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Hyde Park, London; the turn of the century. A young man, who has just dumped his girlfriend, is about to receive some lessons on love and lust from a very old man who may or may not be 114 years old, may or may not have been Greta Garbos great love and may or may not be responsible for Lolita  the original one.

Longwood University

2005

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Everyone knows Detective Stoneface is the infamous "Rock Face Killer" but he can't seem to get caught, and it's driving him crazy. In this detective farce, Stoneface leaves a trail of evidence that his partner, Wadsworth, can't seem to follow.

Vital Theatre, NY, USA >>>

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Love, math and paranoia collide at 30,000 feet. An actress and a statistician find themselves on Flight 214 to Los Angeles via Detroit. According to the statisticians calculations, today is the day that he was meant to find true love. The actress, however, is positive that Flight 214 will crash, as she was never meant to reach the metaphorical Moscow. Their personalities collide as the pilot quotes Chekhov and the flight attendant insists that she is a seagull.

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a "boy meets his girlfriend's sister" story. The one he could have fallen in love with. Maybe the one he should have. They share a moment in the music and a bond they cannot pursue. She is the one he has to let get away.

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In No Longer a Maiden, a young woman visits the all-seeing and all-knowing Madam Saboon for advice on finding the perfect serving dish for her spicy ground beef. This dark comedy twists and upends the typical psychic and customer encounter.

The Changing Scene, Denver, CO

1997

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This comedy involves a garrulous, repetitive Santa Claus and a hapless man, Rob, who becomes Santa's captive audience. The piece is set in a Laundromat, but for poor Rob, it might as well be Hell

Theater off park, NY

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Social worker Wilma interviews a burnout addict, Rossetti, who long ago was a boyfriend of hers. He treated her badly and now he doesn't even recognize her. Instead of helping him, she drags him further into despair and breakdown. At the last minute she relents and pulls strings to get him into a rehab program.

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This play can be performed by young people or as an Epic Fable by adults. It can be performed with no scenery, using just two chairs, a piano bench, props, and such costume bits as hats and aprons. The signs can be projected above the action or propped on an easel and changed by the actors.

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An updated version of the classroom classic. In this fast moving comedy, life in a small town is too difficult for Tommy, a teenage werewolf, so he leaves for another state. At his new job he meets Mary, who has her own interesting secret.

Pulse Theatre, Off-Off Broadway, NY

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At Bonne Bouche, the hottest restaurant in New York City, Nick, the biggest comic book dealer in the world, has a ring in his pocket and a marriage proposal on his lips for his ladylove Melanie. Before this evening of haute cuisine and haute amour can reach its climax, however, an unfortunate choice of entrées upends Nick's carefully laid plans and forces him to reveal to Melanie, Robert the waiter, and the great Chef Alain himself, that superheroes aren't the only ones with secret identities.

Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, England

2003

Rowntree Players

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In a mental hospital two men, both around fifty, start talking. One of them is convinced that he is Humphrey Bogart, while the other one seems certain that he is Cary Grant (although his friend thinks that he is Clark Gable). But as their hilarious, antagonistic conversation continues, we find out that they are not as mad as they seem, and that they haven't really forgotten what has led them to adopt their fictional personalities.

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Two men, both in their late thirties, are sharing a humble room in present-day Russia. One of them is a former champion athlete, now unemployed, while the other, an intellectual, has never worked in his life. In order to have something to eat, the former athlete looks around for grocery stores with fat owners so that he can steal tomatoes, potatoes, bread, cheese and whatever else he can lay his hands on without getting caught. These two dissimilar but close friends, who are always grumbling to each other, try every day to come up with the idea that will enable them to "hit the jackpot", and save them from the misery in which they live. At last the intellectual comes up with an idea which they put into practice. The two heroes steal the embalmed body of Lenin, bring it by night to their room in a packing-case and inform the Russian government and the whole planet that they are demanding a ransom of a million dollars for its return. However, nobody cares enough to offer to pay for Lenin. Days pass, the two men get into the habit of talking to Lenin as if he can hear them, until they discover that not everyone is utterly indifferent to him. Because at last they find one person, Only One (the title of the play) who is willing to pay to have Lenin back.

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A lost cat provokes an interesting conversation between a man and a woman.

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Three Postal Employees find a disembodied head in one of the packages they open. An argument ensues over what should be done.

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Already slowed, a small town railroad has anounced that it is ceasing regular service, meaning the end of the line for a generation who relied on it. People on both sides of the tracks, like barkeeper Alex, town drunk Zelda and elderly Father Michael will feel the effects. What's left of old Main St. is already in shambles, but now that the trains are about to stop, things threaten to get even worse. In a bar close to the dock, railroad Vice President Frank Still reveals himself as carrying the message: the last train will be coming down the tracks soon. He is a villified man, but only doing his job. In this short play alliances are drawn and re-drawn, each turn coming with increasingly dangerous consequences. When the smoke clears, someone will be left to pick up the pieces, with the weight of a dying town on their shoulders.

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What is the meaning of existence? Could it be as simple as flossing daily?

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From personal experience, a take on 9/11 not much covered by the media: It's three months after the attacks, nearly Christmas, and sixty-ish Miss Margaret Wilson finds herself, much against her will, in a therapy session, stoutly insisting over and over there's no reason whatsoever for her being there. It's up to psychotherapist Pauline Churchill to try to break through this resistance, but she's having a bad day herself, and it shows - or it would, to anyone more therapy-savvy than Miss Wilson.

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All in the Demographics - (3f, 2m) Setting: The office of Jim Goodes for President. Summary: An unmarried Presidential candidate, told by his handlers that it would be in his political interest if he were married, is given the quick option of two politically correct fiancés. Marinated Steaks and Socks - (2f, 1m) Setting: A marriage- counselor's office. Summary: A husband and wife who cannot seem to communicate with each other, visit a marriage counselor with mixed results. Once Upon an F'ing Island - (1m, 1f) Setting: A deserted tropical island. Summary: Two people, married, but not to each other, stranded on a deserted island, must decide what to do now that it appears they will not be rescued.

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Hermes, the Olympian trickster god, is sent on a mission to Earth to deal with faux-Swiss-lawyer, Axel, who preys on elderly Jews in a Holocaust reparations scheme. Hermes poses as clumsy Herman Himmel, foiling Axel's attempts to dupe Joseph, his current elderly victim.

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A suicide attempt threatens to spoil a lovely Sunday afternoon

Hurricane Season Annual One Act Play Festival

2005

The Eclectic Company Theatre

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This hilarious comedy is the perfect vehicle for all theatre groups. Using the "play within a play" format, the work follows a troupe of actors as they prepare for the staged reading of a new play. "Murphy's Law" reigns supreme, as the harried director deals with: an angry leading man; know-it-all juvenile; a miffed grande dame and a tardy, manipulative ingenue.

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A father and his fourteen year old son are forced to confront and deal with life and their own relationship after they survive a major earthquake.

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The night preceding the Academy Awards, two old friends meet for a drink in the bar of the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel. The men have a great time, and several laughs, reminiscing... until a mysterious barmaid joins their conversation and things take a bizarre turn.

First Stage, Hollywood, CA

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An older, Jewish veteran and a widowed house painter meet and bond beneath the backdrop of World War II. This story is filled with humor and pathos.

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Two car salesmen, Dave and Jim, try to figure out why Dave is not meeting his monthly sales quota. We learn that the dwindling sales figures are directly attributable to Dave's appearance as an actor in a friend's musical satire INCREDIBLE RUMP. The play, based on Rumplestilskin, has some dark moments but, as Dave says, "it has a happy ending."

Randal Coates Auditorium, Beecher high School, Flint, MI

1999

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When Watah Mocasin goes fishing in a slave burial ground, the spirit of Mean Molly, a young West African woman that died in Massah Georges smokehouse, is unleashed upon the newly freed men and women in the low country of South Carolina during the first year of Reconstruction. Guided by the Ijebu warrior, Obonto, the people work collectively to return her trust to the Ancestor House.

Nat Horne Theatre, New York City

1992

Love Creek Productions

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Second Coming is a single-act character study in racism that spans 150 years. All of the action takes place in the parlor of a once grand, but now faded, South Carolinian plantation home belonging to the Welsh family. The four characters are Welsh women, but with decidedly different points of view on the nature of their heritage. Through them an examination of racist attitudes in the South is dramatized for the stage