

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#17814

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Part of All In The Timing

Synopsis:

a quick-witted spoof of contemporary opera with Philip Glass, the guru of minimalist music, at its center. In the course of buying a loaf of bread, Glass, his ex-lover, her friend and a baker join in a spoken quartet about lost time and lost chances of love

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Phobia Clinic, The

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

n/a

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DAVID IVES

Polish Joke

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#17815

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male

3

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A comedy about ethnic identity and the eternal American search for "roots." Jasiu (thirtyish) is a Polish-American who has been taught not to value his own roots, so he decides to make his own roots, reinventing himself first as a sort of non-ethnic everyman, then as an "Irishman." Jasiu's adventures-alternately zany and heartbreaking-take him through a job interview with an Ur-Wasp; to an attempt to become a Catholic priest; to a flower shop where he can't get service because he is weirdly invisible; to a doomed love affair with a Jewish woman; to a wacky Irish travel agency where he has to prove that he is Irish before he can buy a ticket; and to a doctor more interested in ethnic pain than in healing. Jasiu is also bedeviled by a reappearing Polish relative and has to face off with the ghost of a dead Polish patriot. In the end, by trying to get away from his ethnic background, Jasiu finds out who he is and what it means to be "a Pole."

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DAVID IVES

Red Address, The

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1998

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#17816

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

4

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

In a radical departure from his comedies, David Ives writes a searing, disturbing drama about a middle-American businessman whose company and whose very life and sanity stand under attack. E. G. Triplett leads an outwardly respectable, all-American-male existence until a mysterious business rival, Driver, comes to town and threatens not only to take over E.G.'s business, but to reveal his sexual secret: that in the privacy of his own home, with the aid of his loving wife, Lady, E.G. dresses in women's clothing. When Lady is brutally murdered, E. G.'s world collapses and he makes a desperate attempt to hold himself together - losing his own life in the process. In the end, only E.G.'s friend, Dick, is left to piece together the meaning of what had happened, and to try to make sense of the baffling man he had known as E.G. Triplett.

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DAVID IVES

Roll Over, Beethoven

1st Produced:

Theatre Tulsa (Tulsa, OK, United States)

2005

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Playscripts, Inc - New York

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#60298

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Genre:

10-15 min Comedy

Parts:

Male

1

Female

-

Parts other:

1 male, 1 either (2 actors possible: 1-2 males, exactly 1 female)

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Robin, a shy teenager, comes for a first piano lesson to Dr. Felix Goldenbaum, an effusive and eccentric teacher. Robin is amazed to find that he must "play" for Dr. Goldenbaum even though there is no piano -- at least, no visible piano. In the end, in spite of the lack of a piano, Robin makes wonderful music with the help of the mad Doctor. So does the Doctor.

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Scenes From a Distance

1st Produced:

Jan Hus Playhouse, NY

2005

Company:

Jan Hus Playhouse

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#121580

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

by Mary MIller, Sean O'Donnel, David Ives, Joe Pintauro

Synopsis:

n/a

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DAVID IVES

School for Lies, The

1st Produced:

Classic Stage
136 East 13th Street, New York, NY 10003

01 May 2011

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#127052

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Genre:

adaptation

Parts:

Male

6

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Moliere

Synopsis:

n/a

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DAVID IVES

Seven Menus

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#17817

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

4

Female

4

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

shows a round-robin of relationships at a restaurant table, as demonstrated by a group of friends that change, couple by couple and course by course, throughout several different meals.

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Singular Kind Of Guy

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#17818

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

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DAVID IVES

Soap Opera

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#17819

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Genre:

Comedy One Act

Parts:

Male

3

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A washing-machine repairman falls in love with a picture-perfect washer. Should he tell his girlfriend Mabel? Is the washer two-timing him with a dryer? Stay tuned

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Spanish Play, The

1st Produced:

Classic Stage, NY, USA >>>

2007

Company:

Classic Stage Company

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#59670

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

Male

2

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Yasmina Reza

Synopsis:

The play goes behind the scenes at the rehearsal of a play, where the line between reality and the theater begin to blur.
nytheatre.com

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DAVID IVES

Speed-The-Play

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#17820

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

9

Female

2

Parts other:

flexible

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

we are presented with rewritten works of David Mamet, all which have been "boiled down with the gist extracted." AMERICAN BUFFALO, SPEED-THE-PLOW, SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO, and GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS are each condensed to about four pages of blunt, hilarious Mamet-like exchanges. This is a must for Mamet fans

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St Francis Talks to the Birds

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2008

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#91684

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Genre:

Play One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

a comic excursion into death and dying in which the holyman meets a couple of desert vultures waiting to turn him into dessert

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DAVID IVES

Sure Thing

1st Produced:

West End Theatre, NY

2007

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#17821

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Part of All In The Timing

Synopsis:

a classic of contemporary comedy: Two people meet in a cafe and find their way through a conversational minefield as an off-stage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux pas on the way to falling in love

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Time Flies

1st Produced:

Laurie Beechman Theatre, NY

2007

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#17822

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

two lonely but sweet young mayflies meet at a pond and really hit it off. Unfortunately, Horace and May watch a nature program on this first night out and discover they have a lifespan of only one day-and their lives are half over. In volume entitled MERE MORTALS

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Universal Language

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#17823

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Part of All In The Timing

Synopsis:

brings together Dawn, a young woman with a stutter, and Don, the creator and teacher of Unamunda, a wild comic language. Their lesson send them off into a dazzling display of hysterical verbal pyrotechnics-and, of course, true love

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Variations On The Death Of Trotsky

1st Produced:

West End Theatre, NY

2007

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#17824

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Part of All In The Timing

Synopsis:

a comic look at the assassination of the famous Russian revolutionary, killed by his Mexican gardener, who smashed a mountain climber's axe into his skull. The play opens the day after the attack, with Trotsky busily writing and with the axe sticking out of his head. The play consists of quick scenes, each with a different comic take on Trotsky's death

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DAVID IVES

Venus in Fur

1st Produced:

Classic Stage, NY

26 Jan 2010

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#109261

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Inspired by the infamous erotic novel of the same name, Venus in Fur takes us behind the scenes of an audition, where a man and a woman blur the lines between fantasy and reality, seduction and power, love and sex. A crackling exploration of sexual control and desire, the play is captive to David Ives's famous combination of classic rigor and contemporary wit.
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DAVID IVES

Vicarage

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#17825

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

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DAVID IVES

White Christmas

1st Produced:

San Francisco

2004

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#107857

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

large cast

Notes:

Based upon the Paramount Pictures film written for the screen by: Norman Krasna, Norman Panama and Melvin Frank; Book by David Ives and Paul Blake; Music by Irving Berlin; Lyrics by Irving Berlin

Synopsis:

White Christmas is the optimistic yarn about decent people who hurdle personal misunderstandings to end up being, well, decent people who are full of good cheer during the holidays in 1954. World War II Army buddies and showmen Bob and Phil meet the sister act of Betty and Judy and end up at a Vermont Inn run by the guys' former commanding officer, Gen. Waverly. The inn has fallen on hard times, and so has the general, despite the presence of his caring ex-actress "concierge," Martha, and a visit by his granddaughter, Susan. The showfolk find a solution to the general's post-war malaise by planning a show at the inn - on Christmas Eve, no less. Cue the snow.

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DAVID IVES

Words, Words, Words

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#17826

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male

2

Female

1

Parts other:

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Notes:

Part of All In The Timing

Synopsis:

recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce HAMLET and asks: what would monkeys talk about at their typewriters?

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