JOHN JILER (1946 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by John Jiler
African Star |
| 1st Produced: | 1971 | |||
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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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Avenue X |
| 1st Produced: | Playwrights Horizons, New York | 1994 | ||
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Original cast recording: RCA (9026-63208-2) | 1997 | |||
| 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: | cast of 8 | |||
Notes: Music by Ray Leslee; lyrics by Ray Leslee and John Jiler | ||||
Synopsis: Set in a racially divided Brooklyn neighborhood in 1963, Avenue X captures both the nostalgic harmonies of an innocent age and the rumblings of future discord. As in New York and other American cities in the late 1950s and early 1960s, teenagers gather on stoops and sidewalks to pass the time singing together-the best groups win contests and dream of record deals. In Avenue X, the Italian American and African American groups wouldn't think of singing together-until Pasquale and Milton find that their shared love for the music transcends the escalating racial tension. Press release | ||||
Ball |
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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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Early Bird |
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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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: The paths of a vulgar/poetic newsvendor and a young black ballerina cross briefly and sadly in New York. | ||||
Explicit Vows |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
| Company: | Citizen Pell Theatre Group | |||
| 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 with Music | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Explicit Vows takes a wry yet affectionate look at marriage, dating, and romance from a distinctly male perspective as it traces the story of one man and the lifetime of roadblocks he encountered on his way to the altar. The play opens with a middle-aged, soon-to-be groom in a church, nervously sweating out the final few minutes before his wedding begins. While he waits, the Man reflects on the variedand often quite funnyexperiences he's had with women over the course of his life. Guided at times by the spirit of Noel Coward (whose song 'I'll Follow My Secret Heart' serves as a mantra), the Mans journey takes some unexpected turns: a strange experience with a grossly overweight prostitute; a bad period spent in a mental institution; the accidental meeting of his fiancee Molly; and a fateful trip to Tennesee where he falls in love with a woman who threatens his newfound bliss - press release | ||||
Guava Lagoon |
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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 | 5 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: A tale about a mental institution in the thickest part of the Jamaican rain forest, run by natives for wealthy white neurotic Americans | ||||
Library, The |
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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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Where There's a Will |
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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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