MIA MCCULLOUGH   


Mia McCullough
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Plays by Mia McCullough

MIA MCCULLOUGH
Chagrin Falls
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
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1st Published:
Smith & Kraus; New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2001
2003
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: CHAGRIN FALLS was developed in part through Chicago Dramatists and Famous Door Theatre.
Synopsis: To live in Chagrin Falls, Oklahoma is to be in the killing business. The town's major employers are the slaughterhouse and the penitentiary where lethal injection is administered. Whether they work at the slaughterhouse, or play preacher or guard to death row inmates, or merely offer a bed and a hot meal to those visiting the prison, each resident makes their living off of death and captivity. A week prior to a particular execution, an Asian-American graduate student comes to town - purportedly to do a story on the man who is scheduled to die. As this would-be journalist interviews a cross-section of the population she finds her subjects revealing far more than their opinions on capital punishment. She is repelled by the recently-retired slaughterhouse employee's morbid humor and his strangely intense interest in her background. She is seduced by one prison guard's painful tale of sacrifice, and is comforted by the naïveté and kindness of another. Though she never gets what she came for, when she witnesses the execution she becomes one of them: a participant in the killing, an honorary resident of Chagrin Falls.
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MIA MCCULLOUGH
Echoes of Another Man
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing
2008
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Echoes of Another Man tells the story of Claude, a multi-talented artist who is dying of diabetes after many years of self-abuse. When a professional golfer named Steve drowns saving a little girl, his widow donates his body to become the host for Claude's brain. During a long, laborious recovery, Claude must relearn how to eat, speak and walk - and come to grips with his new life. His recuperation is complicated by the small circle of people who surround him. Dr Park, who seems as interested in his newfound celebrity as he is in the well-being of his patient. Raina, his agent and one-time lover. Iris, the nurse who harbors doubts about the ethicality of the whole procedure. And Katie, who finds it impossible to let go of her husband's memory while his body still lives. Claude finds that his new hands do not respond to his artistic urges as expected, while his brain, as if subconsciously determined to make a clean break, stubbornly refuses to remember everything about his pre-operative existence. He responds with odd familiarity to the touch of Steve's golf clubs - and to the sight of Katie. Is it some primitive form of "residual memory" in his muscles and sense organs? Or something more? Who is he now? He certainly can't be Steve - but is he still merely Claude? McCullough leaves the audience with no easy answers.
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MIA MCCULLOUGH
Lucinda's Bed
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Genre:
Dark comedy
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: LUCINDA'S BED chronicles the life of Lucinda, a girl-then-woman, through the significant moments that happen in and around her bed. It begins with a bed piled high with frilly, girlie sheets, but as each new stage of her life comes, a layer of bedding is pulled away to reveal something new. The two men who populate the piece are the Monster-under-her-bed, who portrays the various men that compromise Lucinda's self-worth and tempt her darker side, and Adam who represents all the kind-hearted men who promise to protect her but hurt her anyway. Constantly confused by her sexual power (or lack-thereof), and repeatedly betrayed, Lucinda's desire vacillates between Adam and the Monster. With each new challenge and each new betrayal Lucinda struggles for the upper hand, yet it repeatedly eludes her. Finally, with death at her heels and all her sexuality stripped away by age and disease, Lucinda finds herself the manipulator, releasing Adam from a hero role he cannot possibly fulfill and seducing the Monster into granting her final wish. A full-length play in one act, with three actors and three beds.
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MIA MCCULLOUGH
Since Africa
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
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1st Published:
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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:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: SINCE AFRICA was commissioned by Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival. It was developed in part through CSF and Chicago Dramatists.
Synopsis: Since Africa chronicles the relationship between a Dinka refugee from Southern Sudan and three Americans - a North Shore socialite, her daughter, and an African American Deacon - who help him acclimate to Chicago's unfamiliar urban surroundings. A look at American culture through the eyes of an African, this play explores the tensions between blacks and whites, Africans and African-Americans, the devout and the non-religious. As Ater tries to navigate this new world, the Dinka refugee is confounded by American's self-centered nature and our ideas of art and ritual. Just when he thinks he is finding his place here, a letter arrives with news of his family in Africa and it sends him into an emotional tailspin. Meanwhile the Deacon's inability to connect with this refugee forces him to question his own identity as an African and as an American. The socialite's misconceptions and romantic notions about Africa are turned on end. Both she and her daughter, still reeling from the recent loss of their husband/father, have a difficult time processing their own private tragedy when faced with the truly epic tragedy of the Lost Boys of Sudan.
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MIA MCCULLOUGH
Spare Change
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
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1st Published:
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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:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes: Originally commissioned by Steppenwolf Theatre Company and presented in their 2nd Annual First Look Repertory of New Work, SPARE CHANGE was also developed through Stage Left Theatre's DownStage Left program.
Synopsis: When Brad, an unhappy investment banker, runs into a multi-racial young mother on the train who is fleeing an abusive past and grappling with mental illness that is probably much more than anxiety disorder, Brad is forced to face his own inability to aid her. Spare Change is an exploration of what it means to help one another, and how race and class complicate matters further. Can we connect with one another, or are we all hopelessly isolated in our urban landscape?
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MIA MCCULLOUGH
Taking Care
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing
2008
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes: TAKING CARE was developed in part by the Women's Theatre Alliance and Chicago Dramatists.
Synopsis: Taking Care chronicles the last years of an elderly woman and the mentally ill adult son who has lived with her for almost three decades. Stuck in a cramped, one-bedroom apartment, Ma and Benny have spent much of the past thirty years pretending the other wasn't there. Now that the old woman is more or less house-bound, she foists conversation upon her unwilling son and threatens to institutionalize him if he doesn't clean up his act and start behaving more responsibly. When she breaks her hip, Ma convinces her alienated daughters that their brother is well enough to look after her in her "recovery." Realizing that failure to do so could result in institutionalization for both them, Benny tries to rise to the occasion and care for his mother, even as she begins a quick decent into dementia. His new responsibilities test his limited capabilities and force mother and son to forge new bonds in the waning days of her life.
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