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James Leo Herlihy

JAMES LEO HERLIHY  (1927 - 1993)

 Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of James Leo Herlihy's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Bad Bad Jo-Jo         Blue Denim         Crazy October         Laughs, Etc         Stop, Youre Killing Me         Terrible Jim Fitch

Bad Bad Jo-Jo

Synopsis:
Horror creations come to life and confront their author.

Notes:
in Stop You're Killing Me includes Terrible Jim Fitch, Bad-Bad Jo-Jo, Laughs, etc.

1st Produced:
Boston    1968

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Stop, You're Killing Me", Dramatists Play Service, New York, 1969   -

Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Blue Denim

Synopsis:
about the problems of communication between the younger and older generations

Notes:
written with William Noble

1st Produced:
New York    1958

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1958   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Crazy October

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Haven, Connecticut    1958

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Laughs, Etc

Synopsis:
Lonely, bitter woman speaking to unseen friends and husband displays latent violence.

Notes:
in Stop You're Killing Me includes Terrible Jim Fitch, Bad-Bad Jo-Jo, Laughs, etc.

1st Produced:
Boston    1968

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Stop, You're Killing Me", Dramatists Play Service, New York, 1969   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Stop, Youre Killing Me

Synopsis:
In LaUGHS, ETC. a woman tells about an impromptu party that she and her lawyer husband gave in their East Village apartment. The woman is a complete phony, totally, unlovably false. She has not a shred of kindness or feeling in her sleek, fat-cat exterior, and as she talks, on and on, with a kind of self-congratulatory cleverness, her character slowly yet surely reveals itself. (1 woman.) TERRIBLE JIM FITCH is set in a motel room where the relationship between a girl hustler, and a man, a small-time crook who specializes in robbing churches, is explored. The girl is horribly scarred on the cheek, and it soon becomes evident that the man did it. Their relationship is a complex one. The man, in a way, loves the girl, being totally dependent upon her for simple human involvement. But he has a weakness for violence, a weakness played on by the girl. The man talks about his life, his mother, and generally muses on his philosophy. The girl is sullen and cowed. The outcome is never in any doubt-but the psychological motivation of the manic-depressive killer and his alternating moods is always engrossing. (1 man, 1 woman.) BaD BaD JO-JO. Kayo Hathaway is a popular writer who has created, in Bad Jo-Jo, a figure more celebrated than even James Bond. It has made Kayo, a nasty man by any standard, even his own, enormously wealthy. Kayo is leaving the country to live in Switzerland. after a farewell party, he is being interviewed by a young man, who is amusingly yet almost unbelievably gauche. Kayo is not quite convinced that he is a reporter, especially when he brings his friend to the apartment. The finale is grotesquely macabre, but the play holds the interest to the end. (3 men.)

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Off Broadway    -

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

Music:
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Genre:
three short plays One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Terrible Jim Fitch

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Chicago    1965

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Stop, You're Killing Me", Dramatists Play Service, New York, 1969   -

Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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