TONY MCNAMARA   


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Plays by Tony McNamara

TONY MCNAMARA
Cafe Latte Kid, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
1994
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Genre:
65 mins
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Highly charged and savage satire on the corruptions that can eat away at families in the 1990s. A young man leaves a mental institution and goes home to his family. They aren't there immediately, but when they do get together he finds the only way he can get their attention is to hold a gun on them. Screamingly funny, cutting and accurate.
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TONY MCNAMARA
Give And Take, The
1st Produced:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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TONY MCNAMARA
John Wayne Principle
1st Produced:
Sydney Theatre Company
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney
1997
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: In a single gunshot, Robbie is catapulted from 90s househusband to corporate tycoon. Suddenly his world spirals into a comic frenzy of jerks in jackets and suaves in suits while his designer wife dreams of overthrowing Osh Kosh . . . what's a man gotta do to keep his head? A hilarious contemporary satire.
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TONY MCNAMARA
Personal Effects
1st Produced:
Manhattan Punch Line, NY
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Company:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: The scene is the living room of the Mallory's Midwestern home, where Kevin Mallory, a rather meek and malleable high-school student, who has a history of striking out with girls, has decided to give a party (hopefully an orgy) in his parents' absence. Encouraged by his more "sophisticated" friends, Artie and Bill, Kevin invites Eileen Sorenson, a new girl at school whom he'd like to get to know better and who, his buddies claim, is "hot" for him. However, all of Kevin's plans go quickly and hilariously awry, and the party descends into chaos as fights break out, advances are rejected and resentment mounts. After the dust settles, Kevin comes to terms with the fact that he and his cohorts have behaved like jerks and that in order to be accepted by a girl she must be treated like a person and not an object. The blinding realization points Kevin toward a new direction in his relations with women and augurs for a better future as the play comes to its touching, bittersweet conclusion.
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TONY MCNAMARA
Present Tense
1st Produced:
Circle Repertory Company, NY
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Company:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: It's the day of the high-school prom, and Norm Prescot, a love-smitten teenager, is beset with doubts. Will his girlfriend, Ann, keep their date or will she claim that she has to stay at the bedside of her aunt Gladys, who (she says) has been stricken with gallstones? As he waits, Norm's agonies multiply: Does Ann really have an Aunt Gladys? Or is she just using that as an excuse to pick up with her ex-boyfriend, Doug, a thick-headed jock, who is not only captain of the football, baseball and basketball teams but also Norm's obnoxious editor on the school newspaper? In a series of imaginative (and very funny) blackouts Norm's worst fears become real as we see all that is going on inside his head through wildly exaggerated daydreams depicting the fear and embarrassment of possible rejection by the girl he loves and the gnawing suspicion that she has not been faithful to him. All ends happily, however, when Norm is jarred back to reality by Ann's arrivaland, with a sign of relief, accepts her assurances that she really does love him after all.
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TONY MCNAMARA
Recruit, The
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
Blue Tongue
1st Published:
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-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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TONY MCNAMARA
Resurrection of Grudge Graham
1st Produced:
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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
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Genre:
2 Acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Heavy metal rocker Grudge Graham returns from a year in re-hab for his comeback tour. But is his long time manager and friend, Manny, ready for the new improved Grudge? Exciting, intelligent humour from an important new Australian talent.
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TONY MCNAMARA
Unlikely Prospect of Happiness, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
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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:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: A married man who always does the right thing meets a single female accountant. She soon takes over his office, takes stock and takes her clothes off. She's a woman in control. He's a man desperate to let go
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TONY MCNAMARA
Virgin Mim
1st Produced:
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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:
2 Acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: When Ed and Steve meet old friends for dinner, they're hot. They're cooking. They're on the threshold of a million dollar deal. But tonight they're not talking money. Tonight they're here because Mim is coming home. Mim McDermott, ruthless lawyer extraordinaire, is back from a Catholic community in Ireland. She's a born-again believer and when she tries to save their souls, she plunges them all into holy hell. Tony McNamara's new play is a tidal wave of comic mayhem, as Mim zealously exposes the cracks in her old friends' marriages, the soul-destroying compromises in their work, and the fraudulent foundations of their friendships.
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