EDWARD ALLAN BAKER
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Plays by Edward Allan Baker
27 Benedict Street |
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
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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: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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American Storage |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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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 | |||||
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| Synopsis: | On the death of his mother a man moves into a storage unit with all her belongings. His brother and sister plead with him to come home. | |||||
Bride of Olneyville Square, The |
| 1st Produced: | Alias Stage, Providence | 1993 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Buffer, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1985 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Dead Man's Apartment |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in A Dead Man's Apartment, Rosemary with Ginger, Face Divided, Dramatists Play Service, New York, | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | Lonnie, a married but lonely truck driver, and Nickie, his mistress, a married but lonely hardware store clerk, meet twice a week in an apartment to talk and kiss. They have chosen a day to tell their spouses they are leaving them, but when the day comes, there is a message on Lonnie's answering machine: "You're a dead man." Lonnie wants to put off telling their spouses until he finds out who is after him, but when Nickie's brother, Al, reveals that Lonnie left his own message on the machine, Lonnie admits to being too scared to make the big move. Lonnie loses his secret life, but he realizes he loves his wife and that all this is for the best anyway. | |||||
Divided |
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Dolores |
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theater | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in North of Providence, Dolores, The Lady of Fadima, Dramatists Play Service, New York, | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | the story of two sisters drawn together because of domestic violence which influences the lives of both characters more than they've ever admitted | |||||
Faces Divided |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in A Dead Man's Apartment, Rosemary with Ginger, Face Divided, Dramatists Play Service, New York, | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | In the emergency room of a Providence, Rhode Island hospital, Debbie waits for her husband. Their daughter, Jess, has fallen down the basement steps. That, at least, is what she tells the nurses, and this is the story she's sticking to. When Freddie arrives, he angrily confronts Debbie about the telltale signs of child abuse that mark their daughter. Debbie refuses to admit the truth and desperately talks about their simple life together before they were married and how she wants things back the way they were. Freddie warns Debbie that they'll lose their daughter, but Debbie won't cooperate. In the end, Freddie goes along with her story, all the while knowing that the state will do what it has to do, and that Debbie will go on living in a dream world. | |||||
Framer, The |
| 1st Produced: | Michael Weller Theatre | 2008 | ||||
| Company: | Broken Watch Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY 2009 | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | traic comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | This is a tragic-comedy set in a picture framing shop in a New England mill town. A dying man ceaselessly toils in order to leave his once-abused wife some post-mortem financial security while retracting the emotional brutality of his past, but he's side-tracked due to a request from his high-strung brother in-law. - nytheatre.com | |||||
Free Gift Inside |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Ensemble Studio Theatre presents Project 35, a festival celebrating their 35th Anniversary season. It consists of concert readings of 35 new plays in 35 days by 35 E.S.T. members and guest artists | |||||
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Kiss Of The Spider Woman |
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| 1st Published: | Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1987 | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 2 voice only | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Manuel Puig | |||||
| Synopsis: | Molina tells Valentin the story of Iraina - the Cat Woman. | |||||
Lady Of Fadima, The |
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| 1st Published: | in North of Providence, Dolores, The Lady of Fadima, Dramatists Play Service, New York, | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | because her husband is unable to work a young mother is forced to work as a cleaning woman in a hospital where her innocence is preyed upon by a threatening and malicious boss. | |||||
Lila on the Wall |
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY | 2006 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Notes: | Ensemble Studio Theatre's 28th annual presentation of the Marathon, featuring one-act plays | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Mafia on Prozac |
| 1st Produced: | Theater Three, NY | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | IAAM Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "EST Marathon The Complete One Act Plays 1997" published by Smith and Kraus, 1998 | ISBN | 9781575251353 | |||
| 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: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | In Mafia on Prozac, you await your fate in a burlap sack overlooking the water on a pier in Rhode Island while two hit men are debating whether or not to kill you. . .and that of course depends on their interpretation of a dream message from an unusual angel: Al Capone - press release | |||||
Mystery Of A Rose Bouquet |
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1988 | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Manuel Puig | |||||
| Synopsis: | the relationship between a wealthy bed-bound patient and her apparently doentrodden nurse. | |||||
North Of Providence |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in North of Providence, Dolores, The Lady of Fadima, Dramatists Play Service, New York, | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | painful domestic crisis between brother and sister, uncovering old wounds on the last day of their father's life | |||||
Prairie Avenue |
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio, Los Angeles | 1979 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Providence |
| 1st Produced: | Arthur Seelen Theatre, NY | 2005 | ||||
| Company: | Vesta Collective | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Public Street Marriage, A |
| 1st Produced: | EST Marathon | 1981 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Ray on the Water |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2002 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Rosemary With Ginger |
| 1st Produced: | Arclight Theatre, NY | 2008 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in A Dead Man's Apartment, Rosemary with Ginger, Face Divided, Dramatists Play Service, New York, | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | Two sisters meet in a closed-down diner and slowly reveal the strife they're experiencing at home: Rosemary, an alcoholic, is about to lose custody of her children, the pain of which leads her to drink more, and to tolerate an abusive relationship with her boyfriend; Ginger finds herself in a loveless marriage, but more important, she needs to explain to Rosemary why she divulged Rosemary's alcoholism to her ex-husband, thus creating the custody battle. The sisters wrangle, accuse and attack, but mostly discover that, without each other, they have nothing. In the end, some hope is evident as the sisters rediscover their common bonds. | |||||
Seventeenth of June, The |
| 1st Produced: | Theater Three, NY | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | IAAM Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | In The Seventeenth of June, Dee's abusive husband Ant is dead, and she's filled with guilt. Will her sisters be able to console her? Will she go back with the nerd downstairs who rescued her? Or, will she manage to speak with Ant one more time? - press release | |||||
Up, Down, Strange, Charmed, Beauty, And Truth |
| 1st Produced: | The Studio @ Cherry Lane, New York International Fringe Festival | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | casa 204 productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Getting out means leaving something behind. In this fast-moving, heartbreaking one-act by acclaimed playwright Edward Allen Baker, two sisters and their uncle must face a difficult reality as they weigh family bonds against the need to escape. | |||||