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Louis Lippa

LOUIS LIPPA

  
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below is a list of Louis Lippa's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Aloysius And the Ghost Of Uncle Harold         Dreaming Of Aloysius In His Search For God, The         Have It Your Way!         Mourning Show, The         Persecution Of Eugene Waterman         Prisonbreak         Sacco And VANZetti: A Vaudeville         Sister Carrie         Six Characters In Search Of An Author         Sorcerer's Apprentice, The         Stone House         True Adventures Of Pinocchio         Welfare Lady, The
Aloysius And the Ghost Of Uncle Harold

Aloysius And the Ghost Of Uncle Harold
aloysius' beloved uncle Harold dies. Harold always made aloysius laugh and is sorely missed. then Harold's ghost keeps appearing and entertaining his nephew. aloysius tells his grandmother and she tells him as he grows older he will forget Uncle Harold and he will no longer appear. aloysius decides not to get any older and he confronts Time. Time shows him his future

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Dramatic Publishing Company   

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Dreaming Of Aloysius In His Search For God, The

Dreaming Of Aloysius In His Search For God, The
aloysius wants to sing in the choir with his grandmother. Unfortunately he cannot sing at all. He asks his grandmother why he cannot sing and she tells him that singing is a gift from God. aloysius goes in search of God to ask for the gift

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  doubling

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Have It Your Way!

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Mourning Show, The

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1st Produced:
People's Light And Theatre, Malvern, Pa     2005

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30Fest Festival Of Short Plays

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Short play

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Persecution Of Eugene Waterman

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Plays And Players Theater, Philadelphia     1978

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Prisonbreak

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a woman wants to break free from the controlling hold her Father and husband have over her. But the Father is dead and the husband a prisoner in North Vietnam

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Manuscript available from Dramatic Publishing Company   

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One act

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Sacco And VANZetti: A Vaudeville

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In 1920 two Italian immigrants were accused and executed for a robbery that they did not commit

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Sister Carrie

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Based on the novel by theodore Dreiser

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adaptation

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Six Characters In Search Of An Author

Synopsis:
In Six Characters in Search of an author, the audience is confronted with the unexpected arrival of six characters from one play who interrupt and invade the rehearsal of another play and demand that their ReaL lives be attended to and that their stories be told. This most popular of Pirandello's plays asks probing questions about the nature of reality versus illusion, truth versus artifice and the workings of the creative process

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Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello

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Sorcerer's Apprentice, The

Sorcerer's Apprentice, The
the sorcerer commands his assistant to have the shop cleaned by the time he returns at midnight - or the sorcerer will give him 999 nightmares. the assistant finally gets around to doing something ten minutes before the return of his master. He looks in the spell book and gets the mop and broom to clean up by themselves. Things get out of control. To stop the mop and broom the assistant breaks them into pieces - but each piece becomes a new broom or mop. then the sorcerer returns

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Dramatic Publishing Company   

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  extras

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Stone House

Synopsis:
1937 Depression America. Tony Bianchi has lost his job because of his socialist and union activity. His wife tries to make ends meet by taking in sewing. His teenage daughter is retarded and prone to depression bouts when he is not there. Tony wants to go to Spain and fight in the Spanish Civil War but his wife wants him to stay at home

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True Adventures Of Pinocchio

True Adventures Of Pinocchio
a troupe of actors escaping from a civil war take refuge in what they think is an old abandoned puppet theatre. But the old puppeteer still lives there. He lets them stay. the older actors fall asleep but the two children are restless. the puppeteer says he will tell them a story of a wooden puppet that became real. they ask if the story is true. It is the old puppeteer is Pinocchio

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  1 boy; 1 girl

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Welfare Lady, The

Welfare Lady, The
Francesca applies for welfare as she can no longer support her children. Miss Drinkwater new to social work is sent to interview her

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