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Amlin Gray

AMLIN GRAY

  (1946 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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

         Bindle Stiff         Christmas Carol, A         Don Quixote         Dream Chain, The         Fantod, The         Founding Fathers         How I Got That Story         Kingdom Come         Mickey's Teeth         Namesake         Outlanders         Pirates         Sixties         Tartuffe; Or the Weasel         Villainous Company         Wormwood         Zones Of the Spirit

Bindle Stiff

Synopsis:
In this curtain raiser, set in 1937, Bertha is a "BINDLe STIFF," or hobo. She has come into the theater in search of someone she calls "Perfessor" (an empty chair in the audience). the Perfessor, a social scientist, hired her for his social research on the lives and habits of hobos. First, Bertha was to relate her own life story: from her childhood in Kansas, to a socialist farm during World War I, to being a prostitute. But recently the Perfessor has asked her to go back on the road and the rails to gather more information for his book. after three more trips out, however, Bertha is feeling used. She's here to tell the Perfessor she has decided to quit and go back to the life she knows.

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
short play One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Christmas Carol, A

Synopsis:
traces Scrooge's conversion from miserliness to benevolence

Notes:
book by Charles Dickens

1st Produced:
-    1984

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Large Cast

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Don Quixote

Synopsis:
Don Quixote chronicles the antic adventures of the aging, idealistic would-be knight and his rotund, down-to-earth companion, Sancho Panza. their knightly quest through La Mancha offers some valuable insights into society and human behavior as well as moments of truth, beauty and rollicking humor.

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1st Produced:
The Children's Theatre Company-Minneapolis    1996

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Plays For Young audiences   -

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  17            Female:  6            Other:  extras

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Dream Chain, The

Synopsis:
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part of the Dream Project, which is described As "an exploration of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's La Vida es Sueno through A series of staged readings of Adaptations of Calderon's masterpiece. An Adaptation of La Vida es Sueno written by multiple Authors, each writing only one scene from the play. Contributing playwrights include: Sheila Callaghan, Marcus Gardley, Amlin Gray, Carmen Rivera, Adam Szymkowicz And Candido Tirado

1st Produced:
Michael Weller Theater, NY    2007

Organisations:
FLUX Theatre ensemble

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Fantod, The

Synopsis:
the scene is a country manor in nineteenth-century england, where the widow Marryat and her adolescent daughter, Rachel, await the arrival of Sir Tristam Northmoor, a gentleman of clouded origin who had been with their departed husband and Father when he died in a far off colonial outpost and who is now the executor of his estate. Sir Tristam proves to be a man of mystery and mesmerizing gaze, who is immediately drawn to Rachel-despite her long-standing commitment to the rather bland but reliable arthur Loscombe. Ostensibly devoted to establishing a temperance clinic (through largesse from the departed's estate) Sir Tristam is actually more concerned with the exotic and sinister philosophies and potions of the east and a Dracula-like hold over Rachel. Luckily the spell is broken, just in the nick of time, by the redoubtable Vicar Dibdin, whose purity of heart and abiding faith overcome the malevolent force that threatens the serenity of his parishioner's well-ordered world.

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1st Produced:
-    1979

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
a Victorian Reverie Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Founding Fathers

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How I Got That Story

Synopsis:
the scene is "ambo Land" (Vietnam) where a naive young Reporter from Dubuque encounters the Historical event-a second actor who portrays some twenty one characters, including several anxious to cover the war in all its aspects, the Reporter plunges into the surreal madhouse that it has become, interviewing foul-mouthed G.I.s; a teenage prostitute; the sinister lady ruler of the country; a Buddhist monk about to immolate himself; and many others (all played by the Historical event) in a brilliant kaleidoscope of interlocking scenes. He joins a combat patrol; goes off on a bombing mission; is injured by shrapnel and, in the end, becomes so radicalized that he spurns his job and "goes native." Deeply ironic, the play coalesces its graphic horrors and unsettling revelations into an ingenious mosaic which, for all its wild humor, constitutes a crushing indictment of the mass insanity which is war.

Notes:
Winner of the Obie Award

1st Produced:
-    1979

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    978-0822205395

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Bibliographies/VN_drama_bib.php

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Kingdom Come

Synopsis:
Begins in Norway, where the stern Lutheran Church teaches that emigration to America is sinful and that anyone who defies the church's stand will be punished by a vengeful God. Two brothers, Jens and Thomas ansen, who live with a third brother, Kal, on his farm, defy the church and leave for Wisconsin when Kal announces his intention to marry, as Kal's farm is too poor to support so many people. the Pastor Dagsrood is furious because their departure will encourage others to leave, and he accuses the precentor of the church, Harstad, of weakness in teaching God's will. But Harstad, dubious that America is such a swamp of irreligion as the church contends, informs Dagsrood that he too has decided to emigrate, in answer to the call sent by some Norwegians in Wisconsin for a pastor. His defiance persuade others who are suffering poor harvests to leave Norway as well, including Kal ansen and his young bride, Kaja. the second act Dramatizes, with stunning effectiveness, the settlers' struggles in seeking a new and better life in a strange and often hostile country, and the strength which enables them to surmount not only obstacles like blizzards and locusts but also, in the words of the Milwaukee Journal, "the tortured consciences and twisted faith that tormented the immigrants' spirits and minds."

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1st Produced:
-    1983

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

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  doubling possible

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Mickey's Teeth

Synopsis:
In MICKeY's TeeTH, Steven, a former Mouseketeer, is drinking spiked coffee in a coffee shop in Riverside, California, brooding over his failures as a salesman. Being a Mouseketeer has opened some doors, it has also proved to be a detriment. as Steven says, "when it comes to closing, they just won't hand an ex-Mouse a four-figure check." He is waiting in the coffee shop to meet another former Mouse, but when Leah arrives, wearing her mouse ears, he does not recognize her. after questioning her, Steven determines that she was not a true Mouse, but a girl who lived on a farm in Nebraska that two of the Mouseketeers visited as part of several episodes. the show, however, had tragic consequences for Leah's life, resulting in the deaths of her entire family, and now, embittered, Leah has become a "Mouseketerrorist." She claims to have a bomb and is ready to kill them both. Only the timely arrival of the Blue Fairy saves Steven's life, and furthermore, she gives him the opportunity to exchange his past life for a new one.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Namesake

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Outlanders

Synopsis:
OUTLaNDeRS, is set in a small failing cafe, whose embittered megalomaniac owner hopes to create a new liqueur which will lure back the customers who have been lost to a rival establishment. Harassed by his invalid wife, who bangs impatiently on the ceiling to gain his attention, and bedeviled by the townspeople, who have turned against him, askanius retreats increasingly into his delusions and the dream of the triumph which his magical elixir will bring. In the end his creation turns out to be poisonous-but askanius, in a final act of desperate defiance, willfully drinks it down.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
short play One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Pirates

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Sixties

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Tartuffe; Or the Weasel

Synopsis:
the prosperous Orgon is plagued by insecurities, and the growing independence of his family isn't helping. Tartuffe is, though. This strict religious counselor has moved into the household to lay down the law. at least that's how he represents his actions. the family's fight against his tyranny - despite servant Dorine's raucous outspokenness, daughter Mariane's tearful resistance, second wife elmire's elegant strategems, brother-in-law Cleante's reasoned arguments, and son Damis's near-mayhem - at last seems lost, and the loathsome Bible-thumper seems about to take all for himself. the 1669 version of the play that history has left us brings in Louis XIV to save the day, but informed consensus says that Moliere's censored 1664 version, now lost, ended very differently. This new translation/adaptation shows another way things might have gone. a fresh, funny, venturesome approach to a hilarious and ever-timely classic.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Moliere

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2011   978-0822224952

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Villainous Company

Synopsis:
as described by Mr. Gray "VILLaINOUS COMPaNY tells the story of Hal, the young hellion who is to become Henry V, and his long-delayed choice between the values of his father, Henry IV, and those of his surrogate father, Jack Falstaff. Most of its material is drawn, of course, from Henry IV, parts One and Two. In an attempt to approximate Shakespeare's diction (and to ease the conscience of the adapter), the necessary additional material has been drawn wherever possible, from language, images and conceits in various of Shakespeare's other plays. Perhaps a fifth of the play is original, and the text has been revised throughout. the particular concerns of the adaptation are to make the plot clear-especially Hal's alternatives-and to emphasize that Falstaff, that feast of all the world's delights, the quickest and most deflationary mind in all the plays, is also an armed robber, an official who squeezes bribes from poor draftees, and a captain who leads his soldiers to their death so he can keep their pay."

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Wormwood

Synopsis:
In WORMWOOD, Marika, the wife of a famous but burnt-out writer, Ossian Borg, is invited by a fellow art student to visit the dingy back room of a disreputable tavern where her husband had created his most celebrated works. the owner of the tavern (who had shared in the royalties from Borg's writings) senses a way to revive Borg's creative energies by summoning him with an invented story of an affair between the young student and Borg's wife. But their confrontation, oddly enough, has a different result when it is Marika who comes to realize that it is she who must escape their failing marriage and gain the freedom to pursue her own artistic destiny.

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
short play One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Zones Of the Spirit

Synopsis:
the first play, OUTLaNDeRS, is set in a small failing cafe, whose embittered megalomaniac owner hopes to create a new liqueur which will lure back the customers who have been lost to a rival establishment. Harassed by his invalid wife, who bangs impatiently on the ceiling to gain his attention, and bedeviled by the townspeople, who have turned against him, askanius retreats increasingly into his delusions and the dream of the triumph which his magical elixir will bring. In the end his creation turns out to be poisonous-but askanius, in a final act of desperate defiance, willfully drinks it down. (3 men, 1 woman.) In the second play, WORMWOOD, Marika, the wife of a famous but burnt-out writer, Ossian Borg, is invited by a fellow art student to visit the dingy back room of a disreputable tavern where her husband had created his most celebrated works. the owner of the tavern (who had shared in the royalties from Borg's writings) senses a way to revive Borg's creative energies by summoning him with an invented story of an affair between the young student and Borg's wife. But their confrontation, oddly enough, has a different result when it is Marika who comes to realize that it is she who must escape their failing marriage and gain the freedom to pursue her own artistic destiny. (3 men, 1 woman.)

Notes:
Based on prose works by August Strindberg

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
two short plays One act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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