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ROBIN RICE LICHTIG
(1941 - )Nationality: USA
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The Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts are in my blood. I was afraid my idyllic, peaceful childhood would be a barrier to honest dramatic writing. But I joined the electric charge that is New York City, dug down deep, and discovered that Yankee blood flows with a dangerously strong current. Twenty years later, my plays speak to people all over the world. Productions have ranged from Mongolia to South Africa to Canada. Most recently, PLAY NICE! ran Off-Broadway and LISTEN! THE RIVER will preview at 59E59 Theatre in New York before heading to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August, 2012. Alice IN BLACK AND WHITE will be premiered in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2013. Before writing plays I was a journalist and fine artist. These early careers were building blocks. Journalism reinforces structure and visual creativity infuses my plays with an Impressionistic quality. Wise mentors have included Milan Stitt and Arthur Giron. I have an advanced degree in playwriting, but experiential learning is the best and most joyful. I will never forget director Tracy Bersley and five generous actors who literally left their egos outside a dusty rehearsal room door to collaborate on SUKI LIVINGSTON OPENS LIKE A PARACHUTE week after week. Nobody was paid anything. There was no production in sight. It was making theater at its purest. It was magic. To date I have written over 50 plays, including 16 full lengths. They range from comedic 10-minute snapshots to two-hour, large-cast dramas. My subjects often involve the environment, creativity, artists, and individuals struggling to find their individual voices. For synopses of all plays, current and upcoming gigs, my full resume (including awards) and miscellaneous fun, please refer to my website.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Alice Defends Her Passion Alice In Black And White Allie's Appendix Blood Sisters Bronco Buster Burying Elephants Cutie Pie And the Queen David's Disappearance Deja Vu All Over Again DreamCatcher Embracing the Undertoad Evening Primrose In Ohio Everyday Edna Mae Feathers Fly Fortification Of Miss Grace Wren, The Francine Frontier Gloom, Doom, And Soul-Crushing Misery Grannie Bird Harmony Humans Remain Last Frontier, The Life 101 Listen! the River Lola And the Planet Of Glorious Diversity Necessary Geography Not Anonymous O Rumbles Of Joy! Occupy Play Nice! Power Of Birds, The Purity And the Prince Queen For A Day Roses To Plan Saint Anthony and the Appendix Save the Turkey Searching For A New Sun Seducing Ramona Sitting Duck Season Squeezing Papayas Squeezing Papayas St Anthony And the Appendix Suki Livingston Opens Like A Parachute Sylvia And Jackie Tugboat Love Will You Dance On? Women Without WallsAlice Defends Her Passion
Synopsis:
A dramatic performance monologue: In 1895, 29-year-old Alice Austen defends her right to pursue photography and not get married. (Excerpted from full-length play
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1st Produced:
Kentucky Center, Looking for Lilith Theatre Company, Louisville, KY
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monologue
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Top of PageAlice In Black And White
Synopsis:
Photographer Alice Austen struggles for independence in Victorian society as a modern-day writer searches for her in this true story about love.
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1st Produced:
Mex Theatre At The Kentucky Center, Louisville, Kentucky
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Looking for Lilith Theatre Company, Louisville, KY
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Top of PageAllie's Appendix
Synopsis:
Female version of "St Anthony and the appendix" when a young woman checks into hospital fpr an operation and comes out to her mother.
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Fantastical
1st Produced:
Planet Connections Theatre Festivity
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60 min One act. - - Lesbian, one act
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Male: 1 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageBlood Sisters
Synopsis:
Three nuns are endangering the national defense-run for your lives!
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part of Spring Shorts 4
1st Produced:
Turtle Shell Theater
Organisations:
3Graces Theater Co.
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One act
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageBronco Buster
Synopsis:
Sculptor Frederick Remington sees the grubby wild, wild West
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1st Produced:
Nj Rep
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Comedy Ten Min
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: female character is a horse
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Top of PageBurying Elephants
Synopsis:
tells the story of Colby, married yet in a secret relationship with Jennifer, who decides to take her girlfriend on a short summer trip to a far off cabin in a forest clearing. What seemed at first to be a promising romantic weekend
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1st Produced:
Bridge Theatre at Shetler Studios
244 West 54th Street, 12th floor, New York, NY 10019
244 West 54th Street, 12th floor, New York, NY 10019
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One Act
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Male: - Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageCutie Pie And the Queen
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part of Nativealiens theatre Collective Annual one-act play festival. the theme this year is "Queer Prime."
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One act. - - Lesbian, theme/character, one act
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Top of PageDavid's Disappearance
Synopsis:
Young man tries to die by disappearing. Saved by crusty
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award-winner
1st Produced:
Firefly Productions (Vt)
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama, 15 min Comedy
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Male: 2 Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageDeja Vu All Over Again
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in 2009: the Best 10-Minute Plays for Two or More actors, Smith & Kraus (December 1, 2009) 978-1575257594
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Ten Min
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Top of PageDreamCatcher
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1st Produced:
[Reading] Ryan's Daughter, 350 E. 85th St., NYC
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Genre:
Drama with comedy
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageEmbracing the Undertoad
Synopsis:
a lesbian couple's domestic bliss is upset by the arrival of one woman's sister. the sister may or may not be alive. Love is needed all around to overcome earthly barriers.
Notes:
Major rewrite since the NYC production. Protagonist changed. Premiere production Available. One set. Full length. Reading: Mae West Fest (Seattle). early one-act version produced At Bailiwick (Chicago).
1st Produced:
New York. This Womans Work
Organisations:
This Woman's Work Theatre Company
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Drama with comedy
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Male: - Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageEvening Primrose In Ohio
Synopsis:
Very different people find common bond
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1st Produced:
Tada! (NYC)
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Bakers Plays, Boston, Ma, -
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Genre:
Comedy, 30 min
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageEveryday Edna Mae
Synopsis:
Timid, young Edna Mae yearns to be an artist, but her thin, mean-girl alter ego erodes her confidence. Then her sexy husband turns surly and mid-west life puts a strangle-hold on creativity. Middle-aged Edna must escape to pursue her dream. Will she? Can she? Where do San Diego and Starbucks enter the picture?
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Frigid festival 2015
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Bricken & Birch
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Play/Drama
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageFeathers Fly
Synopsis:
New York's red-tail hawks evicted
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Comedy Ten Min
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Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageFortification Of Miss Grace Wren, The
Synopsis:
An elementary school teacher is so traumatized by the events of 9/11 she cant return to the classroom until a statue of Peter Stuyvesant comes to life and gives her a renewed will to live.
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award-winner
1st Produced:
Portals At Polaris North, New York City
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JAC Publishing and Promotions
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Drama, 20 min
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageFrancine
Synopsis:
Robin Rice Lichtig's Francine takes a slice of everyday New York life in a coffeeshop and focuses in on one woman. Francine is celebrating a successful diet by treating herself to a frappucino. She is happy. the future is bright. Fat is behind her forever. Suddenly, her past self rears it's head and refuses to go quiety into that good night.
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part of the New York City Icon Plays. An evening of six short plays by six different authors that feature New York City as a background. each play will feature an iconic New York City location or place, the subway, Central Park and the Staten Island Ferry among others.the New York City Icon plays
1st Produced:
Theatre 54 @ Shetler
244 West 54th Street (12th floor), New York, NY 10019
244 West 54th Street (12th floor), New York, NY 10019
Organisations:
ego Actus
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Robin Rice Lichtig's Francine takes a slice of everyday New York life in a coffeeshop and focuses in on one woman. Francine is celebrating a successful diet by treating herself to a frappucino. She is happy. the future is bright. Fat is behind her forever. Suddenly, her past self rears it's head and refuses to go quiety into that good night. -
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short play
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageFrontier
Synopsis:
In this highly theatrical environmental fable, a messianic Wolf has plans for saving mankind from extinction. Will it work after Mother Nature causes a world-wide avalanche, killing all humans except two?
Notes:
Room to expand cast size if desired. Flexible staging. Full length. Readings: New Georges (NYC) Mae West Fest (Seattle).
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Ego Actus as part of the 2011 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity
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Drama with comedy
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Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: with doubling
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Top of PageGloom, Doom, And Soul-Crushing Misery
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in 2008: the Best Ten-Minute Plays 3 or More actors, Smith & Kraus, (2009) 978-1575257105
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Ten Min
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Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageGrannie Bird
Synopsis:
Twelve-year-old twins hide grandmother away.
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1st Produced:
Pulse/Opal (NYC)
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama, 40 min Comedy
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Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageHarmony
Synopsis:
a young woman feels she must choose between a career as a violinist and being a mother. as she gives birth, she enters a fugue stage and lives through the first 17 years of life with her son. as he grows in size and dependency, her musical ability literally withers and her future with the astral Symphony looks dim. the boy's father, a murderous conductor, and an overbearingly helpful community don't make matters easier. Finally, she makes her choice.
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Unit set with flexible space. Cast may be expanded if desired. Full length.
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Drama with comedy
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 4 Other: doubling
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Top of PageHumans Remain
Synopsis:
an extended family descended from Revolutionary War days Africans has separated themselves from the rest of society by hiding out in the hills of New Jersey for 12 generations. Now a young man from the outside world discovers them and is determined to "rescue" them from themselves. Highly theatrical. Lyrical. Powerful.
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Unit set with flexible space. Cast may be expanded plus room for more dancers, drummers. Winner New Millennium International Competition. Reading in NYC directed by Stephen McKinley Henderson. Full length. Residency: the Lark (NYC).
1st Produced:
Bruce Mitchell Room, Art/New York Spaces, NY
Organisations:
Reverie Productions
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Genre:
Drama, full length
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Male: 2 Female: 5 Other: 1 F African dancer
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Top of PageLast Frontier, The
Synopsis:
World-wide avalanche in 2014 forces big decisions
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Fantastical
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Drama, full length
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Male: 3 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageLife 101
Synopsis:
evolution vs Intelligent Design
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the New Jersey Repertory Company presents its 3rd Annual theatre Brut Festival of Short Plays. This season's theme is the Seven Deadly Sins.
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New Jersey Repertory Company
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Comedy Ten Min
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageListen! the River
Synopsis:
a tough-talking Maine Coon Cat, a one-eyed dog, a Bible-toting Mom, a lovesick NY doorman and his bodacious fiancee struggle to get on with their lives. People and animal bonds tangle and tighten, complicate and enlighten in this Drama with a soft and surprising underbelly. This show is part of the east to Edinburgh festival.
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1st Produced:
59e59 theaters
59 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022
59 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022
Organisations:
Rising Solo
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Genre:
short play
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Male: - Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageLola And the Planet Of Glorious Diversity
Synopsis:
Humor, fantasy, music, movement and light combine in this highly theatrical fable for tomorrow. Nothing is left of the world following war except six young people. they each have a specific talent to bring to creating a new world. Lola wants to bring love, but is rejected by the others until she proves her point in a way that brings the others on board.
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Perfect source material for Viewpoints director And ensemble to work on! Multi-racial casting. Room for 5M, 6F without doublecasting if desired. Bare stage. Full length. early one-act version produced At Looking Glass (NYC).
1st Produced:
The Alchemical Theatre Laboratory New York City
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Drama, full length
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Male: 4 Female: 5 Other: with doubling
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Top of PageNecessary Geography
Synopsis:
a girl awakens to her potential. a look at the early years of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas (ages 5-24), credited with saving the everglades from extinction. Based on fact, but filled in with lots of imagination. Parallel look at the devastation of the everglades and an upbringing in uptight, turn-of-the century New england. Highly theatrical.
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Cast size may be larger if desired. No set. Flexible space with set pieces. Full length.
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Drama, full length
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Male: 2 Female: 4 Other: doubling
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Top of PageNot Anonymous
Synopsis:
Who created those sculptures attributed to anonymous anyway?
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1st Produced:
Axial Theatre. Here (Ny)
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Comedy Ten Min
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageO Rumbles Of Joy!
Synopsis:
artist creates the NYC Public Library lions
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award-winner
1st Produced:
West End Theatre, New York City
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the Drilling Company/Six Figures (NYC)
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Drama, 50 min
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Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: doubling
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Top of PageOccupy
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Top of PagePlay Nice!
Synopsis:
PLaY NICe! has been called a "gothic dream," "a fantasy horror story," and a cross between Grimm's Fairy Tales and Flowers in the attic by audiences at staged readings in Ohio, New Jersey and New York. the story was inspired by Jean Genet's classic, the MAIDS, in which role-playing reaches frightening new levels. as PLaY NICe! begins, someone has poisoned the Diamond siblings' mother. When she returns from the hospital, there will be hell to pay the struggle of two sisters and their brother to deal with the Dragon Queen is both highly theatrical and very real. Matilda, the eldest, copes by cooking and forcefully hiding her little sister in order to protect her. Luce, their brother, marches with the high school flag squad -- a fixation which has already put him in hot water. Young Isabel excels at pretend, which becomes the most valuable weapon in their arsenal. they enlist a fourth young person, a homeless poet, and the power of imagination is kicked into high gear. an attic in a New Jersey suburb becomes a battlefield where the lines between generations are blurred and the boundary between the actual and the unreal is reduced to an illuminated rectangle and a box labeled "Mad Rabbit."
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Unit set with flexible space. Full length. Readings in NYC with Resonance And others, Also At New Jersey Repertory Company.
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Drama with comedy
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Male: 1 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PagePower Of Birds, The
Synopsis:
a highly theatrical play about the ties that bind and live that sets you free. Woven throughout is man's love of, place in, and duty to the natural world. a Father has left his family. His daughter so yearns for his return that she builds an elaborate tree house to attract him back. She kidnaps her grandmother and places her in the tree house as further enticement for her father. Grannie gradually turns into a bird and flies off to join her dead husband. the young girl learns that she is capable of going on without her father. Lyrical.
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Unit set with flexible space. Full length. Residency At the Will Geer theatricum Botanicum. Reading: 3Graces (NYC).
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3Graces Theatre Co.
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Drama with comedy
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Male: 2 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PagePurity And the Prince
Synopsis:
What if your one true love isn't exactly what you had in mind?
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1st Produced:
Estrogenius/Manhattantheatresource (NYC)
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Comedy Ten Min
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageQueen For A Day
Synopsis:
Young man struggles for independence
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1st Produced:
Tada! (NYC)
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Bakers Plays, Boston, Ma, -
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Drama, 45 min
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageRoses To Plan
Synopsis:
elderly couple's love is tested
Notes:
award-winner
1st Produced:
Firefly Productions (Vt)
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1st Published:
artage Publications,
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama, 12 min Comedy
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageSaint Anthony and the Appendix
Synopsis:
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Notes:
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Male: 1 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageSave the Turkey
Synopsis:
Will Tom Turkey sacrifice himself? Thinly-veiled anti-war play
Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Jersey Repertory Company in The Second Annual Theatre Brut Festival of Short Plays, Long Branch, NJ
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1st Published:
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11 min Comedy
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Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageSearching For A New Sun
Synopsis:
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Notes:
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-
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageSeducing Ramona
Synopsis:
Will caveman Hugo win back the love of his writer wife?
Notes:
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1st Produced:
Chashama (NYC)
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy Ten Min
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageSitting Duck Season
Synopsis:
Woman C.e.O. hides from the law, but her conscience catches her.
Notes:
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1st Produced:
Expanded Arts (NYC)
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Drama, 40 min
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageSqueezing Papayas
Synopsis:
A short comedy with two actors: Former B-movie actress Sasha Montenegro battles with her notoriously corrupt husband, a former president of Mexico, over the deed to his mansion. (When I was in Mexico many years ago I saw a newspaper article about the ferocious battle going on between former Mexican president Jose Lopez Portillo and his wife Sasha Montenegro, his flamboyant, Serbian wife who had been a B-movie star, over possession of their mansion. I wrote the play to discover why these two stayed together when all they seemed to do was fight.
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1st Produced:
Workshop production in Portals 3: New and Improved Short Plays, at Polaris North Theatre, NYC
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1st Published:
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Genre:
short comedy
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageSqueezing Papayas
Synopsis:
Fiery Mexican couple's love is tested
Notes:
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1st Produced:
Polaris North (NYC)
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Comedy Ten Min
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageSt Anthony And the Appendix
Synopsis:
Young man comes out to his mother in bizarre hospital
Notes:
Fantastical
1st Produced:
Fourth Unity. Bank Street Theatre (NYC)
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Comedy, 50 min. - - Gay, one act
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageSuki Livingston Opens Like A Parachute
Synopsis:
Based on true events. a 50-year-old artist is losing her eyesight and losing confidence rapidly. Unwanted memories from her past flood in. She joins forces with herself at age 12 to live through the 1950s and 1960s again, paint images in her mind's eye, and regain her youthful confidence. She rubs shoulders with JFK, Martin Luther King, Jr., Wonder Woman. and must again confront the mental deterioration of her first husband. Highly theatrical. Laughs, tears.
Notes:
One male Actor And one female take many parts As well As make sound effects. (Room to expand cast size if desired.) Unit set with flexible space. Full length. Reading: Arthur Seelen theatre (NYC).
1st Produced:
Workshop Production At Theatre For The New City In New York City
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama with comedy
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageSylvia And Jackie
Synopsis:
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Notes:
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageTugboat Love
Synopsis:
Tugboat loves Statue of Liberty
Notes:
Perform in A pool
1st Produced:
Word-Of-Mouth (NYC)
Organisations:
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1st Published:
Brooklyn Publishers -
Music:
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15 min Comedy
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageWill You Dance On?
Synopsis:
A dramatic performance monologue: At the end of the 20th Century, elderly Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, who has been an environmental activist for many years, makes a final plea for saving the Florida Everglades from the ravages of Big Sugar. (Excerpted from full-length play NECESSARY GEOGRAPHY about the woman who is credited with saving the Everglades from extinction.)
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Top of PageWomen Without Walls
Synopsis:
This highly theatrical, absurdist Drama inspired by Sartre's NO EXIT and Dante's INFERNO follows four women trapped in a subway car speeding toward an unknown destination. Reality and fantasy, humor and fear, sound and silence, light and movement combine for a trip to the Other Side. Characters: a nurse who is older than time; a homeless, one-legged, lesbian beggar; a punk who is addicted to music; a music student.
Notes:
One extremely minimal set. Full length. Readings: Oberon (NYC), Villagers (NJ)
1st Produced:
Reading By Resonance Ensemble At Manhattan Theatre Club Studios
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Drama, full length
Parts:
Male: - Female: 4 Other: -
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