SHARON HOUCK ROSS (1951 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Sharon Houck Ross
11 Shades of White: the Story of Veronica Lake |
| 1st Produced: | Samuel Beckett Theater | 1994 | ||||
| Company: | The Women's Project & Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | One-woman Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | It's 1965 in New York City, and the woman who was once described as "the most beautiful person who ever came to Hollywood," is on the stage of a seedy bar in the Martha Washington Hotel. Her purpose? To tell the true story of the woman who lived the life behind the famous peek-a-boo hairstyle. | |||||
Boxes |
| 1st Produced: | The Iowa Radio Project | 1993 | ||||
| Company: | National Public Radio | |||||
| 1st Published: | In More Monologues for Women by Women, Heinemann Books, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Monologue Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | An insecure teacher reaches a turning point in her life while shopping at the HyVee. | |||||
Entry Points |
| 1st Produced: | University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa | 1990 | ||||
| Company: | University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 5 |
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| Synopsis: | In the intensive care unit of a small Texas hospital, a family matriarch explores the landscape between life and death while her daughter and granddaughter drive all night from the Midwest to get to her. Time and space collapse as the three women confront their shared pasts and try to make plans for their uncertain futures. | |||||
Game! |
| 1st Produced: | Circle Repertory Lab Theatre, New York, NY | 1993 | ||||
| Company: | Circle Repertory Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Monologue Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | A Southern woman spars with her mischievous elderly mother in a dark basement after the mother has ruined her wedding. | |||||
Land for Elvis |
| 1st Produced: | St. Petersburg, IL | 1999 | ||||
| Company: | New Salem Chautauqua Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | In The Elvis Monologues, Heinemann Books, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Monologue Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | A Southern woman tries to trade her lucky Elvis ring to her greedy sister for a piece of family land. | |||||
Melting Season, A |
| 1st Produced: | Lincoln Center, New York, NY | 1993 | ||||
| Company: | The Women's Project & Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 6 actors in ensemble | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The play weaves the journeys of two women from different centuries. Based on Narcissa Whitmans's actual journal, her story begins in 1836 as she travels across the Oregon Trail, continues through her eleven-year struggle to convert the Cayuse Indians to Christianity, and ends with her violent death during the infamous Whitman Massacre. Interwoven with Narcissa's story is that of Jac Collins in the present day. Half-white, half-Cayuse, raised far from her homeland and her people, Jac is summoned back to the reservation when her Cayuse grandmother dies. Traveling across the Oregon Trail by mountain bike, Jac unexpectedly finds herself guided by the ancient Native American trickster, Coyote, who is determined to bring the girl back to her tribal roots. | |||||
Monologue fromTrapped Daylight |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | In The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 1993, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Monologue | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | A young woman, held captive for weeks inside her bedroom, tries to persuade her unstable husband to release her. | |||||
Signage |
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| 1st Published: | In Monologues from the Road, Heinemann Books, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Monologue Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | A woman tries to rescue a young girl from a dangerous traveling companion when they both find themselves in the restroom of the same truck stop. | |||||
Snake |
| 1st Produced: | Iowa Radio Project | 1991 | ||||
| Company: | National Public Radio | |||||
| 1st Published: | In Monologues for Women by Women, Heinemann Books, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Monologue Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | A departing inmate from a mental asylum gives advice to the troubled woman who has come to occupy her room. | |||||
Throwing Overhand |
| 1st Produced: | Touring Production: Overseas and United States | 2000 | ||||
| Company: | Theatre Bravo - US Army | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Baseball Monologues, Heineman Educational (ed Lavonne Mueller), 1996 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | monologue | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | A single mom who had to miss her young daughter's first softball game, tries to coax her out from her hiding place in the dugout. | |||||
Trapped Daylight |
| 1st Produced: | Samuel Beckett Theater | 1993 | ||||
| Company: | The New Georges | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | Wyatt Stillman must decide what to do with the mysterious creature he's kept locked in the bedroom for ten years. Now that it has attacked him, should he heed his father's advice and shoot it? Or should he listen to his mother, who begs him to set it free? The play is set in the present day on a family farm in Kansas, but Wyatt's journey plunges him through dream, memory, and a secret past which haunts him in the specters of his dead parents. The story explores the complexities of family relationships, the impact of one generation upon all those that follow, and the cyclical nature of abuse. | |||||
Waiting |
| 1st Produced: | Iowa Radio Project | 1993 | ||||
| Company: | National Public Radio | |||||
| 1st Published: | As, "Entry Points," in Best Monologues from the Women's Project, Heinemann Books, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Monologue from Entry Points | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | A daughter confronts and ultimately forgives her mother who is hospitalized in an Intensive Care Unit. | |||||