STEVE HARPER
| Nationality: | African USA |
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Plays by Steve Harper
Abstract Purple |
| 1st Produced: | Fells Point Corner Theatre | 1994 | ||||
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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: | drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | When Rosa, a teenage run-away breaks into Mary's NYC apartment, she challenges (and ultimately inspires) the elderly woman - a painter who has lost her will to live. Their initial violent meeting precipitates Mary's greatest artistic work - but at what cost? | |||||
Actual Cost |
| 1st Produced: | Juilliard (100th Anniversary) | 2005 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | The Kenyon Review Online, 2008 | 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: | - | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | When bickering interracial couple B.T. and Iyana head to a wedding on the subway, they have no idea their relationship will be tested when Michael, a homeless black man, makes a pitch to them for funds. | |||||
Bloomington Faces the God |
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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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Brink of Life |
| 1st Produced: | Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre | 2002 | ||||
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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: | full length | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | co-story and lyrics by Steve Harper; Book by Laura Ekstrand, Music by Oliver Lake | |||||
| Synopsis: | A group of high-school seniors brave the challenges of the SAT, while navigating distraction, romance, and the joys and fears of an uncertain future. | |||||
Escape Artist's Children |
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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: | Full Length Drama/Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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| Notes: | Read and workshopped at The Tribeca Theatre Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, Jean Cocteau Rep and New York Stage and Film. | |||||
| Synopsis: | When Grayson, an unemployed black attorney, struggles against an overwhelming depression due to the death of her father, and the fact that her brother is in a coma - even her girlfriend Angie and therapy don't seem to be providing the cure. She sees her father everywhere and talks to her comatose brother (and he talks back) constructing a history of her family that has elements of myth and reality in unsuccessful effort to break out of her mood. Running into Sheri -her ex from Law School - now married and straight, Grayson decides to pursues Sheri in the hopes of getting a kiss she just knows will magically make things right. In this comedy about family, power, slavery and freedom, Grayson negotiates love, mysticism, and mental health in a way we can all relate to. | |||||
First Encounter |
| 1st Produced: | Falcon Theatre / NBC Diversity Showcase, LA | 2005 | ||||
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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 comedy (5 minutes) | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | Jessica and Bob are on a date. They seem perfect for each other. But why does he seem reluctant to tell her what he does for a living. | |||||
Iggie Imagines Marriage |
| 1st Produced: | Dreamcatcher Repertory Theater | 2001 | ||||
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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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Presented as part of the evening "Love, Hate, Friendship, Marriage". | |||||
| Synopsis: | Just before Matthew is about to get married, Iggie, his best friend and best man, accidentally stops time - and admits to having feelings for Matthew. | |||||
Laundry Channel |
| 1st Produced: | Juilliard (workshop) | 2004 | ||||
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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: | Full Length Comedy/Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | The Laundry Channel follows Pool, a black TV producer who nervously consents to move in with his white partner, Clay and Clay's ten year old son, Mark. After moving in, Pool gets more nervous when he stumbles onto a bizarre cable channel, hosted by The Laundress, a white woman in a 50's dress, who's blindfolded, tied to a chair and spouting seemingly random laundry hints. Even more bizarre is the fact that only Pool can see her. As Pool anxiously investigates this supernatural mystery, TV images and history, race, homophobia and self-acceptance come into play in this surreal comedy. | |||||
Lions And Donkeys |
| 1st Produced: | Hunstanton Drama Festival | 2009 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN | 978-0-573-14213-0 | ||||
| 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 | 4 | Female | - |
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 | Western Front, 1918. A rare beast - a story set in the trenches that includes a fair amount of comedy! September 1918 on the Western Front. Tommy and Dave receive an unexpected visit from Lieutenant Hargreaves who announces that Tommy is to be awarded a medal for his courage in combat. Why then are Tommy and Dave so keen to see the back of him? And who is the strange Icelandic character that enters the scene brandishing a sausage? A well-written, funny, poignant play about friendship, humanity and survival. | |||||
Oaksmith and the Holiday Spirit |
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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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Things Are (Mostly) Crazy |
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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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This is Now |
| 1st Produced: | American Airlines Theatre, New York | 2005 | ||||
| Company: | The 24 Hour Plays | |||||
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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 Min | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | This play, created for a benefit had an original cast that included Tracie Thoms, Margaret Colin, William Sadler, Hayden Christensen and Wilson Jermaine Heredia. | |||||
| Synopsis: | When Grace arrives at the home of Tate (a famous author and father to her one-time boyfriend, Nick) to inform Tate of her true feelings for him, she is unaware that Nick and the ghost of Tate's wife Alice are also in the house. | |||||
Urban Rabbit Chronicles |
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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: | Full Length Comedy/Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | When black Manhattanites Ted, a pharmacist, and Karen, an editor, attend a flea market on the advice of Father MacKenzie, their marriage counselor, they buy a small wooden rabbit statue from a charismatic vendor. Strangely, just days after the purchase, Karen writes a complete novel, and Ted becomes convinced that she's possessed by the spirit of the statue. Karen claims Ted is delusional, but Ted fights to enlist his pharmacy assistant Rose, and Father MacKenzie in the battle to save his marriage and reclaim the soul of his wife. | |||||
Wheelchair Pornography |
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| Company: | Spectral Sisters Productions | |||||
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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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