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Aoise Stratford

AOISE STRATFORD

  
Nationality:    USA
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Aoise Stratfords work has been produced in Canada, Austria, Italy, Australia, Belgium, England, and throughout the USA. She is the recipient of several awards including the Alan Minieri Award, a Pinter Review Prize for Drama Silver Medal, and the Yukon Pacific Playwright Award. THE UNFORTUNATES was the recipient of the Susan Glaspell Award and SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN (OR) THE GHOST OF MOLLY MALONE has been nominated for an American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award. Her short plays have also won her Best Playwright awards at several theatres around the country including Manhattan Theatre Club, Lakeshore Players, The American Globe, Emerging Artists Theatre, and City Theatre Miami. She has been a finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisvilles Heideman Award. Aoise lives in Ithaca, New York, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

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         Along the Watchtower         Beach With Telephone         Black Saturday         Closet, The         Dead in the Water: A Play Noir for Three Hams         Elephants And Coffee         Handbasket, The         Hell Hath Three Furies         Henry's Wives         Ides of March, The Tides of Time         Love and a Wide Moon         Monologue for Lady Macbeth         O' Vile Vial         Ophelia's Hamlet         Our Lady of the Sea         Population Growth         Redwood Cage, The         Skulls         Somewhere in Between - or - the Ghost of Molly Malone         Subject         Talk         Three Horseshoes         Till Death Do Us Part         Unfortunates, The         Will And the Ghost

Along the Watchtower

Synopsis:
Horatio, Bernardo and Marcellus see the ghost of Hamlet's father. But who do they tell? Which person would be better?

Notes:
Based on "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" by William Shakespeare

1st Produced:
One Act    1998

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Beach With Telephone

Synopsis:
A desk lamp salesman finds himself on a beach but he soon realises that he is in Hell and the Keeper of Damned Souls and a demon are there too.

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1st Produced:
-    2002

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Black Saturday

Synopsis:
Henry's wife left the farm and took the children with her to the City. Many years later as his end approaches, Henry wants to meet his children again for a reconciliation.

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1st Produced:
-    2003

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Closet, The

Synopsis:
A toy sponge is thrown into the cupboard under the stairs. there he meets a Teletubbie and a purple dinosaur and - oh my, they are gay. . ..

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ten Minute Play    2006

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1st Published:
the Best 10-Minute Plays Of 2012. Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc.
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   -

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Genre:
Gay, one act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Dead in the Water: A Play Noir for Three Hams

Synopsis:
Penny Goodshoes has the boiled body of Andrew Wolf in her bath. But who killed the Big Bad Wolf?

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Elephants And Coffee

Synopsis:
On her way to a therapy session a woman meets an elephant who spills her coffee.

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Handbasket, The

Synopsis:
Snafu is tired of her role and goes to the Devil to get a better position. He asks her to meddle in the forthcoming American election.

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1st Produced:
Ten Minute Play    2004

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Hell Hath Three Furies

Synopsis:
Mac finds himself in Hell with three women. His wife, his lover and his psychoanalyst

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1st Produced:
-    2004

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Henry's Wives

Synopsis:
After 500 years Catherine of Aragon has done her penance in Purgatory. She now wishes to renew her wedding vows to King Henry VIII and tries to summon him up - but instead gets the other wives. . . . .

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1st Produced:
-    2004

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Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Ides of March, The Tides of Time

Synopsis:
After 911 Mark is not keen to celebrate his wedding anniversary but his wife Helen takes him on a journey through time to change his mind.

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1st Produced:
-    2001

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  doubling

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Love and a Wide Moon

Synopsis:
Davis relocates to Los Angeles with his wife but it seems to be a mistake. One evening he meets Megan in a bar and is attracted to her. Next day arriving for work at the newspaper office he is told to cover a murder story - Megan's.

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1st Produced:
-    2002

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Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Monologue for Lady Macbeth

Synopsis:
Lady Macbeth looks back over her life

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2000

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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O' Vile Vial

Synopsis:
Shakespeare buys some fake poison from a chemist. they try it out with characters form "Romeo and Juliet" and "Cymbeline" but then the characters from "Hamlet" turn up and things get out of hand.

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1st Produced:
-    2005

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Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Ophelia's Hamlet

Synopsis:
Ophelia takes on Shakespeare trying to get "Hamlet" written her way

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1st Produced:
-    1999

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1st Published:
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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Our Lady of the Sea

Synopsis:
Three different men's views of a young girl's disappearance.
nytheatre.com

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Genre:
Short Play One Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Population Growth

Synopsis:
In a complicated move to get her ex-boyfriend back Donna persuades her friend Charlotte to have a blind date with him. But ex Malcolm turns up with his brother Simon.

Notes:
Looking Glass Spring 2006 Writer/Directors Forum

1st Produced:
Looking Glass Theatre, Ny    2006

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Redwood Cage, The

Synopsis:
Lawyer Gussie thinks it is time to start a family with her artist husband

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2001

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Skulls

Synopsis:
Yorrick kidnaps the audience of a production of "Cymbeline" in an attempt to promote his importance to the history of the stage.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2002

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Somewhere in Between - or - the Ghost of Molly Malone

Synopsis:
Molly Malone's 350 year journey through the oppression of women

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2001

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  30 characters

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Subject

Synopsis:
Joel a successful artist has always painted women and one in particular - his Muse. He takes note of some art critics who say he should switch to still life - but his Muse is not happy about this.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2004

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1st Published:
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Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Talk

Synopsis:
Husband and wife reach a crossroad in their life.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2003

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Three Horseshoes

Synopsis:
Laura discovers she is pregnant but is by Steve or by Kevin?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2004

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Till Death Do Us Part

Synopsis:
the funeral of Keith and Larry and Brian discover they were both his lovers.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
One Act    2002

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Gay, one act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Unfortunates, The

Synopsis:
London, 1888. Mary Jane Kelly, a young prostitute, enters a Whitechapel pub to sell her last possession. Will a mysterious stranger buy her safety for the night? Or turn out to be Jack the Ripper? A provocative, poignant, true story.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Teatro Latea, New York Festival Fringe    Aug 2013

Organisations:
Vertical Tasting Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Discover: Inspiration-History & Bios

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Will And the Ghost

Synopsis:
William Shakespeare is rescued from robbers by a stranger who says he is an out of work actor. He wants Will to write a play for him in which he plays a ghost. But Will does not believe in ghosts. So the actor has to resort to blackmail.

Notes:
written by Aoise Stratford & Conal Condren

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Genre:
50 mins One Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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