MICHAEL LOUIS WELLS
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Plays by Michael Louis Wells
"I" Word, The : Interns |
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY | 1999 | ||
| Company: | Annual Marathon of One Act Plays | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 2000 | ||
| 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: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: describes the original (one-act) version of the play. There is also a full-length version of the same title. | ||||
Synopsis: Idealistic Clinton White House interns face-off after one of their number is dismissed for leaking inside info to the press. Finally coming to grips with their disillusionment when challenged by their superior, herself a one-time intern for Senator Robert F. Kennedy, they find a renewed sense of hope in "the lifetime of work" required to further their shared beliefs and the understanding those beliefs can and must overcome the frailties of any one individual. | ||||
All Shook Down |
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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: | Light Drama/Serious Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: Ex-lovers wake up the drunken morning after in bed with each other (and some even more ill-advised take-out) to horror, coffee, confessions and passionate resolves, in exactly that order. | ||||
Brief History Of Technology, A |
| 1st Produced: | Off-Broadway, NY | 1999 | ||
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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 | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: First Light Festival of plays concerning Science and Technology. Commissioned by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | ||||
Synopsis: Last day of business in a typewriter repair shop. | ||||
"Detail |
| 1st Produced: | Gielgud Theatre, London | 2001 |
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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: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |
Notes: Winner 2001 London New Play Festival; Finalist 2001 Heideman Award, Actor's Theatre of Louisville. New version- produced June 2006, 28th
Annual EST Marathon of One-Act Plays, NYC | ||
Synopsis: Brother and sister meet in a bar the week before Christmas to exchange gifts and warily attempt coming to terms with the family from which they're both estranged amidst a sudden and secretive crisis. |
District of Columbia (new version) |
| 1st Produced: | Workshop - Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London - directed by Wilson Milam | 2007 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Other workshops and readings include Boston's Huntington Theatre Co. (dir: Darko Tresnjak), Washington's Arena Stage and production, in an earlier version, at New York's Ensemble Studio Theatre | ||||
Synopsis: On the eve of the 1988 Presidential election, a group of activists, loafers, students and ex-punkrockers must ask: what are one's morals really worth when idealism becomes inconvenient? And where does one go when it's time to leave your youth behind? - "All this was supposed to change in the 60's. It's twenty years later. What happened? Where are those people? They were going to make politics - and everything else - RELEVANT. Their big word, remember? The mainstream ate 'em up. They became as deaf as the generation they were dyin' to replace. Just look at the music, for one thing. Nothin' that came after they took off their big Koss headphones around 1973 mattered anymore. They stopped LISTENING. They don't hear us. They got too busy inventing Classic Rock Radio and a national advertising strategy for The Gap. These people are not our friends!" | ||||
Fourth Time Around |
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY (workshop production) | 1994 | ||
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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 | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Valentines Day Night, 1994. The loft apartment of former punkrock guitarist and club owner, Tommy "Fitz" Fitzgerald and his neurotic best friend, Paulie, a Columbia University pedant. Whatever can go wrong, probably will. | ||||
Friends |
| 1st Produced: | Off-Broadway, NY | 1995 | ||
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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 | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: 1995/1996 New York, Off-Broadway, "Hell's Kitchen Sink", "Sex & Violence - West Bank/Ensemble Studio Theatre. Finalist 1998 Heideman Award, Actor's Theatre of Louisville | ||||
Synopsis: revised as Two From The Line | ||||
Gary X-Mas |
| 1st Produced: | The New Directors Lab, NY | 1998 | ||
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Home for the first Christmas since the death of her father, a woman's magazine editor has trouble facing the past with her kid sister as well as an uncertain future with the man she's brought home to meet what's left of her family | ||||
Hermit Of Ninth Avenue |
| 1st Produced: | West Bank Theatre | 1996/98 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 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 | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Man stages "intervention" of sorts forcing his way into the apartment of his friend a traumatised, young, New Yorker who has vowed never again to leave. Or, apparently, bathe. | ||||
My Before And After |
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: reading - Dramatists Guild, New York, 2004. In development | ||||
Synopsis: Noted graphic artist "in recovery from EVERYTHING" enjoins his sister, an Medieval Art scholar and an archivist friend in cataloguing the vast repository of artwork left behind by a mysterious, storied and largely unknown Modernist, moving into his abandoned Brooklyn warehouse/studio, and in the job ("like Summer Stock for Art Historians") of uncovering the dead man's life and work, begins to salvage his own. | ||||
Prosaic Nation |
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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 | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: Appearing in yet another godawful "experimental" work, an actress and her husband consider her leaving the Theatre and perhaps the marriage during a cigarette break on the street between entrances. | ||||
Real Real Gone |
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY | 1997 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Smith & Kraus | 1998 | ||
| 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: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Two men brought together by the sudden and coincidental deaths of their fathers on the same day five years before, meet on its anniversary in an abandoned cemetery, ultimately confronting the past, each other and themselves. | ||||
Seven Pages Unsigned |
| 1st Produced: | Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA (in development) | - | ||
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Notes: In development (July 2006-present) with San Francisco's Magic Theatre Company, Artistic Director Chris Smith; NYC workshop off-B'way (dir: Pamela Berlin) August 2007. Selected for New Voices West - commissioning works of emerging American playwrights - Dec 2007 | ||||
Synopsis: December 21, evening of the Winter Solstice. "The Darkest Night of the Year". Still reeling from the suicide of one of their number, friends gather for an engagement party, escaping to the roof but unable to elude the difficult choices each of them now face. | ||||
Taken By Faeries |
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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/Fantasy | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | 1 | |||
Notes: Finalist 2000 Verity Bargate Award, Soho Theatre & Writers Centre, London | ||||
Synopsis: Estranged Irish-American family attempt to reconcile, decamping to the Old Country after the death of their patriarch. | ||||
Two From The Line |
| 1st Produced: | Lexington Center for the Arts, NY | 2007 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Smith & Kraus | 2008 | ||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Selected by Smith & Kraus for inclusion in their "Best 10-Minute Plays - 2008 | ||||
Synopsis: Two men a get a little too personal watching a basketball game on television. | ||||
Where the Ocean Meets the Eye |
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: 1st reading - "Octoberfest" , Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC, October 2006 | ||||
Synopsis: Labour Day Weekend and Rhys's young wife, Beth, has invited friends to the island for his 50th birthday. But once assembled the festivities give way to the unforeseen and what may well mark the end of far more than just the summer. | ||||
Zeroes |
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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/Fantasy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Five insomniacs walk into a bar and out of life as they know it | ||||