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JAMES PRESSON |
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Plays by James Presson |
Friends Don't Let Friends | ||
| 1st Produced: | Walkerspace | 02 Dec 2011 | ||||
Company: | Less Than Rent Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #134288 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | After four years on a hit sitcom, starlet Laura Burns is at the end of her rope. Unimpressed by the whirlwind of fame and consumed by existential notions, she longs for an escape from the artificiality of her laugh-track life. But as the lines between her off-screen friendships and her on-screen ones blur, Laura must face the terrifying possibility that this might be the only reality in which she can exist. Friends Don't Let Friends blends the melodrama of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler with the silliness of network television and bears witness to a public nervous breakdown with built in commercial breaks. | |||||
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Little Town Blues | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wild Project | 23 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | Less Than Rent | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130410 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | written by James Presson and Rachel Buethe | |||||
Synopsis: | A turbo-charged tragicomedy with a satirical edge, Little Town Blues takes a hard look at what it means to be a young American in the 21st century. Drawing from influences as wide-ranging and varied as Anton Chekhov, John Updike, and Aaron Sorkin, the play delves into the emotional complexities of young love, intense friendship, and the end of adolescence, while never putting aside the absurdity of living in a world governed by iPhones, laptops, and text messaging. Navigating through delight and devastation, the boarding students of Deforest-Martin Prep rage against the machine of structured academia with the fire of a teenage rebel and the depth of a Russian poet. | |||||
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Richard 3 | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Ellen Stewart Theatre @ LA MAMA | 14 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | Less Than Rent Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117440 | |||
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Genre: | 2h 0m Local Manhattan, NYC | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | William Shakespeare, adapted by James Presson | |||||
Synopsis: | Betrayal! Bloodlust! Punk Rock! Shakespeare's classic tragedy re-imagined in a nuclear wasteland. Nineteen-year-old Richard Gloucester is trying to get ahead in post-WWIII England, and he wants the crown. . .really effing bad. It'sTheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt! | |||||
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