BRUCE KANE
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Bruce Kane
Buying And Celling |
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Synopsis: How similar and how different is the attempt to close a business deal from a seduction? In this very contemporary short play, a man and a woman sit facing each other engaged in what seems to be a heated discussion about her loss of trust and his philandering. But things are not what they seem as the two characters turn to face the audience at the end of the play to reveal they are talking on their cell phones to two different people about two different subjects. | ||||
Caesar & Cleo |
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Synopsis: A fast, funny, bawdy, pun filled, double entendre loaded look at the middle aged but always horny Julius Caesar; his very hot and ambitious twenty something mistress Cleopatra; the handsome but dim Marc Anthony; the jealous and always plotting Brutus and Cassius; as well as Caesar's tough as nails wife Calpurnia. The story, the plots and the plans are all told from the point of view of the wise and sarcastic Colitus, Caesar's chief slave - with running commentary from a Roman Chorus with a hip hop flavor. | ||||
Caught In The Act |
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Synopsis: The male and female characters in a one act comedy break free from the story and dialogue they are given by the unseen writer in a play about destiny versus free will. | ||||
Cindy & Julie |
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Synopsis: Cinderella meets Juliet outside their shrink's waiting room where Cinderella reveals the truth behind her "fairy tale" and Juliet talks about the fake suicide. The two women commiserate about their exes, the false promises of idealized romanticism and remaining hopeful in spite of all they've been through. | ||||
Cracking The Whip |
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Synopsis: One month short of his wedding day Alan Bedford begins an affair with a sexy woman almost half his age in this ... or does he? In this off beat one act play that all takes place up in Alan's mind, he is forced to face the truth by his reluctant conscience, who in Alan's fevered imagination takes the form of his S&M outfitted, whip cracking ex-wife. Alan's internal conflict between reality and fantasy, responsibility and escape is acted out in front of him when his prim fiancé and his sexy fantasy stage a knock down, drag out brawl. | ||||
I Can Explain |
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Synopsis: This one act play involves a full circle dance of shifting relationships, friendships and ineffective therapy as Jim and Caroline couple and uncouple after becoming the angry victims of infidelity until they meet, move in together and seek escape from one another in infidelity. | ||||
In The Beginning |
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Synopsis: The Serpent Bartender at the Garden Of Eden Bar & Grill hooks up Adam and Eve and its all downhill for humanity. | ||||
Mirror, Mirror |
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Synopsis: In a land where "beauty is only skin deep - thank God" a "woman of a certain age" takes drastic action when she learns that she's been surpassed in the looks department by her sexy stepdaughter as the tale of "Sleeping Beauty" gets a 90210 face lift. | ||||
Opposites Attract |
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Synopsis: Eleven vignettes including but not limited to a passionate, yet disastrous relationship between two emotional masochists; an open sexual partnership that almost goes under when one of the partner admits he hasn't been cheating; to a grass is always greener threesome in which two women pine for what the other has, only to get it. | ||||
Prince Charming's Complaint |
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Synopsis: A modern look at the legendary prince who reveals for the first time the truth behind the tales, the dysfunctional women he married, the problem with "The Happily Ever After Syndrome" and the mothers-in-law he was cursed with. | ||||
Real Problem, The |
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Synopsis: In a comedy about love and men, Shakespeare's Juliet gets conflicting advice from Othellos Desdemona, Taming of the Shrews Katherine and Henry VIIIs beheaded wife Anne Boleyn. | ||||
Ruby Of Elsinore |
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Synopsis: A slovenly and indecisive Hamlet, a marriage bent Ophelia, a horny Gertrude, a power hungry Claudius and a ticked off Ghost let their hair down to Elsinore's hippest hair dresser. | ||||
Under The Balcony |
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Synopsis: Shakespeare's famous balcony scene goes slightly askew when a fleeing Casanova shows up to turn Romeo from a lover to a seducer under Juliet's balcony. | ||||
You've Got Male |
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Synopsis: A comedy monologue in which an angry writer reveals his insecurities about writing and women in a fifteen minute monologue when he explains to the audience why he is not presenting his new fifteen minute monologue | ||||