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GEORGE HOLETS
(1946 - )Nationality: USA
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George Holets has resided in Ithaca, NY for twenty years. During that time he has shoehorned play writing around various other challenges: General Manager of the State Theatre, Deputy Director of aIDS WORK, Marketing Director of the Hangar Theatre. Prior to Ithaca, he co-founded the Playwrights Theatre of Washington, toiled at the Smithsonian Institution's Division of Performing Arts, and wrote scripts for assorted Theatre and video production companies. the plays listed here mark his advent as playwright. What came before is only prologue. He is currently marketing his farce, working on a new piece, Trust Those Creeps?, and reworking an old piece, Boronga Kazi.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Getting By: the First 5 Days God's Pants Too Huge Going Postal M/21 Bellevue Three Dykes, One Of Whom Is A ManGetting By: the First 5 Days
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part of the east Village Chronicles: new plays inspired by the contemporary life, the persistent lore And the diverse history of the neighborhood
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short play
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Top of PageGod's Pants Too Huge
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God's Pants Too Huge focuses on the 3 necessities of human life-food, shelter, and sex-at the low end of the economic continuum. at rise and as prologue, Fairy Dust enters throwing fairy dust a.k.a. confetti over an appliance box as if to enchant, introduces the play's theological connection, then herself, and is hustled away by cops. albert enters and claims the appliance box for the night, Frog returns claiming the box as his. they fight arriving at an uneasy truce, then join forces against Fairy Dust when she steals albert's bag of empty cans. She is caught and threatened with disfigurement. Fairy Dust screams anything but that, "fuck me, rape me." the cops hold the tarp to shield the audiences view, and turn a blind eye, as Frog sets about raping Fairy Dust-arms, legs, heads, clothing popping out around the edges of the tarp. albert defers. Frog jumps to his heels when he discovers that Fairy Dust is a man. Black out. Fairy Dust brings a settled domestic quality to the (now three man) camp. they begin thinking about bettering themselves, and start preparing for a future together in an apartment. Suddenly, the cops sweep into the camp busting it up and beating the men. after the maelstrom the stage is empty save for albert and Frog. albert's clothes are in taters. Frog is naked. Fairy Dust appears tosses a pair of huge gold lame pants on stage and then disappears, the men pull them on to cover their nakedness-one in each leg, albert and Frog confess their love towards each other, as Fairy Dust appears cruciform in gold lame loincloth and bra against the upstage wall. Yes there are Christian overtones, however the play takes a different spin from the religious right and is for mature, progressive audiences.
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Ithaca, NY, Theatre Row, New York City 2000
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the Kitchen Theatre Company of Ithaca and Love Creek Productions
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One act Comedy. - - Gay, full length
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Top of PageGoing Postal
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Lyle is depressed and in a relationship with Simon. then he meets Joan
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Twenty minute play. - - Gay, one act
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Top of PageM/21 Bellevue
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at rise in M/21 Bellevue, Stanley races for a bus as it pulls away from the stop, catching it at the red light. He is aboard with some angry words to the driver. Once he's settled, he realizes that the driver is the man who made his knees go weak in the ShopRite some weeks past. the man Stanley has searched for, ever since. the driver calls Stanley on his staring, and a three part conversation ensues between Stanley and the driver, Stanley and his wife, and Stanley and himself as the bus crosses Manhattan headed for Bellevue. Stanley examines his love, his relationships, and his desire; and as the bus heads up avenue C toward the end of the route resolves to make his feelings known to the driver. He does and is queer bashed by the driver even though they have been making eyes at each other during the play.
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Ithaca, NY, Theatre Row, New York City 1998
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the Kitchen Theatre Company of Ithaca and Love Creek Productions
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One act Comedy. - - Gay, one act
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a farce about relationships, gender, and orientation. the action of Three Dykes, One of Whom Is a Man occurs in a family run plastic surgery clinic in which the rubric of conventional sexual orientation is overthrown against a background of continuous body modifications. each of the characters goes through a range of sexual permutations, arriving at the end, a changed but presumably better person for the adventure. Ford/Frieda begins the play in a dissatisfactory marriage with thea, comes to terms with his desire to be a woman, transitions, and ends the play in a lesbian relationship with his/her wife, thea. Lorraine, thea's sister, begins the play a lesbian on the rebound and ends in a relationship with Squeeze, a man on the run from the law and seeking a new face. Tuk, a Thai surgeon/bi-sexual/on occasion cross dresser, and Helga the clinic's nurse mainly interest themselves with sexual high jinks-theirs and everyone else's. It is a comedy so there is a happy ending for everyone although the story has some dark twists and turns. It has some erotic moments on stage, some nakedness off stage, and some explicit language both places so it is for mature audiences.
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Staged Reading The Kitchen Theatre Company Of Ithaca, Ithaca, NY 2006
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120 min Farce. - - Lesbian, full length
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Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: 1 male is Asian
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