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Edward Allan Baker

EDWARD ALLAN BAKER

  
Nationality:    USA
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Edward Allan Baker's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         27 Benedict Street         American Storage         Bride Of Olneyville Square, The         Buffer, The         Dead Man's Apartment         Delicate Lane, A         Divided         Dolores         Faces Divided         Framer, The         Free Gift Inside         Jane's Exchange         Kiss Of the Spider Woman         Lady Of Fadima, The         Larry's Charm         Light People         Lila On the Wall         Mafia On Prozac         Mystery Of A Rose Bouquet         North Of Providence         Off Chalkstone         Providence         Public Street Marriage, A         Ray On the Water         Rosemary With Ginger         Seventeenth Of June, The         Up, Down, Strange, Charmed, Beauty, And Truth         whats so beautiful about a sunset over prairie avenue?

27 Benedict Street

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American Storage

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On the death of his mother a man moves into a storage unit with all her belongings. His brother and sister plead with him to come home.

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Bride Of Olneyville Square, The

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A widow and her step-daughter struggle to make ends meet. Her natural children want her put into an institution

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1st Produced:
Alias Stage, Providence     1993

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Play/Drama

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Male:  8            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Buffer, The

Synopsis:
A man gives up his floor buffering business to go into a New Age project. His wife is not amused

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Dead Man's Apartment

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Lonnie, a married but lonely truck driver, and Nickie, his mistress, a married but lonely hardware store clerk, meet twice a week in an apartment to talk and kiss. they have chosen a day to tell their spouses they are leaving them, but when the day comes, there is a message on Lonnie's answering machine: "You're a dead man." Lonnie wants to put off telling their spouses until he finds out who is after him, but when Nickie's brother, al, reveals that Lonnie left his own message on the machine, Lonnie admits to being too scared to make the big move. Lonnie loses his secret life, but he realizes he loves his wife and that all this is for the best anyway.

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in a Dead Man's apartment, Rosemary with Ginger, Face Divided, Dramatists Play Service, New York,    -

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Delicate Lane, A

Synopsis:
An artist father is upset when his son joins the army

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Ten minute play

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Divided

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Dolores

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Dolores: What started out for Dolores as a frantic search for shelter ends as usual in her sister Sandra's house, and becomes a reckoning with the mistakes they've made and the limits of acceptance. a harrowing portrait of the evolution of love, Dolores is the story of siblings and spouses, bruises and bullets, in which two sisters with two very different kinds of heartache must confront in their own way not only the shadows of memory but the anguish behind every routine that life imposes. It takes the punishing love of family and one shocking act of violence to remind them that every kind of love has its own darkness and that every plea for mercy is likewise one for understanding

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1st Produced:
Ensemble Studio Theater    

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in North of Providence, Dolores, the Lady of Fadima, Dramatists Play Service, New York,    -

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Faces Divided

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In the emergency room of a Providence, Rhode Island hospital, Debbie waits for her husband. their daughter, Jess, has fallen down the basement steps. That, at least, is what she tells the nurses, and this is the story she's sticking to. When FrEddie arrives, he angrily confronts Debbie about the telltale signs of child abuse that mark their daughter. Debbie refuses to admit the truth and desperately talks about their simple life together before they were married and how she wants things back the way they were. FrEddie warns Debbie that they'll lose their daughter, but Debbie won't cooperate. In the end, FrEddie goes along with her story, all the while knowing that the state will do what it has to do, and that Debbie will go on living in a dream world.

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in a Dead Man's apartment, Rosemary with Ginger, Face Divided, Dramatists Play Service, New York,    -

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Framer, The

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This is a tragic-comedy set in a picture framing shop in a New england mill town. a dying man ceaselessly toils in order to leave his once-abused wife some post-mortem financial security while retracting the emotional brutality of his past, but he's side-tracked due to a request from his high-strung brother in-law.
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1st Produced:
Michael Weller Theatre     2008

Organisations:
Broken Watch Theatre Company

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY 2009   -

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Genre:
traic comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Free Gift Inside

Synopsis:
An ex-social worker is confronted by a couple who seem to know all about him

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ensemble Studio theatre presents Project 35, A festival celebrating their 35th Anniversary season. It consists of concert readings of 35 new plays in 35 days by 35 e.S.T. members And guest Artists

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Jane's Exchange

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A woman loans her husband to another woman who has just won the lottery

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Kiss Of the Spider Woman

Kiss Of the Spider Woman
Molina tells Valentin the story of Iraina - the Cat Woman. Two prisoners share a cell in an Argentinian gaol. Valentin, a young Marxist revolutionary, is contemptuous of the older Molina who is gay, yet a deep friendship develops. But the guards are bribing Molina with the promise of an early release if he can get his cellmate to talk

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Original Playwright - Manuel Puig

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Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1987   978-0906399712

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Translation. - - Gay, theme/character, full length

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Lady Of Fadima, The

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because her husband is unable to work a young mother is forced to work as a cleaning woman in a hospital where her innocence is preyed upon by a threatening and malicious boss.

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in North of Providence, Dolores, the Lady of Fadima, Dramatists Play Service, New York,    -

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Larry's Charm

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A mother and her German daughter-in-law are forced to live together when the son disappears

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Light People

Synopsis:
A vaudeville act - a drummer boy and his unhappy parents

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Lila On the Wall

Synopsis:
A television reporter and her cameraman are covering a story about a sighting of Jesus in a mural

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ensemble Studio theatre's 28th Annual presentation of the Marathon, featuring one-act plays

1st Produced:
Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY     2006

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   -

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Mafia On Prozac

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In Mafia on Prozac, you await your fate in a burlap sack overlooking the water on a pier in Rhode Island while two hit men are debating whether or not to kill you. . .and that of course depends on their interpretation of a dream message from an unusual angel: al Capone
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1st Produced:
Theater Three, NY     2007

Organisations:
IaaM Productions

1st Published:
Contained in: "EST Marathon the Complete One act Plays 1997" published by Smith and Kraus, 1998
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   978-1575251353

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Mystery Of A Rose Bouquet

Synopsis:
the relationship between a wealthy bed-bound patient and her apparently doentrodden nurse.

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Original Playwright - Manuel Puig

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Faber and Faber, London, 1988   -

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North Of Providence

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North of Providence: Somewhere in the city of Providence a Father lies dying. In a darkened room his children come reluctantly together through the disarray of their lives to figure out what keeps them apart and discover finally what it is that keeps them together. a searing one-act as emotionally broad as it is concise, North of Providence examines the rueful accounting all families must face when caught between the burdens of the past and the obligations we undertake to persevere.

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in North of Providence, Dolores, the Lady of Fadima, Dramatists Play Service, New York,    -

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Off Chalkstone

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A mother sends her daughter off to the army

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Providence

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1st Produced:
Arthur Seelen Theatre, NY     2005

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Vesta Collective

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Public Street Marriage, A

Synopsis:
A middle aged couple are hiding from thugs

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1st Produced:
Est Marathon     1981

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Ray On the Water

Synopsis:
A television producer tries to revive her career by uncovering secrets in a small town

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Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Rosemary With Ginger

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Two sisters meet in a closed-down Diner and slowly reveal the strife they're experiencing at home: Rosemary, an alcoholic, is about to lose custody of her children, the pain of which leads her to drink more, and to tolerate an abusive relationship with her boyfriend; Ginger finds herself in a loveless marriage, but more important, she needs to explain to Rosemary why she divulged Rosemary's alcoholism to her ex-husband, thus creating the custody battle. the sisters wrangle, accuse and attack, but mostly discover that, without each other, they have nothing. In the end, some hope is evident as the sisters rediscover their common bonds.

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1st Produced:
Arclight Theatre, NY     2008

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in a Dead Man's apartment, Rosemary with Ginger, Face Divided, Dramatists Play Service, New York,    -

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Seventeenth Of June, The

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In the Seventeenth of June, Dee's abusive husband ant is dead, and she's filled with guilt. Will her sisters be able to console her? Will she go back with the nerd downstairs who rescued her? Or, will she manage to speak with ant one more time?
- press release

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1st Produced:
Theater Three, NY     2007

Organisations:
IaaM Productions

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Contained in: "ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon 2000 the One acts" published by Faber and Faber   -

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play One act

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Up, Down, Strange, Charmed, Beauty, And Truth

Synopsis:
Getting out means leaving something behind. In this fast-moving, heartbreaking one-act by acclaimed playwright Edward allen Baker, two sisters and their uncle must face a difficult reality as they weigh family bonds against the need to escape.

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1st Produced:
The Studio @ Cherry Lane, New York International Fringe Festival     2007

Organisations:
casa 204 productions

1st Published:
Contained in: "ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon 1999: the One act Plays" published by Faber and Faber 2001   -

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whats so beautiful about a sunset over prairie avenue?

Synopsis:
A dysfunctional family in 1970s Providence

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1st Produced:
University of Rhode Island     1977

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  8            Female:  6            Other:  -

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