ELAINE MAY (1932 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Elaine May
Adaptation |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1969 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | This is a contest, played like Parcheesi, in which the contestant advances or is sent back through the seven ages of man. The Author has written a parody of life with such incisiveness that it becomes like Swift in its barbs. The play creates a picture of man from birth until death, with all its madness, with all its familiarity and with all its nonsense. What's more, a quartet consisting of the games master, the male players and the female players assist the incomparable contestant from "mewling infant" to "second childishness and mere oblivion." Incident after incident makes you laugh and suddenly makes you stop and think that maybe you're laughing at yourself. | |||||
Adult Entertainment |
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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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After the Night and the Music |
| 1st Produced: | Manhatten Theater Club, New York | 2005 | ||||
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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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| Synopsis: | Described as a one-acter preceded by a curtain raiser and four monologues. "Curtain Raiser" - at a dance hall a woman tells a man that she can only lead when dancing. In "Giving Up Smoking". - four monologues: Joanne waits to her from her date; her best friend Sherman waits to hear from his boyfriend, Gavin whilst his mother is dying of cancer but is optimistic. And there is Mel who always dumps the woman before she gets emotionally entangled. In "Swing Time" Mitzi's friends are upset to learn that she has a private line telephone and she has not given them the number. | |||||
Evening With Mike Nichols And Elaine May, An |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1960 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | Sketches | Sketch | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Hotline |
| 1st Produced: | Off Broadway, New York | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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| Notes: | part of Deathe Defying Acts | |||||
| Synopsis: | Woman takes her mounting troubles to the novice ears of a suicide hotline operator. | |||||
Matter Of Position, A |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1962 | ||||
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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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Mr Gogol And Mr Preen |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1991 | ||||
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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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Not Enough Rope |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1962 | ||||
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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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Power Plays |
| 1st Produced: | New York | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | 3 1 Act Plays | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; Written in collaboration with Kyra Dietz | |||||
| Synopsis: | about a collision of wills | |||||
Roger Is Dead |
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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: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | A socialite wife of a Right Wing Republican is being taken to a fund raising do but ends up at the home of an ex-employee of her husband | |||||
Taller Than a Dwarf |
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Way of All Fish, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
| Company: | Stage 4 Theater Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | part of Criminal Acts an evening of three comedic one-act plays about crooks and liars | |||||
| Synopsis: | A lowly secretary attempts to extort her rich, high society boss by claiming homicidal aspirations. | |||||