DAVID GREENSPAN (1956 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by David Greenspan
2 Samuel 11, Etc |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1989 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in "Plays in Process", New York, 1990 | 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 | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | inspired by the story of David and Bathsheba, examines issues of sexual compulsion and artistic creation | |||||
Argument, The |
| 1st Produced: | The Kitchen, New York | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | Target Margin Theater | |||||
| 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: | adaptation | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | The Argument, based on both Aristotle's Poetics (c. 350 B.C.) and the essays of Gerald F. Else, is a passionate student's love-letter and farewell to his teacherreminding us of the personal pathos that binds us to the Greeks, and firing us up to capture that chimera, art. - nytheatre.com | |||||
Closet Piece, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1989 | ||||
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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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Coraline |
| 1st Produced: | Lucille Lortel Theatre, NY | 2009 | ||||
| Company: | MCC Theatre | |||||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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| Notes: | book by David Greenspan; music and lyrics by Stephen Merritt | |||||
| Synopsis: | Poor bored Coraline. She's left to rattle 'round her perpetually distracted, workaholic parents' house all by her lonesome. But late one night, her dreams of a better reality come true as she opens a big, carved, wooden door at the far end of the drawing room and passes into a perfect replica of her own world. When she's greeted there by a vastly loving Other Mother and a kindly Other Father, shes thrilled! But as the rats start to creep from the floorboards, and the way home becomes increasingly unclear, Coraline begins to suspect that, perhaps, all is not as perfect as it seems... - press release | |||||
Dead Mother, Or Shirley Not All In Vain |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1991 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in "Grove New American Theatre Anthology", Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1992 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | the matrix of the play is a contretemps in which a man accedes to his brother's request to assume the character of their dead mother | |||||
Dig A Hole And Bury Your Father |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||||
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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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Dog In A Dancing School |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1993 | ||||
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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 | 2 |
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Five Frozen Embryos |
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Play - A Journal Of Plays" issue one | ISBN | - | |||
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Four Dialogues Of A Monologue |
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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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Home Show Pieces, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in "Plays in Process", New York, 1990 | 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 | 2 | Female | 1 |
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| Notes: | includes Doing the Beast, Too Much in the Sun, Portrait of the Artist, The Big Tent | |||||
| Synopsis: | portrait of the artist as a compulsive young man, struggling to separate from his family. Each play is set in a different area of 'the house' | |||||
Horizontal, The And The Vertical |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1986 | ||||
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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 | |||||
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Jack |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in "The Way We Live Now", Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1990 | 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 | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | a female trio recalls the disoriented history of Jack and his death from an unnamed illness | |||||
Myopia, The |
| 1st Produced: | Ice factory, NY | 2003 | ||||
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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: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | The show consists of Greenspan sitting in a chair and describing the show, which is otherwise unstageable. Or rather, three shows, each of which enjoys a symbiotic relationship with the others. One of these is a musical (without music or lyrics) about Warren G. Harding's failure to avoid being elected president. Another concerns the turbulent marriage between a fellow named Febis (who happens to be writing a musical about Warren G. Harding) and Koreen, a giantess with long Rapunzel hair. The third throughline (which self-consciously explodes after intermission) follows Barclay, a glowing orb, as he tries to write a play about Febis and Koreen. (There's actually a fourth show, of course, and that's the show we're watching, The Myopia.) nytheatre.com | |||||
Old Comedy from Aristophanes' Frogs |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
| Company: | Target Margin Theater | |||||
| 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 | 6 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | Old Comedy from Aristophanes' Frogs, a new adaptation by David Greenspan and commissioned by Target Margin Theater, begins in Aristophanes's Athens, which is mired in a horrible and losing war, bereft of political and artistic leadership. It explores a cultural crisis: are the theaters great creators gone? And, if so, how are we to find or create new ones? Aristophanes's heroes search for a poet because the state itself needs guidance. Only the poets know what can be done to save it, and what kind of leadership speaks to us meaningfully today. These questions extend to the larger cultural and political life of our country. In the end, Old Comedy from Aristophanes' Frogs gives us the opportunity to reflect on our own cultures loss of an apparent center - press release | |||||
Pneumonia |
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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 | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | a gruesome farce in which a man is visited by his sexual | |||||
Principia |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||||
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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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | a man in a cage fashioned from memories, observes his remembered past, participates in it | |||||
Something's Gotta Give |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | about a male couple and the obstacles they encounter establishing a relationship | |||||
Son Of An Engineer |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | recalls television sitcoms of the 1950s and 60s, boy returns home to find his family has gone, second act takes place on Mars | |||||
Start From Scratch |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 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: | music play | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | dramatises the inability of characters to separate the past. | |||||
Them |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 1999: The Complete Plays, ed Michael Bigelow Dixon & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 1999 | 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: | Phone Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Audience members enter one of several phone booths, pick up the receiver and listen to a three-minute play unfold in conversation | |||||
Trains Passing |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1993 | ||||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | four characters meet and develop relationships on the platform on an underground station | |||||