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Diane Lefer

DIANE LEFER

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

         American Buggery         Ave Atquevale         Harvest         Majikan         Nightwind         Tell Me Which Way A Hanged Man's Feet Will Hang         theater Of Witness: We Are Here

American Buggery

Synopsis:
Subversive but (more or less) true, based on court records from colonial New england about men hanged for bestiality, the play uses highminded dialogue, simple folk-based music, and ridiculous staging.

Notes:
Humans double As Animals. Instrumentation is kazoos And overturned tin pails played by the cast, so trained musicians Are not necessary. Music And lyrics Are by the playwright.

1st Produced:
Trustus, Columbia, Sc    2001

Organisations:
Trustus Theatre

1st Published:
Lilies and Cannonballs (literary magazine), 2005   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical One act

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Ave Atquevale

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Tact Studio, New York    12 Nov 2011

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Harvest

Synopsis:
a wealthy and privileged young lady from Hong Kong thinks she'll get to know a typical American family when she volunteers to work the potato harvest on a struggling family farm. Tensions in this home are about to explode, and the visitor gets more than she bargained for.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Studio-Stage, Los Angeles, Ca    2005

Organisations:
Playwrights' arena

1st Published:
excerpt in More Scenes and Monologs from the Best New Plays (Meriwether Publishing), 2007   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  O/S radio announcer

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Majikan

Synopsis:
a conservationist in the Borneo rainforest is offered extraordinary support by a visitor who in return wants intelligence maps of Southeast asia. It's tempting, but the final say is up to Majikan--an orangutan.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Summit Rock In Central Park, NY    2007

Organisations:
Ciona Taylor Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  1 m/f

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Nightwind

Synopsis:
the true and harrowing account Hector aristizabal's arrest and torture by the US-supported military in Colombia; the abduction, torture, and murder of his brother, and the channeling of his rage away from violent retaliation and instead into the peace movement.

Notes:
a 35-minute physical theatre piece created by Diane Lefer in collaboration with Hector Aristizabal who performs it.

1st Produced:
Redcat (Roy & Edna Disney Calarts Theatre), Los Angeles    2004

Organisations:
ReDCaT Studio

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
35 min solo Piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  Musician (optional)

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Tell Me Which Way A Hanged Man's Feet Will Hang

Synopsis:
a mother reacts to the suicide of her son, a police officer who committed suicide after accidentally killing a man who resisted arrest, by joining the anti-abortion movement. Two homeless men who come into the Right-to-Life office (to use the bathroom and to keep warm) challenge her brokenness and lead to the emergence of a resisting self.

Notes:
adapted from the playwright's short story, "Voluntaries," collected in her book Very Much Like Desire (Carnegie Mellon University Press)

1st Produced:
Secret Rose Theatre, Los Angeles, Ca    2001

Organisations:
Triumvirate Pi

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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theater Of Witness: We Are Here

Synopsis:
Torture victims from around the world who have ended up in Los Angeles tell their stories

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Community Room At Mercado La Palamo, Los Angeles    26 Feb 2013

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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