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Ben Clawson

BEN CLAWSON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Ben Clawson is a member of Dramatist Guild of America

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

         Claire Went To France         Fits         High Water Mark         New. Tricks!         Tilt The Unlit Candle         Virilogy, The: A Drinking Game         We'll See Tomorrow

Claire Went To France

Synopsis:
Dejected, discouraged and depressed, Jonathon arrives home from work to his miserable little apartment where he lives all alone. Well, he lives all alone with his roommates: his dead dog on the couch, his dead grandpa at the table, and his ex-girlfriend locked in the closet.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Under St. Marks
94 St. Marks Place, New York, NY 10009    24 May 2012

Organisations:
StrangeDog Theatre Company

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Fits

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of Five new short plays commissioned by StrangeDog, placing age old fairy-tales in a single dilapidated modern apartment building. These classic stories have been turned on their heads, the rules of their world have changed, and Prince Charming has developed a drinking problem.

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Organisations:
Strange Dog Theatre

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Genre:
one act play

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High Water Mark

Synopsis:
One o'clock in the morning Lily barges into Janet's bedroom waking her up. Janet just wants to go back to sleep but Lilly wants another drink

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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New. Tricks!

Synopsis:
From the press release: "We present for you, six stories. Comic tragedies. Tragic comedies. Stories of love and loss. Stories of loneliness and heroes, hunger and hope, dread and disappointment. Folk tales and cautionary fables, difficult confessions and post-coital confrontations, chance encounters and sudden mournings. . .we present for you - six stories."

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1st Produced:
the Red Room
85 East 4th Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10003    13 Sep 2012

Organisations:
StrangeDog Theatre Company

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Tilt The Unlit Candle

Synopsis:
Christmas at a small town church. The choir is out of tune. The congregation is too old. The priest is too young

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1st Produced:
Strange Dog Theatre, West Orange, NJ    04 Dec 2014

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Virilogy, The: A Drinking Game

Synopsis:
Step one: Come see the show. Step two: Pick a character. Step three: When the character drinks, so do you! Can you make it through the night? the Virilogy is three one-act comedies (or one three-act tragedy), spanning a decade in the lives of the worlds worst best friends. Throughout the night the boys will attempt to discover how to be heart-broken, how to be a man, how to be a friend, and how to fail miserably at all of the above.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Under St. Marks
94 St. Marks Place, New York, NY 10009    05 Jul 2012

Organisations:
StrangeDog Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
one act comedies

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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We'll See Tomorrow

Synopsis:
From the suburban kitchen tables to a futurist funeral parlor, a marine science institute in the middle of the night to a techno-dating service, the void of thought to the chaos of communication, the question is the same. . .is progress moving us in the right direction? Written for the New Jersey Science and engineering Festival, We'll See Tomorrow depicts a variety of people struggling with their place in a world altering and growing faster than any other time in history, trying to discover where responsibility and the human spirit factor on this exponential curve. a futuristic, cutting edge, state-of-the-art meld of comedy and Drama featuring 15 characters portrayed by three actors, We'll See Tomorrow promises to be a whirlwind of science, madness, and whatever happens to fill the space in between.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Playwright's theatre
33 Green Village Road in Madison, NJ    26 Nov 2010

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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