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JIM BOVINO
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below is a list of Jim Bovino's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
Black Diamond Baby Death Of The Theater, The Fall Line, The Soft Sleepers Strong And Capable Shoulders Of The Student When He Dreams, The We Did Not Dream Enough In That HouseBlack Diamond Baby
Synopsis:
Black Diamond Baby is set on an island facing imminent destruction by an active volcano. Twins Sydney and Howard have gone to t his doomed place to try to redirect the birth of a new generation of human beings to the hotel where they are hiding. Working to interrupt their plans are the general, his best man,agent Orrin, and a shadowy figure referred to only as 'the boss'. Black Diamond Baby explores the problems of individuality in a culture that manufactures personality.
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Brainco in Minneapolis -
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Flaneur Productions
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Genre:
Full Length Drama
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: 1 puppet
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Top of PageDeath Of The Theater, The
Synopsis:
Our host is steve's spirited and well groomed doctor. out of his spirit of showmanship, Steve has generously decided to allow all those good people out in t.v. viewing land to watch him die. Live. The ultimate reality show
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Genre:
Very short play: vignette
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: 2 characters; non gender specific
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Top of PageFall Line, The
Synopsis:
Due to a leak in the office, the roll out of the new product line has been jeopardized. Buster, a baby doll with an uncanny nose for corporate leadership, has called a meeting to deal with the potentially disastrous situation. But constant interruptions and a visit from the bishop threaten the solemnity of the weighty business at hand.
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Genre:
Short; 1 act One act
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageSoft Sleepers
Synopsis:
Set in a post-apocalyptic dream world, Soft Sleepers considers the question of what happens when we wake up to find that the possibilities for the future are limited by the experiences we had in the past.
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1st Produced:
Experimental Intermedia Studio St Paul, MN 2002
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Flaneur Productions
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Genre:
Full Length Drama
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: 3 characters; non-gender specific; androgynous
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Top of PageStrong And Capable Shoulders Of The Student When He Dreams, The
Synopsis:
In an empty and anonymous basement a man stands helplessly in an ordinary bucket, paralyzed by the disappointment of an ordinary life as a library burns to the ground and unnamed student with perfect vision enrolls himself in the Institute for the Blind. a darkly poetic consideration of the relationship between frustrated idealism and the emergence of nihilism and social pathology in the individual.
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1st Produced:
- 2005
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Flaneur Productions
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Genre:
Full Length Drama
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: 4 characters, non gender specific
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Top of PageWe Did Not Dream Enough In That House
Synopsis:
Julian, the son of conjoined twins, has locked himself in the library where he seeks the truth of his origin. Is his father's condition an emergent duality or the living embodiment of the paradox of his own existence?
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Genre:
Short; 1 act One act
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: - Other: -
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