JOSE RIVERA   


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Plays by Jose Rivera

JOSE RIVERA
Cloud Tectonics
1st Produced:
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
Humana Festival 1995: The Complete Plays, ed Marisa Smith, Smith & Kraus
1995
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
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
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JOSE RIVERA
Each Day Dies With Sleep
1st Produced:
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group, New York
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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JOSE RIVERA
Flowers
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
short play
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: part of the 30th annual marathon of new short plays
Synopsis: -
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JOSE RIVERA
House Of Roman Iglesia, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in "On New Ground", Theatre Communications Group, New York
1986
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: about a bright Americanised son's tortured efforts to break away from his immigrant parents
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JOSE RIVERA
Lovers Of Red Hair
1st Produced:
1999-00
Company:
-
1st Published:
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-
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Genre:
Phone Play
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Audience members enter one of several phone booths, pick up the receiver and listen to a three-minute play unfold in conversation
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JOSE RIVERA
Maricela de la Cruz Lights the World
1st Produced:
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Company:
-
1st Published:
American Theatre Magazine, NY - December
1996
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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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JOSE RIVERA
Marisol
1st Produced:
1992
Company:
-
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
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
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
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JOSE RIVERA
Massacre (Sing To Your Children)
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing
2007
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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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
Synopsis: -
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JOSE RIVERA
Promise, The
1st Produced:
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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JOSE RIVERA
References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot
1st Produced:
Arcola, London
2005
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:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
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
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JOSE RIVERA
School of the Americas
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing
2007
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
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
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JOSE RIVERA
Slaughter in the Lake
1st Produced:
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2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
2
Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Two estranged friends meet in Central Park
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JOSE RIVERA
Sueno
1st Produced:
Arthur Seelen Theatre, NY
2007
Company:
FLUX Theatre Ensemble
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
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Female
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Parts Other:
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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
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JOSE RIVERA
Tape
1st Produced:
1993
Company:
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1st Published:
Humana Festival 1993: The Complete Plays, ed Marisa Smith, Smith & Kraus
1993
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Genre:
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Ten Min
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
2 characters
Notes: -
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
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