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BARBARA LHOTA
(1965 - )Nationality: USA
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Barbara Lhota is an award-winning playwright as well as a screenwriter. the Studio's production of her play Third Person was selected by the Boston Herald as one of the top ten plays of the 1993-94 season. She was awarded the Harold and Mimi Steinberg award for playwriting for Hanging by a Thread at the Crawford Theater at Brandeis University. Green Skin, her collaboration with Ira Brodsky, was staged at the Producers' Club with Theatre asylum in New York. Most recently Barbara is the proud winner of the Babes with Blades' international playwriting competition Joining Sword and Pen for her play Los Desaparecidos: the Vanished. Her plays have been produced at various Theaters and universities across the country including the Ritz Theater in New Jersey, the American Stage Festival in New Hampshire, the New england Theater Conference, and the Wang Center in Boston. In addition, her shows have been performed at several off-off Broadway Theaters including Tribeca Lab, Madison avenue Theater, Love Creek Productions at the Nat Horne Theatre and the Phil Bosakowski Theater. She received her MFA in Dramatic Writing from Brandeis University, where she was an artist-in-residence and taught playwriting. Barbara now lives in Chicago, where she has had the opportunity to see Strangers and Romance, Family Portrait, Third Person , a Good Solid Home, Without You, acceptance Letter, the Good Son, Flyin' High, Morbid Curiosity, Personal Penchants, and the Nerdy Girl and the Intergalactic Dog produced. She has had productions or workshops with various Chicago companies which include artistic Home, Stage Left, Women's Theatre alliance, Griffin Theater, Circle Theatre Company, Theatre of Western Springs, Jupiter Theater, Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, Stockyards Theater, Naked earth, Rascal Children's Theater, Symposium, Camenae ensemble, and Theatre of Western Springs. Recently Ira and Barbara's screenplay, the Long Shot, was optioned e. Klaviter Productions, a writer and researcher on the hit show Grey's anatomy. Barbara's plays, Strangers and Romance, can be found in Smith and Kraus' Women Playwrights: the Best Plays of 2001 and two of her monologues are in the Best Male Monologues of 2001. She is the co-author of four collections of short play published by Smith and Kraus and entitled Forensics Series Volume 1-4. If you would like to contact Barbara, you can e-mail her at Blhota@aol.com.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Acceptance Letter All Good Children Go To Heaven And All I Loved Bee Keeper And His Daughter, The Collaboration Double, The Echo Family Portrait Flyin' High Girl Found Good Solid Home, A Good Son, The Greenskin Hanging By A Thread Los Desaparecidos (the Vanished) Mating Habits Of Frogs Mixed Morbid Curiosity Nerdy Girl, The & the Intergalactic Dog Personal Penchants Phantom Pain, The Pretty Crazy In Detroit Romance Strangers Swimming In the Colored Lights That's All Folks Third Person Warped Without YouAcceptance Letter
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Tina, 38 years old, arrives home from a long evening at the bowling alley. She is eager to plan Charlie's big birthday/graduation party. Charlie, 18 years old, is not at all enthused. He sits in a chair with his head buried in a book when Tina enters.
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Circle Theatre
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Circle Theatre One-act Festival
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Smith and Kraus - Forensics Duo Series Vol. 2: 35 8-10 Minute Original Dramatic Scenes for Duo Practice and Performance,
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15-20 minutes in length. One act
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Top of PageAll Good Children Go To Heaven
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A popular and successful preacher begins to doubt if there is a Hell. An old friend of hers an atheist starts to doubt her beliefs
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Written by Barbara Lhote and M E H Lewis
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Top of PageAnd All I Loved
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Top of PageBee Keeper And His Daughter, The
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Sylvia Plath runs into her Father in purgatory
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Nat Horne Theater
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Love Creek Productions
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Serio-Drama 30 min One act
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: 1 m/f
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Top of PageCollaboration
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Two playwrights, Georgie a straight woman and Will a gay man have collaborated on scripts for many years. they are working on one final script about a gay man who wants to marry his lover but his best friend (female) keeps getting in the way.
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Written by Barbara Lhote And Ira Brodsky
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Comedy. - - Gay, full length
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageDouble, The
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Swashbuckling
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1st Produced:
Lincoln Square Arts Center, Chicago
18 Aug 2011
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Lesbian full length comedy
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageEcho
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Echo is an autistic teen. A facilitator says he can get her talking. Her father and sister are dubious but her mother enthusiastic. However the first word she types shocks them all
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Top of PageFamily Portrait
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One act
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Top of PageFlyin' High
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Tommy and agnes, 29, went to high school together twelve years ago. Today, they run into each other in a cooling center in a bad section of New Jersey on a hot evening. Both have been on different paths and ended up in the same place. Tommy was the star basketball player destined for the big time; agnes was an overweight overachiever who expected to and did take care of her sickly parents for years. Somehow forces bring these two opposites together to reanalyze what it means to be successful.
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1st Produced:
Artistic Home's One-Act Festival
Organisations:
artistic Home
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Smith and Kraus - Forensics Duo Series Vol. 2: 35 8-10 Minute Original Dramatic Scenes for Duo Practice and Performance,
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15-20 minutes in length. One act
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Top of PageGirl Found
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A thirteen year old girl, Ellie, goes missing. Four years later she turns up with no memory in a Canadian youth hostel. Then she remembers her name and is reunited with her mother and aunt but Ellie cannot remember anything
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Drama
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Top of PageGood Solid Home, A
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after a half a dozen attempts at artificial insemination, Robert, 39 years old, and his wife Monica decided to adopt a child. a private agency put the couple in contact with angie, an 18 year-old girl who felt unable to care for her expected child. Monica and the pregnant mother quickly bonded via the phone and through letters. after some initial conversations over the phone, the couple arranged to adopt angie's unborn child. Throughout the remainder of angie's pregnancy, the adoptive parents asked the birth mother if she was certain about her decision. angie reassured them, and signed all necessary papers. It has now been two months since angie gave birth and handed the baby over to the adoptive couple. everything had been going smoothly until a week ago when angie suddenly called them. In this play, angie travels from New Jersey to Florida to confront the adoptive parents.
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1st Produced:
Circle Theatre
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Circle Theatre One-act Festival
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Smith and Kraus - Forensics Duo Series Vol. 2: 35 8-10 Minute Original Dramatic Scenes for Duo Practice and Performance,
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15-20 minutes in length. One act
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Top of PageGood Son, The
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a year and a half ago, there was a senseless murder, when one boy killed another whom he didn't even know. Now Meryl, whose son, Ben, was killed, has asked Patrice to meet her at the local pancake house. It was Patrice's son Ty who was found guilty of the murder. Patrice assumes that Meryl wants to talk face-to-face with the mother of the "monster" who killed her son. Patrice is fully ready to face whatever scorn Meryl has for her and to apologize as best she can for what Ty has done. In reality, Meryl has received a letter from Patrice's younger son, adam, asking Meryl to reconsider their fight for the death penalty for his brother. In adam's letter some startling new facts are revealed.
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1st Produced:
Circle Theatre
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Circle Theatre One-act Festival
1st Published:
Smith and Kraus - Forensics Series Volume 4: Duo Practice and Competition,
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15-20 minutes in length. One act
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Top of PageGreenskin
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Grace Miles is having a problem with men. In general. and her family. In general. But one alligator, in particular, has her going a little crazy. especially since he isn't real. and when her younger sister, Vicky, starts seeing the same hallucination, Grace must find out why. and the answer may not be very pleasant. Green Skin is a quirky dark comedy that examines the issue of sexual abuse from a totally unique and complex perspective.
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Written by Barbara Lhote And Ira Brodsky
1st Produced:
The Producer's Club
Organisations:
Theatre asylum
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90-110 minutes in length. Full-length. Play/Drama
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Top of PageHanging By A Thread
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Marilyn moves to Boston from Rockford, Illinois to finally put her psychology degree to good use at a rehabilitation facility for psychiatric and head injured patients. She leaves behind a philandering husband believing wholeheartedly that her absence will make his heart grow fonder. She moves in with a quirky roommate and begins her life again. Only things become difficult as she finds herself attached to the many forgotten and hopeless facility patients. She identifies with them and it causes her to examine the darkness places of her own life. eunice a suicidal, yet extremely intuitive patient who''s own husband left her many years ago sees right through Marilyn's facade. and Marilyn makes eunice her most important project. Marilyn's need to save eunice from suicide is linked with her own need to save herself. Unfortunately, she cannot save eunice. and when her husband calls from Rockford asking for divorce papers, Marilyn's world falls apart. the question is will she save herself?
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Winner of Mimi And Harold Steinberg Award
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The Laurie Theater
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Brandeis University
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90-100 minutes. Full-length. Play/Drama
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Top of PageLos Desaparecidos (the Vanished)
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Set in 16th-century Spain, Los Desaparecidos (the Vanished) explores the impact of family ties, societal pressures, and unexpected love on the lives of two sisters: Diana Garcia Diaz and Isabel Garcia Reyes de la Barrera. expect clandestine trysts, plots and counterplots, romance, blackmail - and dazzling swordplay!
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Winner of the Babes with Blades' international playwriting competition Joining Sword And Pen.
1st Produced:
West Theatre, In The Raven Theatre Complex, Chicago
2008
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Babes with Blades
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Genre:
Swashbuckling Romance 120 min
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Male: 4 Female: 6 Other: -
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Top of PageMating Habits Of Frogs
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alison, a lonely woman, awakens suddenly from a nap on her couch to find a strange but familiar-looking woman sitting in her living room. What's even stranger is the woman seems to be a hybrid of both alison's younger sister, Sylvia, and an animal Universe explorer named Robin Webb from the TV show "animal Universe." at first, the Sylvia/Robin hybrid woman narrates the mating habits of the Pseudarcris frog species, but soon, she starts discussing the courtship habits of humans like alison. She tells alison that it is never too late to sing out to those you love, just as the male frogs do during mating seasons. alison is shocked initial by the woman's sudden appearance but as the discussion continues, it becomes apparent that alison, who we find out is going through chemotherapy, is trying to sooth herself through this encounter.
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15-20 minutes in length One act
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Top of PageMixed
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A lesbian couple are searching for a sperm donor on line. They have ideas about how he should look, education and profession
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Drama
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Top of PageMorbid Curiosity
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Shortly before he is to marry his headlining singer, a club owner is shot to death outside his New York jazz club. His bookish daughter's obsession with solving her father's murder leads her through the tangles of their trouble relationship in the heart of her own morbid curiosity. Morbid Curiosity, a mystery, is written in a film noir style and centers on the relationship between the daughter, Natalie, and, Chrissy, a streetwise spunky young woman who happens to be in the wrong place when the murder occurs. the twists and turns keep the audience guessing.
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1st Produced:
Huntington Studio Theater
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Boston Theater Works
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110 minutes in length. Full-length. Thriller
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Top of PageNerdy Girl, The & the Intergalactic Dog
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Being an eleven year old girl is not easy. . .especially when you're Louise Noble-Bells. Louise is used to a life of world travel with her antique-dealing parents and being schooled at home. Now her parents have decided to settle in Chicago, open a coffee shop, and send Louise to a new school. as if that weren't enough, Louise has been befriended by a dog who has fallen from space. and his presence has given her cat the power of speech. . .and does she have a lot to say!
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1st Produced:
Rogue Theater Co
2008
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Rascal Children's Theater
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Children's Show 45 min
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Male: 4 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PagePersonal Penchants
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Lesbian "life-coach" Jackie is impulsive, free-spirited, and looking on-line for an experienced, uninhibited soul-mate. "Bi-possible lesbian" Louise is a nervous english teacher with a habit of over-analyzing and no "experience" whatsoever. When the two of them finally meet after connecting on-line, their hidden reactions to each other spill out as they fumble their way through this hilarious, unpredictable first date.
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1st Produced:
Links Hall
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Stockyards Theater Festival
1st Published:
Smith and Kraus - Forensics Series Volume 3: Duo Practice and Competition Thirty-five 8-10 Minute Original Comedic Plays for Two Females,
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comedy 15-20 minutes in length. One act. - - Lesbian, one act
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Top of PagePhantom Pain, The
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Marnie and Angela have been friends since they were children - one black one white. They grew up in Detroit in the 1970s. They moved away together to Chicago to get better jobs. They married and had children of their own. Now years later an old school friend comes to visit and old wounds are open and secrets laid bare
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Drama
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Top of PagePretty Crazy In Detroit
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a sharp-tongued young woman, Ronnie refuses to do anything but mope around and await the next postcard from her runaway mom. She longs to meet her mother again but fears that she may inherit her psychosis. Ruth, her aunt, is insanely jealous of her nieces obsession with her irresponsible sister who wanders the country doing drugs and using psychiatric facilities like pit stops. To make matters worse, the neighborhood they live in is going from bad to worse and Ruth can't keep enough piano students to pay the bills anymore. Furthermore, she is too old and used up now that she's raised Ronnie to find a man to love and support her. the unhappy two have no choice but to take on a border. When Mel, a young racially-mixed lesbian college student walks into their home, they are finally confronted with the stagnancy of their bitter relationship.
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Madison AVenue Theater
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Madison avenue Theater
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Serio-Comic 40-50 min One act. - - Lesbian, theme/character, one act
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Top of PageRomance
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Miriam, a Medieval Literature professor meets Mick, a mail guy in a closed chapel in Boston on Christmas eve in the middle of the night. Miriam has left her sex-less marriage because she believes her husband is no longer attracted to her and Mick has just been dumped by his fiance. these two wounded opposites bump heads and philosophize about God and the writers of Bazooka bubble gum fortunes and finally manage to comfort each other. as the night progresses, they help each other uncover their best and most alluring qualities in this old fashion romance.
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Finalist, Love Creek theater Co. Samuel French One-act Contest
1st Produced:
Elliot Hall
Organisations:
the Footlight Club
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Contained in "Women Playwrights the Best Plays of 2001" published by Smith and Kraus, 2001
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Serio-Comic 30-40 min One act
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Top of PageStrangers
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a couple meet in a train station to play a game they have played for years. each time Madison and Maddie come here, they pretend to be a new set of strangers, meeting and attracting each other as if it's the very first time. Unfortunately, Madison need to play the game and "get it right" has become obsessive. He uses it as an escape from the pain he feels due to an unspoken loss in their marriage.
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Most produced play - over 17 productions. Upcoming production in Canada presented in French And English
1st Produced:
Crawford Theater
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Brandeis University
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Contained in "Women Playwrights the Best Plays of 2001" published by Smith and Kraus, 2001
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Drama 30 - 40 min One act
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Top of PageSwimming In the Colored Lights
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Schoolgirl Kathleen runs away from home and meets Molly an ageing down on her luck stripper.
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Top of PageThat's All Folks
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Through the years, Peter, 16 years old, has been given the daunting challenge of taking care of his autistic younger sister, Shelly, 14 years old. Shelly is a high-functioning autistic teenager who attends a special program in the local high school. Peter watches out for Shelly every day. He protects her from other kids, eases her tantrums, and makes sure she makes it to and from school. In the past few months, Peter has started to notice girls more. He is particularly interested in the new girl at school. He'd like to talk with her, but each time Shelly embarrasses him or comes between them. To make Peter's life worse, Shelly and Peter's parents have been fighting for weeks now. the word divorce has even come up. Peter knows that Shelly's autism has played a part in the tension. When Peter arrives home from being out with a friend, Shelly is sitting in his room. This is the last straw!
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another Country Productions - SLaMBoston
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Smith and Kraus - Forensics Duo Series Vol. 2: 35 8-10 Minute Original Dramatic Scenes for Duo Practice and Performance,
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15-20 minutes in length. One act
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Top of PageThird Person
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Sarah, late 20's, a Harvard medical school student, has been feeling lousy-emotionally and physically. She has no time for herself and her residency is a constant challenge. Not too long ago, Sarah and her best friend Shirley moved out to live with her boyfriend. ever since then, Sarah has been depressed and lonely. Perhaps it's because she hasn't had a date in over a year or maybe it's the stress of school, or that she drives herself so hard-she just doesn't know. Of late, her depression and loneliness has driven her to desperate measures. Sarah has begun asking her friends to fix her up, and she has placed a personal ad. So far, none of the men have lived up to her expectations. and what's worse is that she has begun to have horrible nightmares that she cannot explain. as her best friend Shirley and Sarah start to dig further into what's wrong with Sarah, Sarah must admit and come to terms with a horrible event that has shook her life.
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Produced 3 times, read once At American Stage Festival. Received recognition from the Boston Herald As one of the top ten plays of the 1993 season.
1st Produced:
Huntington Studio Theater - Boston
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Boston Theater Works
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90-110 min Play/Drama
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Top of PageWarped
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Two Chicago police officers give a lift home to a twenty something drunk. Several hours later she rushes from her apartment screaming she has been raped. Two veteran officers are told to look into it. Who is telling the truth?
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Drama
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Synopsis:
Marilyn, 70's, and Jim, 80's, were very happily married for fifty-two years. they have been blessed with six lovely children and nine wonderful grandchildren. This past year Jim died unexpectedly while in Marilyn's care. It is nearing the end of the Christmas season and Marilyn is having a difficult time. She's talking on the phone with one of her daughters who is checking in with her. Marilyn always insists that her children call when they get back home to let her know they are safe and sound.
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1st Produced:
Circle Theatre
Organisations:
Circle Theatre One-act Festival
1st Published:
Smith and Kraus - Forensics Duo Series Vol. 2: 35 8-10 Minute Original Dramatic Scenes for Duo Practice and Performance,
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15-20 minutes in length. One act
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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