EDUARDO MACHADO (1953 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Eduardo Machado
Afternoon Tea |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
| Company: | The Open Book | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Notes: | book and lyrics by Eduardo Machado, music by Skip Kennon, part of Summer Shorts, a festival of nine new American short plays | |||||
| Synopsis: | A two-character musical about the power of reconciliation. The play tells a story of the later years of the author J.M. Barries life. After twenty years of being apart, Barries wife comes back to reconcile their marriage. . .but he is still lost in the world of fantasy, youth, and Peter Pan. - nytheatre.com | |||||
Back Story |
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | Dramatic Anthology | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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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 | |||||
Broken Eggs |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1984 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "On New Ground", Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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Burning Beach, A |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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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Cabaret Bambu |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1989 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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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Cook, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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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Crocodile Eyes |
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 978-0-573-69629-9 | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 |
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 | Inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, Eduardo Machado's drama Crocodile Eyes portrays the world talked about but never seen in Lorca's play. As Lorca's famous widow traps her daughters in their house to mourn their father, Machado shows us what's happening just outside those doors. The local men, led by the charismatic Pepe, linger waiting for a glimpse of the enigmatic daughters or some viable work. Set during the Spanish Civil War, the men get caught up in the empty promises of Franco's fascism, while Pepe's involvement with two of Bernarda's daughters escalates to its tragic conclusion. | |||||
Crossing The Border |
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| 1st Published: | in 2009: The Best 10-Minute Plays for Two or More Actors, Smith & Kraus (December 1, 2009) | ISBN/ASIN | 978-1575257594 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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Day You'll Love Me, The |
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1989 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | American Theatre Magazine, NY - September, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jose Ignacio Cabrujas | |||||
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Don Juan In New York City |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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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Fabiola |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1985 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in "The Floating Island Plays", Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
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Floating Islands |
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| To Buy This Play: | 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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Garded |
| 1st Produced: | Philadelphia | 1988 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | Opera Libretto | Opera | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Havana Is Waiting |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
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| Genre: | dark comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | percussion player | |||||
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| Synopsis: | This comedy-drama takes a strong political stand on the divisive issue of the United States embargo with Cuba. The play begins with flamboyant writer, Federico making his first trip back to Cuba 30-some years after immigrating to the States as a child. Federico is joined on his journey by his friend, Fred and together in Cuba they meet Ernesto, a car driver and lifelong resident of Havana. The three men get to know each other better and learn where the real boundaries of the world lie. The play examines of the complex relationships that exist not only between men, but between the countries in which they live. Originally produced at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville. | |||||
In Paradise |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | short play | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Notes: | part of Summer Shorts 2 | |||||
| Synopsis: | After seven years apart, an estranged husband and wife try to find a way to come back together. - nytheatre.com | |||||
In The Eye Of The Hurricane |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Floating Island Plays", Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Two Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | In the Eye of the Hurricane is Machado's fourth play based on the tribulations of his family in Cuba. It is 1960 in a small Cuban town. A family gathers for a sumptuous, leisurely lunch of shrimp and avocado only to find Fidel Castro is nationalizing the family bus company: the business in which the entire family has invested all of its energies and all of its resources. The business is the symbol of the family and everything they want: money and a lot of it. Machado describes In the Eye of the Hurricane as a play about 'the moment&It's about when their lives were really in crisis. It's not about recalling. It's not about getting there. It's about the moment when you lose everything.' | |||||
Kissing Fidel |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | KISSING FIDEL is set in an upscale Miami funeral home, where a Cuban-American family has gathered for its matriarch's final rights. The black sheep of the family, a successful novelist who has used his relatives as the source material for his books, much to their horror and pride, unexpectedly returns, announcing that he plans to return to Cuba to kiss and forgive Fidel Castro. | |||||
Modern Ladies Of Guanabacoa, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1983 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Floating Island Plays", Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | The Modern Ladies of Guanabacoa shows one family's climb to wealth in the Cuba of 1928-31. The play is at once a political drama and social comedy, ranging from melodrama to farce. Questions of power, control and revolution within the family mirror society's wider conflicts. The father is a butcher who rules his wife and four grown children with an iron hand, even as he spends most of his time philandering outside the house. The only daughter, aged 27, is accused of having lost her virginity simply because she may once have kissed the now-deceased man who courted her for seven years. While her three brothers live less-cloistered sex lives, they benefit from a double standard that allows young Cuban men to go whoring to satisfy their ''special needs.' | |||||
Once Removed |
| 1st Produced: | New Haven, Connecticut | 1992 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in "Plays in Process, 9, 3", New York, 1988 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | Tossed into the United States after a revolution that backfired and an invasion (at the Bay of Pigs) that failed, with no possessions other than what jewelry they could sneak out, Mr. Machado's Cubans cope with exotic institutions like Halloween and the Presbyterian Church and suffer through menial jobs where they work beside Mexicans they look down upon as wetbacks. The play captures the bafflement and determination of a family uprooted by the Castro revolution and exiled in the U.S. The story Machado tells speaks directly to every citizen of the modern world who can't go home again. | |||||
Paula |
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | Just as the art world is beginning to forget her, painter Paula Forbes is beginning to forget herself. Paula's Alzheimer's is rapidly getting worse, and a group of her former protégés has gathered again to give her one last show. As old loves, hates, and wounds come to the surface, Paula drifts between the present and the past and what could have been. - nytheatre.com | |||||
Pericones |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1990 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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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Rosario And The Gypsies |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1982 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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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| Notes: | music by Rick Vartorella | |||||
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Stevie Wants To Play The Blues |
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1990 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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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| Notes: | Music by Fredric Myrow, lyrics by Machado and Myrow | |||||
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When It's Over |
| 1st Produced: | New Haven, Connecticut | 1986 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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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| Notes: | written with Geraldine Sher | |||||
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When The Sea Drowns In Sand |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 2001: The Complete Plays, ed Tanya Palmer & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Two Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | aka Havana Is Waiting | |||||
| Synopsis: | Exiled from his homeland for forty years, a Cuban-American returns home to mend his broken heart. With the help of a devoted friend and an entrepreneurial cab driver, Federico discovers that there's no embargo on feelings in this era of family reconciliation. Funny, angry, and deeply passionate, this post-cold-war comedy points to the personal hardships caused by political stand-offs. As Cuban activists cry out for the return of a young boy named Elian, a grown-up Lost Boy ponders how one powerful nation could steal another's children, and what happens four decades later if it does | |||||
Why To Refuse |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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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Wishing You Well |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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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