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David Lavine

DAVID LAVINE  

 Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of David Lavine's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Bingo And Rose-Marie         Elephant Titus         God In Machine         Perforation         Poking Kitty Purple         Smugglers Three         Suicide John         Unconjoined, The         Who Popped Papi Chulo? Or I'll Have Him With A Side Of Salsa

Bingo And Rose-Marie

Synopsis:
at a retreat for convalescing circus performers, Bingo the Clown tries in vain to rediscover his funny bone. an accidental run in with the Fat Lady who jilted him reveals that she's not so fat anymore. all's fair in love and pies.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Performance Workshop, Kimball Studio, New York    1999

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in "Four Plays by David Lavine" published by Original Works,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Elephant Titus

Synopsis:
General Titus andronicus has just returned to Rome from the battlefields. He is fatigued and shell-shocked, his sons are all dead, and he is quickly succumbing to the hideous disfiguring disease Elephantiasis filariensis. More than a mash-up of two titles that sound good together, Elephant Titus is an exploration of the spectacle at the heart each source story - a hideous Victorian curiosity in one, a gory revenge tragedy with murder, rape, dismemberment, cannibalism and live burial in the other. The tales intertwine, overlap, enhance and contradict each other. Together, they're a dark circus, a free-wheeling, irreverent and sometimes deliberately juvenile re-creation.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
co-production Fleetwood Stage, New Rochelle / New York International Fringe Festival, New York    2003

Organisations:
The Squid (theatre co.)

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
full length Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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God In Machine

Synopsis:
Locked away in a dark attic, young Louis insists he is Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria. His harried sister hires a prostitute in an attempt to break the spell of his imaginary world.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Performance Workshop, Kimball Studio, New York    2000

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in "Four Plays by David Lavine" published by Original Works,    -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Booksellers:

Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Perforation

Synopsis:
Goaded by the voice in his head, an aspiring serial killer prepares to take his first victim.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New Jersey Repertory Company, Long Branch    2008

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Poking Kitty Purple

Synopsis:
Caroline Durieux is many things: a widow, a single mother, a voracious reader of romance novels, a former actress with a long-forgotten record of happy housewife commercials, and an obsessive-compulsive agoraphobic nymphomaniac. Today, after shuffling her misfit teenage son off to summer school, she confronts a particular crisis: reclaiming her swimming pool from complete encrustation after a late-night vandalism with a case of grape Pop Rocks. and today's pool boy isn't her usual fare. Caroline could be his muse, and he her chance for escape. Under the haze of the New age awakening in Southern California in 1987, a single day's journey in the Durieux household is outrageous, disturbing and ultimately electrifying.

Notes:
2008 finalist, Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference

1st Produced:
Fleetwood Stage, New Rochelle (workshop)    2003

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
full length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Smugglers Three

Synopsis:
Kiki, Cliff, and Pablo have passports, pills and a plan. Not to mention a 200 pound one-legged Vietnam vet restrained in the bathroom.

Notes:
2005 Heidi Award for Best Original Short, The Other Paper (Columbus, OH); monologue published in The Ultimate Audition Book, Vol. 4: 222 Comedy Monologues 2 Minutes & Under, Smith And Kraus.

1st Produced:
Performance Workshop, Kimball Studio, New York    2000

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in "Four Plays by David Lavine" published by Original Works,    -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Suicide John

Synopsis:
John wants to kill himself, but his sweaty, toilet-brush-wielding kidnapper won't let him. Johns wife, Yetta comes home from shopping to find herself very, very inconvenienced. a love triangle emerges, as do a gun, carrot-scrapper and pantyhose.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Performance Workshop, Kimball Studio, New York    1999

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in "Four Plays by David Lavine" published by Original Works,    -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Unconjoined, The

Synopsis:
after spending their entire lives in a carnival sideshow, the Indivisible Whistler Sisters are surgically separated and thrust into the real world. a haunting and dark, richly-woven drama of family, dreams and what it's like to be normal.

Notes:
screenplay Adaptation The Unconjoined was A Scriptapalooza Quarterfinalist

1st Produced:
Performance Workshop, Kimball Studio, New York    2000

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
full length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Who Popped Papi Chulo? Or I'll Have Him With A Side Of Salsa

Synopsis:
Call an exorcist, quick! Hot, dead, Cuban TV star Enrique "Papi" Chulo battles with a trio of scorned former flames bent on repossessing his soul. Four characters, one actor in a delicious tale of sex, salvation and salsa. Muy picante!

Notes:
written by Dan Domingues, David Lavine

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Papi Chulo Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
one-man play Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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