MICHAEL WELLER (1942 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Michael Weller
Alice |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1976 | ||
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Notes: in After Calcutta | ||||
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Approaching Moomtaj |
| 1st Produced: | New Rep Theatre in Boston | 2004 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 1b | |||
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Synopsis: A Brooklyn Everyman becomes trapped in a Virtual Arab country after 9/11, forced to confront his own rage and chose between life, or a pointless death in pursuit of fantastic delusions, as terrorists do. | ||||
At Home (Split, Part 1) |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1981 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Split (full-length version)", French, New York | 1981 | ||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: A seemingly perfect couple qiuarrels over how to prepare dinner and, ultimately, how to save their marriage | ||||
Ballad Of Soapy Smith, The |
| 1st Produced: | Seattle | 1983 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1985 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy/Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 24 | Female | 9 |
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Synopsis: set in an Alaska Gold rush Town in 1897,a trickster commits the cardinal sin of believing in his own con | ||||
Barbarians |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1980 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1982 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 8 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Maxim Gorky; Written in collaboration with Kitty Hunter Blair and Jeremy Brooks | ||||
Synopsis: a small provincial Russian town is suddenly aroused from its lethargy by the imminent arrival of the first railroad | ||||
Bodybuilders, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1969 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1972 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: While Keith plods on with his novel, his wife, Kate, methodically denigrates his output with her bitchy comments. But Keith is fully her match in nastiness, much to the consternation of the two bare-chested young musclemen, Powie and Flash, who suddenly pop in to introduce themselves and are caught in the crossfire. But the confrontation of their purely physical and oddly innocent presence with the jaded, cerebral psyches of the two antagonists produces an unexpected detentewhich will last, no doubt, only so long as it takes to devise another lacerating, masochistic routine to succeed it. | ||||
Buying Time |
| 1st Produced: | 1995-96 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | |||
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Cancer |
| 1st Produced: | 1970 | |||
| Company: | English Stage Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London (Plays & Players Dec 1970) | 1971 | ||
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| Genre: | Olay | - | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 5 |
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Notes: aka Moonchildren | ||||
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Cello Days at Dixon's Palace |
| 1st Produced: | Cambridge, Massachusetts | 1965 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | |||
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Dogbrain |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1997 | ||
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| Genre: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | 2b | |||
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Synopsis: Six-year-old Nicholas gets into hot water when he invents a non-existent creature called Dogbrain to blame for his bad behavior. When Dogbrain materializes (visible only to Nicholas) and wreaks havoc on his family, Nick and his little brother are forced into the night-time streets of the city where they encounter a huge dog, a bag person, and finally, a rescuer, straight out of Nicholas' imaginationthe same imagination that conjured up his dark side as the creature Dogbrain. Thus does Nicholas learn how he has within him bad and good, and the power to keep them under his own control. | ||||
Dopey Fairy Tale, A |
| 1st Produced: | Urbana, Illinois | 1985 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Knopf, New York | 1986 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov; in Orchards | ||||
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Dwarfman, Master of a Million Shapes |
| 1st Produced: | Chicago | 1981 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | |||
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Fishing |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1975 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1975 | ||
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| Genre: | Drama comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: a married couple nearing thirty having failed at farming tentatively attempt to come to terms with life and reality through deep sea fishing | ||||
Fred |
| 1st Produced: | Waltham, Massachusetts | 1965 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: music by Weller, form malcom by James Purdy | ||||
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Ghost On Fire |
| 1st Produced: | La Jolla, California | 1985 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Grove Press, New York | 1987 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy/Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 |
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Synopsis: a failed film director and a cameraman with a script reach a moment of reckoning and reconciliation that resolves all | ||||
Grant's Movie |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1971 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1972 | ||
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Happy Valley |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1969 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | |||
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Help! |
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | |||
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How Ho-Ho Rose and Fell in Seven Short Scenes |
| 1st Produced: | Manchester | 1966 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | |||
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Notes: music by Weller | ||||
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Lake No Bottom |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1991 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: husband and ex lover fight over woman by New England lake - at least the marriage is refreshed ! | ||||
Loose Ends |
| 1st Produced: | Washington, D.C. | 1979 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1980 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: relationships and individual personalities of the 70's as ex young world travellers marry and argue over whether to have children | ||||
Making of Theodore Thomas, Citizen, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1968 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Playwright - Paul Green ( Johnny Johnson) | ||||
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Moonchildren |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: love affairs and problems of young students in shared flat during graduation year 1965-66 in an American University town | ||||
More Than You Deserve |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1973 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | |||
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Notes: music by Jin Steinman, lyrics by Weller and Steinman | ||||
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Now There's Just The Three Of Us |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1969 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
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Poison Come Poison |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1970 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Split |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1977 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1979 | ||
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| Genre: | 2 * 1 Act | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: aka Abroad in Split (full length version) | ||||
Synopsis: home and away bittersweet comedy about contemporary relationships | ||||
Spoils of War |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1989 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: chronicles the desperate attempts of a sixteen year old boy to reconcile his divorced parents | ||||
Tira Tells Everything There Is To Know About Herself |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1972 | ||
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| Genre: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: At the outset Tira awaits the arrival of her lover, Edward, who, she admits, bores her. When he goes off to retrieve the present he forgot to bring her, she is visited, in turn, by four other and quite dissimilar possible loversall played by the single male actor in the play. There is Poof, the lisping faggot; Lucio, the uncertain Latin gigolo; Brute, the belching lout; and, finally, the sensitive, withdrawn Tib. In their encounters Tira acquires qualities complementary to each, but all ultimately disappoint, and Tira, having found that all there is to know about herself is nothing, turns to suicide as the inevitable alternative. | ||||
Twenty-Three Years Later |
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1973 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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What the Night is For |
| 1st Produced: | Comedy, London | 2002 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Press | 2002 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: US Premiere is slated for April 2004 at the Laguna Playhouse, Laguna Beach, California. | ||||
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Zhivago |
| 1st Produced: | La Jolla Playhouse, New York | 2008 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Music by Lucy Simon; lyrics by Amy Powers; lyrics by Michael Korie; book by Michael Weller. Based on the novel by Boris Pasternak | ||||
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