DEL SHORES (1957 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Del Shores
Cheatin' |
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | gossip, a small Texas town's major passion, ignites a blaze of infidelity that engulfs three couples | |||||
Daddy's Dyin' (Who's Got The Will?) |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre/Theater in Hollywood | - | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
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| Notes: | A movie version of "Daddy's Dyin'" was released in 1990 by MGM and Propaganda Films and starred Beau Bridges, Tess Harper, Judge Reinhold, Keith Carradine and Beverly D'Angelo. Shores wrote the screenplay and executive produced the film | |||||
| Synopsis: | set in a small Texas town concerns the reunion of a family gathered to await the imminent death of their patriarch | |||||
Daughters of the Lone Star State |
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 11 |
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| Synopsis: | the old Daughters of the Lone Star State are dying out, literally, an effort is made to recruit but when 'white trash' and 'coloureds' arrive chaos erupts | |||||
Sordid Lives |
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1996 | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 |
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| Synopsis: | Soap star Ty (whose Uncle is a gay transvestite) thinks it will be a big problem if he came out to his mother. "I've known you're gay since you were 5 years old & you wanted that doll for Christmas" | |||||
Southern Baptist Sissies |
| 1st Produced: | Zephyr Theatre, Hollywood, California | 2000 | ||||
| Company: | Delane Productions | |||||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 13 characters - doubling | |||||
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| Synopsis: | A Baptist Church in the American South. Four friends and members of the congregation grow up and realise that they are gay. Which is condemned in the Bible and constantly by their preacher. They cope with it in different ways. Mark eventually becomes a journalist on a gay paper as an outlet to vent his anger at the world. Though in his dreams he would like to be in a perfect world with T.J. as his partner. T.J. copes by denying that he is gay and that the masturbatory fumblings he had with Mark as a teenager were a temptation sent by Satan. He gets engaged to Sally and becomes a much more fervent Baptist. Benny becomes a drag queen and performs in bars. Andrew cannot cope he prays for God to make him straight and when his mother discovers his gay porn magazine he hangs himself. (One of the things the boys had learnt when they were in the Scouts was how to make a hangman's noose -) | |||||
Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2003 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN | 978-0-573-66372-7 | ||||
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| Genre: | dramatic comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
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| Notes: | by Del Shores; music by Joe Patrick Ward; lyrics by Sharyn Lane, Del Shores and Joe Patrick Ward | |||||
![]() | Willi lives in a trailer park with her husband. One of her sons has died and the other is banned from visiting by her husband because he is gay. A new woman moves into the trailer park and Willi's husband starts an affair with her. Willi gets a job with the local Wall-Mart but her husband quotes the Bible saying a woman's place is at home and forbids her from taking up the job. He beats her nearly to death but she shoots him. | |||||
