KENN RABIN   


Kenn Rabin
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Plays by Kenn Rabin

KENN RABIN
Celadon Box #8
1st Produced:
A Traveling Jewish Theatre, San Francisco CA
2002
Company:
PlayGround
1st Published:
The Best of PlayGround, 2002
ISBN
-
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Genre:
drama 15 min
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
As the Twin Towers collapse on 9/11/01, two very different people meet on their way over the Brooklyn Bridge. Martin is a 50-ish businessman, who worked in one of the towers and managed to escape. But does he want to tell his family he's okay? Denise is a New Jersey working-class Latina who has come into the city to surprise her boyfriend by accepting his marriage proposal. While she wonders if her boyfriend survived and he wonders if he wants to return to his failing marriage or use the event to start a new life, they console each other, and give each other hope.
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KENN RABIN
Cold Day in the Park
1st Produced:
142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, CA
2007
Company:
The Playwrights Lab
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:
Dramedy/Romance (15 minute play)
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
15 minute play. Almost a monologue for the actress; the actor comes in at the very end.
Synopsis:
Kate waits at the zoo on a chilly day. Her boyfriend, who wanted her to meet him there, is late, as usual, and hasn't called, as usual. So she uses the time to engage in conversation with an (unseen) animal in the cage in front of her. She confides her doubts about the relationship to the creature. And near the end of the 15 minute play, her boyfriend finally arrives - with an excuse for being late that turns the whole relationship around.
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KENN RABIN
Country of Us, The
1st Produced:
142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, CA
2006
Company:
PlayGround
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:
drama 15 min
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Two women friends decide to leave the country - and their husbands, for personal and political reasons. One woman has waiting to tell her husband until she is about to leave.
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KENN RABIN
Found Objects
1st Produced:
Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley, CA
2007
Company:
Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley, CA
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:
full length
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A family drama told through the eyes of the daughter, Chloe, a senior in high school. In a series of 2-hander scenes of different combinations of characters, we learn of Chloe's mother, Patricia, the owner of a chic gallery in downtown San Francisco; of her lover, David, who is also the artist keeping the gallery alive financially; and of Patricia's husband Martin, a foreign correspondent for a cable news network. Using a combination of live stage action and videotaped sequences (as Chloe is creating a documentary on her family for school), we come to understand the relationships between these four characters and the secrets and lies that go back into their history.
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KENN RABIN
Hotel, Poststrasse
1st Produced:
142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, CA
2005
Company:
The Playwrights Lab
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:
drama 25 min
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Karen and Mickey, a thirtysomething couple from Los Angeles, find themselves in a hotel room in Bonn, Germany. They are there to bury Mickey's mother. They are jet-lagged and can't sleep, and as dawn comes up over the city, they begin to discover how fragile their relationship is, and what, in Mickey's past, truly threatens to end the relationship. A very minimal-dialogue, Pinteresque play, where silences are at least as important as the words.
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KENN RABIN
How to Chop Wood
1st Produced:
Actor's Theatre, Santa Cruz
2004
Company:
Actor's Theatre, Santa Cruz
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:
Dramedy (15 minute play)
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The play takes place in Louisiana, near the Arkansas border. Julia, a farm woman in her 40s, sits on the porch, worrying about her daughter, serving in Iraq, and about the state of the world in general. Her best friend, Mirabelle, comes by and the two talk about each other, their dreams, their marriages, and their history, as, offstage, Julia's husband chops down trees.
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KENN RABIN
Hunters and Gatherers
1st Produced:
A Traveling Jewish Theatre, San Francisco CA
2003
Company:
PlayGround
1st Published:
The Best of PlayGround, 2003
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:
Dramedy/Romance (15 minute play)
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
HE and SHE meet on the tourist ferry going to Alcatraz island. They banter; they flirt. She is a photographer, obsessively taking pictures of the fog. He is intrigued. But are they meeting for the first time, or have they been in a long-term relationship and are performing some sort of repeating ritual?
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KENN RABIN
Interior Decorating
1st Produced:
Dominican University, San Rafael, CA
2000
Company:
Fringe of Marin
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:
Dramedy monologue
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
25 minute monologue for a 18-25 year old woman
Synopsis:
Charlie is a feisty young Texas woman, who explains the hole in her wall by recounting a date gone bad. We learn what makes Charlie tick. A character study, and a comic-dramatic monologue for a young actress.
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KENN RABIN
not yet discouraged of man
1st Produced:
142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, CA
2008
Company:
The Playwrights Lab
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:
Drama (15 minute play)
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Luther is the condemned man, African-American, 50-ish, spending his last hour in a cell on death row. Wilson is the white guard, thirtysomething, who watches him. They have known each other for some years during Luther's incarceration, and they have formed a kind of bond. This play about an unusual, and limited, friendship, explores themes about capital punishment, whether all killings are created equal, and whether the soul of the prisoner, and the soul of the executioner, can be saved.
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KENN RABIN
Reunion
1st Produced:
A Traveling Jewish Theatre, San Francisco CA
2004
Company:
PlayGround
1st Published:
The Best of PlayGround, 2004
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:
drama 15 min
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Mid-30s Deb invites a new roommate into her home. His name is Gillette, and they are both quite nervous. As the dialogue progresses, we discover that Deb is a social reformer who believes human nature can change and everyone deserves a second chance. And Gillette is the man who, 15 years earlier, raped her. Each seeks forgiveness, redemption, and closure in their own ways. Do they succeed or fail?
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KENN RABIN
When the Dead Weep
1st Produced:
142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, CA
2007
Company:
The Playwrights Lab
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:
Drama, intertwining monologues (25 minutes)
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
25-minute play consisting of 3 inter-twining monologues
Synopsis:
The play has the feel of L.A. film noir and is accompanied by smoky jazz. Tommy is a young, pugnacious housebreaker, being grilled by the police about the most unusual thing he's ever found at a house he's broken into. David is a Hollywood screenwriter, sleepless and obsessed. Sara is a 16 year old student delivering a school paper to her class. What these people have in common, and the David Lynch-like story that unfolds, comes out through their intertwined monologues.
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