CHRISTOPHER SHINN   


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Plays by Christopher Shinn

CHRISTOPHER SHINN
Coming World, The
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY & Methuen, London, 2006
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
doubling
Synopsis: Ed, struggling to make ends meet, loses ten thousand dollars and calls on his ex-girlfriend, Dora, for help. On a New England beach at night, he explains his situation to her and tries to seduce her back into his life. After a terrible tragedy, Dora finds herself on the beach againthis time with Ed's twin brother, Ty, an introverted web designer. On the night of Ed's wake, they grieve a mysterious, unarticulated loss that threatens to destroy them both.
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CHRISTOPHER SHINN
Dying City
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
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1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes: -
Synopsis: A dissection of the impact on society of the war in Iraq. When one man goes to war he leaves the city, his wife and brother. A year later only the wife and brother remain. The play asks what happens when people and events apparently thousands of miles away affect the heart and soul of a city.
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CHRISTOPHER SHINN
Four
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: On the Fourth of July in Hartford in 1996, June, a sixteen-year-old white boy, meets up with a closeted, married black man he's met over the Internet. On the same night, in the same city, this man's sixteen-year-old daughter agrees to go out with Dexter, a twenty-year-old low-level drug dealer. In and around the city, on the American night of independence, these two couples get to know each other, moving from strangers to intimates. In lonely landscapes of movie theatres, fast food restaurants, darkened churches and public parks, they discover the limits of desire and the possibilities for transcendence.
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CHRISTOPHER SHINN
On The Mountain
1st Produced:
South Coast Rep, Costa Mesa, CA
2005
Company:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: A former rock-and-roll wild child, haunted by the suicide of a Seattle rock legend, struggles with the rebellion of her own iPod-obsessed teenage daughter. When rumors of the rock stars final, lost song bring a charming young man with questionable motives into the picture, an intriguing mystery begins to unfold.
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CHRISTOPHER SHINN
Other People
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY & Methuen, London, 2000
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
5
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Synopsis: Stephen, a struggling playwright and web-site movie critic, invites his ex-boyfriend, Mark, to spend Christmas with him and his roommate, Petra, a poet and stripper. Mark, who's recently completed making an independent film and is fresh out of rehab, begins his life back in the real world by becoming friends with Tan, a street hustler with a penchant for public masturbation. Meanwhile, Petra begins to engage outside of work with one of her customers, a kind, lonely investment banker who'd rather hear her talk than see her strip. In the crucible of a tiny East Village apartment, Stephen, Mark and Petra struggle with questions of art, sex and each other as the impending New Year forces them to define how they want to live and love in a dark and confusing world.
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CHRISTOPHER SHINN
Sleepers
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "The Backstage Book Of New American Short Plays 2004" published by Back Stage
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Genre:
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One act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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CHRISTOPHER SHINN
What Didn't Happen
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: When his lover, literary adversary and a sympathetic colleague gather at Dave Ardith's upstate retreat for a midsummer barbecue, the acclaimed author is forced to confront his demonsthe novel he is loath to finish and the life he is loath to resume. Six years later, Dave's young protégé, Scottpresent on that fateful nightreturns to the house, soul-searching and plagued by a mysterious regret.
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CHRISTOPHER SHINN
Where Do We Live
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY & Methuen, London
2002
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
7
Female
2
Parts Other:
doubling
Synopsis: You know how it is, we all live together, we all neighbours in an apartment in lower Manhattan, Stephen spends most of his time writing, looking out of his window and noticing his neighbours. He knows that the black family across the hall survive off benefits and drugs, but now there seem to be more mysterious comings and goings from their apartment. Across town his friend Patricia, works part-time in a bar where she serves right-leaning stockbrokers looking for the next break in the market. A political argument blows up when Stephen's boyfriend Tyler chats up white trash Billy in a club and brings him back to Stephen's party. Set in a post-September 11 world, this searching play asks to what extent is New York's liberal multicultural society under threat and how much should we care about the state in which our neighbours live.
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