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Terence Patrick Hughes

TERENCE PATRICK HUGHES

  (1968 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Terence Patrick Hughes plays include LINES (Finalist, Seven Devil's Conference), The Kiss of Caiaphas (Finalist, Ashland New Play Festival), Goodnight Sunshine (Finalist, Boomerang Theatre's First Flight Festival, Semifinalist O'Neill Conference), All Quiet (Semifinalist O'Neill Conference), American Yu (Finalist, Capital Rep's New Play Summit), and Recess at Our Lady of the Bleeding Heart, Mind, and Spirit - Once Reformed (Finalist, Heideman Award). Other plays include Finding the Rooster, To Live and Die on the Upper East Side, and Farewell Evenbrook. His work has been developed and produced with the Lark, Horse Trade, Seven Collective, 13th St. Rep, Ovenbird, and Boomerang theatres. Born in Lawrence, Mass., Hughes, his wife, and two children live in New York City and Woodstock, NY.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Terence Patrick Hughes's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Benched         Farewell Evenbrook         Finding the Rooster         Goodnight Sunshine         Kiss of Caiaphas, The         Lines         Muse In Manhattan, A         Recess at Our Lady of the Bleeding Heart, Mind, and Spirit - Once Reformed         Smoke Em If You Got Em         Tea & Misery         To Live and Die on the Upper East Side

Benched

Synopsis:
Oscar is a novelist down on his luck. Cricket is a dealer who sleeps in the shrubs. When the two meet on a bench in Central Park for an exchange of 'the usual', their destinies swiftly intertwine even as the transaction and their wits begin to unravel.

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1st Produced:
Theatrelab, 57 West 36th St. New York, NY 10018     28 Oct 2013

Organisations:
The Seven Collective

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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Farewell Evenbrook

Synopsis:
On the eve of their graduation from the prestigious evenbrook academy, two roommates, Oscar and Teddy, prepare for a final night of teen-age revelry, while the harsh realities of economics, love, friendship, and death press upon them. as two boys who are barely men struggle to understand the other, they grow closer through personal confrontation and further apart as they don their inherited roles as young Americans.

Notes:
Winner of Best Playwright Award in Wonderland One-act Play Festival

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Organisations:
You are Here Productions

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Genre:
Drama/Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Finding the Rooster

Synopsis:
Set in 1965, Finding the Rooster is about the effect of war on a patrician New england family. In one action-filled evening the head of the family seeks to divorce his seemingly unfaithful alcoholic wife. as the wife attempts to engage her husband in a boozy battle of wits much is revealed about their mutual pain including the loss of their older son who was killed in the war and the husband's intention to have his younger son dismantled and sent off to military school. their feuding is interrupted by the wife's flamboyant brother who arrives to defend his sister and take his troubled nephew's mind off of his problems with colorful stories about his days as a soldier who never fought in actual battle but was decorated for 'finding the rooster'
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Goodnight Sunshine

Synopsis:
About Fame, Family, And the Impossibility Of Going Home Again

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Part Of Centre Stage's 2012-13 New Play Festival In Greenville, South Carolina    

Organisations:
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Genre:
Farcical Tragedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Kiss of Caiaphas, The

Synopsis:
the Kiss of Caiaphas is about sex, power, and Darwinian survival at a small Vermont university, circa December, 1980. Reeling from the death of John Lennon, Professor Ernest Mann assigns a failing grade to Oscar Fine, the son of a powerful politician, thus preventing the boy's graduation. Ambassador Richard Fine soon arrives on campus to force the professor to change his decision. Confrontations escalate into conflagrations when Mann shares a violent essay turned in by Oscar, while Richard reveals a terrible incident uncovered in the professor's past. Mann soon escapes with Oscar to the top of the campus tower where on the brink of disaster a troubled man and a disturbed boy share in confessions that will change both of their lives forever.

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1st Produced:
Part Of Centre Stage's 2011-12 New Play Festival In Greenville, South Carolina     01 Sep 2011

Organisations:
Centre Stage

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lines

Synopsis:
This is a gripping new play about race and humanity set in a fictional yet familiar country where a line has been laid down, separating blacks and whites.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
the Red Room
85 East 4th Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10003     11 Aug 2011

Organisations:
Horse Trade Theatre Group in association with Ice & Fire Theatre of London

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Muse In Manhattan, A

Synopsis:
Did James Frey deserve to fry? Did William Shakespeare really write all of those plays? In a restaurant on the Upper east Side of Manhattan, a celebrated novelist confesses to plagiarism and his publisher urges him to repeat the offense one last time for a tidy profit. as a prostitute and a very confused waiter practice their own professions, the topics soon turn from scampi, sex, and literature to matters of life and death. On this night of all New York nights, the Muse asks 'how far would you go for fame'?
- press release

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Organisations:
Yes Let's Go Productions

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Recess at Our Lady of the Bleeding Heart, Mind, and Spirit - Once Reformed

Synopsis:
A short play about teachers, schoolyard romances, and the ever-expanding reach of Catholic guilt. Nancy and Bill are teachers at a co-ed Catholic grade school, where on a fine spring morning, they learn brief yet emotional lessons in faith, competition, and the heartbreak that ensues when you let boys and girls play together.

Notes:
10 By 10 in the Triangle is The ArtsCenter's international festival of new, ten-minute plays.

1st Produced:
10 By 10 In The Triangle, The Artcenter, Carrboro, Nc     11 Jul 2014

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Genre:
10 min play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Smoke Em If You Got Em

Synopsis:
a short comedic romp through the offices of the Malcontent Tobacco Company where a cowboy, a queen, and two maniacal ad men scheme to update the image of Malcontent for a new generation.

Notes:
part of Capture the Flag: A Festival of New American plays

1st Produced:
Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013     2008

Organisations:
New York Theatre experiment

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Tea & Misery

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
35th Anniversary William Inge Theater Festival. Independence, KS     20 Apr 2016

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Clockhouse Review. Literary Journal of Goddard College   

Music:
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To Live and Die on the Upper East Side

Synopsis:
From the shadowy caves of Central Park to the candlelit decadence of an East Side eatery, a struggling novelist hatches a deadly plan to achieve immortality. As Oscar Fine roams and rumbles with hookers, legends, and thieves on his harried quest for grandeur, it may just be the little things in life that wind up saving his soul. A dark comedy about the highs and lows of fame, hope, and the strange muses of Manhattan.

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1st Produced:
Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock NY     02 Oct 2014

Organisations:
Ovenbird Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
comic-drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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