EDUARDO MACHADO   (1953 - )


Eduardo Machado
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Plays by Eduardo Machado

EDUARDO MACHADO
Afternoon Tea
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
The Open Book
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Musical One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
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Notes:
book and lyrics by Eduardo Machado, music by Skip Kennon, part of Summer Shorts, a festival of nine new American short plays
Synopsis:
A two-character musical about the power of reconciliation. The play tells a story of the later years of the author J.M. Barrie’s life. After twenty years of being apart, Barrie’s wife comes back to reconcile their marriage. . .but he is still lost in the world of fantasy, youth, and Peter Pan.
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Back Story
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Genre:
Dramatic Anthology
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Parts:
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Female
0
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Notes:
by Joan Ackermann Courtney Baron Neena Beber Constance Congdon Jon Klein Shirley Lauro Craig Lucas Eduardo Machado Donald Margulies Jane Martin Susan Miller John Olive Tanya Palmer David Rambo Edwin Sanchez Adele Edling Shank Mayo Simon Val Smith. Based
Synopsis:
When Ethan is born in the worst blizzard of the century, two-year-old sister Ainsley nearly sacrifices a toe trying to clear a path for the baby's arrival. That initial gesture of devotion blossoms into a tale of sibling loyalty, rivalry and love that spans two decades. Inspired by Joan Ackermann's narrative "Back Story," each of the eighteen playwrights in this collective creation puts a distinctive spin on Ainsley's and Ethan?s amusing and poignant struggles with life, with each other, and with the phantom dad who abandoned them for the wilds of Alaska
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Broken Eggs
1st Produced:
New York
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "On New Ground", Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1986
ISBN/ASIN
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Parts:
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Female
0
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Notes:
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Burning Beach, A
1st Produced:
New York
1988
Company:
-
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Cabaret Bambu
1st Produced:
New York
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Cook, The
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
-
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Crocodile Eyes
1st Produced:
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Company:
-
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ISBN/ASIN
978-0-573-69629-9
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
7
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Crocodile Eyes
Inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, Eduardo Machado's drama Crocodile Eyes portrays the world talked about but never seen in Lorca's play. As Lorca's famous widow traps her daughters in their house to mourn their father, Machado shows us what's happening just outside those doors. The local men, led by the charismatic Pepe, linger waiting for a glimpse of the enigmatic daughters or some viable work. Set during the Spanish Civil War, the men get caught up in the empty promises of Franco's fascism, while Pepe's involvement with two of Bernarda's daughters escalates to its tragic conclusion.
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Day You'll Love Me, The
1st Produced:
Los Angeles
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
American Theatre Magazine, NY - September, 1989
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jose Ignacio Cabrujas
Synopsis:
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Don Juan In New York City
1st Produced:
New York
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Fabiola
1st Produced:
New York
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Floating Island Plays", Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1991
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Floating Islands
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Garded
1st Produced:
Philadelphia
1988
Company:
-
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Genre:
Opera Libretto
Opera
Parts:
Male
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Havana Is Waiting
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
-
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Genre:
dark comedy
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Parts:
Male
3
Female
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Parts Other:
percussion player
Notes:
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Synopsis:
This comedy-drama takes a strong political stand on the divisive issue of the United States embargo with Cuba. The play begins with flamboyant writer, Federico making his first trip back to Cuba 30-some years after immigrating to the States as a child. Federico is joined on his journey by his friend, Fred and together in Cuba they meet Ernesto, a car driver and lifelong resident of Havana. The three men get to know each other better and learn where the real boundaries of the world lie. The play examines of the complex relationships that exist not only between men, but between the countries in which they live. Originally produced at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville.
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EDUARDO MACHADO
In Paradise
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
short play
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Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
part of Summer Shorts 2
Synopsis:
After seven years apart, an estranged husband and wife try to find a way to come back together.
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EDUARDO MACHADO
In The Eye Of The Hurricane
1st Produced:
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Floating Island Plays", Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1991
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Two Acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Synopsis:
In the Eye of the Hurricane is Machado's fourth play based on the tribulations of his family in Cuba. It is 1960 in a small Cuban town. A family gathers for a sumptuous, leisurely lunch of shrimp and avocado only to find Fidel Castro is nationalizing the family bus company: the business in which the entire family has invested all of its energies and all of its resources. The business is the symbol of the family and everything they want: money and a lot of it. Machado describes In the Eye of the Hurricane as a play about 'the moment&It's about when their lives were really in crisis. It's not about recalling. It's not about getting there. It's about the moment when you lose everything.'
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Kissing Fidel
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
KISSING FIDEL is set in an upscale Miami funeral home, where a Cuban-American family has gathered for its matriarch's final rights. The black sheep of the family, a successful novelist who has used his relatives as the source material for his books, much to their horror and pride, unexpectedly returns, announcing that he plans to return to Cuba to kiss and forgive Fidel Castro.
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Modern Ladies Of Guanabacoa, The
1st Produced:
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Floating Island Plays", Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1991
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
5
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Synopsis:
The Modern Ladies of Guanabacoa shows one family's climb to wealth in the Cuba of 1928-31. The play is at once a political drama and social comedy, ranging from melodrama to farce. Questions of power, control and revolution within the family mirror society's wider conflicts. The father is a butcher who rules his wife and four grown children with an iron hand, even as he spends most of his time philandering outside the house. The only daughter, aged 27, is accused of having lost her virginity simply because she may once have kissed the now-deceased man who courted her for seven years. While her three brothers live less-cloistered sex lives, they benefit from a double standard that allows young Cuban men to go whoring to satisfy their ''special needs.'
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Once Removed
1st Produced:
New Haven, Connecticut
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays in Process, 9, 3", New York, 1988
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Synopsis:
Tossed into the United States after a revolution that backfired and an invasion (at the Bay of Pigs) that failed, with no possessions other than what jewelry they could sneak out, Mr. Machado's Cubans cope with exotic institutions like Halloween and the Presbyterian Church and suffer through menial jobs where they work beside Mexicans they look down upon as wetbacks. The play captures the bafflement and determination of a family uprooted by the Castro revolution and exiled in the U.S. The story Machado tells speaks directly to every citizen of the modern world who can't go home again.
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Paula
1st Produced:
2009
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Just as the art world is beginning to forget her, painter Paula Forbes is beginning to forget herself. Paula's Alzheimer's is rapidly getting worse, and a group of her former protégés has gathered again to give her one last show. As old loves, hates, and wounds come to the surface, Paula drifts between the present and the past and what could have been.
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Pericones
1st Produced:
New York
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Parts:
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Rosario And The Gypsies
1st Produced:
New York
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
music by Rick Vartorella
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Stevie Wants To Play The Blues
1st Produced:
Los Angeles
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Notes:
Music by Fredric Myrow, lyrics by Machado and Myrow
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EDUARDO MACHADO
When It's Over
1st Produced:
New Haven, Connecticut
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Parts:
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Female
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Notes:
written with Geraldine Sher
Synopsis:
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EDUARDO MACHADO
When The Sea Drowns In Sand
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
Humana Festival 2001: The Complete Plays, ed Tanya Palmer & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 2001
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Two Acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
aka Havana Is Waiting
Synopsis:
Exiled from his homeland for forty years, a Cuban-American returns home to mend his broken heart. With the help of a devoted friend and an entrepreneurial cab driver, Federico discovers that there's no embargo on feelings in this era of family reconciliation. Funny, angry, and deeply passionate, this post-cold-war comedy points to the personal hardships caused by political stand-offs. As Cuban activists cry out for the return of a young boy named Elian, a grown-up Lost Boy ponders how one powerful nation could steal another's children, and what happens four decades later if it does
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Why To Refuse
1st Produced:
New York
1987
Company:
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1st Published:
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Parts:
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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EDUARDO MACHADO
Wishing You Well
1st Produced:
New York
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
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