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Chicago

2006

Scrap Mettle SOUL

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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

Docudrama

Play/Drama

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Flexible ensemble cast

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Synopsis: Written on commission for Scrap Mettle SOUL, this script adapts true stories about immigration as told by Chicago's Uptown residents. Jacob worked with director Stefan Brün and composer Steven Rasberry and a diverse ensemble of non-professional actors from Uptown to create this unique performance. The goal was not to make literature but to give voice to these often ignored residents of Chicago.

Chicago

2007

Scrap Mettle SOUL

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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

Docudrama

Play/Drama

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Flexible ensemble cast

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Synopsis: Written on commission for Scrap Mettle SOUL, this script adapts true stories about the St. Francis Catholic Worker House as told by Chicago's Uptown residents. The House is part of the Catholic Worker Movement started by Dorothy Day in the 1930s; its residents provide discussion groups, housing for people down on their luck, and a living model of self-imposed poverty, hospitality and spiritual revolution Jacob worked with director Stefan Brün and a diverse ensemble of non-professional actors from Uptown to create this unique performance. The goal was not to make literature but to give voice to these often ignored residents of Chicago.

Chicago

2007

Scrap Mettle SOUL

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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

Docudrama

Play/Drama

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Flexible ensemble cast

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Synopsis: Written on commission for Scrap Mettle SOUL, this script adapts the true story of The Inspiration Café as told by Chicago's Uptown residents. The café began with one woman handing out sandwiches from a red wagon and today is a non-profit agency running three restaurants, rehabilitation programs, and subsidized housing. Jacob worked with director Stefan Brün and composer Steven Rasberry and a diverse ensemble of non-professional actors from Uptown Chicago to create this unique performance. The goal was not to make literature but to give voice to these often ignored residents of Chicago.

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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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Play/Drama

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Synopsis: The life and theatrical works of Polish director/playwright Tadeusz Kantor form the basis for this haunting assemblage of text, performance and poetry. Out of the rubble of post-war Poland, and under penalty of death from first the Nazis then Stalin, Kantor created a new kind of theatre, a radical experiment in performance whose influence is still felt today. Combining Kantor's critical writings with excerpts from his theatrical pieces and recreations of his rehearsal process, award-winning playwright Jacob Juntunen creates a complex meditation on war, remembrance, and the place of art in society that is at once a work of history, of performance theory, and a profoundly moving tribute to to a visionary artist.

Chicago

2006

Experimental Theatre Chicago

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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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One Act

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Notes: The character, Kantor, is male but the actor need not be.

Synopsis: A twenty-minute solo performance about the life and theatrical works of Polish director/playwright Tadeusz Kantor. Combining Kantor's critical writings with excerpts from his theatrical pieces and recreations of his rehearsal process, award-winning playwright Jacob Juntunen creates a complex meditation on war, remembrance, and the place of art in society that is at once a work of history, of performance theory, and a profoundly moving tribute to to a visionary artist.

Portland, Oregon

2001

The Engaged Theatre

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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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Play/Drama

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Synopsis: A man is lost in his own apartment. A woman from his past observes his confusion from her balcony. Exploring his unfamiliar surroundings, the man wrestles with regret while the woman mocks him, challenges his memory and helps him reminisce. Sifting through the rubble of their relationship, the man rediscovers what he now lacks: "the little things, the details& not hearing her breathing&" Reinventing the "memory play," playwright Jacob Juntunen allows the memories of these moments to help the man discover his lost "home." A Kind of Surrender is honest and genuine, exposing psychological barriers laid to waste after the end of an intimate affair, revealing that the most beautiful moments of love and life which make up a "home" too often pass by unnoticed.

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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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Comedy

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Synopsis: In this dark romantic comedy set in a grocery store deli, two outsiders struggle with the possibility that they may have something in common. It explores the costs and benefits of sanity and friendship, of labor unions and romantic unions, ultimately showing the desiccation of the American dream in the narrowing options of minimum wage workers.

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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

tragicomedy

Comedy

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Synopsis: Atlas returns home to Gila Crossing, Arizona to be with her dog before he dies. She reunites with high school friends who still talk of leaving town but never move. She thought college would help her escape, but in the end she may stay in Gila Crossing selling rocks to tourists. In this tragicomedy, Juntunen explores an absurd cast of characters and situations through which Atlas must attempt to navigate.

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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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Play/Drama

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Synopsis: Something happened to Tristan on Halloween. He came home bruised and afraid. He won't say what happened, but Tristan's mother, Toni, knows what happens when black boys go out alone at night and come home bruised. Even in wealthy suburbs, there are creatures on the street in white sheets who aren't trick-or-treaters. Tristan won't tell his mother what happened; his father is too busy to find out. So Toni asks an old lover, William, to talk to her sixteen year old son. Somewhere along the way, William lost his idealism; Toni's phone call brings him into contact with a woman he never forgot and with her strange and intriguing son. Can forming a new relationship with these two be a way to recapture what he's lost? Or will it simply complicate the lives of everyone involved? The ultimate question posed in Skism is not what happened to Tristan, but rather, how can we know?

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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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Play/Drama

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Synopsis: Under America is an epic ensemble piece that explores various characters' connections to the United States prison industry. The plot primarily focuses on Sam, a lesbian journalist who lives in Chicago's upscale Gold Coast, and Michael, a seventeen-year old African American who resides just down Division Street from Sam in the infamous Cabrini Green complex. After deciding to pursue a story concerning Chicago's public housing crisis, Sam becomes involved both in Michael's world and his mounting legal problems. Through this, the lives of Sam, Michael, and their loved ones become intractably intertwined.

Chicago

2004

24 Hour Project

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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

comedy

One Act

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Synopsis: A hilarious, twenty-minute absurdist piece about "Mallmart" workers locked in their store overnight to make sure they don't leave early.