JOAN M SCHENKAR (1951 - )
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Joan M Schenkar
Author of Bucks and Does |
| 1st Produced: | Williams Art Center, New Jersey | 1987 | ||
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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 | |||
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Between the Acts |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1984 | ||
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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 | |||
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Bucks and Does |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||
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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 | |||
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Notes: in Hunting Down the Sexes | ||||
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Cabin Fever |
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1976 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1984 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy of Menace | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: three malevolent New England oldsters on a country porch reciting horrifying and hysterically funny stories about local customs | ||||
Family Pride in the 50's |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1986 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "The Kenyon Review", Kenyon, Ohio. Spring | 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 | |||
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Fire in the Future |
| 1st Produced: | Minneapolis | 1987 | ||
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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 | |||
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Fulfilling Koch's Postulate |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1985 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Signs of Life: 6 Comedies of Menace" French, New York | - | ||
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| Genre: | Dark Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 4 characters | |||
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Synopsis: Typhoid Mary is featured as the live in chef of the scientist who identified the bacillus she spreads so liberally through her delectable cooking | ||||
Hunting Down the Sexes |
| 1st Produced: | Home Theater, New York | 1987 | ||
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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 | |||
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Joan of Arc |
| 1st Produced: | Minneapolis | 1986 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Signs of Life: 6 comedies of menace" French, new york | - | ||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 15 characters | |||
Notes: aka Burning Desires | ||||
Synopsis: comedic reinvention of the story of Joan of Arc transported to 1950's Seattle where it is too wet to burn her | ||||
Last of Hitler, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1981 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Signs of Life: 6 comedies of menace" French, new york | - | ||
| 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: | Dark Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 12 characters | |||
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Synopsis: Hitler and Eva Braun are trapped in a post war Jewish retirement community in Florida | ||||
Last Words |
| 1st Produced: | Studio 17, New York | 1977 | ||
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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 | |||
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Lodger, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1979 | ||
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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 | |||
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Mr Monster |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1980 | ||
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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 | |||
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Next Thing, The |
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1976 | ||
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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 | |||
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Nothing Is Funnier Than Death |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||
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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 | |||
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Signs of Life |
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||
| Company: | Women's Project | |||
| 1st Published: | in "The Women's Project Anthology", Performing Arts Journal Publishers, New York | 1980 | ||
| 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 | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
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Synopsis: presents eminent Victorians - actual and fictious - as they perform their lives and experiment on their loved ones | ||||
Universal Wolf, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1991 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Applause Books, New York | 1992 | ||
| 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: | Dark Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 4 characters | |||
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Synopsis: send up of Little Red Riding Hood and modern French structuralism | ||||