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Lisa D'Amour

LISA D'AMOUR

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Antje Oegel International  UK represented by Harriet Pennington Legh

"Lisa D'Amour is an Obie award-winning playwright and one half of PearlDamour, an interdisciplinary performance company she runs with Katie Pearl. Her work has been produced by Theaters such as Steppenwolf Theatre, Children's Theater Company, Clubbed Thumb, the Walker Arts Center, and the Kitchen. D'Amour received her MFA in playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin and currently splits her time between Brooklyn and New Orleans.. M.F.A., Playwriting, University of Texas at Austin, 1996; B.A. in Theater and English, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS, 1991. 2005/6 TCG Playwright's Residency for work with Infernal Bridegroom Productions; 2004/5 Rockfeller MaP grant for LandMaRK; 2003 Village Voice OBIe award for Nita and Zita, written and directed by Lisa D'Amour; Playlabs participant (Playwrights' Center), Summer 2003 and 1999; McKnight advancement Grant from the Playwrights' Center, 2002-03, 1998-99; A.S.K. New Play Retreat participant, March, 2002; MacDowell Colony Fellow, Peterborough, NH, September, 1999; Member, New Dramatists, New York, NY, 1999; Career Opportunity Grant, Video Documentation Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board, 1999; Jerome/Intermedia Performance art Commission, Minneapolis, MN 1998-99; Jerome Fellowship for emerging Playwrights, the Playwrights' Center, 1997-98; James Michener Playwriting Fellow, the University of Texas at Austin, '94-95, '95-96, '96-97."

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         16 Spells To Charm the Beast         3 Mutants: Plays About Girls         Airline Highway         Anna BElla Eema         Bird Eye Blue Print         Cataract, The         Cherokee         Cut Piece         Detroit         Dress Me Blue/Window Me Sky         Frostbite         Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays From Clubbed Thumb         Furies, The         How To Build A Forest         Into the O         Landmark: 24 Hours @ the Stone Arch Bridge         Limo         Marsupial Girl         My California         Necklace, The         Night Sky         Nita And Zita         Parking Project, The         Red Death         Slabber         St Johns And the Suspended Vaudeville Apocalypse         Stanley         Stanley 2006         Tale of a West Texas Marsupial Girl         Terrible Things

16 Spells To Charm the Beast

Synopsis:
Lillian Davis, a metropolitan housewife of inconsequential regard, sets out to write her last will and testament in her apartment on the 27th floor of a respectable, rent-controlled building. as she inventories her possessions, the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. there is a Beast watching her every move, spying on her through a telescope from the window of his apartment halfway across town. as Lillian flashes forward and backward through her life with her husband Ned and her daughter Norma, the Beast comes closer and closer to Lillian's home, until she can no longer ignore him.

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1st Produced:
Clubbed Thumb (Summerworks Festival) (New York City, NY, United States)     2001

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
90-100 min Comedy/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  2 males, 3 females

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3 Mutants: Plays About Girls

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1st Produced:
Other Side Theater, Portland, Or     2001

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Play/Drama

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Airline Highway

Synopsis:
In the parking lot of The Hummingbird, a once-glamorous motel on New Orleans' infamous Airline Highway, a group of friends gather. A rag-tag collection of strippers, hustlers and philosophers have come together to celebrate the life of Miss Ruby, an iconic burlesque performer who has requested a funeral before she dies. The party rages through the night as old friends resurface to pay their respects. Airline Highway is a boisterous and moving ode to the outcasts that make life a little more interesting.

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1st Produced:
Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago     01 Dec 2014

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Steppenwolf Theatre Company

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Anna BElla Eema

Synopsis:
Ten-year-old anna BElla and her hermetic mother Irene live in a ratty trailer on the edge of town. When their trailer park is slated for demolition because of interstate highway expansion, Irene refuses to leave. In this moment of crisis, anna BElla creates a new girl out of the mud behind their trailer home. This mud-girl helps anna BElla and Irene channel the supernatural and face the life they must live in the world outside their trailer home. a richly imagined tale of a fierce mother/daughter bond, spoken and sung by three women.

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1st Produced:
Refraction Arts/Physical Plant Theater (Austin, Tx, United States)     2001

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
75-90 min Dramatic comedy with music

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Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  3 females (3-6 actors possible: , 3-6 females)

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Bird Eye Blue Print

Synopsis:
Bird eye Blue Print is set in an abandoned office suite on the first floor of 1 World Financial Center where a mysterious woman, known only as "the blue dress lady," has made her home and lives in a realm of disappearing birds, empty phone jacks, false doorways, and lost sisters. Part performance, part installation, Bird eye Blue Print walks through the "everyday-ness" of seeing into the ever-shifting relationship between sight, consciousness and identity.
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1st Produced:
World Financial Center Complex, NY     2007

Organisations:
Arts World Financial Center

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Play/Drama

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Cataract, The

Synopsis:
With the mighty Mississippi serving as a powerful backdrop, Lisa D'Amour's play fuses the natural elements of wind, water, wood, and stone to the interiors of its four characters. at the dawn of the new age, Cyrus and Lottie take in a transient Southern couple, Dan and Dinah. Dreams converge with sexual tension, suppressed emotions with desire, flooding the carefully laid landscape Cyrus and Lottie have designed

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Finalist for the Weissberger Award And Alternate for the Princess Grace Award, 2003. Winner of the Whitfield-Cook Prize, New Dramatists, 2004.

1st Produced:
Julia Miles (Wpp) Theatre, NY     2006

Organisations:
Women's Project

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Cherokee

Synopsis:
Two couples, one black, one white, flee their suburban pressures and re-connect with nature by going camping in Cherokee, North Carolina. But their lives are upended when a member of the group mysteriously vanishes, and the others are visited by a charismatic local who just might help them live off the grid forever. . . Lisa D'Amour's latest comedya companion piece to last season's hit, Detroitpushes a group of middle class characters to their emotional limits. Who has an authentic relationship to the land? Can we escape the trappings of comfort and technology to forge a healthier civilization?

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1st Produced:
Philadelphia: Wilma Theatre    

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Cut Piece

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Performed Yoko Ono's CUT PIeCe As part of the Y e S YOKO ONO exhibt

1st Produced:
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis     2000

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Detroit

Detroit
n a suburb of a mid-sized American city, Ben and Mary welcome to the neighbourhood Sharon and Kenny who have moved in to the long-empty house next door. Fuelled by alcohol and backyard barbecues, their new friendship veers rapidly out of control as inhibitions are obliterated, laying bare the fragility of Ben and Mary's off-the-shelf lifestyle.

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Genre:
comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dress Me Blue/Window Me Sky

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1st Produced:
Frontera@Hyde Park Theater, Austin     1998

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Play - a Journal Of Plays" issue three   -

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Genre:
Solo performance installation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Frostbite

Synopsis:
On a chilly night in Duluth, Minnesota, with nothing much to do, Sheila, Kira, and Matt head to a clearing in the woods in search of any kind of excitement. In place of partygoers they find a scrawny, shivering kid who claims to be more than 100 years old. as the Kid enacts his epic story, each teen must face his or her own hopes and fears about identity, adventure, and great love.

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1st Produced:
Farmington High School Drama (Farmington, Mn, United States)     2003

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
25-35 min Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  3 males, 4 females, 4 either (7-15 actors possible: 3-7 males, 4-8 females)

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Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays From Clubbed Thumb

Synopsis:
This anthology includes seven plays produced by Clubbed Thumb, the Obie award-winning downtown New York City theater company that burst onto the new play scene in 1996. edgy and thought-provoking, each play is funny, strange, and provocative in surprising, widely varying ways -- including an apartment that both adores and despises its inhabitants in Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), a metropolitan housewife who senses that something is watching her in 16 Spells to Charm the Beast, and a group of traveling freak show performers who reveal a deep humanity underneath their crowd-drawing deformities in Freakshow,among other uniquely inventive stories. For over a decade, Clubbed Thumb has had its finger firmly planted on the Pulse of new work, and these plays prove it. To purchase this book of 7 plays, click "add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:

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Genre:
Various Drama/Comedy

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Furies, The

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adapted in collaboration with Michelle Hensley

1st Produced:
Ten Thousand Things, Minneapolis     2001

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Play/Drama

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How To Build A Forest

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written by Lisa D'Amour And Katie Pearl

1st Produced:
Kitchen
NY, USA     01 Jun 2010

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Play/Drama

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Into the O

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1st Produced:
Frontera@Hyde Park Theater, Austin     1996

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Solo Play/Drama

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Landmark: 24 Hours @ the Stone Arch Bridge

Synopsis:
(Producer and Collaborating artist) a 24-hour multidisciplinary performance inspired by, designed for and performed on the Stone arch Bridge in Minneapolis.

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1st Produced:
Stone Arch Bridge In Minneapolis     2005

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Site Specific

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Limo

Synopsis:
Large scale site-specific performance created for the sculpture court at the Whitney Museum of art at altria

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1st Produced:
Whitney Museum Of Art At Altria     2004

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Play - a Journal Of Plays" issue three   -

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Site Specific

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Marsupial Girl

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Music by Sxip Shirey

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Play/Drama

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My California

Synopsis:
a pioneer during the California Gold Rush, a flapper in the Roaring Twenties, and a Los Angeles street kid in the present time -- three generations of California women weave their dreams together through time and space in spiraling, interlocking monologues.

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1st Produced:
Fronterafest (Austin, Tx, United States)     1996

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
25-35 min Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  3 females

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Necklace, The

Synopsis:
the Necklace is a new serial mystery in eight episodes from the Talking Band. This description is from the press release: "the Necklace is a Drama set in a grand, decaying house on the edge of a moor. It is a house of endless rooms and hidden passageways: of basements, attics, and secret stairways. a house that is antiquated but equipped with up-to the minute technology--wireless modems on moss-covered desks. In this house of multiple realities--often hidden from one another--live a group of people whose identities and relationships unfold in surprising ways in each new episode. the house is a hub, a crossroads, and a battleground in a struggle for survival between generations; between old ways of doing business and the new global economics.

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written by Lisa D'Amour, ellen Maddow, Lizzie Olesker And Paul Zimet. each episode will be A self-contained theater piece that can be Appreciated by itself but each will Also end in A 'cliff-hanger'. the four writers Are working in the tradition of Dickens's serial novels, or television serials, but wish to combine the seductiveness of the form with the vividness, immediacy, And theatricality of live theater

1st Produced:
Ohio Theatre, NY     2006

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Genre:
Serial Mystery

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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Night Sky

Synopsis:
On a summer night in New York City, a wolf is on the loose. Six New Yorkers are trying to find themselves. Will the wolf find them first? and if it does, will they run, or let it in?

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Commissioned by Playwrights Horizons.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Nita And Zita

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1st Produced:
State-Palace Theater, N.0     2002

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Genre:
Multidisciplinary performance

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Parking Project, The

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a site-specific work-in progress staged in A three-level parking garage, created with Katie Pearl And John Walch

1st Produced:
Austin Scriptworks, Austin     2000

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Site Specific

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Red Death

Synopsis:
Meet Jane Whithers, a trained kindergarten teacher and certified lifeguard who has become sidetracked from her professional pursuits by a self-imposed existential quest: She is searching for the origin of hate, the root of denial, and the basic human weakness that causes us to fear death. She suspects the source might lie in one Mr. Prospero albright, a childhood acquaintance from Grass Lake, Michigan. Follow Jane around the world in seven scenes filled with life rafts, spiked cocktails, underground dance clubs, and childhood secrets as she searches for the one man who understands why her life has gone down such a perilous path. One part Raymond Chandler, one part Kafka, and one part Kurt Vonnegut, Red Death is a 21st-century riff on Edgar allan Poe'sMasque of the Red Death -- a dark, often hilarious roller-coaster ride through the fears and anxieties that simmer beneath the surface of everyday lives.

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1st Produced:
The Red Eye Collaboration (Minneapolis, Mn, United States)     2001

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
85-95 min Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  3 males, 3 females (6-7 actors possible: exactly 3 males, 3-4 females)

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Slabber

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austin Critics Table Award: Best Touring Show

1st Produced:
Red Eye Isolated Acts Festival (Minneapolis)     1999

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Contained in: "Play - a Journal Of Plays" issue three   -

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Genre:
Solo performance installation

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St Johns And the Suspended Vaudeville Apocalypse

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Co-produced by Raindog Playwrights' Project And the Other Side theater

1st Produced:
St. John's Suspension Bridge In Portland, Or     1997

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Genre:
Site-specific play

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Stanley

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1st Produced:
Sanctuary Playwrights' Theater     2004

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Genre:
Solo Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Stanley 2006

Synopsis:
This new work unleashes a man who believes he is Stanley Kowalski from a Streetcar Named Desire into the year 2006. as the spirit of Brando's Stanley looms, the man wanders the streets searching tirelessly for Blanche DuBois. as he questions his choices and struggles with the consequences, desperation and frustration come into sharp focus. Live video projections provide an extreme close-up of this man aching to get back what he has lost.
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HeRe Arts Center

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Genre:
multimedia performance

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Tale of a West Texas Marsupial Girl

Synopsis:
One day, somewhere in West Texas, a girl is born. She's got beautiful toes, a beautiful nose, all her tiny fingers and all her tiny toes but, holy puppy on a peach tree, she is something else! Something a bit like a kangaroo!! This girl is about 95% girl and about 5% marsupial. In other words, she's got a pouch. It might seem that a built in pocket would come in handy, but it doesn't always work that way. The day the Marsupial Girl (MG) is born the town isn't ready to accept this kind of different. MG does have a marvellous relationship with one precious friend, Sue, who knows some of the secrets of the wonderful pouch, but when MG goes to school their friendship falls on hard times. You see, MG can do things - like steal the voice right out of somebody's throat, and put it in her pouch. At first, she only steals meanness, but when everybody expects the worst of her, she stops trying to be her best, and soon she starts stealing whatever she can. She steals insults, questions, bubble gum, a Barbie doll and ribbons right out of a girl's hair. She keeps stealing until there's nothing left but her and her - big - huge - pouch. Now she's really lonesome. But Sue comes back. Together they put the world back in order, and in the process help other people understand that MG's just plain different. And that's a wonderful thing.

Notes:
Sxip Shirey, composer

1st Produced:
Children's Theatre Company-Minneapolis.     2006

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1st Published:
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Genre:
TYA 100 min

Parts:
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Terrible Things

Synopsis:
Part Oklahoma soap opera, part physics experiment, Terrible Things takes the audiences on a trip inside the many lives of the lead performer and director Katie Pearl through up-close and personal memories from her past. Creating a surreal, painful, and yet funny narrative.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Lisa D'Amour And Katie Pearl

1st Produced:
P.S. 122, NY, USA >>>     04 Dec 2009

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Play/Drama

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