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Jessica Hagedorn

JESSICA HAGEDORN

  (1949 - )
Nationality:    Filipino-American
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Jessica Hagedorn's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Black: Her Story         Crayon Bondage         Dogeaters         Fe In the Desert         Mango Tango         Nun's Story, A         Petfood         Silent Movie         Square, The         Teenytown         Tenement Lover: No Palm Trees In New York City

Black: Her Story

Synopsis:
the Mexican Mother meets the Oldest Living Virgin of Manila

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1st Published:
in Bonney, Jo, extreme exposure: an anthology of Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century, TCG, 2000   -

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Crayon Bondage

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Dogeaters

Dogeaters
a hard-hitting play about the Philippines in the Marcos era

Notes:
adapted from her own novel of the same name

1st Produced:
La Jolla Playhouse, California    1998

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group, USA,    -

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  17            Female:  13            Other:  doubling

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Fe In the Desert

Synopsis:
This new play focuses around Fe, a complicated woman, and takes place in the isolated American desert inside the Dramatic commotion of her broken marriage and a home invasion and burglary. the characters contend with each other's hidden fears, lost desires, and broken dreams over the course of a wild and dark night. Spiraling back in time, each character's memories take us to places far and wide - from Hollywood to the American desert to the penitentiary. In her true hybrid style, Hagedorn morphs Filipino meloDrama with full fledged musicality, contemporary poetry, and intense personal struggle.
- http://www.aatrevue.com

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1st Produced:
Intersection/Campo Santo    2007

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Mango Tango

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Nun's Story, A

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Petfood

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Silent Movie

Synopsis:
Short ten minute play. Included in the Square.
- http://www.aatrevue.com

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1st Produced:
Mark Taper    1997

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Square, The

Square, The
meditating on 120 years of relationships between non-Asian Americans and the Asian American community, set in a public square of an American citys Chinatown

Notes:
a choral piece by sixteen leading playwrights (including Maria Irene Fornes, Jessica Hagedorn, David Henry Hwang, Craig Lucas, Jose Rivera, And Mac Wellman)

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1st Published:
in Version 3.0: Contemporary Asian American Plays, Theatre Communications Group (2 aug 2011)   978-1559363631

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Genre:
choral piece

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Teenytown

Synopsis:
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Notes:
with Carlos And McCauley

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Tenement Lover: No Palm Trees In New York City

Tenement Lover: No Palm Trees In New York City
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Between Worlds Contemporary Asian American Plays" published by Theatre Communications Group 1990   978-1559360043

Music:
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