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Elizabeth Hess

ELIZABETH HESS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Antje Oegel International  

Elizabeth Hess's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Elizabeth Hess's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         At/One         Birth Rite         Birth Rite: Part 1         Birthmarks         Descent         Descent: Part 2         Divine Rapture         Dust To Dust         Hear No Evil: Meltdown         Hess         Life Drawing         Living Openly And Notoriously         Nomads Of the Heart         Sacred Fire         See No Evil: Perfect Curiosity         Speak No Evil: Salvaged         Spoiled         Thief Of Love

At/One

Synopsis:
the third play throws a woman at large' into unknown sexual territory where she toys with a seventeen year old boy who ignites her own arrested sexual impulses. She resists the temptation to steal his fire and instead finds herself coming together' with an age-appropriate man who is the manifestation of her own lost potency. She mistakes their shared woundedness for passionate exchange but eventually walks away with love. Her libido rushes back to life and she is now ready to meet eros, face to face.

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part of Living Openly & Notoriously: Birth Rite, Descent, At/One: A Solo Trilogy

1st Produced:
78th Street Theatre Lab
236 West 78th Street, New York, NY 10024    2005

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Birth Rite

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1st Produced:
Fordham University, New York, NY    2005

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Birth Rite: Part 1

Synopsis:
the first play dives into a Minister's daughter's struggle to break free from her repressive Canadian Mennonite roots. She initially sublimates her deepest desires through the magic of music, but then flirts with unbidden sexual urges and a disorienting drug trip that catapult her out of her static emotional landscape. She instinctively exits a world of stark reality and enters one of sensual release.

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part of Living Openly & Notoriously: Birth Rite, Descent, At/One: A Solo Trilogy

1st Produced:
Clurman theatre
410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036    1999

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Solo Play/Drama

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Birthmarks

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1st Produced:
Circle Rep, New York, NY    1995

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Descent

Synopsis:
Madness, martyrdom and a Muslim ClEric. True story of a Mennonite woman who unleashes ancestral ghosts lingering after her grandmother's overdose and her missionary uncle's murder.

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1st Produced:
Edinburgh: Assembly Rooms, Scotland, Eur    Aug 2003

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78th Street Theatre Lab

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Descent: Part 2

Synopsis:
the second play scrapes away all the protective layers of identity and ego as a writer undergoes a mid-life crisis that unleashes the ancestral ghosts that linger long after her grandmother's overdose and her missionary uncle's murder. She fights through a creative block, insomnia and suicidal thoughts until finally she throws off her inherited family legacy where fathers are gods and mothers go mad and offspring are mute.

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part of Living Openly & Notoriously: Birth Rite, Descent, At/One: A Solo Trilogy

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Divine Rapture

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1st Produced:
Denver Center Theatre Company, Denver, CO    2000

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Dust To Dust

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Dust to Dust transforms the systematic rape of women in war-torn Bosnia into a silent cry played out on inner lives

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1st Produced:
Stage Left Studio
214 West 30th Street, 6th floor, New York, NY, New York 10001    40796

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Hear No Evil: Meltdown

Synopsis:
MeLTDOWN plunges into the fantasy life of a bride-to-be who is jilted soon after her mother's suicide. She retreats into a world where she births' a son made of wax that comes to life and accompanies her inner longing. However she is ultimately undermined by a reincarnation of her mother whose cries she never heard and so deadly silence reigns once again.

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part of No evil: A Trilogy Of Fables

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Hess

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Dramaturg: Antje Oege

1st Produced:
McGinn Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway, 4th floor, New York, NY 10024    2006

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Life Drawing

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1st Produced:
ensemble Studio Theatre, New York, NY  Summer Conference    1998

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Living Openly And Notoriously

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Theatre Project, Baltimore    30 Apr 2009

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Nomads Of the Heart

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NOMaDS OF the HeaRT tracks the lives of three New Yorkers whose paths become intertwined symbiotically and sexually, leading to a deadly suffocation, both physically and metaphorically. But, like a phoenix, this strange trinity - made up of a woman, her lover and their surrogate child - rise up out of the ashes reconfigured and curiously alive.

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Sacred Fire

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1st Produced:
ensemble Studio Theatre, Lexington, NY  Summer Conference    1999

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See No Evil: Perfect Curiosity

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PeRFeCT CURIOSITY traces the intertwining fates of two sisters as they navigate the slippery terrain of a cold yet incestuous household. the Father disguises his neediness by cross-dressing and the absent mother shape-shifts into a witch, a godmother and a crone. a childhood puppet becomes the conduit for one sister's release but the stranglehold for the other imprisonment. It is only on his deathbed that the patriarch sees the error of his ways.

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part of No evil: A Trilogy Of Fables

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Speak No Evil: Salvaged

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SaLVaGeD investigates the lasting imprint of cold, cruel words on a woman who is starved for love and inclusion. She learns to subvert her needs by trying to save the world instead, using empty patter and platitudes to mask her own profound alienation. It is only in surrendering to her humanity that she develops compassion for her self and others and, in doing so, discovers a much-needed sense of belonging.

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part of No evil: A Trilogy Of Fables

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Spoiled

Synopsis:
What's up with men? Distorted gender roles damage both sexes. Spoiled dives beneath the unspoken truths of fathers and sons, brothers and lovers - both in America and India - in this solo play that uncovers the tangled, messy roots of violence against women by embodying the male point of view. Ripped from headlines that dominate the news in New York and New Delhi, this timely play grapples with burning issues such as military sexual assaults, college frat parties, impotent jobless boys, vulnerable child brides and infanticide. Through a lens that is compassionate yet clear-eyed, spoiled reveals how rigid gender roles box in both sexes, with devastating consequences for all.

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Thief Of Love

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1st Produced:
New Dramatists, New York, NY    1997

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