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Steve Martin

STEVE MARTIN  

Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  


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below is a list of Steve Martin's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

Guillotine         Patter For A Floating Lady         Picasso At The Lapin Agile         Underpants, The         Wasp         Zig Zag Woman



Guillotine

Synopsis:
A guillotine salesman hocks his wares to a customer who wants one for self defense. His French maid's efficiency in dusting becomes her undoing.

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1st Published:
in WASP and other plays, Samuel French, Inc - New York >>>    -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Patter For A Floating Lady

Synopsis:
A magician levitates his female assistant, a former lover. He uses magic to give her the freedom he was unable to bestow when they were together. The trick has an unexpected result: she splits in two and reveals her utter contempt for him.

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1st Published:
in WASP and other plays, Samuel French, Inc - New York >>>    -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Picasso At The Lapin Agile

Synopsis:
This long running Off-Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. In his first comedy for the stage, the popular actor and screenwriter plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these two geniuses muse on the century's achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious dizziness. Bystanders, including Picasso' agent, the bartender and his mistress, Picasso's date, an elderly philosopher, Charles Dabernow Schmendimen and an idiot inventor introduce additional flourishes of humor. The final surprise patron to join the merriment at the Lapin Agile is a charismatic dark haired singer time warped in from a later era.

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1st Produced:
Quarry, West Yorks    1998

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1st Published:
American Theatre Magazine, NY - November, 1994
Samuel French, Inc - New York >>>    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Underpants, The

Synopsis:
Its premise is simple, if bizarre: Louise, wife to ruthless pragmatic government clerk Theo, accidently managed to drop her drawers at the Kaiser's parade, thus becoming the talk of a thrillingly scandalised town. It seems that every man in Germany, except Theo, now wants to bunk up with her.
Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard

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Original Playwright - Carl Sternheim

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Wasp

Synopsis:
WASP is a dark comedy about a family in the 1950s struggling to acheive the stereotypical perfection and harmony of the time, and failing. Instead, the characters are drowning in their own self-deprecation and are unsure of anything, even their own identities. They therefore turn to others, from voices in their heads to aliens from cartoons, for the answers they need, and even there cannot find them.

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Genre:
Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  3 other (although they can all be played by one actor)

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Zig Zag Woman

Synopsis:
Pushed to amazing lengths to relieve profound loneliness, a waitress magically separates herself into three parts to facilitate her quest for a man. She encounters an old man waiting for true love, a middle aged man who has stopped looking, and a fiery young man who longs for a woman in pieces.

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1st Produced:
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1st Published:
in WASP and other plays, Samuel French, Inc - New York >>>    -

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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