MICHAEL SHURTLEFF (1921 - 2007)
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Michael Shurtleff
Call Me By My Rightful Name |
| 1st Produced: | One Sheridan Square, NYC | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | 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: | Comedy Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | As told by Oppenheimer: "An honest, moving and courageous drama that holds your attention right up to its touching ending. It tells the tale of two Columbia students rooming together in New York: Doug is white, a young rebel, fearful of doing anything that will stamp him with the mark of conformity; Paul is a Negro, attractive, a good student& Then a white girl falls in love with Doug&There is talk of marriage but when Paul reveals that he once loved the girl for a brief period, there is a brutal battle in which Doug is badly injured. The aftermath of this explosion, the shame of both of the men, and the attempts of the girl to bring them together are explored with devastating honesty&Shurtleff endows his characters with a sense of humor and the gift of laughter, they are highly individualized and sensitively characterized." | |||||
Coming to Terms |
| 1st Produced: | Corner Loft Theatre, NYC | - | ||||
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| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | A romantic comedy about a New York couple approaching forty and finding their marriage failing, they turn to younger lovers. | |||||
Fine Summer Night, A |
| 1st Produced: | Corner Loft Theatre, NYC | - | ||||
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| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | A romantic sophisticated comedy about four people on an island; a summer night on the deck of a fine house overlooking the ocean and the romantic entanglements between two older and two younger couples | |||||
Getting into Death |
| 1st Produced: | Night Flight Theatre, Hollywood, CA | - | ||||
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| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Lock the Door Behind You |
| 1st Produced: | New York Theatre Ensemble, NYC | - | ||||
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| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Sailing |
| 1st Produced: | Corner Loft Theatre, NYC | 1979 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Best Short Plays 1979" published by Chilton Books, Samuel French, Inc | 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: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | A man and a wife on a terrace watch sailboats in the bay and capsulize their lives. Their children are grown, the parade has passed them by, and still they are buffeted by the hostilities of life, vainly searching for peace. Winds rise and even the catamarans are flipping over. Common frustrations overwhelm and destroy the man before our eyes. He strides off determined to sail the bay, knowing he is going to his death. An Off Off Broadway Festival winner. | |||||
Spirit Your Wife Away to the Woods |
| 1st Produced: | Night Flight Theatre, Hollywood, CA | - | ||||
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| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Tell Me You Don't Love Me Charlie Moon |
| 1st Produced: | Corner Loft Theatre, NYC | - | ||||
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| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Up To Snuff |
| 1st Produced: | Beverly Hills Playhouse, Beverly Hills, CA | - | ||||
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| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Who Are You? |
| 1st Produced: | Corner Loft Theatre, NYC | - | ||||
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| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Woman to Woman |
| 1st Produced: | Corner Loft Theatre, NYC | - | ||||
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| 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: | 4 short acts | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | One-act plays about women's relationships to women, to be performed only by women. A Garden Full of Snow, Getting into Death, During the War and When the Sun Goes Down. Comedy dramas. All plays can be done by 2 females except the latter which has 3. | |||||