DOUGLAS POST
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Douglas Post
At Night In The Asylum |
| 1st Produced: | American Blues Theater, Chicago, IL | 1992 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company, Woodstock, IL | 1997 | ||
| 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: | Short play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: The midnight of the soul as seen through the residents of a high-rise condominium building | ||||
Belongings And Longings |
| 1st Produced: | Organic Lab Theater, Chicago, IL | 1986 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company, Woodstock, IL | 1997 | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Three interrelated one-acts about love and furniture | ||||
Blissfield |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 Mystery | Mystery | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A foreign correspondent returns to his Midwest hometown to investigate the suicide of his best friend. | ||||
Cynical Weathers |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A moderate Republican congressman from Texas is caught in the crossfire between his liberal wife, who is an atmospheric scientist studying global warming, and his conservative chief of staff, who is an evangelical and a believer in the end times. | ||||
Detective Sketches (Trouble Is Eating My Pants) |
| 1st Produced: | Organic Lab Theater, Chicago, IL | 1987 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company, Woodstock, IL | 1997 | ||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A comic spoof of the hard-boiled detective series | ||||
Drowning Sorrows |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | Drama Mystery | Mystery | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Duncan Crawford, a bartender on the island of St. John, is considering abandoning his bar for greater adventure when an heiress from Manhattan, Emily Miles, wanders into his establishment. She begins to tell him the story of her life: how she was left at the altar at the tender age of nineteen by a fiancé who mysteriously disappeared, how she has spent the past twenty years searching for this man, and how she now believes that she has found him in the person of Duncan. Duncan denies this, but Emily is certain. To complicate matters, Emily's husband, Raymond, an investment banker, offers Duncan $10,000 to pretend he is the man Emily is looking for in the hopes she will finally come to some sort of closure over the event. The story continues to twist and turn right up to the ambiguous conclusion: Duncan might be playing along with Raymond or he may actually be the man Emily claims he is. | ||||
Drums |
| 1st Produced: | Theater Building, Chicago, IL | 1982 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A highly-strung stock broker is accosted on the streets of Manhattan by mythical African tribe who claim he is their eternal messenger | ||||
Earth And Sky |
| 1st Produced: | Second Stage Theater, New York, NY | 1991 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1991 | ||
| 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: | - | Thriller | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: poetic thriller about a would-be poet and part-time librarian named Sara McKeon whose lover of ten weeks, David Ames, is found dead one hot August morning in the city of Chicago. It appears that David, owner and manager of an expensive art-deco restaurant, may have been involved in several illicit activities including kidnapping, rape and murder. Unable to believe that the man she gave her heart to was a killer, and outraged that the police seem to have closed the book on the case, Sara begins her own investigation of the crime and is led deeper and deeper through the urban labyrinth into the contemporary underworld. As the detective story moves forward in time, scenes from the love affair take us back to the moment when Sara and David first met. Finally the plots converge, and Sara finds herself face to face with the person who murdered her beloved. | ||||
Escape From Groovytown |
| 1st Produced: | American Blues Theater, Chicago, IL | 1991 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company, Woodstock, IL | 1997 | ||
| 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: | Short play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: An urban professional attempts to out-run gentrification | ||||
Everyman |
| 1st Produced: | Free Shakespeare Company, Chicago, IL | 1984 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A pop opera based on the medieval morality play | ||||
Falling Through The Cracks |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company, Woodstock, IL | 1997 | ||
| 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: | Short play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A woman who is almost homeless confronts her son on the subway | ||||
Forty-Two Stories |
| 1st Produced: | L.A. Theater Works, Santa Monica, CA | 1997 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A comedy about life inside a high-rise condominium building, its apartment manager, and the members of its maintenance staff. | ||||
Gethsemane |
| 1st Produced: | Holy Covenant Church, Chicago, IL | 1999 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A cycle of songs based on the story of the passion | ||||
God And Country |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A rock opera based on Sophocle's Antigone | ||||
Kingdom Of Grimm, The |
| 1st Produced: | Chicago Playworks, Chicago, IL | 2006 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company, Woodstock, IL | 2007 | ||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A farm boy finds a trunk in the woods which unleashes a troupe of player who perform three tales from the Brothers Grimm | ||||
Murder In Green Meadows |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1990 | ||
| 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: | - | Thriller | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Thomas Devereaux, a successful architect and local contractor, and his beautiful wife, Joan, have just moved into their dream house in the quiet suburban town of Green Meadows when they are visited by their new neighbors, Carolyn and Jeff Symons, and a friendship develops quickly between the two couples. But underneath the cool, middle-American exterior, something is truly rotten. A previous sexual relationship between Joan and a teenage lawn-boy is revealed, as is the fact that Thomas learned of the infidelity and may have murdered his wife's lover. To make matters worse, an affair has begun to develop between Joan and Jeff Symons. One summer evening, following the Symons departure after a friendly game of cards, Thomas lets Joan know that he is aware of this new deception, and his violent, possessive nature surfaces. He makes two demands of his wife: One, she must stop seeing Jeff. Two, she must kill him. What follows is a diabolical plot that continues to thicken through the final showdown between a murderer and an aggrieved widow. | ||||
Other Wise Man, The |
| 1st Produced: | Leo A. Lerner Theater, Chicago, IL | 1981 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A pop opera based on the story by Henry Van Dyke | ||||
Personal Effects |
| 1st Produced: | Circle Theater, Chicago, IL | 2003 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Thriller | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A successful tax attorney lands on the streets of Los Angeles and attempts to figure out why his life has been dismantled and by whom. | ||||
Prospero's Saxophone |
| 1st Produced: | Leo A. Lerner Theater, Chicago, IL | 1981 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A rock musical based on Shakespeare's The Tempest | ||||
Real Life Story Of Johnny De Facto, The |
| 1st Produced: | Goodspeed-At-Chester, Connecticut, IL | 1989 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A rock star is almost killed at his farewell concert by a fan who wants fame, fortune and his piece of the American pie. | ||||
Somebody Foreign |
| 1st Produced: | City Lit Theater, Chicago, IL | 2006 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A Chicago woman with ties to the human rights movement in the Gaza Strip becomes the target of an investigation by the FBI, the local police, and the media. | ||||
Somewhere On The Coast Of Belize |
| 1st Produced: | Primary Stages, New York, NY | 1993 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company, Woodstock, IL | 1997 | ||
| 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: | Short play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Two New York barge men attempt to unload a boat filled with trash on a third world power | ||||
Suffering Fools |
| 1st Produced: | Commons Theater, Chicago, IL | 1989 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Several sets of lovers chase each other through a series of summer days and nights | ||||
Wind In The Willows, The |
| 1st Produced: | Organic Lab Theater, Chicago, IL | 1985 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company, Woodstock, IL | 1986 | ||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A musical adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's book | ||||