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DARREN PATRICK BLANEY (1969 - )
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Bird Club, The: Letter To Sandra Bernhard What The Hell Is Going On Here? You May Now Kiss My Sass ?Bird Club, The: Letter To Sandra Bernhard
Synopsis:
The show chronicles the experience of a gay Catholic's transformation into a pangender artist on the way to finding happiness. The show features character monologues including a stoned night-watchman turned motivational speaker, a former stripper turned bored Brooklyn housewife, a transgender lesbian pining for true love, a nostalgic and naive anthropologist, and an optimistic HIV Colombian housecleaner.
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1st Produced:
Phoenix II Theater, San Francisco 2001
Organisations:
Dboyflare productions
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Music:
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Genre:
One-person play Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: - Other: playing 7 characters
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Synopsis:
This play is a one-act political satire/fantasy about life in contemporary post-9/11 America. an African-American soccer mom's car breaks down in the middle of the California desert, and she is brought to a cafe in the middle of nowhere by Osama bin Laden and Glenda, the good feminist witch of the west. at the cafe, Tina, the soccer mom meets an assortment of characters including a Latina environmentalist, a former black panther, a gay junkie poet, and an incompetent waiter named George Bush. In the course of the play, Tina decides to leave her husband, a white corporate executive, and restart her career as an artist.
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writen by Darren Patrick Blaney And feminist playwright Kristina Goodnight And originally directed by Jeremy Karafin.
1st Produced:
Experimental Theater, UC Santa Cruz 2003
Organisations:
Chautauqua Festival, Santa Cruz
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Genre:
One act
Parts:
Male: 7 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageYou May Now Kiss My Sass ?
Synopsis:
features multiple characters involved in the possible nuptial union of Paul Braire, a gay republican, to his lover Billy Bud, an African-American Private currently serving in Iraq. The one-person play's characters include Paul's radical feminist mother who disapproves of marriage in general, a zealous HIV wedding planner, a runaway gay teen with a crystal-meth addiction and some dangerous career aspirations, an idealistic lesbian high-school teacher, a campy news reporter and polyamorist who supports gay marriage rights, a rioting Christian who will stop at nothing to protect society from the menace of LGBT equality, a stressed-out artist who regrets offering to bake the cake, and Mayor Gimme Folsom himself.
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1st Produced:
Exit Stage Left, San Francisco 2005
Organisations:
Dboyflare Productions
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy. - - Gay, full length
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: - Other: -
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