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Michael Cristofer

MICHAEL CRISTOFER

  (1945 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Michael Cristofer's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Amazing Grace         Americomedia         Black Angel         Blues Are Running, The         Breaking Up         Ccpyle And the Bunyon Derby         Ice         Lady And the Clarinet, The         Love Me Or Leave Me         Mandala, The         Plot Counter Plot         Shadow Box, The         Tabarjaby

Amazing Grace

Synopsis:
a lonely middle aged woman's journey to redemption from drugs, God and sexual abuse

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Public Theater, Pittsburgh, Pa    1995

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Americomedia

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Street Theatre, East Coast    1973

Organisations:
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1st Published:
not available,    -

Music:
-

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Black Angel

Synopsis:
the action is set in a small village in France where Martin engel, a former SS officer accused of officiating over the massacre of 247 Jews in that very town during World War II, has come (after being released from prison) hoping to build a house and live out his days in peace and solitude. although the war crimes authorities are satisfied that engel has paid his debt to society the local townspeople are not of the same mind and his presence becomes a growing irritant. In his conversations with the local mayor, his only friend in the village, it becomes a clear that engel is a thoughtful and intelligent man who served his country out of duty rather than desire, and who had actually given orders only to keep peace among the villagers and not to slaughter them. But the massacre did happen, and engel cannot absolve himself from guilt by association. In the chilling climax of the play, therefore, he offers no resistance as the hooded figures of the townspeople, bearing torches, close in for his execution - raisin

Notes:
the Action is set in A small village in France where Martin engel, A former SS officer Accused of officiating over the massacre of 247 Jews in that very town during World War II, has come (after being released from prison) hoping to build A house And live

1st Produced:
Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, Ca    1978

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1984   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Blues Are Running, The

Synopsis:
Six people one park bench. Boo phones his friend Mickey in a panic. Boo's wife has accused him of being gay and in love with Mickey. Mickey tells him that he is in fact gay. Two hit men wait in the park for their target. Two recently murdered tramps look on and commentate of proceedings

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1st Produced:
Manhattan Theatre Club, New York    03 Nov 1996

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  doubling

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Breaking Up

Synopsis:
made for each other couple continual split and then make up until finally they marry others, have children and live separate lives, until they meet again

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ccpyle And the Bunyon Derby

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio    1978

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Ice

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, Ca    1976

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Lady And the Clarinet, The

Synopsis:
the scene is the chic New York apartment of Luba, a woman successful in business but less fortunate in her private life. She is awaiting a male dinner guest and has engaged a clarinet player to provide romantic background music. Falling into a reverie, Luba begins to reminisce about the three men who have meant the most to her in her life thus far-which leads to a series of intriguing flashbacks. In the first Luba is sixteen and meets Paul, a young employee of her father's, who initiates her into the mysteries of sex, but bores her otherwise. then comes Jack, a high-powered television producer who is successful, exciting and funny, but also married to someone else. Finally there is George, a rich widower who keeps the house for her but looks elsewhere for love. as the play ends the unanswered question is whether her new dinner companion will, at last, be "the man" she has been searching for-but, as the nonspeaking clarinet player so eloquently suggests with smiles, shrugs and instrumental trills, the prospect

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1st Produced:
Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, Ca    1980

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1985   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Love Me Or Leave Me

Synopsis:
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Notes:
screenplay by Lennart And Fuchs

1st Produced:
Woodstock, New York    1989

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mandala, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre of the Living Arts, Philadelphia, Pa    1968

Organisations:
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1st Published:
not available,    -

Music:
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Plot Counter Plot

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
St. Clements Theatre, NYC    1971

Organisations:
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1st Published:
not available,    -

Music:
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Shadow Box, The

Shadow Box, The
Three patients at a hospice. One, Brian has a young companion, Mark. "What is he today? Your nephew, cousin or butler?"

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, Ca    1975

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1977   978-0380018659

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Tabarjaby

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
reading - Gramercy Arts Theatre, NY    2006

Organisations:
Shotgun Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
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Parts:
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