YASMINE RANA
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Yasmine Rana
Blood Sky |
| 1st Produced: | The Looking Glass Theatre, New York | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Excerpts published in Smith and Kraus' Best Stage Scenes and Best Women's Stage Monologues | 1999 | ||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Stage-read at Birmingham Repertory Theatre's Altered States Series in the U.K. Developed and stage-read at Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey; International Women Playwrights Conference: Athens, Greece; Estrogenius Festival: New York; John Harms Center for | ||||
Synopsis: A wolf-like whistle is the catalyst for this journey of trauma and memory for Joley, an adult, breaking free from her past. | ||||
Decent |
| 1st Produced: | New York | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | in The Alabama Literary Review | - | ||
| 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 | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: The murder of a prostitute in New Orleans leads to a search for answers and decency for a surviving family member. | ||||
Doves In The Trees |
| 1st Produced: | New York | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Extraotica |
| 1st Produced: | Looking Glass Theatre, NY | 2007 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | short play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: part of Creatures of the Cabaret. This is a program of eight short plays about non-human characters (such as trolls, fairies, goblins and ghouls). The plays are: Angels! by Mary Flanagan; One, Two, Three, Breathe by Lenore Blumenfeld; The Clock is Ticking by Nancy Gall-Clayton; Time Troll by Karin Diann Williams; English Therapy by Nancy Gall-Clayton; I Confess by Charmian Creagle & Sean Doran; Extraotica by Yasmine Beverly Rana; and Behind Closed Doors by Letitia Sweitzer. nytheatre.com | ||||
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M |
| 1st Produced: | New York | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Excerpts published in U.S. 1 Worksheets | - | ||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Produced at The Turnip Festival, The Samuel French Short Play Festival, The Looking Glass Theatre, Pulse Ensemble Theatre (All in New York); 12 Miles West Theater Company (New Jersey);Drama West (California) | ||||
Synopsis: It's New Years Eve and Beatrice and fiance Peter visit a psychic who tells Beatrice that her soulmate's first initial is . . . M? Follow Beatrice as she embarks on a whirlwind journey in search of "M". | ||||
Night of the Koala, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Koalas or people? That is the question for James, a high powered CEO whose entire life-philosophy is re-examined when he is visited by an artsy therapist who wants him to fund her project. | ||||
Paradise |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | Looking Glass Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: part of Winter 2007 Writers/Directors Forum, a festival of workshop productions of plays featuring new writers and directors | ||||
Synopsis: The levees break in New Orleans forcing illegal Indian immigrants Meena and Raj to decide between daring to hope for life or coming to terms with death - press release | ||||
Returning |
| 1st Produced: | Johns Hopkins University Theatre | 2006 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Excerpts published in U.S. 1 Worksheets | - | ||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: LaMama International Theatre Company's Playreading Series (New York); HERE, New York | ||||
Synopsis: From a detention centre for asylum seekers, to an art gallery in Sarajevo, the external and internal conflicts brought about by war are examined through the intertwined lives of those living it. | ||||
Risk |
| 1st Produced: | New York | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: The value of human life engulfs a bedroom as Mina pleads with her partner to take the risk and say yes to life, rather than embark on a journey of destruction. | ||||
War Zone is My Bed, The |
| 1st Produced: | Nora's Playhouse, New York | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Forthcoming publication in Blackbird | - | ||
| 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: | two act | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Produced by Nora's Playhouse in New York; The Looking Glass Theatre in New York | ||||
Synopsis: A journalist's motives are questioned by his lover, a native of the war zone | ||||