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EMILY BENTLEY SOLOMON |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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A playwright who has also served as a fed, lobbyist, diplomat, nonprofit executive, trade coalition head, and co-founder of the international medical charity global links based in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, all of which inform the drama.
Plays by Emily Bentley Solomon
(Cough, Cough!) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kennedy Center Prelude Festival | Sep 2009 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115370 | |||
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Genre: | existential | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | non-gender specific casting. Written for a cast of 5 | |||||
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Synopsis: | A disgruntled actor interrupts a performance of Romeo and Juliet, holds the Player and the audience hostage and has an existential crisis over the meaning of art and the news in the 21stC. | |||||
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Hot Yellow Lentils | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival, and the Ganymede Arts Festival | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78763 | |||
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Genre: | social comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A long-buried love affair bubbles to the surface when a woman, her husband, and a secret lover confront an attractive young niece and the conundrum she presents. The play asks the question: what happens when sophisticated modern marriage, the age-old mores of India, and forbidden sexual urges collide? | |||||
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Karel Capek's War with the Newts | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kennedy Center Prelude Festival | 01 Sep 2003 | ||||
Company: | Washington Stage Guild, Kennedy Center Prelude Festival, The Catholic University of America | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115369 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy + Politics | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | non-gender specific casting. Written for a cast of 8 to 10. | |||||
Notes: | Solomon's theatrical adaptation uses the Ewald Osers English translation of Capek's novel with the permission of UNESCO Publishing which commissioned the new translation. | |||||
Synopsis: | A socio-political satire about mankind's self-undoing. The play chronicles the evolution and demise of human own society thru the rise of trained salamanders who, initially exploited, challenge mankind's position at the top of the pyramid. The play addresses our capacity to be brainwashed and blinded by the media, materialism, false science, prejudice, politics and ultimately war. Presented in a chronicle form similar to the novel, the adaptation brings the story through the cultural revolutions of 20thC into the present day. | |||||
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Last Time I Wore A Dress, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Washington Annual Theatre Festival, Washington, DC | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Washington Annual Theatre Festival, The Source Theatre Company, The Playhouse, VA | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78762 | |||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Multiple award winner at Washington Annual Theatre Festival and GLAAD Award nominee. | |||||
Synopsis: | The true story of a girl's journey through the mental health system where she is diagnosed as being an inappropriate female and is bombarded with psychiatrists, psychotics, and cosmetics. Adapted with permission of the author from the Lambda-Award winning memoir. | |||||
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Ngala Muti | ||
| 1st Produced: | Page to Stage Festival. John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, DC, USA >>> | 2008 | ||||
Company: | The Catholic University of America, Washington Shakespeare Company at the Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival, University of Pittsburgh New Play Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #88826 | |||
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Genre: | educational comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | Offstage voices of southern African birds, hippos, hyena, and lion. | |||||
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Synopsis: | Jim and Jane are badly married Americans on safari in southern Africa in search of the 'real African experience' with their South African ranger Bobby Hotz and a mystical Shangaan tracker Tshonga, but can they handle it? The local birds don't think so. A contemporary update and deconstruction of the 1930's big white game hunter genre told from Africa's perspective. | |||||
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Retirement Years, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Washington Stage Guild at the Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival | 2009 | ||||
Company: | 2009 Playwrights Festival Centenary Stage | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115371 | |||
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Genre: | comedy with a dark underbelly | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Nominee, ACTF John Cauble Award | |||||
Synopsis: | Marge wants her golden years to be platinum. Charles is happy with bronze. Ex-wife Big Sally wants Charles' money. Different definitions of the American golden years clash as an elder couple grapple with the issues of aging and each other. | |||||
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