DANIEL CURZON
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Plays by Daniel Curzon
Arranged Marriage, An |
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| 1st Published: | in The Collected plays of Daniel Curzon, BookSurge.com, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | Mother and Father want their daughter to marry the man they have selected for her, but she is determined to make other arrangements. | |||||
Batman and Robin: Cute Meat |
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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: | - | Fifteen minute play | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | The first meeting between Batman and Robin | |||||
Beer and Rhubarb Pie |
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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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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| Notes: | There is also a one act version of this play | |||||
| Synopsis: | A gay man who is having trouble with an ex-lover and a homophobic Cuban man meet | |||||
Beneath The Surface |
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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 | 7 | Female | 5 |
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| Synopsis: | A diverse group of minorities from the disabled to Native Americans are trapped in an underground train carriage that is rapidly running out of air | |||||
Birthday Boy |
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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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | A middle class drug addict hates life - his boyfriend gets "off" on his addiction | |||||
Bless Me, Father. I Have Sinned |
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| 1st Published: | in The Collected plays of Daniel Curzon, BookSurge.com, | 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | Sebastian comes to make his confession to a Catholic priest many years after the young man's death. He wants to get in a few words himself because everybody else except him has been allowed to talk. A young woman named Norma Jean is in the other confessional. | |||||
Body And Soul |
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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: | - | Short play | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | A man argues with his penis | |||||
Celebrities In Hell |
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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: | - | Ten minute play | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | The Pope and Eddie Murphy are in Hell | |||||
Christmas Miracle at the Open Mess, A |
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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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| Notes: | Originally performed under the umbrella title of "Men in and Out of Clothes" with three other one act plays | |||||
| Synopsis: | Two army lieutenants are having an affair and decide to dance together at the Christmas Dance | |||||
Comeback |
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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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Music by Dan Turner; lyrics and book by Daniel Curzon | |||||
| Synopsis: | A once famous male cabaret artist is about to make a comeback - after a sex change operation | |||||
Demons |
| 1st Produced: | Julian Theatre, San Francisco | 1983 | ||||
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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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | Gay man is visited by the spirits of three women who were important in his life. His mother, his ex-wife and a nun who taught him at school | |||||
Don't Rub Me The Wrong Way |
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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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | A typo in an advertisement - something is described as a "good bi" - leads to all kinds of mayhem | |||||
Fool's Audition, A |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2001 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Baker's Plays, | 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 | 3 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | A man auditions to be the king's jester - if he fails he will be executed. | |||||
G.D. Arrives |
| 1st Produced: | Southwest Theater Association | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in The Collected plays of Daniel Curzon, BookSurge.com, | 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 | |||||
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| Notes: | Winner, National New Play Contest. produced at the Orlando Fringe Festival, May, 2008 | |||||
| Synopsis: | G.D. finally arrives and presents all the methods by which humans have tried to cope with life. | |||||
Heaven - The Musical |
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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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
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| Synopsis: | A new dance club has opened - people are willing to pay anything to get in as they allow unbridled sex | |||||
Henry IV Part III |
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| 1st Published: | in The Collected plays of Daniel Curzon, BookSurge.com, | 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 | |||||
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| Synopsis: | A play in Shakespearean blank verse, it tells the story of the rebellion of John of Lancaster against his brother Henry V of England, because he considers himself a superior ruler and his brother a dissolute companion of Falstaff and the other characters from the Henry plays. | |||||
Hit, The |
| 1st Produced: | Actors Ensemble of Hollywood | 1998 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in The Collected plays of Daniel Curzon, BookSurge.com, | 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | also produced by California Travel Troupe, San Francisco, 2004 | |||||
| Synopsis: | Four playwrights have their scripts picked up from a festival by a producer, and that's when the throat-cutting really begins | |||||
Hugely Entertaining |
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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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | A group of people taking a theatre course range from a bed wetting Countess to a Shakespearean actor who is going blind | |||||
I Married The Nightstalker |
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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: | - | Seven minute play | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | A woman wants to marry a serial killer | |||||
I'm Glad I'm Me - Not You or Avatars |
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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: | Five versions of four people in 1893, 1953, 1973, 1993 and 2093 | |||||
Immortality |
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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: | - | Ten minute play | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | A lesbian and a gay man are planing to have a baby until the AIDS crisis comes along | |||||
Importance of Being P.C., The |
| 1st Produced: | Actors Theatre of Santa Cruz | 2005 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in The Collected plays of Daniel Curzon, BookSurge.com, | 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Mrs. Berkeley interviews the prospective fiance of her daughter to see if he has all the proper "politically correct" opinions, A Lady Bracknell for today. | |||||
In A Five And Ten Cent Store |
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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: | - | Ten minute play | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | A lonely man wants to get a sex-doll | |||||
Last Call |
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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: | - | Twenty minute play | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | An extremely handsome man is cruised by one not so | |||||
Liars |
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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: | - | Ten minute play | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | A completely reliable lie detector has been invented - can someone who thinks he has just killed his boyfriend escape detection? | |||||
Murder Of Gonzago, The |
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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 | 3 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | When her play gets criticised by other members of the reading group - she reveals sordid secrets about the others | |||||
My Unknown Son |
| 1st Produced: | Circle Repertory Theater | 1987 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in The Collected plays of Daniel Curzon, BookSurge.com, | 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 | |||||
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| Notes: | then off -Broadway at the Kaufman Theater (1988). | |||||
| Synopsis: | A gay man has sired a child with a lesbian couple and that son appears to his father in various incarnations: in Greek tragedy, Shakespearen comedy, Oscar Wilde, Sam Shepard. | |||||
One Damned Thing After Another or Oops, That Must Have Hurt |
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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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | A gay American man and the two women who love him exchange e-mails | |||||
One Man's Opinion |
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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: | - | Twelve minute play | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | A serial killer of gay men explains himself | |||||
Peni |
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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: | - | Short play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | What if women had penises? | |||||
Pixies In Peril |
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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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
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| Synopsis: | A wimp is sent on a quest for dragons' gold | |||||
Please, Not To Us |
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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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | Lesbian version of "Birthday Boy" | |||||
Reality Check |
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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: | - | Ten minute play | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Two room mates watch a reality show in which gay men are constantly ridiculed | |||||
Rev What's His Name? |
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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: | - | Five minute play | Parts: | Male | 1 to 6 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | The priest tells the schoolboys that AIDS is God's curse on gay men | |||||
S and M |
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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: | - | Five minute play | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | A male sadist has a "heavy scene" with a male masochist - who turns out to be Jesus | |||||
Sex Show: Comedy Madness |
| 1st Produced: | Gay Community Center, San Franxisco | 1977 | ||||
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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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Men and sex | |||||
Shed No Tears For April |
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| 1st Published: | in The Collected plays of Daniel Curzon, BookSurge.com, | 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | A gay man and a bad-seed daughter fight for the estate (and love) of the daughter's mother. | |||||
So Middle Class |
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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 | 2 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | A man sits in a park reading. He is approached by another who starts talking to him. The subject of his sexuality comes up | |||||
Sour Grapes |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | in The Collected plays of Daniel Curzon, BookSurge.com, | 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Winner of Contest, Actors Theatre of Santa Cruz 1997 | |||||
| Synopsis: | A disgruntled actor/director/producer poisons a group of theatre critics, and all sorts of odd confessions come out in the process. | |||||
Streetcar Named Viagra, A |
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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 | 3 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Tennessee Williams is auditioning people for "A Streetcar Named Desire". A drag queen Desiree auditions and meeting her prompts Tennessee to rewrite the part of Lance DuBois | |||||
Tasteful Transvestite And The Three Bullies, The |
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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: | - | Ten minute play | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | A straight man likes wearing frocks | |||||
When Bertha Was A Pretty Name |
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| 1st Published: | in The Collected plays of Daniel Curzon, BookSurge.com, | 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 | |||||
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| Synopsis: | A gay man fears that his ogre French mother might disinherit him if she discovers that he is gay. So he demands deceit from his lover while she visits. Others down for the weekend include a sister and her wooden-legged fiance, to say nothing of a disreputable ex-lover. It's a play in the tradition of Maugham, Noel Coward. | |||||
Your Town |
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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: | - | Short play | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | A couple meet, get married, have children, look after aged parents and get old | |||||