MICHAEL WELLER   (1942 - )


Michael Weller
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Plays by Michael Weller

MICHAEL WELLER
Alice
1st Produced:
London
1976
Company:
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1st Published:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: in After Calcutta
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL WELLER
Approaching Moomtaj
1st Produced:
New Rep Theatre in Boston
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
1b
Notes: -
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.
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MICHAEL WELLER
At Home (Split, Part 1)
1st Produced:
London
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Split (full-length version)", French, New York
1981
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: A seemingly perfect couple qiuarrels over how to prepare dinner and, ultimately, how to save their marriage
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MICHAEL WELLER
Ballad Of Soapy Smith, The
1st Produced:
Seattle
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1985
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama
Comedy
Parts:
Male
24
Female
9
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: set in an Alaska Gold rush Town in 1897,a trickster commits the cardinal sin of believing in his own con
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MICHAEL WELLER
Barbarians
1st Produced:
New York
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1982
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
15
Female
8
Parts Other:
-
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
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MICHAEL WELLER
Bodybuilders, The
1st Produced:
London
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
1972
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
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.
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MICHAEL WELLER
Buying Time
1st Produced:
1995-96
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL WELLER
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
Parts Other:
-
Notes: aka Moonchildren
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL WELLER
Cello Days at Dixon's Palace
1st Produced:
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1965
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL WELLER
Dogbrain
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
1997
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
2b
Notes: -
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.
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MICHAEL WELLER
Dopey Fairy Tale, A
1st Produced:
Urbana, Illinois
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Knopf, New York
1986
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov; in Orchards
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL WELLER
Dwarfman, Master of a Million Shapes
1st Produced:
Chicago
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL WELLER
Fishing
1st Produced:
New York
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1975
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Genre:
Drama comedy
-
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: a married couple nearing thirty having failed at farming tentatively attempt to come to terms with life and reality through deep sea fishing
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MICHAEL WELLER
Fred
1st Produced:
Waltham, Massachusetts
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: music by Weller, form malcom by James Purdy
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL WELLER
Ghost On Fire
1st Produced:
La Jolla, California
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Grove Press, New York
1987
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama
Comedy
Parts:
Male
7
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: a failed film director and a cameraman with a script reach a moment of reckoning and reconciliation that resolves all
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MICHAEL WELLER
Grant's Movie
1st Produced:
London
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1972
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL WELLER
Happy Valley
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1969
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL WELLER
Help!
1st Produced:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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MICHAEL WELLER
How Ho-Ho Rose and Fell in Seven Short Scenes
1st Produced:
Manchester
1966
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: music by Weller
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL WELLER
Lake No Bottom
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1991
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: husband and ex lover fight over woman by New England lake - at least the marriage is refreshed !
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MICHAEL WELLER
Loose Ends
1st Produced:
Washington, D.C.
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1980
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
7
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: relationships and individual personalities of the 70's as ex young world travellers marry and argue over whether to have children
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MICHAEL WELLER
Making of Theodore Thomas, Citizen, The
1st Produced:
London
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Playwright - Paul Green ( Johnny Johnson)
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL WELLER
Moonchildren
1st Produced:
-
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Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
13
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: love affairs and problems of young students in shared flat during graduation year 1965-66 in an American University town
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MICHAEL WELLER
More Than You Deserve
1st Produced:
New York
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: music by Jin Steinman, lyrics by Weller and Steinman
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL WELLER
Now There's Just The Three Of Us
1st Produced:
London
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL WELLER
Poison Come Poison
1st Produced:
London
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL WELLER
Split
1st Produced:
London
1977
Company:
-
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
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MICHAEL WELLER
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
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: chronicles the desperate attempts of a sixteen year old boy to reconcile his divorced parents
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MICHAEL WELLER
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:
-
Notes: -
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.
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MICHAEL WELLER
Twenty-Three Years Later
1st Produced:
Los Angeles
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL WELLER
What the Night is For
1st Produced:
Comedy, London
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon Press
2002
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: US Premiere is slated for April 2004 at the Laguna Playhouse, Laguna Beach, California.
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL WELLER
Zhivago
1st Produced:
La Jolla Playhouse, New York
2008
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Musical
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Music by Lucy Simon; lyrics by Amy Powers; lyrics by Michael Korie; book by Michael Weller. Based on the novel by Boris Pasternak
Synopsis: -
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