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Peter Hedges

PETER HEDGES

  (1962 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Peter Hedges's plays including biography, 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 Peter Hedges's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Age Of Pie         Andy And Claire         Baby Anger         Champions Of the Average Joe         Food Related         Good As New         Imagining Brad         Oregon         Teddy By the Sea         Valarie Of Now, The

Age Of Pie

Synopsis:
In a loving send-up of support groups, the aGe OF PIe climaxes with an unusual and exhilarating celebration of luscious cream pies.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Andy And Claire

Synopsis:
Brother and sister, aNDY aND CLaIRe, are very close. Claire brings home her new boyfriend, the formidable Eddie, and over six scenes it's a fight between andy and Eddie for who will get Claire.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Baby Anger

Synopsis:
"Bringing up baby" takes on new meaning for a successful young couple who start living their lives through their baby boy when he is cast in an award-winning commercial-as a girl! their lives are turned upside down and the spoils of success bring unexpected results in this surprising, twisted comedy. Told in twenty-seven scenes, beginning in the present and spanning ten years, BaBY aNGeR presents a timely discourse on the trend of casting our children in the all-too-bright limelight.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1998   -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  2b

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Champions Of the Average Joe

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-    1985

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Food Related

Synopsis:
FOOD ReLaTeD is a series of short sketches that all deal with, well, food. there is that alluring stalk of celery (1 man, 1 woman, 1 stalk); we find an intoxicating orange (2 men, 1 woman, 1 orange); we delight in the surprising birthday cake (1 man, 1 woman, 1 cake); we are mystified a half-dozen eggs (2 men, 6 eggs); and a serious plate of noodles prompts an urgent plea (1 man, 1 woman, 1 plate of noodles).

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Good As New

Synopsis:
GOOD aS NeW follows the disintegration of an educated, affluent Chicago family-parents and teenage daughter-following Mom's face-lift. Devastated by what she views as a violation of who her mother is-an enlightened feminist-the daughter confronts Mom. Mom in turn blurts out that she took the nip-and-tuck route because she's losing Dad and suspects he is having an affair. Further shattered, the girl now engages in a face-off with her father, who defends himself by saying Mom has also "wandered." the first act, three two-person scenes in the family car, plants the seeds of upheaval; the second act, a single long scene for all three in the parents' bedroom, lets it explode.

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Genre:
Comedy Drama Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Imagining Brad

Synopsis:
the action takes place in Nashville, where two women meet after church and strike up a conversation. One is Dana Sue Kaye, a brassy, voluble bleach-blonde, who chatters on about her wonderful, perfect husband-her high-school sweetheart and the "best looking man in Tennessee." the other is Brad's wife (Valerie grown), a shy, soft-spoken newlywed who has just moved down from Philadelphia and is as close-mouthed about her husband as Dana Sue is forthcoming about hers. In time, however, it is revealed that Brad is a grotesque freak: armless, legless, blind and bedridden; while Dana Sue's husband is unmasked as a depraved, brutal wife abuser who, in truth, has made her life a hell. Ironically it is actually Brad, the helpless "bag of flesh," who can feel but not inflict hurt, who is really the "perfect man" and, as the play ends, Dana Sue is sorely tempted to accept Brad's wife's invitation to move in with them and share his protection.

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Oregon

Synopsis:
In OReGON, Mike, a born-again Christian, wants to "see the world, get to know people," so he hitchhikes to Bible college in Oregon. He's picked up by two punk rockers and in nine short scenes the three find a common language, which leads Mike to do the unthinkable

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1997   -

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Teddy By the Sea

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-    1986

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Valarie Of Now, The

Synopsis:
monologue in which a precocious teenager, Valerie, faces the twin crises of a birthday party and her first menstrual period. Chatting on the telephone, or to herself, Valerie contemplates the injustice of having to deal with the fears and excitement of momentous physical change even though, outwardly, she is still very much a little girl. and, in addition, a darker note is sounded with the suggestion that Valerie has also been subjected to molestation by her father.

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