CHRIS SHAW SWANSON
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Chris Shaw Swanson
Aglow |
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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 | 3 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: Every year, self-indulgent Frank took his wife Dolores on vacation to Columbus, Ohio, to watch his beloved OSU Buckeyes play football. Now in the wake of Dolores' death, a grieving, guilt-ridden Frank makes the journey to Columbus alone, where he meets a mysterious bellhop who helps him revisit the past and perhaps rethink the future. | ||||
Divine Will |
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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: | Satire | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: It's yet another warm-hearted gathering of the church-going Pesh family. Mother Pesh, bemoaning the news that her aged mother broke yet another hip, quips, "Why couldn't my mother just be deceased, like everyone else her age?" Mother, like everyone else in the Pesh family, is obsessed with getting and keeping a generous share of the family fortune. In the midst of these self-seekers comes innocent in-law Jan, a new mother of twins. Can she hold on to her integrity-not to mention her twins-in a family driven by excessive want? | ||||
Drop 'Til You Shop |
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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: | Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: Helen is a shopaholic, so extreme that her doctor prescribes total deprivation therapy as a last resort. Banished to the country without a mall in sight or even billboard advertisements, Helen experiences increasingly intense consumer withdrawal. Her patient husband Frank begins feeling the strain, especially after he discovers Helen is stealing junk mail from a neighboring farmhouse. Can this marriage-much less a few bucks for the couple's retirement-be saved? | ||||
Family Baggage |
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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: | Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 1 (either m. or f.) | |||
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Synopsis: Terri and Joe meet at an airport, experiencing almost instantaneous attraction. Unfortunately, ringing cell phones keep interrupting their conversations. Parents on both sides, anxious for their children to find appropriate mates, call repeatedly to offer unsolicited advice and varying degrees of support. Undaunted, Terri and Joe struggle to forge an honest connection before boarding their flight. | ||||
Heroines Of Central Ohio, The |
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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: | Comic drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 7 |
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Synopsis: Heroines concerns the reaction of a group of romance writers whose organization's funds have been pilfered by one of its members. The writers must collectively decide whether or not to press charges. With the help of the PLAYER (each writer's male muse), Heroines flips back and forth in time and from reality to fantasy, addressing the nature of romance, friendship and forgiveness, and that line-perhaps thin-which separates creativity and madness. "Heroines (is) devious, whimsical&Swanson's dialogue is smart, sassy, flowery and blunt in its exploration of the women's whimsy&(It) satisfied the secret fantasies that lurk in the souls of all romantics.". --The Arcata Eye, CA. "The dialogue is witty, intelligent, and at times, sexually captivating&Deception and laughter ensue in this ambivalent journey." --Out & About, PA | ||||
Measured Honesty |
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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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Set in a Cleveland recruitment advertising agency during the 1980's, Measured Honesty is about a group of help-wanted writers, artists and sales people trapped in cubicles, wondering if they're prostituting their talents, wondering if there's something better out there, wondering about one another, and worrying about losing their jobs. Ultimately, the play questions the liberties people take with the truth, in business practices, interpersonal relationships, and self-contemplation, depicting the ramifications of such "measured honesties." "The five characters are well drawn and distinct, forming an engaging ensemble of office workers whose sharp, witty dialogue kept our actors challenged and our audiences laughing throughout the play&" --Co-Founder/Exec. Director, Interborough Repertory Theater, NYC | ||||
Orientation Day |
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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 | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 1g 1b | |||
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Synopsis: Set in the future, Michael and Linda Gray are unhappy with the direction of their children's lives. To remedy the problem, the Grays take the children to a meeting with a covert organization capable of reprogramming young minds to parental specifications. Clueless, the children view the event as just another dinner out with the folks | ||||
Thing About Tex, The |
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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: | Comic Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: This two-character memory play depicts a high school friendship between two girls and its lasting impact on one of its participants. "Chris Shaw Swanson's excellent script&is&heart-rendering&" --Tampa Tribune | ||||
Tophet Point |
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| 1st Published: | A monologue from Chris' full-length play TOPHET POINT was recently published by Smith & Kraus in "The Ultimate Audition Book Vol. 4, 222 Comedy Monologues 2 Minutes & Under | 2005 | ||
| 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: | Comic drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | (1 African-American) | |||
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Synopsis: Welcome to my Midwestern middle-to-upper-middle class classic suburban subdivision&nightmare. So begins Sara's first-person narration of Tophet Point and quest for personal depth and fulfillment while living in today's suburbs. Sara's journey lands her in sexy Professor Brian's romanticism class studying (and contemplating) adultery, in a fund-raising church play performing the role of a homeless person, in the middle of her neighbors' dog trespassing wars, at odds with her husband's desire to buy an even bigger house, and eventually in conflict and confrontation with everyone--especially herself. "The writing of Tophet Point is strong and well-developed. . .it is a play written around dreams worth investigating. . ." --Times-Standard, CA | ||||
