CRAIG LUCAS   (1951 - )


Craig Lucas
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Plays by Craig Lucas

CRAIG LUCAS
Action
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Ten Min
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CRAIG LUCAS
Back Story
1st Produced:
1999-00
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Genre:
Dramatic Anthology
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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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CRAIG LUCAS
Bad Dream
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1st Published:
in What I meant Was & Other Plays, TCG
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Genre:
Play
One Act
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Male
2
Female
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Frank has a bad dream and wakes up partner Michael - who has words of comfort and one thing leads to another
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CRAIG LUCAS
Blue Window
1st Produced:
New York
1984
Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1985
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes: song: "The Same Thing" By William Bolcom
Synopsis: A play about 7 people (including a lesbian couple and a probably-gay character) before, while and during a New York dinner party
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CRAIG LUCAS
Boyfriend Riff
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in What I meant Was & Other Plays, TCG
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Genre:
Play
One Act
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Male
1
Female
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Fim maker talks about past boyfriends - but can't remember the name of the best of them all
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CRAIG LUCAS
Child, The
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Play/Drama
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Male
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Female
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Notes: -
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CRAIG LUCAS
Dying Gaul, The
1st Produced:
New York
1998
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
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Notes: -
Synopsis: The Dying Gaul is a revenge drama: the story of a strange love triangle gone wildly off-course. The three people who form the triangle are Robert, a self-effacing playwright whose lover Malcolm has recently died of AIDS; Jeffrey, the high-powered yuppie film producer who wants to buy the script Robert has written about his life with Malcolm; and Elaine, Jeffrey's wife, who knows that Jeffrey sometimes dallies with his male clients but, for some reason, isn't willing to ignore his affair with Robert. So Jeffrey comes on to Robert rather strongly, though perhaps only to ensure that Robert comes through with the screenplay he wants (in which the character based on Malcolm will be changed to a woman). And Elaine logs onto an Internet chat room and begins a cyberaffair with Robert, pretending to be Malcolm's spirit, communicating with Robert from beyond. And, when Robert discovers all of this duplicity, he finds a way to trump both Jeffrey and Elaine that is as surprising as it is cold-hearted.
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CRAIG LUCAS
God's Heart
1st Produced:
Lincol Center Newhouse Theater
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: a when-worlds-collide story about one late New York night. A comfortable professional couple, Janet and David, are reading news on their laptop and smoking a little grass before bedtime. Sharing the split screen with them on the second floor are a famous activist interracial lesbian couple, Barbara and Eleanor, on a train from Maine so Eleanor can receive an award from a gay organization before she dies of cancer. Beneath both scenes is Carlin an African-American high school kid who works for a thug and lives on a park bench. He is near enough to Janet and David that, this night, she dares to wave to the young homeless stranger from her privileged window. There is far too much story to summarize here, but you should know that these lives overlap in a botched drug deal, a yuppie murder mystery, a gay-bashing incident, a crack house, a living video game and a suddenly campy "artificial intelligence" science-fiction lab where the dying Eleanor - whose childhood had been recorded for TV as a black version of "The Louds" called "America's Child" - is given immortality as a data base on a huge screen with the ability for infinite knowledge.
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CRAIG LUCAS
If Columbus Does not Figure In Your travel Plans
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1st Published:
in What I meant Was & Other Plays, TCG
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Genre:
Play
One Act
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Male
2
Female
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Notes: -
Synopsis: It is closing time in the bar where Geoff works. When a drop dead gorgeous young man comes in and does not seem to be in a hurry to leave.
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CRAIG LUCAS
Light in the Piazza, The
1st Produced:
Goodman Theatre, Chicago
2004
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Female
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Notes: World Premiere
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CRAIG LUCAS
Marry Me A Little
1st Produced:
New York
1980
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Genre:
Compilation
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Parts:
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Female
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Notes: written with Norman Rene, Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Synopsis: Sondheim's words and music paint a picture of two single people, alone in their Brooklyn apartments, as they pass yet another lonely Saturday night. Doubts are disguised by longing; despair lightened by dreams and hope.
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CRAIG LUCAS
Missing Persons
1st Produced:
New York
1985
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Independently wealthy, a published author and tenured professor at Swarthmore College, Addie Pencke spends Thanksgiving holiday struggling to hold together her splintered ego and her fractured family. Her capacious, book-lined home is peopled with real and imagined figures from sixty years of political activism, hard-drinking, a failed marriage and lost opportunities. Neighbors, strays, in-laws, children as they once were and as they could never be, remembered selves, all inhabit Addie's home for the holidays. In shifting power struggles, the critic attempts to reconcile with the artist, the parent with the child, and the living with the dead.
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CRAIG LUCAS
Orpheus In Love
1st Produced:
New York
1992
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Genre:
Libretto
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Female
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Notes: music by Gerald Busby
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CRAIG LUCAS
Prelude To A Kiss
1st Produced:
Costa Measa, California
1988
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1st Published:
Dutton, New York
1990
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Genre:
Fantasy Comedy
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Parts:
Male
8
Female
4
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Synopsis: It's about a young couple who meet, fall in love, have a whirlwind courtship, and marry. At the wedding, the bride is kissed by an elderly man no one has seen before-and mysteriously, the bride and the old man exchange souls
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CRAIG LUCAS
Reckless
1st Produced:
New York
1988
Company:
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1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group, New York
1989
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Genre:
Black Comedy Drama
Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
5
Parts Other:
many roles are doubled
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Synopsis: At home on Christmas Eve, Rachel is informed by her guilty husband that he has hired a hit man to kill her, and she must flee for her lifewhich she does by scrambling out the kitchen window and into the snowy night. She meets and joins up with Lloyd Bophtelophti, a true "original" who has changed his name to avoid alimony payments and who now lives with a paraplegic named Pootie (who also pretends to be deaf in order to get double disability). Rachel then wins $100,000 on a TV game show and begins a series of picaresque escapades involving numerous psychiatrists and, eventually, an ill-fated reunion with her husband. In the end Rachel becomes a therapist herself, treating her own child (who fails to recognize her) and is led more and more to ponder whether the modern world might not be a vast conspiracy designed to systematically undermine her own increasingly shaky sanity.
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CRAIG LUCAS
Singing Forest
1st Produced:
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2004
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Play/Drama
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Synopsis: A play about gay history. Comparing the Nazi Vienna in the '30s and the celebrity intoxicated New York Freud appears as a friend in Vienna
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CRAIG LUCAS
Small Tragedy
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
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Male
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Female
2
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Synopsis: Backstage and global politics unexpectedly collide during an amateur production of Oedipus. This powerful, timely play investigates the contemporary meaning and relevance of tragedy, launching a surprisingly funny, sharply pointed salvo directly at the heart of a generation
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CRAIG LUCAS
Stranger
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1st Published:
in 'Reckless and Other Plays', Theatre Communications Group, New York
2005
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Play/Drama
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Male
2
Female
2
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Synopsis: Two passengers on a plane start to talk to each other and talk over the terrible things they have done or had done to them. The man is fresh out of prison after serving 15 years for abusing a young girl and the woman has just survived a horrendous attack in which she was humiliated and robbed by her boyfriend
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CRAIG LUCAS
This Thing Of Darkness
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
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Play/Drama
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Male
5
Female
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Notes: written by Craig Lucas and David Schulner
Synopsis: Abbey and Donald, best friends, have just graduated college. Sharing a birth date, Donald travels to visit Abbey and his parents at a remote country house to celebrate their twenty-second birthdays together as an uncertain future looms ahead of them. The birthday celebration on the heels of their graduation seems to have rendered Abbey into an unstable emotional state. Donald, less sensi-tive, is suffering too, but Abbey was the one who, during graduation, chewed his nails off and kept going until he hit bone. After all, in an ever dangerous and violent world, what is one to feel secure about? Does friendship even stand a chance? As Abbey and Donald try to strike a deal to ensure their friendship for life, the birthday cake appears, and the candles are blown out, but the lights go out as well, and a new holocaust has hit. As the play goes on, we wonder if we're being treated to a seriously eerie vision of the future or if we're being invited to witness a beautiful, painful exploration of what it's like to become an adult as the twenty-first century enters its infancy. With a tip of the hat to Prospero in his acknowledgment of Caliban, life itself seems to have become "this thing of darkness" that Abbey and Donald must accept as their own.
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CRAIG LUCAS
Three Complaints
1st Produced:
New York
1985
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Female
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Notes: music by Stewart Wallace
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CRAIG LUCAS
Three Postcards
1st Produced:
Costa Measa, California
1987
Company:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
1989
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Genre:
Comedy Drama Musical
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: music and lyrics by Craig Carnelia
Synopsis: The place is a trendy restaurant in Greenwich Village, empty except for Bill (the pianist) and Walter (the waiter). Three young women, Big Jane, Little Jane and K.C., arrive for dinner, and for the conversation, daydreams and memories which then engage them. Deceptively simple and often very funny their table talk is mostly about everyday things, but in the fantasies to which they escape the veneers of their lives are peeled back as they regress to childhood, take an imagined trip to outer space, or reveal the problems besetting their marriages and careers. Punctuated by songs, accompanied (and sometimes joined in) by Bill, and with Walter (the waiter) assuming a variety of roles as the action requires, the play probes deftly and surely ever deeper until (in the words of Edith Oliver) "At the end, when Little Jane hands her credit card to Walter, there is little we do not know about the inner and outer lives of these three women over the years."
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CRAIG LUCAS
Three Sisters
1st Produced:
Bouwerie Lane Theatre, NY (reading)
2006
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Adaptation
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Male
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Female
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Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov
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CRAIG LUCAS
Throwing Your Voice
1st Produced:
New York
1992
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Genre:
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Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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CRAIG LUCAS
What I Meant Was
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
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1st Published:
Applause in The Best American Short Plays: 1996-97; Smith & Kraus in Humana Festival '96, The Complete Plays; and by Samuel French Inc. in Ten Minute Plays: Volume 4 from Actors Theatre of Louisville
1996
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Genre:
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Ten Min
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
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Notes: -
Synopsis: 1968 - a family meal to talk over Fritzie's long hair and moves on to the fact that he is gay as time changes back and forth and everyone apologises for things done or said.
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