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JAMES MCMANUS (1974 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency (agent: Kate Navin; TV & Film: Cindy Mintz, CA) |
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Plays by James McManus |
Blood Potato | ||
| 1st Produced: | Workshop: The BE Company | 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Dramatists | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #128655 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Set In the impoverished world of ex-Steel town Donora, PA, three brothers make a blood oath to escape by any means necessary. But each brother and the girls they love are caught up in the meth world and struggling to get out. Will love and family be enough to save them? | |||||
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Bulldog Whiskey | ||
| 1st Produced: | Reading: Diverse City Theater Company | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Dramatists | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #128654 | |||
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 | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Eamon's entire family now lives under his roof. The daughter he kicked out, Candy, is now pregnant with no where else to turn and his abusive father, Buzz, is moving back in after the death of his wife. With a baby on the way, will their search for faith and forgiveness save them from the cycle of abuse? | |||||
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Cherry Smoke | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Barebones Productions (Pittsburgh) | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #72192 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | In Cherry Smoke, Fish, a club fighter who has spent most of his life in and out of jail, is a ticking time bomb. Despite his constant struggle to change and lead a decent life, his violent outbursts and hair trigger temper result in countless confrontations with the law. His girlfriend, Cherry, a runaway fortune teller who has been on her own since the age of ten, longs for a more simple life like the one Fish's brother, Duffy, and Duffy's wife, Bug, lead. When Cherry becomes pregnant, Fish fears he will become the type of father that his dad was to him&unavailable and violent. The all consuming love Fish and Cherry have for each other is put to the test in this poetic and visceral drama. | |||||
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Dorothy 6 | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Dramatists | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #128653 | |||
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 | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A family of steelworkers struggles to hold on to their livelihood and their way of life as the blast furnace affectionately named Dorothy 6 is closed | |||||
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Underground | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Clockwork Theatre | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Clockwork Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Dramatists | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104075 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | In Underground, Bones, an aspiring country singer, lives in a small mining community where coal is king. When a mine collapse leaves him and his crew trapped, Bones struggles to survive his own guilt and impenetrable darkness. In this moving yet comical play, we witness the sacrifices made by coal miners and their loved ones everytime these men go underground. | |||||
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