LARRY LOEBELL
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Larry Loebell
Allure of Oriental Wisdom, The |
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| Genre: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: A man has to suffer bigotry when his mail order bride arrives from Thailand | ||||
Angie and Arnie Sanguine |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2002 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: Running time: 22-28 | ||||
Synopsis: Angie plays the lottery. Arnie plots to get ahead at work. The fridge is empty, but no problem -- the Prize Patrol is coming to deliver the big check. Or are they? It's just another day of hope, despair, murderous impulses, and something like love in the lives of four hyper-ambitious yuppies. | ||||
Ballad Of John Wesley Reed, The |
| 1st Produced: | Theater Catalyst, Philadelphia | - | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Drama, 90 min | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: September 1971. Alan Gilbert begins his first semester at Colorado Land Grant University. He is immediately befriended by John Wesley Reed, a bona fide anarchist who lives in a derelict car. He also falls head-over-heals for Cynthia, a political organizer and free love advocate working in the anti-war movement. While Alan's landlord to persuade him to watch Bonanza reruns with her, and plots to sell off her farm land for a tract-housing development, Alan's new friends engage him in a tug of war, alternately seducing and alienating him, and teaching him vital lessons from the front lines in the struggle against conformity | ||||
But Who's Counting |
| 1st Produced: | Outside The Fringe | 2002 | ||
| Company: | Something Cheeky Productions | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2002 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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Notes: Running time: 15-20 | ||||
Synopsis: New Year's Eve, 1999. A charismatic young woman has invited a guy back to her stylishly furnished apartment and chained him up tight, in anticipation of her 2,000th sexual escapade. But she is no crazed dominatrix: Sweet, cultured, with a zest for the pleasures of life, she's kept detailed notes on every enlightening coupling over the last twenty years. And tonight she's going to share with the audience a bit of what she's learned, in one racy, rollicking monologue. | ||||
Dostoyevsky Man, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
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Synopsis: Gilbert Findlay looses his job as it is thought that Dostoyevsky is now old hat. He kidnaps various college personnel, including the one who had him dismissed, and makes listen to his lecture on "Notes From The Underground" | ||||
Edward and Ellie Supine |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: A couple arrive at their holiday destination to find their accommodation on fire and the picturesque lake has been drained. And that is just the start of their troubles. | ||||
Girl Science |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Historian Lois Allen is writing the biography of her great aunt who was a prominent biologist. | ||||
House Divided |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Two brothers. One lives in Israel and is a fervent supporter of the State. The other lives in the States and is a member of the Peace Corps. | ||||
Just Before the War Between the Plates |
| 1st Produced: | Wilma Theater In School program | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2002 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Comedy for young audiences | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 6 either | |||
Notes: Running time: 10-15 | ||||
Synopsis: There's conflict in the kitchen, as the forks, spoons, and knives argue over who's the greatest of utensils. The steel knife is looking for action, the grapefruit spoon longs for another function, and the sterling fork keeps touting its lofty lineage. Beneath the clash of cutlery lies a sensitive allegory about identity. | ||||
La Tempestad |
| 1st Produced: | Ohio Theater, NY | 2005 | ||
| Company: | Resonance Ensemble | |||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Drama, 2 hrs | - | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: based on Shakespeare's Tempest | ||||
Synopsis: On the tropical island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, Prospero practices the antiquarian arts in self-imposed exile. After a stormy crossing in a tiny plane, three couples, including Prospero's daughter Miranda and her fiancé, Ferdinand, are swept up in the island's history of passion, politics, and magic. As U.S. military pilots practice for the invasion of Iraq in the unpredictable skies overhead, each couple ponders the prospects of marriage and tests the limits of their love | ||||
Lion Eats His Lunch, The |
| 1st Produced: | Playworks 10.5 Festival (Philadelphia, PA, United States) | 1993 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2002 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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Notes: Running time: 25-30 | ||||
Synopsis: Tomorrow David Williamson surrenders to federal authorities on an insider trading conviction. Today he has lunch at his private club, and strikes up a desperate conversation with the man who has been his waiter there for many years. Their strained interchange takes a surprising turn when the waiter reveals that he, too, has been playing the stock market -- using the same information that's sending Williamson to prison. | ||||
Lion In His Lair |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: One act taken from "Pride of the Lion" | ||||
Synopsis: David Williamson arrives home the night before he is due to go to jail. His wife has been bottling up her feelings. | ||||
Lion Leaves His Mark |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
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Notes: One act taken from "Pride of the Lion" | ||||
Synopsis: David is beginning his sentence for insider trading. Helen is surprised that their daughter, Annie has come to see her. | ||||
Memorial Day |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Gretta Lang is having a memorial bench erected in the park in memory of her late husband. At the same time someone has been sent to turn off the fountain in front of the bench. | ||||
Monica For Chanukah |
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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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Prayers |
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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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Synopsis: Two men on a tourist boat to view the glaciers in Alaska. One is a native and is just having a day off. The other is a visitor and plans to be left on a glacier overnight. | ||||
Pride of the Lion |
| 1st Produced: | Changing Scene Theatre (Denver, CO, United States) | 1996 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2002 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: Running time: 90-100 | ||||
Synopsis: David Williamson is called 'The Lion' by reporters, business associates, and even his family. The day before going to prison for insider trading, he has one last lunch at his private club, and tries to enjoy a final evening of freedom with his wife Helen. She has lost the strength and love to stand by him, though, and their daughter has a spectacular betrayal in store. Pride of the Lion is a subtle, dramatic triptych about a family slowly destroyed by greed and self-aggrandizement. | ||||