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Alarms From the Gender Wars
Synopsis:
Two young students, caught in a passionate moment, struggle to overcome the array of alarms and security devices installed to protect young women
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1st Produced:
Vortex Theatre
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Genre:
Comedy Ten Min
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Arsenic And Old Spice
Synopsis:
Hedda Hare, headmistress of adam Mcadam academy, has few friends on her staff. after her swan song on Prospective Parents Night, the staff has to figure out which of them might have done her in. Was it assistant headmistress - er, master - Phil Space; parents society president Mimi Mee; admissions counselor Fuller Halls, cafeteria manager Truly Sweet, music teacher Mary Tune, phys ed instructor Lata Sweatt, or head of security Chase Crooks?
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1st Produced:
Mystery Cafe (Albuquerque)
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Genre:
Comedy/Interactive Dinner theater
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Male: - Female: 4 Other: -
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Art Of Murder, The
Synopsis:
Les craves appreciation for his art, but his paintings hurt the eyes but people love his cooking and flock to his cafe/gallery. after Les turns up dead, he comes back as a ghost to solve his own murder. Was it his helium-breathed girlfriend who thought his art would be valuable once he died, or his lost-in-the-60s assistant cook who loves Les' girlfriend? Or was it Les' sister who never got any family love, or Les' feminist neighbor, torn by her love for him and who might have killed him to meet him in another life?
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Mystery Cafe (Albuquerque)
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Genre:
Comedy/Interactive Dinner theater
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: -
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Birthday Suit
Synopsis:
Carl decides that he's going to stop living a lie and to reveal to everyone that he is and has been a nudist. He chooses to go to his office dressed only in the clothes he was born with. the resulting commotion quickly gets out of hand.
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Requires main character to be nude
1st Produced:
Topeka Performing Arts Center
2005
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Genre:
Comedy One act
Parts:
Male: 6 Female: 3 Other: flexible
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Family Frost, The
Synopsis:
Home is a four-letter word to alan. after his mother's death, Alan is faced with the prospect of caring for his alzheimer's-stricken father. after moving back to his childhood home on the St. Lawrence, he faces the ghosts of his past that stream past as steadily as the river out front. among the specters he faces is his ebbing marriage. as his father's abilities fade, he begins to find his own strength and a way to claim his own life.
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1st Produced:
Theatre X
2005
Organisations:
University of New Mexico Words afire play festival
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Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 3 Other: -
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Guns 'N' Poses
Synopsis:
When one of three women partners in a Miami nightclub, goes missing, Stan Drake takes the case. It doesn't help that he's more than attracted to one of the women, who now gives him the cold shoulder. after his rival - in more than detective work - Roy Stonebraker turns up dead, Drake has to try to clear himself of murder charges as well as find the missing woman.
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1st Produced:
Mystery Cafe (Albuquerque)
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Genre:
Comedy/Interactive Dinner theater
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: some doubling
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