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Christine Emmert

CHRISTINE EMMERT

  (1943 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Christine Emmert's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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

         After the Ball         At Sea         Becoming Craig         Betta Fish         Claire Du Lune (With Irving)         Crossing the Bar         Fishers Of Men         Iseult         King Mark         Line Drawing         Minstrel Boy         Pleasure Halls, The (Or the Doorway Out)         Raft Of MedUSA-Post Modern         Red Rose         Sea Change         Vultures         Woodstock: Under New Management         Wracked And Ruined
After the Ball

Synopsis:
eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok

Notes:
Written by Christine emmert And Marjorie Conn

1st Produced:
Steven Crane House, Ashbury Park, New Jersey     09 Oct 2010

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian historical characters

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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At Sea

Synopsis:
explores the mystical world of MermAIDS, Maidens and one ole-millionaire bigot.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Christine emmert And Marjorie Conn. part of Untucked A festival of 5 short plays celebrating the LGBT Community

1st Produced:
Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington aVenue, New York, NY 10010     23 Oct 2011

Organisations:
Baruch Performing Arts Center and F.a.C.T.

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
short play. - - Gay, one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Becoming Craig

Synopsis:
Ths one-man show highlights the life and career of Edward Gordan Craig, a pioneer in modern theater. He talks of his life, does pieces from Hamlet, Gilbert & Sullivan, and reads Walt Whitman. a man for all times!

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Legless Productions, UK,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Betta Fish

Synopsis:
Clare thinks she survived auchswitz. Her therapist insists she did not. Her trauma was different. the therapist presents her with a betta fish to answer the riddle of her confusion. Ultimately Clare learns her answer from the fish, and the therapist learns something from Clare

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
JaC Publishers,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  three actors - one must be a woman

Further Reference:
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Claire Du Lune (With Irving)

Synopsis:
On the moon during full moon

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Provincetown Fringe Festival     25 Sep 2010

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Crossing the Bar

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Impact Theater Winter One Act Festival, NY     2006

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Fishers Of Men

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     2006

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Iseult

Synopsis:
the re-telling of Tristan and Isolde with an eye for how celebrities like to spin their own love affairs for posterity

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Legless Productions, UK,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
40 min One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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King Mark

Synopsis:
On his death bed King Mark, husband to the infamous Isolde of Tristan and Isolde, decides to set the record straight about what happened. He is thwarted by his wife's old lady-in-waiting and his dead wife too!

Notes:
companion piece to Iseult

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Legless Productions, UK,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Line Drawing

Synopsis:
Three people on line for tickets find reason to comment on each other's lives

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Legless Productions, UK,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Minstrel Boy

Synopsis:
In the 1980s James dies in a hunger strike in Belfast. His wife and mother meet after the funeral , each representing a different viewpoint of James. His mother wanted him to be a martyr, while his wife wanted him to live a full life.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
JaC Publishers,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Pleasure Halls, The (Or the Doorway Out)

Synopsis:
This pre-Raphaelite love story set in Victorian england involves two men who were once school chums. their fantasies from that time include not only their love for each other but the two women who love them.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Legless Productions, UK,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
75 min One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Raft Of MedUSA-Post Modern

Raft Of MedUSA-Post Modern
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in One acts of Note 2008, Desert Road Publishing; (February 4, 2009)   

Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Red Rose

Synopsis:
the story of Rosa Luxemberg, the German revolutionary leader, journalist, and socialist theorist, who was killed in Berlin in 1919 during the German revolution. This one-woman Dramatic play examines her life, loves and abrupt demise.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Payan Theatre, NY     2006

Organisations:
Wabi Sabi Productions

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short Play One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sea Change

Synopsis:
the two friends of the body washed up on the beach wonder why it ended up there and how to dispose of it. they find surprises waiting.
nytheatre.com

Notes:
2007 Impact Winter One Act Festival

1st Produced:
Impact Theater, NY     2007

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Vultures

Synopsis:
Simon, celebrated New York theater Critic, is having a rough night. He is trying to write his review while being harassed by an angry actor and his suicidal ex-actress wife. It seems the Drama is not on the stage this time!

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
One act Play Depot,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Woodstock: Under New Management

Synopsis:
the Vietnam War is over, but not in the mind of one Veteran late night in his living-room. His ghosts come back to haunt him.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Legless Productions, UK,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Wracked And Ruined

Synopsis:
In the great tradition of the horror film a maid lies in her crypt trying to discover who killed her before rigor mortis sets in. She is aided in solving this mystery by the mourners who come to offer their grief

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Legless Productions, UK,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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