n/a

New York

1965

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in "The Unseen Hand and Other Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1971

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One Act

3

0

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three young men in a trash filled apartment, with occasional outbreaks of violence and shouting

New York

1975

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Faber and Faber, London, 1975

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Four Short Plays

One Act

2

2

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two shaven headed couples sit around a wooden table and wait for and finally consume a real roasted turkey, motiveless and puposefuless like a chimpanzee's tea party

Atlantic Theater, 330 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011 >>>

27 Jan 2010

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Play/Drama

-

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-

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This is from the press release: "Ages of the Moon is a gruffly poignant and darkly funny play. Byron (Sean McGinley) and Ames (Stephen Rea) are old friends re-united by mutual desperation. Over bourbon on ice, they sit, reflect and bicker until fifty years of love, friendship and rivalry are put to the test at the barrel of a gun."
- nytheatre.com

San Francisco

1976

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in "Angel City and Other Plays", Urizen, New York, 1976

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Play with Music

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0

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music by Bob Feldman

Los Angeles and a young magician and fixer is summoned to work a 'slight miracle' on a disaster movie

New York

1971

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in "The Unseen Hand and Other Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1971

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with music

One Act

4

3

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two cowboys are hired by woman to fight a monster ravaging the Louisiana countryside

New York

1973

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Short Play

One Act

3

0

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televised 1972

phone rings as someone in Scotland wants to buy to American expatriates greyhound, milkman solves all the problems as a singing telegram arrives

San Francisco

1978

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in "Buried Child and Other Plays", Faber, London, 1980

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Tragedy

5

2

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The setting is a squalid farm home occupied by a family filled with suppressed violence and an unease born of deep-seated unhappiness. The characters are a ranting alcoholic grandfather; a sanctimonious grandmother who goes on drinking bouts with the local minister; and their sons, Tilden, an All-American footballer now a hulking semi-idiot; and Bradley, who has lost one leg to a chain saw. Into their midst comes Vince, a grandson none of them recognizes or remembers, and his girlfriend, Shelly, who cannot comprehend the madness to which she is suddenly introduced. The family harbors a dark secret—years earlier the grandfather, Dodge, had buried an unwanted newborn baby in an undisclosed spot, creating a cloud of guilt which is dispelled only when Tilden unearths the child's mummified remains and carries it upstairs to his mother. His act purges the family, at last, of its infamy and suggests the perhaps slim possibility of a new beginning under Vince, whose estrangement from the others has spared him the taint of their sin.

New York

1965

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in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1967

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One Act

3

3

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a comedy about a young man in a bathtub

Edinburgh

1971

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in "Mad Dog Blues and Other Plays", Winter House, New York, 1971

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One Act

2

1

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written with Patti Smith

games as woman with taste for French poetry wants to turn Slim into a rock and roll star

New York

1964

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-

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One Act

4

0

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two young men in an unidentified space act out their various fantasies until finally turning on the audience

New York

1967

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in "Mad Dog Blues and Other Plays", Winter House, New York, 1971

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One Act

4

0

-

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two young men sit and talk about whether it is likely to rain

London

1977

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in "Angel City and Other Plays", Urizen, New York, 1976

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Play/Drama

7

2

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The setting is a farmhouse somewhere in the American West, inhabited by a family who have enough to eat, but not enough more to satisfy the other hungers that bedevil them. The father is a drunk; the mother a frowzy slattern; the daughter precocious beyond her years; and the son a deranged idealist who wants something better but has no clear idea of how to attain it. The action is filled with changes and counter-changes as the family decides to sell the house to raise money; the mother talks of running off to Europe or Mexico, but ends up asleep on the kitchen table; the father sobers up and tries to take control; the daughter is blown up in the family car; and the son is brutalized and bloodied by the evil forces besetting them. In the end of the play its people become a metaphor for the underside of American life—the benighted innocents forever pursuing a diminished dream, and the illusion of fulfillment which remains ever beyond their reach.

10 Feb 1965

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One Act

1

0

-

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about a black guy on a park bench

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,

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Play/Drama

3

1

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Based on The Blue Bouquet by Octavio Paz.

A disheveled man wakes from a sweat-drenching nightmare, furiously shaking his shirt and pants free of possible small jungle creatures, and hastily dresses to face the utterly dreamlike reality of remote Mexico, a torpid limbo. Henry is a lost soul from the American middle-class, middle aged and unmoored, a superfluous stranger to a wife he left hundreds of scattered miles away in snowbound Michigan, and now alone in a squalid, vine-shrouded "hotel" amid snakes, lizards and ghosts. The owner of the makeshift inn, one-eyed Viejo, warns him to stay put for his own safety, but on a brief, circular walk through the underbrush he is set upon by a peasant named Amado. The predatory figure bears a machete and a slender knife which he will use to cut the eyes from Henry's head, he tells the incredulous American, in order to present this penitent, macabre offering of "a bouquet of blue eyes" to the bewitching Consuela. The fervor of Amado's obsessed mission, his dizzying persuasiveness, and his menacing wit and insight, push Henry's sanity to its limits. In a duel of ironic pathos, humor, cruelty and metaphor, each man examines what has taken him from the woman he loves and what desperate sacrificial price might reunite him with her. At the point when the gracefully haunting Consuela appears before Henry only to dismiss his brown eyes, the sole road out of the tangled tropical forest seems indistinct but at last possible.

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Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1993

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Film Script

Play/Drama

2

5

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San Francisco

1983

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City Lights, San Francisco, 1983

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Comedy Drama

Comedy

3

1

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The scene is a stark motel room at the edge of the Mojave Desert. May, a disheveled young woman, sits dejectedly on a rumpled bed while Eddie, a rough-spoken rodeo performer, crouches in a corner fiddling with his riding gear. When he attempts to console May, who is distressed by Eddie's frequent absences and love affairs, she seems, at first, to soften—but then she suddenly attacks him. As the recriminations pour out, and the action becomes, at times, physically violent, the desperate nature of their relationship becomes apparent—they cannot get along with, or without, one another, yet neither can subdue their burning passion. The poignancy of their situation (they are half-brother and half-sister as well as lovers) is pointed out by the play's two other characters: a hapless young man who stops by to take May to the movies and becomes the butt of Eddie's funniest yet most humiliating jokes; and a ghostly old man (perhaps their father) who sits in a rocking chair at the side of the stage, sipping whiskey and commenting wryly on what he observes. Eventually May and Eddie tire of their struggle and embrace—but it is evident that the respite is temporary and that their love, the curse of the past which haunts them, will remain forever damned and hopeless.

New York

1967

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in "The Unseen Hand and Other Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1971

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One Act

4

1

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confused struggle between two revolutionaries and the Fxterminators, who are agents for an unnamed power holding people in a nearby prison camp

Aug 1965

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in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1967

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One Act

3

2

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National Education Television filmed THREE PLAYS FROM LA MAMA. They were PAVANE by Jean Claude Van Itallie, FOURTEEN HUNDRED THOUSAND by Sam Shepard, and THE RECLUSE by Paul Foster. Tom O'Horgan directed the entire program.

two people are building a bookcase for her fourteen hundred thousand books, assisted and watched by three others

London

1974

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Grove Press, New York, 1974

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Mystery Play

Mystery

8

0

-

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though rescued by his brothers a Wyoming cowboy, pure at heart but destroyed in spirit, cannot recapture the world he has lost

Actors Studio Drama School Theater, NYC

2004

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Dramatist Play Service, NY

Methuen Drama, London >>>,

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Dark Comedy, 70 min

Comedy

3

1

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An uproarious, brilliantly provocative farce that brings the gifts of a quintessentially American playwright to bear on the current American dilemma. Frank and Emma are a quiet, respectable couple who raise cows on their Wisconsin farm. Soon after they agree to put up Frank’s old friend Haynes, who is on the lam from a secret government project involving plutonium, they’re visited by Welch, an unctuous government bureaucrat from hell. His aggressive patriotism puts Frank, Emma and Haynes on the defensive, transforming a heartland American household into a scene of torture and promoting a radioactive brand of conformity with a dangerously low half life.

London

1989

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-

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0

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26 Dec 1969

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in "The Unseen Hand and Other Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1971

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One Act

4

1

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in an effort to catch the ghostly Chindi Ice comes to New York to camp out with his father whom he shoots after endless arguments

New York

1965

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in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1967

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One Act

3

2

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five young people after finishing a 4th July barbecue watch a plane flying overhead and eventually crash

San Francisco

1977

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-

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Play with Music

2

2

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based on Karen Ann Quinian case

woman in a coma and its effects on those around her

New York

1979

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-

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text for dance

Dance Play

1

0

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dance by Daniel Nagrin

a man wakes up in his lover's 'rather extravagant' bed. She's not there

New Haven, Connecticut

1980

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-

-

0

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written with Jaques Levy

2007

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Faber and Faber, London, 2008

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Play/Drama

1

1

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New York art dealer Hobart Struther goes on a desert walkabout to rediscover his "authenticity" and is stranded when his horse dies. And there it is, in the middle of the stage: a life-sized dead horse. As Hobart repeatedly tries and fails to tip it into a too-small grave while telling his story, one is reminded of Beckett's love for Buster Keaton: Rea brilliantly mixes antic behaviour and deadpan delivery with this Sisyphean shtick. However, the key writer Shepard is glossing is himself. Hobart made his fortune reselling paintings of the American west at a massive markup. "What I couldn't see was how those old masterpieces would become like demons, trapping me in a life I wasn't meant for," he says. This and other references make it clear that Shepard is nodding to his own career, seeming to want to renounce his past creative patterns by sending them up. But by invoking all his familiar themes - the west, dreams of escape, tourism, violence, authenticity - Shepard re-inscribes them even as he claims to disavow them.
- Karen Fricker, Guardian

New York

1975

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Faber and Faber, London, 1975

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Monologue

Play/Drama

1

0

-

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thoughts on nurturing a racehorse made horrifying by the fact that it represents the last thoughts of a young man about to be electrocuted

2000

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Methuen Drama, London >>>, 2006

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full length

Play/Drama

7

1

-

1st published Dramatist Play Service, NY

Two antagonistic brothers, Ray and Earl, are brought together after their father, Henry Moss, is found dead in his seedy New Mexico home. Henry was a harassing, arrogant drunk, and his sons have inherited his worst qualities. Ray is determined to uncover the mysterious circumstances of Henry's death. In three acts, the story of the father's last days unfolds in flashbacks

Promenade Theatre, New York

1985

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New American Library, New York

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1987

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Love Ballad

Play/Drama

4

4

-

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Involves two desparate families connected by the marriage of the son of one (Jake) to the daughter of the other (Beth). As the play begins Beth, brain-damaged from a savage beating that Jake has given her, is being tended by her parents, Baylor and Meg. Jake sends his brother, Frankie, to Montana to see if she is dead or alive, but Beth's father, mistaking Frankie for a poacher, shoots him in the leg and takes him prisoner. Thereafter the tensions and enmities that motivate the two families grow increasingly disturbing and dangerous. Frankie falls in love with Beth, but her brother, Mike, is bitterly determined that she no longer have anything to do with her husband or his loathsome family. Meanwhile the distraught, hysterical Jake, back home in California, is nursed by his possessive mother, Lorraine, and his sister, Sally, to whom Lorraine is openly hostile. Having gotten Jake back from Beth, Lorraine is determined to keep him with her forever, but Jake soon recovers and sets out to regain his wife. In the end, however, his will fails, and he allows Beth to stay with Frankie; Lorraine burns down her house and departs for Ireland with Sally; and Jake, bereft and alone, seeks communication with his dead father by gently dispersing his ashes into the moonlight—hoping to find order and meaning in the present by coming to terms with the haunting spectres of the past.

London

1974

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One Act

3

0

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no further publications or performances

three girls - one who has had a child, one who is pregnant, and one who never has been - look at pregnancy from a women's point of view

New York

1971

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in "Mad Dog Blues and Other Plays", Winter House, New York, 1971

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two act adventure show with music

One Act

6

3

musicians

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images of Marlene Dietrich and Mae west as country boy and city slicker set off for an adventure

18 May 1967

La MaMa Troupe

in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1967

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melodrama with music

One Act

5

1

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written by Leonard Melfi and Sam Shepard

manager harasses singer song writer and his brother to try to force a follow up to their one big song

New York

1973

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in "Open Theater", Drama Book specialists, New York, 1975

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Collaboration

Play/Drama

2

1

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written with Megan Terry and Jean-Claude van Itallie

God is indicted for his absence and the consequent sense of absurdity is compounded by the materialism and sexual role playing of society

Eden Theatre, Off Broadway, NY

1969

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Musical

8

5

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Conceived by Kenneth Tynan; Contributions by Samuel Beckett, Jules Feiffer, Dan Greenburg, John Lennon, Jacques Levy, Leonard Melfi, David Newman, Robert Benton, Sam Shepard, Clovis Trouille, Kenneth Tynan and Sherman Yellen; Music and Lyrics, The Open Window: Robert Dennis, Peter Schickele and Stanley Walden; Musical Director: Norman Bergen

Oh! Calcutta! was a long-running avant-garde theatrical revue, created by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan. The show, consisting of various sketches on sex-related topics, debuted in Off-Broadway in 1969. It proved, once again, that sex sells, running in London for over 2,400 performances, and in New York for over 1,600. The show sparked considerable controversy at the time, because it featured extended scenes of total nudity, both male and female. The title is taken from a painting by Clovis Trouille, itself a pun on "O quel cul t'as!", French for "What an ass you have!". Tynan had hoped that Harold Pinter would direct the production, in order to give it avant-garde legitimacy, but Pinter declined. (The original director was Jacques Levy, remembered by most now as the songwriting partner of Bob Dylan on his album Desire.) Most of the sketches (written, amongst others, by Nobel prize winner Samuel Beckett, John Lennon, Sam Shepard, Edna O'Brien, Jules Feiffer, and Tynan himself) featured the cast naked (including Bill Macy). Peter Schickele (aka 'PDQ Bach'), Robert Dennis and Stanley Walden were the revue's composers, known as The Open Window. A pay-per-view video production played on closed-circuit TV in select cities in 1971, and in 1972 a motion picture version was also released - in both cases many cities and municipalities banned its showing. A 1976 Broadway revival at the Edison Theatre ran for thirteen years, briefly becoming the longest-running play in Broadway history, with a total of 5,959 performances.
- Wikipedia

New York

1970

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May "Fsquire", New York, 1969

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Play with Music

17

4

many extras

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an advanced computer escapes into the desert where it becomes the heart of a battle between the power crazy military and a group of black revolutionaries

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2004

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One act

-

0

-

-

-

New York

1966

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in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1967

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One Act

1

2

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hypochondria and real bugs in a Red cross Cabin

New York

1964

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in "The Unseen Hand and Other Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1971

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One Act

1

1

1g 1b

final scene in Oh! Calcutta (New York, 1969)

play about son leaving his parents; autobiographical

10 Feb 1965

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One Act

1

0

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-

Ghosts are hellzapoppin in Lee Blessing's self-described new "metaphysical farce," FORTINBRAS, a comic interplay of wry literary criticism and contemporary wit which takes up where William Shakespeare's Hamlet left off. As inescapably relevant to today's political scene as the classic from which it is drawn, FORTINBRAS cannot help but raise questions about authority and leadership, yet with its mocking (and loving) reverence for Shakespeare's vision, Blessing's play comes closer in tone to Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead-sexy, inquisitive, and ultimately satisfying to the revisionist theater-lover. Chosen by Time magazine as one of the year's ten best plays for 1991, calling it "Lee Blessing's splendid musing on the most influential play in the English language. . ." "This comedy serves up a yuppie, postmodern Fortinbras, a bewildered Horatio, a blossoming Osric and lots of tasty ghosts." -LA Times. ". . .only Blessing would possess the nerve and the talent to undertake such a task. . .Where we suffered and

San Francisco

1976

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City Lights, San Francisco, 1983

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operetta

One Act

1

1

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the first cowboy and his wife whom he killed by allowing her to ride his horse which throws her

New York

1979

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in "Seven Plays", Bantam, New York, 1981

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piece with music

Piece

1

0

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written with Joseph Chaikin

beguiling mix of jazz, mime and speech investigating the life and death of the French cultural icon, Boris Vian. Vian was an archetypal Left Bank Bohemian who combined the roles of dramatist, novelist, jazz-trumpeter and wit: I have a mental picture of a Parisian George Melly. But the most extraordinary fact about Vian's life was the manner of his leaving it: he died, at 39, while watching a cinematic botchup of one of his novels, I Spit On Your Graves. Seizing avidly on this, Paul Hunter, who has conceived and directed the show, intercuts Vian's fractured memories of his packed life with an imaginative recreation of the grisly movie that propelled his death. The Guardian

Providence, Rhode Island

1978

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in "Buried Child and Other Plays", Faber, London, 1980

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Play/Drama

2

2

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Henry Hackamore, reputed to be the richest man in the world, is now a bearded, aged recluse, who lives on the top floor of a Caribbean luxury hotel, attended by his bodyguard-nurse, Raul. Paranoid, desperately lonely and obsessed by a fear of germs, he is kept alive by drugs and infusions of blood from other geniuses. Aware that his life is ebbing away, and determined to have one last fling, he flies in two women whom he had known, and loved, in the past. But while they are still attractive and vigorous, his energies are so drained that they can only talk of other times and other places. Entrapped by his delusions, Hackamore is a burnt-out case, a parody of the American Dream who, despite his limitless wealth and power, cannot forestall the inevitable decline into futility, boredom and an agonizingly lonely death.

20 Jul 1970

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in "The Unseen Hand and Other Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1971

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One Act

4

1

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sketch about two old, old people sitting on a porch in a pair of rocking chairs and talking. Just talking-and of course they don't know how funny they are. Each has had one or more previous marriages and perhaps a few flings, but they are hazy as to details. In fact, they don't always know which one the other one is.

1984

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-

0

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Composer: Max Roach

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-

-

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Film Script

Play/Drama

-

0

-

-

2004

-

Vintage Books, NY, 1995

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Play/Drama

3

3

-

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NahatDennis

New York

1991

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1992

Methuen Drama, London >>>,

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Vaudeville Nightmare

Piece

3

2

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The evening begins with a bang. The deceptive calm of a family restaurant, filled with two disgruntled customers and an inept waitress, is disrupted by offstage sounds of war and destruction. The real disruption begins with the entrance of the Colonel, a middle-aged brute of a man wearing the medals and uniform of a commander, who wheels on Stubbs, a mute paraplegic veteran who served with the Colonel's son. According to the Colonel, they have come "to toast the death of my son and have a nice dessert." While the customers, named only White Man and White Woman, and the waitress, Glory Bee, watch, the Colonel dominates and tyrannizes the stage. Stubbs slowly regains the power of speech and memory, and the tables turn when he reveals his enormous battle scar and hints that he is the Colonel's son. In increasingly bizarre and violent scenes, including a whipping and a food fight, STATES OF SHOCK reaches its shattering conclusion.

New Haven, Connecticut

1976

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in "Buried Child and Other Plays", Faber, London, 1980

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with music

One Act

5

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improvisation within the genre of pulp fiction as two detectives try to solve mystery of the corpse

San Francisco

1981

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Theatre piece

Piece

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under pseudoname Walker Hayes with O-Lan Shepard, music by Catherine Stone

San Francisco

1978

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in "Seven Plays", Bantam, New York, 1981

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piece for voice and precussion

Piece

2

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written with Joseph Chaikin

on his deathbed a man hears voices and sees visions from his past and from his future

London

1972

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Grove Press, New York, 1974

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Play with Music

7

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an ageing punk rocker goes against the advice of his courtiers, fights a duel with a usurper and loses, killing himself to preserve his honour

San Francisco

1980

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Faber and Faber, London, 1981

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Comedy

3

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Sibling rivalry as roles reverse; exciting and sometimes wildly funny.

New York

1967

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Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1968

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Play/Drama

4

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couple in Mexican hotel room suffering from sunburn when man dies of dysentery, second act has same elements set in America where son jumps through wall

26 Dec 1969

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in "The Unseen Hand and Other Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1971

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One Act

5

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Composer: Beeson Carroll

common poems of real and imagined moments in the spell of love, Shepard

New York

1965

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One Act

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There's more to life than winning trophies - an examination of lust and love.

London

1987

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New American Library, New York, 1986

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Monogue for radio

Play/Drama

1

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broadcast 1985 written with Joe Chaikin

a piece about an angel trapped between two dimensions

The Big Little Theatre, NY

2006

The Michael Chekhov Theatre Co. & Michael Horn

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

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Drama, full length

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written by Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard

A hauntingly lyrical memory play, WHEN THE WORLD WAS GREEN is steeped in the elliptical, poetic style for which Shepard is justly celebrated. Sketched out in just a handful of scenes is a world of sensual delight, of great journeys to distant lands, and exotic food “piled as high as a mountain, glistening in the sun.” But as always, the beauty of Shepard’s landscape is only skin-deep. Under the surface lies a family vendetta that has lasted for seven generations. The play has only two characters, an old man who was once a superb chef and a young reporter who comes to interview him in the prison where he as been locked up for many years after poisoning a man he mistook for his cousin. Their eight conversations are interspersed with a sequence of monologues in which both characters recall incidents from their childhood. These link together to form a tender narrative of regret and loss through which they transcend their memories and reach mutual forgiveness and love.