JONATHAN JOSEPHSON   (1983 - )


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Plays by Jonathan Josephson

JONATHAN JOSEPHSON
27 Ways I Didn't Say "Hi" to Laurence Fishburne
1st Produced:
The Actor's Theater of Louisville
2009
Company:
The Actor's Theater of Louisville
1st Published:
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Genre:
comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
-
Parts Other:
0-2 (if chose to double one of the roles)
Notes: Highly theatrical. The play calls for one actor (playing "Me") to enter very quickly for opposite sides of the stage. The playwright recommends casting the role of "Jonathan Josephson" with multiple actors that look close enough to each other that they can divide the role up and allow the play to move at a very fast, very funny pace. Feel free to contact the playwright with any questions.
Synopsis: A young theatre employee has a farcical non-encounter the great actor. Based on actual events.
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JONATHAN JOSEPHSON
Beluga Room
1st Produced:
Dana Point Theatre Company
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
Notes: The playwright encourages theatricality with the staging of this play - especially any moments that seem impossible to stage.
Synopsis: Andrea's husband has just left her, and her best friend Tawny is determined to get her out of her funk. In a bold move, Tawny sneaks her friend into Sea World in order to moon a beluga.
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JONATHAN JOSEPHSON
Bitches and Cocks
1st Produced:
The Chance Theater
2007
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
Notes: Highly theatrical.
Synopsis: A shirt play with anthropomorphized female dogs and peacocks that pokes fun at gender politics.
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JONATHAN JOSEPHSON
Charles Dickens' Christmas Tree
1st Produced:
The Chance Theater
2009
Company:
The Chance Theater
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
Full-length, holiday, drama
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Parts:
Male
3-10
Female
3-10
Parts Other:
-
Notes: The play is made up of three short works - "A Christmas Tree," "The Child's Story," and "The Poor Relations." Each vignette is based on or inspired by the short story of the same name by Charles Dickens. The play is written with the intension of having five actors play multiple roles in each story, but certainly can be cast with as many as 20 actors each playing a single role throughout the evening.
Synopsis: An adaption of three short stories by Charles Dickens, Christmas Tree is a theatrical look at the holiday season that is sure to warm the heart of the coldest humbug.
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JONATHAN JOSEPHSON
Four Sons
1st Produced:
UCSD Theatre And Dance, reading
2005
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
Female
1
Parts Other:
6 (four 20s, 1 40s, 1 60s)
Notes: Single interior: the Weiner family living room. Act One requires a couch and coffee table, Act Two a long dinner table and seating for nine. There should also be a television downstage center facing upstage. The play was written with a black box in mind but can easily be expanded to any size stage.
Synopsis: Four Sons is a full length comedy about four brothers (with four very different personalities) that find out that one of them is adopted - but they don't know which one. Through an intense trivia game adventure and a kooky Passover Seder, the brothers try to extract information about the hidden adoption from their parents. In the end, it is revealed that it was Grandpa that leaked the information about the adoption in order to teach his family a lesson about the importance of family and brotherhood, and truth.
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JONATHAN JOSEPHSON
Giant and The Pixie, The
1st Produced:
The Chance Theater
2008
Company:
The Chance Theater
1st Published:
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
Parts Other:
Notes: Highly theatrical play that can be produced elaborately or very simply. NOT a play for children.
Synopsis: The Giant and the Pixie is a contemporary fairy tale set simultaneously in a magical realm and a shopping mall. The story centers on Arthur - a contentious Giant who works by day as a janitor - trying to win the heart of Cipriana, a Pixie who also works in the mall. Sebastian - the hotheaded Knight - is not happy with this and wants to get rid of Arthur, but Arthur's homeless buddy Gregory (the "Troll with a soul") won't have anything of it. All the while Cipriana's father, the Magician, watches from a distance with an agenda of his own. Finalist for the 2008 Eugene O'Neill National Playwright's Conference.
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JONATHAN JOSEPHSON
Her Father the King
1st Produced:
Pasadena Playhouse/Carrie Hamilton Theatre (reading)
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
Notes: -
Synopsis: Highly theatrical play that can be produced elaborately or very simply. NOT a play for children.
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JONATHAN JOSEPHSON
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The
1st Produced:
The Chance Theater
2008
Company:
Wicked Lit - A Halloween Theater Festival
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
drama, literature to life
One Act
Parts:
Male
4-5
Female
1-5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: The play is highly theatrical. It was intended to be performed by five actors but could easily adapted to 10 or more should the situation require. The play reads as story theatre but wants to be presented very theatrically and not at all presentational.
Synopsis: A 35-minute, loyal adaptation of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod Crane is a ravenous young school teacher who desires the heart and inheritance of Katrina Van Tassel, the belle of Sleepy Hollow. But will he be abel to win the girl despite the advances of town bully Brom Bones and the terrorizing acts of dreaded Headless Horseman?
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JONATHAN JOSEPHSON
Significance of a Wedding Train, The
1st Produced:
FusionWorks Mini Fest
2007
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
Notes: The character of Yolanda should be played by an adult actress - 25-35 years old. Also note that some of the more dynamic stage directions were written with the intent to convey mood, not to be literally staged exactly as presented
Synopsis: Yolonda's mother recently died after unexpectedly overdosing on her heart medication. Yolonda's father Frank had been away on business - the first time he had left his dying wife's side in some time - and is returning home on a midnight train. Through Frank's altercation with an abrasive glove salesman and Yolonda's speeches to her magic mirror, we learn that the mother's death was not accidental - Yolonda added additional "sleeping candies" to her mother's soup in order to make her "sleep forever so she can have day all to herself." Workshopped at the 2007 Great Plains Theater Conference.
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