TRAV S D   


Trav S D
   Nationality:
USA
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Plays by Trav S D

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Beach Blanket Bluebeard
1st Produced:
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2008
Company:
Adhesive Theatre Company/Mountebanks
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Musical comedy/black comedy
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Parts:
Male
10
Female
10
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
When Johnny Guitar shows up to play his way-out music at the local surf-beach, all the kids go wild and some of them wind up DEAD.
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Caveman Robot Radio Adventure Show
1st Produced:
92nd Street Y's new Tribeca Makor performance space, NY
2009
Company:
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1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Piece
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
old time radio show featuring the cult comics character Caveman Robot (http://www.cavemanrobot.com) , featuring the actual 7 foot tall Caveman Robot, Trav S.D., Robert Pinnock, Pete Macnamara, Richard Harrington, Moira Stone, and Chris Harcum, and more. Live music and sound effects by Lumberob, songs by Uke Jackson, and hand drawn/collage video images of the adventure by Jason Robert Bell, all combine for an experience calculated to make you yell "Oolar!"
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Cold Fire
1st Produced:
Performance Zone at Ubu Rep
1996
Company:
Mountebanks
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
comedy/radio play
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Approx. 45 minutes, contains one original song
Synopsis:
A paranormal investigator looks into a mysterious rash of spontaneous combustions and -- surprisingly-solves them
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Columbia, The Germ Of The Ocean
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
Mountebanks
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
8
Female
2
Parts Other:
1 may be played in drag
Notes:
Approx. two hours
Synopsis:
A ridiculous-style history, in which, Columbus, a very ugly woman, discovers America, only to have it snatched away by a scheming, evil priest
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Confidence Man, The
1st Produced:
Coney Island USA
2007
Company:
Mountebanks
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
literary adaptation
Comedy
Parts:
Male
8
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
2 hrs
Synopsis:
An adaptation of the Herman Melville novel about a series of mysterious con men on a riverboat.
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Curse Of The Neckrophreniac, The
1st Produced:
St. Mark's Theater
2001
Company:
Mountebanks/ DMTheatrics
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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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Comedy
Parts:
Male
1
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Approx. 30 minutes
Synopsis:
A poet recounts his opium-fueled attempt to surgically exchange the necks of his wife and sister
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Custer Wore an Arrow Shirt
1st Produced:
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2008
Company:
International Culture Lab/Mountebanks
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
Experimental/comedy 30 min
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Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A remote US cavalry outpost in the Southwest desert is threatened by enemies without. . .and enemies within.
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Der Boogermeister
1st Produced:
St. Mark's Theater
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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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Comedy
Parts:
Male
5
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Approx. 20 minutes
Synopsis:
An executioner who tortures citizens with nasal fluid is given his come-uppance by a vengeful spirit of the dead.
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Dorothy Building, The
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
experimental, 40 min
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Parts:
Male
1
Female
0
Parts Other:
4 m/f
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A birth and a death in a mysterious compound inhabited by identical masked women named Dorothy
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Exploitation Of Joice Heth, The
1st Produced:
Metropolitan Playhouse
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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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Comedy
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Approx. ten minutes
Synopsis:
P.T. Barnum presents Joice Heth, who, to his surprise, turns out not only to have been the actual nurse of George Washington, but his mentor and political advisor as well.
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Ezekiel’s Wheelchair
1st Produced:
Village Gate
1993
Company:
New Facktory for Excentrick Actors
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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/experimental
Comedy
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
may be played in drag
Notes:
Approx. 45 minutes
Synopsis:
The daughter and mother of the world's greatest physicist confront him about his greatest blunder-the draining of all color from the world.
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Family Of Man
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
Theater for the New City
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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/drama with music
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Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Part of the New City , New Blood reading series. approx 120 min
Synopsis:
An aging pop singer cracks up when the mistakes of his youth catch up with.
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Father's Name Was Daddy
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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
4
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of East Village Chronicles, Volume 3
Synopsis:
Abbie Hoffman squares off with the biggest pig of all -- his old man
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Gas Attack
1st Produced:
Two Bits, at Bowerie Lane Theater
1991
Company:
New Facktory for Excentrick Actors
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
6
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Approx. 20 minutes
Synopsis:
A government space ship accidentally brings deadly gas creatures back to Earth.
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Hecate And Beckett, The Two Existential Magpies, In Dead Dog, Dead God, Dead Ducks
1st Produced:
1997
Company:
Mountebanks
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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/experimental
Comedy
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
2 (may be played by males or females)
Notes:
Approx. 30 minutes
Synopsis:
A pair of cartoon magpies are adrift on a piece of an exploded ocean liner
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House Of Trash
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
Mountebanks
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
09670234-2-4
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Genre:
comedy/musical
Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Approx two hours
House Of Trash
A garbageman/ Baptist preacher undertakes plots to straighten out the lives of his family members, doing more harm than good
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Inside Out
1st Produced:
St. Mark's Theater
2001
Company:
Mountebanks/ DMTheatrics
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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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Comedy
Parts:
Male
5
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Approx. 20 minutes
Synopsis:
A mad scientist transforms a young student reporter into a stomach monster
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Irish Melodrama, The
1st Produced:
Metropolitan Playhouse
2005
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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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Comedy
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Approx: ten minutes
Synopsis:
A 90-pund weakling carries out his dying father's wish to protect his sister from bad boyfriends.
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Jasper Jaxon
1st Produced:
The Great Room, ART/NY South Oxford Street Space, NY (play reading)
2007
Company:
Andhow! Theater Company
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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
8
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Andhow! Theater Company presents its 7th annual play reading series, Dialogue '07
Synopsis:
A ne'er-do-well outlaw finds posthumous fame as a sideshow mummy
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Kitsch, or Two for the Price of One
1st Produced:
12 Nov 2009
Company:
Mountebanks
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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
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Female
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Parts Other:
large cast
Notes:
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Synopsis:
20 years ago this November 9, the Berlin Wall was opened, admitting a flood of East Germans into the previously verboten West. To mark the occasion Trav S.D. and his company Mountebanks present Kitsch, or Two for the Price of One, a Brecht-flavored retelling of The Comedy of Errors that brings Western-style excess to Shakespeare's comedy by doubling the number of pairs of twins in the plot to four. Separated at birth with the Allied Invasion of Berlin in 1945, half are raised in the Communist sector only to be unwittingly reunited with their brothers 44 years later when the Wall comes down. The result is mass confusion!
- nytheatre.com
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Lactation
1st Produced:
Surf Reality
1999
Company:
Surf Reality
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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/experimental
Comedy
Parts:
Male
1
Female
39845
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Approx. 20 minutes
Synopsis:
An insufferable abstract expressionist contends with quotidian interruptions by his mother and the milk man
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Merrymount
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
Mountebanks
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
Part of the Hawthornicopia Festival 15 minutes
Synopsis:
Adaptation of a Hawthorne story about a 17 century Massachusetts governor who cracks down on the merrymaking in a nearby village
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Misshapen Jack, The Nebraska Hunchback
1st Produced:
Sanford Meisner Theatre, NYC
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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/experimental
Comedy
Parts:
Male
1
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Approx. 45 minutes, contains two original songs
Synopsis:
An insane lecturer instructs us about the evils of Nebraskan hunchbacks named Jack-unintentionally revealing a bit about his own psychology along the way.
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Nihils, Or The Performance Artist
1st Produced:
Bullet Space
1997
Company:
Mountebanks
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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/experimental
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Approx. 45 minutes, contains two original songs
Synopsis:
A vain and awful performance artist contends with the sharp wit and critical mind of his stage manager.
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No Applause, Just Throw Money
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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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Show
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
9 actors
Notes:
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Synopsis:
Based on Trav S.D.'s popular book No Applause, Just Throw Money: the Book That Made Vaudeville Famous (Faber & Faber, 2005), No Applause. . .The Show is an original variety revue with sketches and songs by Trav S.D
- press release
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Parkhurst's Descent
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
20 min
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of Metropolitan Playhouse presents the fourth annual installment of East Village Chronicles, an ongoing series of original one-act plays about/set in the theatre's local neighborhood in NYC's East Village/Alphabet City
Synopsis:
In 19th century New York, a fire and brimstone preacher hires a private detective to show him the city's seemy underbelly -- and finds more than he bargained for.
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Poison Shirt/ Boots Of The Transexual
1st Produced:
the Real Theater
1995
Company:
New Facktory for Excentrick Actors
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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/experimental
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
may be drag part
Notes:
Approx. 15 minutes
Synopsis:
An angry trannie turns the tables on her two-timing old man by freaking him out on acid.
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Sea Of Love
1st Produced:
Sanford Meisner Theatre, NYC
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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/experimental
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
1 role possibly drag
Notes:
Approx. 45 minutes, contains one original song
Synopsis:
A "type A" is successively accosted by a nymphomaniac so-worker, his lesbian mother, the ghost of his dead sea captain father, and the God Poesidon.
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Strange Case of Grippo the Ape Man, The
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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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:
experimental/comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Approx 45 min
Synopsis:
Two carnies bring their idiot savant attraction (a musical genius) to a conservative Connecticut town and cause an uproar.
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Universal Rundle
1st Produced:
Tree Café, Portland, Maine
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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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/experimental
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Approx. 45 minutes, contains two original songs
Synopsis:
A pair of music industry professional attempt to swindle a famous blues musician in his bayou home. He turns the table using voodoo.
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White Trash
1st Produced:
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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/drama
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Approx. 45 minutes
Synopsis:
Working class family bicker brutally until the father collapses of a stroke
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Willy Nilly
1st Produced:
2009
Company:
Piper McKenzie
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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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:
1h 45m
Musical
Parts:
Male
9
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Charles Manson meets Mad Magazine in this tasteless spoof about a filthy faux-Messiah, his cult of wanton women, and high Hollywood murder. With a raucous score, gratuitous nudity, acid freakouts, excessive gore, cruel stereotypes and slapstick misogyny, consider this the anti-Hair.
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