AURIN SQUIRE   


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Plays by Aurin Squire

AURIN SQUIRE
Am I Black Enough?
1st Produced:
Creative Space Theatre
2003
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Comedic Opera
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: The re-imagined first date of my parents set in the 70s in a greasy Miami diner
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AURIN SQUIRE
Art Gallery
1st Produced:
Manhattan Theatre Source
2004
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: The lives of three patrons become jolted by a controversial painting that may be art or a piece of crap.
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AURIN SQUIRE
Baby Talk
1st Produced:
American Theatre of Actors
2005
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Energetic, smart, fresh out of the Ivy leagues, a Black poet's dreams are dashed and she's forced to take a job as a nanny. She becomes apart of the strange underclass of Jamaican nannies that populate Central Park West
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AURIN SQUIRE
Black Spell, A
1st Produced:
Bank Street Theatre
2005
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
3 chorus parts
Notes: -
Synopsis: On the verge of a fatal drought, a local water station manager falls in love with a UN social worker. Politics, plague, and the local Native American myth of water cannibals haunt them and drive them apart.
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AURIN SQUIRE
Bleed
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Genre:
Dark Comedy, full length
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Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Something creepy, disturbing and utterly ridiculous is happening to everyman Alex. Much to his inconvenience he's bleeding. A lot. As he makes his way through his last day, Alex doesn't find much sympathy and discovers the key to life: rage. Bleed is a dark comedy about what happens when a disappearing man tries to make one last stand at mattering.
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AURIN SQUIRE
Boxing the Sun
1st Produced:
Actors Studio Repertory Season
2005
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Drama, Full Length
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Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: In the slums of the Bronx, the lives on a neighborhood block entangle, fall apart and explode on the hottest day of the year.
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AURIN SQUIRE
Children Lost
1st Produced:
Actors Studio Repertory Season
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Company:
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1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
Drama, Full Length
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: When a child is kidnapped, the event sets off chain reaction of fear and grief in a community. Children Lost is a drama of three interlocking stories of a group of friends who must deal with their loss of innocence
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AURIN SQUIRE
Crash
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: AFSCME and AFL-CIO union commission, 2001
Synopsis: A young couple lures a stewardess back to an airport motel room with the promise of a fun night. Instead they reveal that they're infected with HIV, dying, and they know that she's the woman who gave the disease to the husband, and now they want their revenge.
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AURIN SQUIRE
Dear God
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: In a letter to God, a pick-up driving, beer guzzling redneck conservative, reveals his deep fears about the future of the country and an underground conspiracy by the 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' fashionistas.
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AURIN SQUIRE
Death Of A Primitive
1st Produced:
Red Room Theatre
2003
Company:
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1st Published:
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: A young hot painter must battle his dealer, a reporter trying to get the scoop on his show, and his knuckle dragging, sinister inner-child that inspires him and also threatens to kill him.
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AURIN SQUIRE
Defacing Michael Jackson
1st Produced:
McGinn Cazale Theatre
2005
Company:
-
1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: winner of Samuel French One-Act Festival 2005
Synopsis: Thriller, the Pepsi fire, cocaine cowboys, and a white family moving into a black neighborhood: it's 1984 in a rural Florida town of Opa-Locka and life is about to get a whole lot more confusing for a group of kids who want to be the 'gloved one.' Published in the collection Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 30th series.
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AURIN SQUIRE
Devil's Workshop, The
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Genre:
Dark Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Golfing, badminton, and evening lockdown. Life in a minimum security corporate prison can be rough for the rich. But for a group convicted CEOs, their penitentiary term is merely a time to regroup and think of new ways to scam and con each other for sadistic delight and off-shore bank accounts
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AURIN SQUIRE
Elijah
1st Produced:
American Theatre of Harlem
2005
Company:
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1st Published:
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: one-act extracted from full-length play, "Children Lost."
Synopsis: With their child missing for over two days, a husband and wife question their relationship. As they wait for a TV press conference to begin, they tear each other apart
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AURIN SQUIRE
Family Manual for Kwanzaa, A
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Absurdist Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Set over six calamitous days of Kwanzaa, a family discovers how much they hate each other
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AURIN SQUIRE
Flight Of Dadaelus
1st Produced:
Actors Studio Black Theatre Festival
2004
Company:
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1st Published:
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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:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Set at an airport gate, a group of strangers prepare to depart when an unexpected occurrence cuts through all their lives
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AURIN SQUIRE
Great Black Sambo Machine, The
1st Produced:
workshopped at Lark Theatre and Lincoln Center Lab
2005
Company:
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1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
full legth
Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
5
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: When a Black family's TV explodes, everyone is transported into a magical world where all their pixilated dreams can come true'for the small price of their soul. The Great Black Sambo Machine is a satire on Blacks in the media, hip hop, and the American way
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AURIN SQUIRE
It's Giuliani Time
1st Produced:
McGinn Cazale Theatre
2006
Company:
Vital Theatre Company
1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
Short Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: part of Vital Theatre Company presents its annual festival of new works, Vital Signs.
Synopsis: A look at the fear that creates shocking rifts between neighbors, friends and lovers when race, crime and politics come into play.
nytheatre.com
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AURIN SQUIRE
Match Me
1st Produced:
Mazer Theatre/ New York Fringe Festival
2005
Company:
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1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
Absurdist
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Two women match wits in a contest for sanity. As their tales begin to disintegrate, friends become rivals, and their stories become their only hope for salvation. Match Me is an absurdist trip through the minds of two disturbed women.
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AURIN SQUIRE
Naturalization of the Garcias, The
1st Produced:
Actors Studio Latino Theatre Showcase
2004
Company:
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1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
Absurdist Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: An El Paso interracial family must decide between their Mexican roots and the promise of a future as American citizen. Naturalization is a social comedy narrated by unemployed Mexican telenovela actors
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AURIN SQUIRE
Nueva Cancion
1st Produced:
Phil Bosakowski Theatre
2004
Company:
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1st Published:
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
Drama, Full Length
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Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes: Youth Theatre Grant 2004
Synopsis: Series of interwoven scenes and songs about the rise and fall of Salvador Allende, the hope for a free South America during the 60s, and the music which inspired it all: nueva cancion.
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AURIN SQUIRE
Placebo
1st Produced:
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Genre:
Drama, Full Length
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Parts:
Male
4
Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: A priest dying of AIDS must confront the conflict between his reality and his appearance amongst his congregation and his protégé priest
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AURIN SQUIRE
Rape Of Marie, The
1st Produced:
Actors Studio Black Theatre Festival
2004
Company:
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1st Published:
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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:
Absurdist
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: In an unnamed third world country in the distant future, the son of the leader and his soldiers raid a whorehouse and rape the prostitutes. Driven mad, one of the women becomes convinced she's caring the child of God.
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AURIN SQUIRE
Rheinfield
1st Produced:
Actors Studio Repertory Season
2005
Company:
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1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: The simple life of a housewife begins to crumble when a mud-covered woman arrives from the Rheinfield river, fleeing from her worst nightmare and something from both their pasts.
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AURIN SQUIRE
Room Facing the Moon, A
1st Produced:
Actors Studio Repertory Season
2005
Company:
-
1st Published:
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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:
full legth
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Three rooms and the three questions of love present themselves over one night in a hotel. In room one a man walks into a job interview that turns into a first date. In the second room it's the obsession of a person who has been stalking his love since childhood. In the final setting, a two couples slowly drift apart during a ballroom dance competition. A Room Facing the Moon is a Pinteresque romantic comedy about love, fate, and obsession.
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AURIN SQUIRE
Shadows In The Light
1st Produced:
ETA Chicago
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Drama, Full Length
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Parts:
Male
5
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: For a young Cuban couple (one dark-skinned and the other light skinned), the awaiting paradise of Miami turns out to be a living hell of racial strife, poverty and desperation. After the local police shoot and kill a young Black kid, tensions are ratcheted up even more by the hot-headed anti-Castro radicals and bitter Black leaders which destroy the young couple's hopes and promises for each other.
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AURIN SQUIRE
Strange Fruit
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Company:
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Genre:
Dark Comedy, full length
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Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Two brothers invite a Black drifter home and try to persuade him to kill their blind, crippled and racist mother who holds the keys to the family inheritance and pesticide empire
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AURIN SQUIRE
Summer Solistice
1st Produced:
Social District Warehouse Club
2004
Company:
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1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: At the end of the summer, a group of mourners gather for a wake to celebrate the life of a guy they slowly start to realize ruined their lives
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AURIN SQUIRE
Sweet n' Low/ Mailman
1st Produced:
Parsons School of Design
2003
Company:
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1st Published:
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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:
Comedic Opera
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Two interlocking monologues about a fading Southern matriarch gazing out at the burning sugar cane fields, and a mailman slowly becoming unraveled by the never-ending mail
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AURIN SQUIRE
To Whom It May Concern
1st Produced:
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2005
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Through a series of letters a fifteen-year-old boy poises as a woman and seduces a soldier. Their epistolary romance goes along well until the soldier decides to visit his lady-in-waiting.
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AURIN SQUIRE
Uncertainties
1st Produced:
Ars Nova, NY
2007
Company:
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1st Published:
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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:
short play
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: part of The Wikipedia Plays is a mini-marathon of short plays that surf the wikipedia wave through 17 related entries. The press materials describe it thusly: "In this brave new world of instant gratification where the internet can live in your pocket, one group of writers has created a mini-marathon of short plays that surf the wikipedia wave through seventeen related entries." The plays and playwrights are: Mike Batistick (Castration Anxiety), Evan Cabnet (Prokop the Great), Ron Fitzgerald (Turbulent), Liz Flahive (Bohemia), Sam Forman (Fetish), Etan Frankel (The Defenestration of Prague), Kyle Jarrow (Troposphere), Nick Jones (Global Warming), Barry Levey (Yale Law School), Carly Mensch (Democracy), Elizabeth Meriwether (Particle Board), Lin-Manuel Miranda (Golf Ball), Rachel Shukert (Stiletto Heels), Mat Smart (Weather Forecasting), Aurin Squire (Uncertainties), Adam Szymkowicz (Bill Clinton) and Beau Willimon (Wooden). The Wikipedia Plays are directed by Evan Cabnet, Michael Goldfried, Maria Goyanes, Meredith McDonough, Shira Milikowsky and Moritz von Stuelpnagel.
Synopsis: -
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AURIN SQUIRE
Under the Skin
1st Produced:
Actors Studio Repertory Season
2005
Company:
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1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: The lives of a group of friends and family in South Florida interweave and come undone over one evening in four simultaneous scenes
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AURIN SQUIRE
Versatile
1st Produced:
Gay and Lesbian Actors Studio Showcase
2005
Company:
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1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: A young sex worker is hired by a client to do the one thing that she fears most: talk about her personal life
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AURIN SQUIRE
While Submerged From All Sides. . .
1st Produced:
South Oxford Space, NY (reading)
2008
Company:
Freedom Train Productions
1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: A personal drama of overcoming sex addiction inside a sex-phobic U.S. society and within a sex-positive queer community
- press release
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AURIN SQUIRE
White Bread: A Hip Hopera
1st Produced:
Actors Studio Black Theatre Showcase
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
Comedic Opera
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
2-4 chorus
Notes: -
Synopsis: How can an Australian white rapper and a conservative Black judge be twins from the same mother? Take a voodoo hex, a wild storm and a series of Dickensian twists and you begin to understand. White Bread is a comedy sung and rapped entirely in verse about identity and hip hop.
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