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HARVEY SOOLMAN (1949 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Harvey Soolman is an American playwright and novelist born in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA, and who lives in the Boston area. He has a journalism and business administration education and is a graduate of Northeastern University (Boston). He is also very active in local baseball. His writing is generally along the serio-comedy genre and depicts realism and slice of life events that are easily related to by a large segment of the population.
Plays by Harvey Soolman
Ballplayer | ||
| 1st Produced: | Charlestown Working Theater | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Harvey Soolman, Producer | |||||
| 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 | #131911 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | In four acts. Three take place in the family kitchen. A fourth is a dream sequence and requires a small amount of baseball sound effects. Set in recent times and contains some profanity and baseball references. | |||||
Synopsis: | An aging amateur baseball player refuses to give up the sport, despite risking his health and family life, because playing baseball is the one thing that he has always done since he was a kid. It defines him and it keeps him from feeling old. | |||||
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Flossie, Queen of Spades | ||
| 1st Produced: | Players Ring, Portsmouth, New Hampshire | 2000 | ||||
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 | #89389 | |||
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 | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Two settings, both living rooms. Set in the present. No special effects or unusual props or lighting. | |||||
Synopsis: | Four middle-age siblings gather to discuss how they will be able to care for their elderly, cantankerous mother, who is running out of money; and the three oldest conspire to stick the youngest into taking her in by offering to make it financially worth his while. | |||||
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Peter Van | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #131912 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | There is no physical flying. Sets included outside a courthouse, Wendy's bedroom, judge's chambers and a courtroom. Some social issues, such as gays and same sex marriage, alcoholism and incest are touched upon. | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of Peter Pan and Wendy adapted to modern times, set in Boston and attempting to explain what is truly happening in the famed tale. Peter is an unemployed beneficiary of his family trust fund, and Hook is determined to put him away on trumped up charges of child molestation so that Peter's politically-connected aunt and uncle will bestow a judgeship for him on the state Supreme Judicial Court. | |||||
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Promise Haunt Rewrite, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #131913 | |||
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 | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | flexible extras | |||||
Notes: | Scenes take place first in Marianne's living room and then Herb's. The use of a telephone and outgoing voice message is needed. There needs to be a breeze passing through the room, and lighting and effects to depict a ghost entering and exiting. Both Herb and Marianne change in appearance over time, looking progressively worse. | |||||
Synopsis: | A brother breaks his promise to his dying sister not to reveal her astonishing lifelong secret after she dies leading her to come back and haunt him as promised. So, as a writer, he concocts an even more outlandish secret to "reveal." | |||||
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