PHYLLIS NAGY   (1962 - )


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Plays by Phyllis Nagy

PHYLLIS NAGY
Awake
1st Produced:
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Genre:
Dark Comedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
1
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
stage reading at Royal Court. not published and not generally available for performance. They are available to academics or other interested parties upon request to: Mel Kenyon at Casarotto Ramsay & Associates, Ltd.
Synopsis:
apocalyptic set in an alley that dead-ends onto the Jehovah's witness Watchtower complex in Brooklyn Heights
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PHYLLIS NAGY
Butterfly Kiss
1st Produced:
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1994
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
5
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Synopsis:
A multi layered play about matricide, set in the actual and imagined past, present and future
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PHYLLIS NAGY
Disappeared
1st Produced:
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
first published by Methuen in the volume Weldon Rising & Disappeared, which is still available. It is also contained in Nagy Plays: One and in a Samuel French, Ltd. acting edition, 1995,
ISBN
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Genre:
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Mystery
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Synopsis:
a woman travel agent who has never left New York goes missing after leaving a bar
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PHYLLIS NAGY
Entering Queens
1st Produced:
1993
Company:
Gay Sweatshop
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Part of "Threesome". not published and not generally available for performance. They are available to academics or other interested parties upon request to: Mel Kenyon at Casarotto Ramsay & Associates, Ltd.
Synopsis:
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PHYLLIS NAGY
Girl Bar
1st Produced:
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Company:
the Loft Theater
1st Published:
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ISBN
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Genre:
Dark Comedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
-
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
not published and not generally available for performance. They are available to academics or other interested parties upon request to: Mel Kenyon at Casarotto Ramsay & Associates, Ltd.
Synopsis:
a non-naturalistic excursion into the girl bar of our dreams
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PHYLLIS NAGY
Never Land
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
-
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ISBN
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Genre:
Family Drama
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Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
a moving and heartbreaking exploration of the final days of a singular French family whose one dream is to settle in England
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PHYLLIS NAGY
Plaza Delores
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ISBN
-
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Genre:
Dark Comedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
not published and not generally available for performance. They are available to academics or other interested parties upon request to: Mel Kenyon at Casarotto Ramsay & Associates, Ltd.
Synopsis:
a beautician, a convict, a Marine and a would be singer keep trying to reach Miami Beach - unsuccessfully
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PHYLLIS NAGY
Scarlet Letter, The
1st Produced:
Denver Center Theatre
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1994
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Synopsis:
a non naturalistic classic tale of obsession and revenge
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PHYLLIS NAGY
Seagull, The
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
not published available upon request to: Mel Kenyon at Casarotto Ramsay & Associates, Ltd.,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
5
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov,. Version by Phyllis Nagy based on a literal translation by Helen Molchonoff
Synopsis:
A family gathers at the lakeside to watch a new play. Afterwards nothing will be the same again.
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PHYLLIS NAGY
Strip, The
1st Produced:
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1995
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
5
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Synopsis:
A female impersonator, a love struck repo man and a lesbian journalist cross America in search of fame.
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PHYLLIS NAGY
Talanted Mr Ripley, The
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
novel by Patricia Highsmith
Synopsis:
all about pretending to be someone else, with Ripley taking over the identity of gilded yout, Dickie Greenleaf, whom he casually murders.
Robert Dawson-Scott, The Times
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PHYLLIS NAGY
Trip's Cinch
1st Produced:
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
Humana Festival 1994: The Complete Plays, ed Marisa Smith, Smith & Kraus, 1994
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
published by Faber & Faber to coincide with its UK premiere in 2003
Synopsis:
A wealthy man. A working-class woman. A random meeting over a pitcher of gin and tonics. When these worlds collide, a controversial scholar tries to exploit the politics of sexual pursuit. Caustic and wry, this uncompromising drama pushes the William Kennedy Smith and Mike Tyson trials one step further--Phyllis Nagy gives us both the truth and the lie.
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PHYLLIS NAGY
Weldon Rising
1st Produced:
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays By Women Vol.10" Methuen, London, 1994
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Dark Comedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
in Weldon Rising & Disappeared, Methuen Drama, London >>> also included in Nagy Plays:One, Samuel French
Synopsis:
hottest night of the year in New York as inhabitants of the meat packing district contemplate some gay bashing
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