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JAIME CRUZ
Nationality: USA
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Jaime Cruz's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
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below is a list of Jaime Cruz's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
Cuarto Cuatro (Room Four) Dead In the Kitchen Grey Between Red & Yellow, The Maize! A Play On Words Parched Catholics Quebradita Scavengers In the Mother Of Chaos: A Descent Into Metatheater Shooting Stars & Threesomes Videotape Or Lupe At the End Of the WorldCuarto Cuatro (Room Four)
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Mai and her Mother antonia are locked in a room like animals. they have to get out. Guided by her mother and Santo Toribio Romo, the Patron Saint of immigrants, Mai will uncover the truth about their entrapment, along with her own troubled past.
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Top of PageDead In the Kitchen
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a story about guilt, family and PB&J sandwiches. Dan hasn't slept in weeks. he's about to become a Father and his wife April doesn't know what to do with him. Upon his brother Mike's soaking wet arrival, disturbing news about someone's death come to light, hurling Dan head on against the haunting dilEmmas of insomnia, broken promises, and family commitment.
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Top of PageGrey Between Red & Yellow, The
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Nick's body has been found. everyone's feeling pretty good about it, including Nick. . . .So now what? a comedy about catharsis and what happens after.
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Comedy
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Top of PageMaize! A Play On Words
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an absurdist theatre piece about two beings at the beginning and the end. about origins and clean slates. about dying and about cans of corn. and above all, about words.
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experimental
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Top of PageParched Catholics
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Nick and Jefferson just lost their mother. Her farewell gift to them was a bottle of aquafina. as the contradictory pair overcomes sibling rivalry, romantic predicaments and IBS, they just may figure out who their enigmatic mother really was.
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Top of PageQuebradita
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Quebradita is the story of a Mexican family in small town Wyoming clutching desperately to its values and failed dreams. Consuelo, a mother grieving over the loss of her father, has been tougher than usual on her family. Consuelo's teenage daughter Valeria, however, is far more interested getting permission to go to the Back to School dance; while alberto, her father, drinks in secrecy and throws money away on a long-shot horse at the local racetrack. a fake ID, a leap out a second story window and an unemployed womanizer named Ramiro lead this family to an evening of secrets revealed, and a devastating realization that perhaps they are better strangers than kin.
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Top of PageScavengers In the Mother Of Chaos: A Descent Into Metatheater
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Sean and Neil work at a liquor store. Neil is smitten by a beautiful older woman named Kate ellington. Sean has been chasing Kelly, an elusive coworker. they drink on the job. they shamelessly babble about MILFs, one-night stands and STDs. they sell alcohol to minors. they are the lowest of the low, living a fairly mundane existence until the fabric of their world begins to unravel at the seams of meta-theater. It's a quest for love and truth. there's severe drinking and electrocutions. there's men in women's clothing. the search for purpose is a bitch.
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Top of PageShooting Stars & Threesomes
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One man's lust for happiness instigates his own downward spiral of twisted memories, sex and poor customer service.
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Top of PageVideotape Or Lupe At the End Of the World
Synopsis:
Videotape follows a group of tormented individuals as their lives collide on December 31st, 1999. Hours before the new millennium enters, an illegal hotel maid named Lupe is on the verge of getting her son back. To do so, she must save her failing relationship with Jared, a construction worker with a short fuse who lusts after Kayleigh, the disturbed college dropout who survives her suicide and finds spirituality in Tim, a man-child pizza delivery boy who is terrified of women. amid the Y2K madness, pizza deliveries and the pornography, they just may find their place in the world, before time runs out.
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Winner, NWDC/NPa Playwriting Competition
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