doollee banner
The Playwrights Database
contact doollee


Richard Foreman

RICHARD FOREMAN

  (1937 - )
Nationality:    USA
email:    n/a     Website:    Click here

Literary Agent:    contact Mimi Johnson, Performing Artservices, NY

Richard Foreman, Born June 10 1937, New York City. Brown University BA, (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) l959, Yale Drama School, MFA (Playwriting) l962. Honorary Doctorate Brown University 1993. He is the Founder/ Director of the Ontological Hysteric Theatre, and been awarded eight OBIe's, the Literature Prize from the American academy, and a Lifetime achievement award from the National endowment for the Arts. Richard Foreman has been described as, one of the most original minds ever to grace the American Theatre.

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

Buy Plays with Doollee

Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.
AbeBooks.co.uk   AbeBooks.com   Stageplays.com   amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template

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

         Africanis Instructus         American Imagination, The         Angelface         Astronome: A Night At the Opera         Bad Behaviour         Bad Boy Nietzsche!         Benita Canova         Blvd De Paris (I've Got the Shakes)         Book Of Splendors (Part Ii: Book Of Levers: Action At A Distance         Caf Amrique         Classical therapy; Or, A Week Under the Influence         Cure, The         Deep Stories: From the Notebooks Of Richard Foreman         Deep Trance Behavior In Potatoland         Dr Selavy's Magic theatre         Dream Tantras For Western Massachusetts         Eddie Goes To Poetry City: Part 1         Eddie Goes To Poetry City: Part 2         Egyptology: My Head Was A Sledgehammer         Elephants-Steps         Evidence         Film Is Evil, Radio Is Good         George Bataille's Bathrobe         Gods Are Pounding My Head! (Aka Lumberjack Messiah), The         Harry In Love: A Manic Vaudeville         Hcohtienla; Or, Hotel China         Honor         Hotel For Criminals         Ida-eyed         Idiot Savant         I've Got the Shakes         King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe         Lava         Lines Of Vision         Livre De Splendeurs (Part 1)         Love And Science         Luogo + Bersaglio (Place + Target         Madame Adare         Maria Del Bosco         Mind King, The         Miss Universal Happiness         My Head Was A Sledgehammer         Now That Communism Is Dead My Life Feels Empty         Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance)         Pain(T)         Pandering To the Masses: A Misrepresentation         Panic! (How To Be Happy!)         Paradise Hotel         Particle theory         Pearls For Pigs         Penguin Touquet         Permanent Brain Damage         Ra-D-Io (Wisdom); Or, Sophia = (Wisdom) Part 1         Real Magic In New York         Rhoda In Potatoland (Her Fall-Starts)         Risk It! Risk It!         Samuel's Major Problems         Slight         Sophia = (Wisdom) Part 3: the Cliffs         Supreme Being         Symphony Of Rats         Thinking (One Kind)         Total Recall: Sophia = (Wisdom) Part 2         Unbalancing Acts: Foundations For A theater         Universe, The         Vertical Mobility: Sophia = (Wisdom) Part 4         Wake Up Mr Sleepy! Your Unconscious Mind Is Dead!         What Did He See?         Yiddisher Teddy Bears         Young Goodman Brown         Zomboid!

Africanis Instructus

Africanis Instructus
-

Notes:
music by Stanley Silverman

1st Produced:
New York    1986

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Love & Science", Hearn, London,    978-1559360210

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

American Imagination, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
music by Stanley Silverman

1st Produced:
New York    1978

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Angelface

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1968

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Astronome: A Night At the Opera

Synopsis:
astronome: a Night at the Opera is indeed an opera about the initiation of five people into a world where ambiguous behavior alone leads to freedom-perhaps under the tutelage of the necessary 'false messiah'
- press release

Notes:
composer John Zorn

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Opera

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Bad Behaviour

Bad Behaviour
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in "Bad Boy Nietzsche! and Other Plays" published by Theatre Communications Group,    978-1559362573

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Bad Boy Nietzsche!

Bad Boy Nietzsche!
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in "Bad Boy Nietzsche! and Other Plays" published by Theatre Communications Group,    978-1559362573

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Benita Canova

Benita Canova
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Paradise Hotel and other plays" published by Overllook Press   978-1585670154

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Blvd De Paris (I've Got the Shakes)

Synopsis:
Rhoda, the famous painter, hates her own work, and herself for being so successful with such empty work. She travels by train across europe with her entourage of frenemies, trying to ignore the Dashing But Ominous Gentleman who wishes only to put her in touch with the Space aliens that will finally give her the information she needs to be successful as an artist and as a Person. a hallucination of locomotives, flowers, books, flying saucers, bizarre luggage, and non-gratuitous nudity.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1978

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Book Of Splendors (Part Ii: Book Of Levers: Action At A Distance

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1977

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "theater, New Haven, Connecticut, Spring, 1978   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Caf Amrique

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Paris    1982

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Classical therapy; Or, A Week Under the Influence

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Paris    1973

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Cure, The

Cure, The
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1986

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Unbalancing acts", Pantheon, New York, 1992   978-1559360760

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Deep Stories: From the Notebooks Of Richard Foreman

Synopsis:
Don't operate under the delusion that description equals meaningfulness, writes Piia. But who is the man in the hat? Why did the glamorous woman leave wearing rose-colored glasses? Is it God that Piia is after? the answers may be in the torturous forget-me-nots. . .

Notes:
Text by Richard Foreman; Adapted by John Issendorf.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
alternative Theatre Machine [aTM]

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Multi-Media Performance art, 75 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Deep Trance Behavior In Potatoland

Synopsis:
Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland: a Richard Foreman theater Machine uses digital material filmed in Japan and england and takes place on a stage in New York in which everything is askew-the windows, the walls (covered with turn of the century photographs), and the furniture, which includes two pianos. even the large screens on which images are projected are off balance. Within this setting, the mind is asked to jump from world to world, Japan to england, filmed world to live stage world. the mind is also asked to jump to new ways of relating to reality, a reality in which ideas and behaviors, when viewed correctly, are also askew.
press release

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
the Ontological-Hysteric Theater

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Dr Selavy's Magic theatre

Dr Selavy's Magic theatre
Dr Selavy an illusion created by Marcel Duchamp leads a young man through the trials of life

Notes:
music Silverman, Lyrics Hendry

1st Produced:
Lenox, Massachusetts    1972

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
Original Broadway cast recording: United Artists (LA 196-G) 1972

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Dream Tantras For Western Massachusetts

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
music Stanley Silverman

1st Produced:
Lenox, Massachusetts    1971

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Eddie Goes To Poetry City: Part 1

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Seattle, Washington    1990

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Eddie Goes To Poetry City: Part 2

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Egyptology: My Head Was A Sledgehammer

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1983

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Elephants-Steps

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
music Stanley Silverman

1st Produced:
Lenox, Massachusetts    1968

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Evidence

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
aka 15 Minutes of evidence

1st Produced:
New York    1972

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Film Is Evil, Radio Is Good

Film Is Evil, Radio Is Good
some other time and some other place, the last Filmmaker in the World is on display in a zoo that is also a radio station, allowed only to make films promoting the idea that Film is evil and Radio is good. Patronized and tormented by the Owner of the Radio Station and her associates (as well as a pair of fascist Zookeepers), the Filmmaker attempts to plead his case to the audience and hold onto his own values, even as the case against Film as a positive force is presented with greater clarity and increasingly violent force

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1987

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Unbalancing acts", Pantheon, New York, 1992   978-1559360760

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

George Bataille's Bathrobe

Synopsis:
It is the last day in the life of Frank Norris, writer (not that OtheR writer Frank Norris, this is one you've never heard of, somewhat of a cross between Henry Miller and Norman Mailer). He appears to be in a prison cell, in some unnamed country, for some unnamed political crime-but as his mind is slipping in and out of reality as he faces his impending death, you'll forgive him if he is romaticizing his situation somewhat . . . especially as six figures from inside his head have appeared to variously tempt and torment him, forcing him to look back at his long, rich life to see how many things he has still left undone, and how many regrets he still has. This collection of alien figures, some frightening, some incredibly appealing (plus his real world doctor, who is trying to help him sort it all out), pull him in different directions as he tries to decide how to exit his life, either on his feet and fighting or sliding away into an ignorant oblivion. In this production of Richard Foreman's 1983 play George Bataille's Bathrobe-the first fully-staged english language production, as it premiered in French in Paris, and last received a staged reading in 1998-the abstract text, written by Foreman only as dialogue, with no characters or scene descriptions, is here transformed by designer/director Ian W. Hill into a fantasia on mortality and the choices we make in how to deal with it, either through trying to ignore the painful reality through a reliance on sensual pleasure and physical possessions, or standing up and facing the harsh truths about the things we have done or left undone that we can never make right. a life passing before a man's eyes is shown, with all its attendant humor, violence, tenderness, and tragedy, in a collection of scenes ranging in style from music hall to dance to meloDrama to naturalism. George Bataille's Bathrobe is a collection of moments of one man's past life that might teach others how to live their future ones

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Paris    1984

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Gods Are Pounding My Head! (Aka Lumberjack Messiah), The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Harry In Love: A Manic Vaudeville

Synopsis:
Harry Rosenfeld is a big, neurotic, unnerved and unnerving man who believes his wife is planning to cheat on him. His response: drug her and keep her knocked out until her paramour goes away. the plan works about as well as should be expected and, over several days, a number of people are sucked into Harry's manic, snowballing energy as it becomes an eventual avalanche of (hystErically funny) psychosis. Before embarking on his great career directing his own groundbreaking avant-garde plays, Richard Foreman briefly entertained the possibility of being a commercial Broadway playwright. This 1966 boulevard comedy (which Foreman has compared accurately to the plays of Murray Schisgal) nearly made it to Broadway, which very well might have meant a very different career for Foreman. It's not what you probably know from him, but it's as funny as his best work, and any line from it, out of context, would not sound out of place in one of his later plays. Really.
- Ian W Hill

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1966

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Hcohtienla; Or, Hotel China

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1971

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
excerpts in "Performance 2", New York, April, 1972   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Honor

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1973

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Hotel For Criminals

Hotel For Criminals
-

Notes:
music Stanley Silverman

1st Produced:
New York    1975

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Love & Science", Hearn, London,    978-1559360210

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Ida-eyed

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1969

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Idiot Savant

Synopsis:
Marie asks the Idiot Savant, "But what makes certain words-magic?" What follows is a wild theatrical odyssey that could only have sprung from the fantastical mind of Richard Foreman. This new work is a philosophical comedy, in the great tradition of Ionesco and Preston Sturges. From precise existential and metaphysical acrobatics, to a ridiculous game of inter-species golf with a Giant Duck, Idiot Savant is a fresh, bracing and hilarious exploration of the boundaries of the legitimate.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Public Theater, NY    04 Nov 2009

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

I've Got the Shakes

I've Got the Shakes
I've Got the Shakes is an inventive and frenetic theatrical composition and possesses Richard Foreman's unique theatrical ability to be profoundly philosophical while sinking in the sea of B-grade banality.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Presented by SMUG Theatre and Darlinghurst Theatre Company

1st Published:
Contained in: "My Head Was a Sledgehammer and other plays" published by Overlook Press   978-0879515751

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe

King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in "Bad Boy Nietzsche! and Other Plays" published by Theatre Communications Group,    978-1559362573

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Lava

Lava
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1989

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Unbalancing acts", Pantheon, New York, 1992   978-1559360760

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Lines Of Vision

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
music Quincy, lyrics Forns

1st Produced:
New York    1976

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Livre De Splendeurs (Part 1)

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Paris    1976

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Love And Science

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Stockholm    1987

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1991   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Luogo + Bersaglio (Place + Target

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Rome    1979

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Madame Adare

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
music by Stanley Silverman

1st Produced:
New York    1980

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Maria Del Bosco

Maria Del Bosco
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in "Bad Boy Nietzsche! and Other Plays" published by Theatre Communications Group,    978-1559362573

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Mind King, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1992

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "My Head Was a Sledgehammer and other plays" published by Overlook Press   978-0879515751

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Miss Universal Happiness

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1985

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

My Head Was A Sledgehammer

My Head Was A Sledgehammer
a facially disfigured hunchback, a professor who looks like a pirate, a female student all in black and a male student in plus fours

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1999

Organisations:
Cutting Ball Theatre

1st Published:
Contained in: "My Head Was a Sledgehammer and other plays" published by Overlook Press   978-0879515751

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
absurdist play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Now That Communism Is Dead My Life Feels Empty

Now That Communism Is Dead My Life Feels Empty
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Ontological Theater At St Marks, New York    2001

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in "Bad Boy Nietzsche! and Other Plays" published by Theatre Communications Group,    978-1559362573

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance)

Synopsis:
Snapshots from an enigmatic fairy-tale in which Suzie, the elusive coquette, brings Samuel to his knees  from where he worships a life he only half understands. OLD-FASHIONeD PROSTITUTeS (A TRUe ROMANCe) is an expressionistic chamber-play that twists emotional heartache into a landscape of continual mental invention, marking the return to theater of a celebrated artist whom the New York Times has dubbed the GodFather of the American avant-garde.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Public theater
425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003    30 Apr 2013

Organisations:
in association with Ontological-Hysteric Theater.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Pain(T)

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1974

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Pandering To the Masses: A Misrepresentation

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1975

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "the Theatre of Images", Drama Book Specialists, New York, 1977   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Panic! (How To Be Happy!)

Panic! (How To Be Happy!)
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in "Bad Boy Nietzsche! and Other Plays" published by Theatre Communications Group,    -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Paradise Hotel

Paradise Hotel
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Paradise Hotel and other plays" published by Overllook Press   978-1585670154

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Particle theory

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1973

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Pearls For Pigs

Pearls For Pigs
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Paradise Hotel and other plays" published by Overllook Press   978-1585670154

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Penguin Touquet

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1981

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Permanent Brain Damage

Permanent Brain Damage
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London    1997

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Paradise Hotel and other plays" published by Overllook Press   978-1585670154

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Ra-D-Io (Wisdom); Or, Sophia = (Wisdom) Part 1

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
music David Tice

1st Produced:
New York    1974

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Real Magic In New York

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
music Stephen Dickman

1st Produced:
New York    1969

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Rhoda In Potatoland (Her Fall-Starts)

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1975

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Risk It! Risk It!

Risk It! Risk It!
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Paradise Hotel and other plays" published by Overllook Press   978-1585670154

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Samuel's Major Problems

Samuel's Major Problems
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "My Head Was a Sledgehammer and other plays" published by Overlook Press   978-0879515751

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Slight

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1977

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Sophia = (Wisdom) Part 3: the Cliffs

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1972

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Performance 6", New York, May, 1973   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Supreme Being

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Stages Theatre Center, Hollywood    10 Oct 2002

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Symphony Of Rats

Symphony Of Rats
the President of the United States is receiving messages from other worlds. Perhaps they are the voices of angels, bringing a Divine message. Perhaps they are the voices of aliens, bringing warnings from other worlds or other dimensions. Or maybe, just maybe, the President is merely going mad. In any case, the leader of the free world is beginning to hate that world, and may be deciding to put an end to it once and for all. More and more, everybody else in the world looks like nothing more or less than a rat to the President, and the vermin have entered the White House. It's time to exterminate

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1988

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Unbalancing acts", Pantheon, New York, 1992   978-1559360760

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Thinking (One Kind)

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
San Diego    1975

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Total Recall: Sophia = (Wisdom) Part 2

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1970

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Unbalancing Acts: Foundations For A theater

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1992

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Pantheon, New York, 1992   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Universe, The

Universe, The
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Paradise Hotel and other plays" published by Overllook Press   978-1585670154

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Vertical Mobility: Sophia = (Wisdom) Part 4

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1974

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Drama Review 63", New York, June, 1974   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Wake Up Mr Sleepy! Your Unconscious Mind Is Dead!

Synopsis:
postulates the invention of the airplane (controlled by a horde of baby-doll pilots) as the death knell of the unconscious mind. Foreman is responding to a world in which visionary sages and poets are being replaced by specialists who make platitudes out of the immediately observable and hand-feed them to the public. In Richard Foreman's universe, his muse and ally, the unconscious, fights back to life in a shape resembling 'the stone that rolls up the hill backwards' (the evil one) and from such 'evil', life renews itself.
Company

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Ontological-Hysteric

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

What Did He See?

What Did He See?
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    1988

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Unbalancing acts", Pantheon, New York, 1992   978-1559360760

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Yiddisher Teddy Bears

Yiddisher Teddy Bears
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Love & Science", Hearn, London,    978-1559360210

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Young Goodman Brown

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Composer: Phillip Johnson

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Margin Theater

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Zomboid!

Synopsis:
featuring a large filmed component that was made in Melbourne, Australia in 2004. the slow-moving tableaus from that footage will be projected as a continual hallucinatory backdrop to what's happening onstage. the show features five live actors, frequently blindfolded, stumbling through what's described as a bizarre Foreman-esque landscape and surrounded by several metaphysical donkeys alternately mistreated and worshipped. While the onstage characters are looked down upon by the cool, glamorous, oversized characters onscreen, they try to come to terms with a world in which mysterious forces operate on multiple levels.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Ontological Theatre, NY    2006

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Multimedia

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page