JOSE RIVERA
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Plays by Jose Rivera
Cloud Tectonics |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 1995: The Complete Plays, ed Marisa Smith, Smith & Kraus | 1995 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: Cloud Tectonics takes place in a world where years can pass in a single night, and asks if there ever exists a 'right time' for love. On a stormy night in Los Angeles, a lonely man picks up Celestina, a pregnant hitchhiker, and welcomes her into his home. She claims she is 54 years old and has been pregnant for two years. Clocks stop, visitors materialize, and love ticks towards its inevitable climax Press Release | ||||
Each Day Dies With Sleep |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group, New York | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Flowers |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
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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 or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | short play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: part of the 30th annual marathon of new short plays | ||||
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House Of Roman Iglesia, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "On New Ground", Theatre Communications Group, New York | 1986 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: about a bright Americanised son's tortured efforts to break away from his immigrant parents | ||||
Lovers Of Red Hair |
| 1st Produced: | 1999-00 | |||
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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 or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Phone Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Audience members enter one of several phone booths, pick up the receiver and listen to a three-minute play unfold in conversation | ||||
Maricela de la Cruz Lights the World |
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| 1st Published: | American Theatre Magazine, NY - December | 1996 | ||
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Marisol |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, Inc.; by TCG in American Theatre Magazine; and by Penguin USA in Nuestro New York | - | ||
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| Genre: | Two Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Armageddon in the heavens--the angels go to war! Apocalypse on earth--cities self-destruct! Seen through the eyes of Marisol Perez, an Everywoman on a journey through a surrealistic Bronx, this miraculous drama pins the destiny of our planet on the outcome of revolution on renewal | ||||
Massacre (Sing To Your Children) |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing | 2007 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Ensemble Studio Theatre presents Project 35, a festival celebrating their 35th Anniversary season. It consists of concert readings of 35 new plays in 35 days by 35 E.S.T. members and guest artists | ||||
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Promise, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot |
| 1st Produced: | Arcola, London | 2005 | ||
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: A hot summer night in the Californian desert shortly after the first Gulf war. A cat talks to a coyote, the moon looks down, and Gabriela goes a little crazy waiting for Benito, her soldier husband, to return from the field. It is a case of magic realism meets Sam Shepard in this moonstruck drama written by José Rivera, best known in the UK for his screenplay for The Motorcycle Diaries. - Gardner, Guardian | ||||
School of the Americas |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing | 2007 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: In the Bolivian jungle, Che Guevara is captured and held in a one-room schoolhouse. For two days, no one-not the Bolivian President nor the U.S. State Department-is able to decide his fate. The young schoolteacher of the village insists that she be given permission to speak to the famous revolutionary. Her conversations with Che-based on historical fact-are the heart of School of the Americas. nytheatre.com | ||||
Slaughter in the Lake |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2002 | ||
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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 or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Two estranged friends meet in Central Park | ||||
Sueno |
| 1st Produced: | Arthur Seelen Theatre, NY | 2007 | ||
| Company: | FLUX Theatre Ensemble | |||
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: part of The Dream Project, which is described as "an exploration of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's La Vida es Sueño through a series of staged readings of adaptations of Calderón's masterpiece | ||||
Synopsis: A sharp and raw deconstruction of the Calderón classic. - nytheatre.com | ||||
Tape |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 1993: The Complete Plays, ed Marisa Smith, Smith & Kraus | 1993 | ||
| 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: | - | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 2 characters | |||
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Synopsis: If we suspected everything we said was being recorded, would we act differently? Like Nixon's drama of deceit with the White House tapes, Rivera's surreal and haunting play examines the links between technology and conscience when a lifetime of betrayal is uncovered | ||||