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Bob Jude Ferrante

BOB JUDE FERRANTE  

 Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of Bob Jude Ferrante's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Bufoon Piece         Flick See Gears In The Sparklight         Flowers Of War         Freefalling         Hemlock         Just Magi-Straight Of Wexwall         Memory Motel         Mens         New Life, A         New Theory Of Vision, A         Passing On I         Punishment, The         Subcity         Twinges         We Are Now

Bufoon Piece

Synopsis:
alessandro and his father are the last in a long line of Commedia dell'arte players. The year 1937 and two escaped prisoners of the fascists turn up in their village. Do they do what is right or what is safe?

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Flick See Gears In The Sparklight

Synopsis:
Through time displacement a woman manages to effect things in different parts of her life

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Flowers Of War

Synopsis:
Iraq: February, 1991. High-tech weaponry from eight nations hammers Baghdad's smokestacks and high-rises to dust. In one nameless shelter huddle eight cold, tired, angry Iraqis. To keep their sanity, they propose a storytelling contest. The result: Eight war stories, full of war's sadness, horror, and sometimes even laughter. Flowers of War is a "Fantasia on American Themes" - you won't get the characters you see to resemble the Iraqis you have been conditioned to expect!

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1st Produced:
New York, NY    1993

Organisations:
MOSaIC

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Genre:
Seriocomic Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Freefalling

Synopsis:
a bar owner discovers that her ex-boyfriend - a mobster - wants to seize their child

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Hemlock

Synopsis:
as humanity rockets toward Millennium, strange red-garbed men known only as Cardinals complete plans for universal domination by capturing Socrates, Greek philosopher and David Chagall, Bronx diner owner. Can our intrepid men free themselves from the clutches of the mother of all conspiracies. . . and save the cosmos? HEMLOCK is a black, black, black comic fantasy that skewers end of millennium paranoia, western philosophy, conspiracy theories, time travel, and Catholicism.

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1st Produced:
Dallas    1997

Organisations:
Extra Virgin

1st Published:
Smith & KrAus (excerpts), 1997   -

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Genre:
Black Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Just Magi-Straight Of Wexwall

Synopsis:
a travelling poet gains knowledge through wine

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Genre:
Fifteen minute play

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Memory Motel

Synopsis:
Tabitha has locked the priest in the confessional until he agrees to help her.

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Mens

Synopsis:
Much to the annoyance of the man using it a woman starts banging on the door to the Mens Room

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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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New Life, A

Synopsis:
an "art rock" sci-fi thriller set 125 years hence, The New Life is a wild ride of a play where immortality, Italian poetry, terror, and the emergent intelligence of networks interfold DNa-like into the noir classic D.O.a. Complex and multi-layered, the play's flexible casting options mean you can perform it with a cast as small as 8 or large as 22. Likewise, you can make it a tour de force of technical theatre, or perform it simply on a bare platform with human-generated effects

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Multi-media stage  flexible locations placed via 2 video projection screens

1st Produced:
Off-Off-Broadway, NY    2004

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Project

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  4/4 with doubling

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New Theory Of Vision, A

Synopsis:
Spooky and hilarious things happen when philosophy professor Lee Krebs finds himself in cyberspace with his hero, the philosopher George Berkeley (Berkeley, who lived 1684-1753, wrote that people learn of reality only through their senses). How do people relate to each other in altered reality? Can your mind can be rewired so it's completely different from others? as minds, are we all snowflakes? What is the sound of memory? How does imagination smell? all these questions are asked and answered in Bob Jude Ferrante's surreal and poetic comedy.
- press release

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Sanctuary: Playwrights Theatre

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Passing On I

Synopsis:
The ghost of a dead soldier returns to his village to make peace with his mother

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Genre:
Fifteen minute play

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Punishment, The

Synopsis:
Four people await sentencing but they do not know why or for what

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Subcity

Synopsis:
a time-jumping comedy about architecture, sexuality, the priesthood and right livelihood. In a collapsed subway tunnel we find alex-a busted-down architect, and Wall-a gay tunnel-worker who prefers the dark. Which will get them first. . . falling concrete blocks. . . oxygen gone. . .gas. . . or their shared past?

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1st Produced:
New York, NY    2000

Organisations:
NY Play Development

1st Published:
Smith & KrAus (excerpts), 2000   -

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Genre:
Seriocomic Comedy. - - Gay, full length

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Twinges

Synopsis:
Twinges is an evening of twenty short plays, each with a peculiar comic bite. Elias Stimac of BackStage calls Twinges "comical success. . . laugh inducing, eye opening, or thought provoking--and sometimes all three at once." arlene McKanick of Off-Off-Broadway Review says Twinges is "worth seeing!"

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1st Produced:
New York, NY    2002

Organisations:
Montauk Theatre Productions

1st Published:
Smith & KrAus (excerpts), 2000   -

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Genre:
Comedy shorts

Parts:
Male:  20            Female:  10            Other:  -

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We Are Now

Synopsis:
WE ARE NOW is a wild dramatic comedy with through-composed live music and a correlated gallery installation. The piece flashes forward to 2020, when nation states are obsolete and the United States government has ceded administration of the nations population to a quasi public-private entity, The Ministry LLC. Everything in life is utilitarian until The Movement, a group of resisters, reminds the world that life has not always been under The Ministry LLCs control; tumult and hilarity result.
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1st Produced:
Chashama
217 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017    24 Oct 2012

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Genre:
dramatic comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

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