SHIRLEY LAURO   


Shirley Lauro
   Nationality:
American
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Plays by Shirley Lauro

SHIRLEY LAURO
All Through The Night
1st Produced:
Chicago Jewish Theatre
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Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
5
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: An intense, ensemble play, inspired by interviews, centering on the lives of four German Christian women who come of age during the tumultuous years of The Third Reich. One becomes a nurse who resists, treating the enemies of The Reich; one bears the illegitimate child of a gypsy boy; one is a country woman who owns the Village Bakery and survives by "finagling" around the Regime; and one becomes a die-hard Nazi Concentration Camp Guard. The Regime impacts their lives and leaves them all changed forever.
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SHIRLEY LAURO
Back Story
1st Produced:
1999-00
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Dramatic Anthology
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: by Joan Ackermann Courtney Baron Neena Beber Constance Congdon Jon Klein Shirley Lauro Craig Lucas Eduardo Machado Donald Margulies Jane Martin Susan Miller John Olive Tanya Palmer David Rambo Edwin Sanchez Adele Edling Shank Mayo Simon Val Smith. Based
Synopsis: When Ethan is born in the worst blizzard of the century, two-year-old sister Ainsley nearly sacrifices a toe trying to clear a path for the baby's arrival. That initial gesture of devotion blossoms into a tale of sibling loyalty, rivalry and love that spans two decades. Inspired by Joan Ackermann's narrative "Back Story," each of the eighteen playwrights in this collective creation puts a distinctive spin on Ainsley's and Ethan?s amusing and poignant struggles with life, with each other, and with the phantom dad who abandoned them for the wilds of Alaska
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SHIRLEY LAURO
Clarence Darrow's Last Trial
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
New Theatre
1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes: One female part is for an Asian woman. One male part is for an Asian man.
Synopsis: This courtroom story, based on fact, takes place in 1932, the last time Clarence Darrow pleads in a criminal court of law. Set in various places in Chicago and Hawaii, Darrow with his wife, Ruby, travels to Honolulu to defend a white Pearl Harbor Naval Lieutenant accused of killing a Hawaiian who allegedly led a gang rape on the Lieutenant's wife. More than a courtroom drama, however, the play is a psychological study of the great but aging Darrow as he fights to establish the plea of insanity against his rich and powerful clients'wishes. The drama plays out against a backdrop when Hawaii was a Territory of the United States, ruled heavily by our military and by rich white pineapple and sugar plantation owners. A territory where native and other Asian peoples were subjugated by this ruling class. It is the first time Darrow has defended a white man against a man of color.
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SHIRLEY LAURO
Coal Diamond, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes: part of Power Plays
Synopsis: based on the shifting relationships of four office women working in an insurance company in a Southeastern Missouri town in 1955. It is lunchtime and the women are playing bridge, but the stakes are higher than the card game. At issue is the pecking order in the office and the power structure
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SHIRLEY LAURO
Contest, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
French (acting edition), New York; London
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
6
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: a naturalistic family comedy/drama centering on a young adolescent, Bevvie Sue, caught in the web of her hilarious but powerful mother's fantasies of gaining fame and fortune through compusive contest entries, her beloved immigrant father's broken dreams and ambitions, and her rich judgmental relatives. Set in a small midwestern city in the middle of WWII, the story sweeps through a year in this American Jewish family's life, as Bevvie Sue struggles to disentangle herself and emerge as her own person: a young woman, eager for life, on her way to finding her own place in the sun.
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SHIRLEY LAURO
I Don't Know Where You're Coming From At All!
1st Produced:
Samuel French OOBA Play Festival
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: A Holocaust Survivor teaches music in an upscale Manhattan prep school. Among her pupils is a lonely poor little rich girl, who is very needy with no concept of what life is like beyond herself. Her encounter with her music teacher provides a confrontational but ultimately uplifting encounter
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SHIRLEY LAURO
Nothing Immediate
1st Produced:
Double Image Theatre, NYC
1979-80
Company:
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1st Published:
French, NY & in Best Short plays 1980, Applause
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: part of Power Plays
Synopsis: A suspense story centering on two women thrown together in a rundown motel in a small Iowa town. Sandra, a young Jewish woman from New York, arrives to be near her father who lies gravely ill in a near-by hospital. Edna, the motel-keeper, is a right-wing religious fanatic of pioneer American stock whose business is failing and whose only relative has been a Viet Nam casualty. As Edna registers Sandra, an uncanny tension between the two women mounts as Edna begins to reveal a deep hostility toward Sandra and the world she represents.
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SHIRLEY LAURO
Open Admissions
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London
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Genre:
Version
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: An explosive play in which black, brilliant but illiterate college student confronts his white professor demanding he be taught. He is on a double-standard regarding his learning at an inner city college. He is being given "B"s when he reads and writes at a third grade level, and wants to be given an equal chance at an education
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SHIRLEY LAURO
Open Admissions
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Contained in " Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays number 4" published by Samuel French Inc, New York
1984
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
7
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: explores equal opportunity in American College admissions
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SHIRLEY LAURO
Piece of My Heart, A
1st Produced:
1990-91
Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1992
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
6
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: In this powerful and profound remembrance of Vietnam, six courageous women struggle to make sense of a war that irrevocably changed them and a nation that shunned them. Inspired by stories of valiant nurses and entertainers, this stunning drama about heroism, ideals and sacrifice continues Actors Theatre of Louisville's exploration of theatrical documentary, and offers a timely reflection on America and war
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SHIRLEY LAURO
Railing It Uptown
1st Produced:
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Company:
The NY Project
1st Published:
Vintage Books, NY
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Genre:
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Ten Min
Parts:
Male
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Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: an intense, eerily frightening play in which two women encounter each other on an uptown subway in New York. One is an upscale woman going home from a shopping spree, the other a homeless woman who has seen better times. The play centers on class clashes, the fear of the unknown person, and the anxieties of modern day living which thrusts us all into unexpected close encounters demanding to be dealt with.
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SHIRLEY LAURO
Song
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
League of Professional Theatre Women/NY
1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
Short monodrama
Ten Min
Parts:
Male
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Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes: One Amer/Asian girl, late teens
Synopsis: A 10 minute one woman comedy/drama in which an L.A., Ameriasian late teen. Song, arrives at a theatrical audition for something - which remains unknown - though it's essentially a type of Reality Show. Prompted by an off-stage director with questions aimed at opening up her story, Song reveals her fragmented life; an unknown American father, who's denied his paternity, her existence with an Asian drug addicted mother which she's just run away from, a heritage in the Midwest that's gone, some Jewish roots that are gone. She has only a couple of drifter friends but thinks fame and fortune will come her way if she can just pass this audition and get on a show.
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SHIRLEY LAURO
Sunday Go To Meetin'
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London
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Genre:
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Ten Min
Parts:
Male
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Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Set at turn of 20th Century in rural mid-west. Two Christian teen-age girls set out to church one Sunday only to encounter an immigrant Jewish teen-age girl, selling apples by the road. There encounter deals with ignorance which has spawned anti-semitism ,and the groping steps toward survival and acceptance.
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