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John Steppling

JOHN STEPPLING

  (1951 - )
Nationality:    USA
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John Steppling's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Deep Tropical Tan         Dog Mouth         Dream Coast, The         My Crummy Job         Neck         Pledging My Love         Sea of Cortez         Shaper, The         Standard of the Breed         Storyland and theory of Miracles         Teenage Wedding         Thrill, The         Wheel of Fortune

Deep Tropical Tan

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1st Produced:
Los Angeles    1990

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Dog Mouth

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"Does an underground mafia of Vietnam vets really exist hoboing around on the rails and is it as large and powerful as it is portrayed by journalists - or is it a media creation drawing the heat for every murder on the rails from Arizona to California? And has the leader of this group become a changed man - and dedicated to his nineteen year old pregnant girlfriend? Or is he an unrepentant racist criminal bent on plotting to murder a rival over a deal that went sour. When he visits a black man - is it to buy a dog or to kill him? these are the things that come up in John Steppling's dark and controversial play Dogmouth." - summary by the show's director, Stephan Morrow.

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dream Coast, The

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the play begins in the grubby Los Angeles apartment of Wilson, an aging landlord who was once involved in the motion picture industry but is now considering torching his decrepit building for the insurance money. Wilson, a closet homosexual who is haunted by echos of his young wife's voice, takes in Weldon, the drifter son of a friend from his studio days who has arrived in town broke and jobless. Also on hand are Marliss, a young prostitute, strung out on drugs, who has abandoned her son to head west with Weldon; a hard-bitten hustler named Drew, who once collected rents for Wilson and who now pushes his wife aside to take up with Marliss; and a transvestite, Penny, who lives with a greasy auto mechanic, Bill. Told in a series of elliptical, but interrelated scenes, involving two or three of the characters in various combinations, the action of the play has a cumulative effect as it probes into their self-destructive lives and attitudes, and follows their irreversible descent into the pit of hopelessness and numbing futility.

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1st Produced:
Los Angeles    1986

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1987   978-0822203308

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Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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My Crummy Job

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Monolgue Play

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Neck

Neck
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1st Produced:
-    1983

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Plays From the Padua Hills" published by Pomona College 1982   978-0961106607

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Gay, full length

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Pledging My Love

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1st Produced:
San Francisco    1986

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Sea of Cortez

Sea of Cortez
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1st Produced:
Los Angeles    1992

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1st Published:
Sea of Cortez and Other Plays published by Sun and Moon Publications, (07 Aug 1998)   978-1557132376

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Gay, full length

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Shaper, The

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the grim underworld of California surfers is detailed in this story of a man who, having just been released from jail, returns to his surfboard shop and convinces his buddy and step sister to attempt another robbery

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Genre:
One Act

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Standard of the Breed

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1st Produced:
Los Angeles    1988

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Storyland and theory of Miracles

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in "Best of the West", Padua Hills Press, Los Angeles, 1991   -

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Teenage Wedding

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Los Angeles    1990

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Thrill, The

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Los Angeles    1991

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Wheel of Fortune

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