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Craig Lucas

CRAIG LUCAS

  (1951 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  

Born on 30th April, 1951 and abandoned in a car in Atlanta Georgia, with 8 months adopted by Pennsylvanian couple. the family was conservative, the father was a FBI agent and the mother a housewife. In the '60s and '70 he was interested in the political left and found out his attraction towards men. He claims that his coming out made it possible for him to develop as a playwright and person. In 1973 he graduated from Boston University, as Ba in Theatre and creative writing. His mentor Anne Saxton urged him to try his luck in New York. He worked in all possible day jobs but also in Broadway musicals he was acting, singing and dancing in for example: "Sheandoah", "On the Twentieth Century", "Sweeny Todd"1991 he was rewriting a play "Missing Persons", which a friend showed to director Noman Rene, who promised to produce the play when finished. This was the beginning of a 15 years collaboration and relationship. the two developed, while working on "Missing Persons" a cabaret revue "Marry me a little" in 1991. It is about two people living next to each other, never meeting but both singing of yearning and failure to connect. after his early works (romantic comedies) up to 1998, he began to write much more tragic works about aIDS "the Dying Gaul" and "Singing Forest". He expanded his theatrical reach as director and writer on musical pieces "the Light in the Piazza" nad "Don Juan de Marco". Lucas also directed classics like "Miss Julie" and "Loot". His work is unintentionally divided in gay-plays ("Blue Window", "Longtime Companion") and straight-plays ("Reckless","Three Postcards","Pelude to a kiss"). Lucas considers himself able to write about human problems in global, so that he doesn't have to write only about gays. the straight critics still think he is too gay and the gay critics think he is not gay enough. In the last year, he won the Obie for Best American Play for Small Tragedy and the New York Film Critics award for Best Screenplay for the Secret Lives of Dentists. In 2001 he received an Obie for his direction of Harry Kondoleon's Saved or Destroyed. His awards include the excEllence in Literature award from the American academy of Arts and Sciences, the PeN/Laura Pels mid-career achievement award, the Outer Critics, L.A. Drama Critics, Drama Logue and LaaMBDa Literary awards; he has also received a Tony nomination, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the Nea and the PeW Charitable Trust and has been a Pulitzer Finalist.
Sinisa Cvetkovic

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

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         Action         Amelie         Back Story         Bad Dream         Blue Window         Boyfriend Riff         Child, The         Credo         Drugs In America         Dying Gaul, The         God's Heart         Grief         If Columbus Does Not Figure In Your Travel Plans         King Kong         Light In the Piazza, The         Lying Lesson, The         Marry Me A Little         Miss Julie         Missing Persons         Ode To joy         Orpheus In Love         Prayer For My Enemy         Prelude To A Kiss         Reckless         Savage Light         Singing Forest         Small Tragedy         Square, The         Stranger         This Thing Of Darkness         Three Complaints         Three Postcards         Three Sisters         Throwing Your Voice         Uncle Vanya         Unmemorable         What I Meant Was         Y2K
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Amelie

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Embark on a mesmerizing journey with inquisitive and charmingly shy Amelie (Samantha Barks) as she turns the streets of Montmartre into a world of her own imagining, while secretly orchestrating moments of joy for those around her. After discovering a mysterious photo album and meeting a handsome stranger, she realizes that helping others is easier than concocting a romantic story of her own. After seeing the world through the magical and enchanted eyes of Amelie, youll never look at life the same way again.

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Rights for this title only - Bret Adams. Music by Dan Messe; lyrics by Dan Mese; Nathan Tysen; book by Craig Lucas. Based on the movie "Amelie" screenplay by Jean-Pierre Jeunet; Guillaume Laurant

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Musical 105 min

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Back Story

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When Ethan is born in the worst blizzard of the century, two-year-old sister ainsley nearly sacrifices a toe trying to clear a path for the baby's arrival. That initial gesture of devotion blossoms into a tale of sibling loyalty, rivalry and love that spans two decades. Inspired by Joan ackermann's narrative "Back Story," each of the eighteen playwrights in this collective creation puts a distinctive spin on ainsley's and Ethan?s amusing and poignant struggles with life, with each other, and with the phantom dad who abandoned them for the wilds of alaska

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by Joan Ackermann Courtney Baron Neena Beber Constance Congdon Jon Klein Shirley Lauro Craig Lucas eduardo Machado Donald Margulies Jane Martin Susan Miller John Olive Tanya Palmer David Rambo edwin Sanchez Adele edling Shank Mayo Simon Val Smith. Based

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Dramatic anthology

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Bad Dream

Bad Dream
Frank has a bad dream and wakes up partner Michael - who has words of comfort and one thing leads to another

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Play One act. - - Gay, one act

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Blue Window

Synopsis:
a play about 7 people (including a lesbian couple and a probably-gay character) before, while and during a New York dinner party

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song: "the Same Thing" By William Bolcom

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New York     1984

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Samuel French, NY, 1985   

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Play/Drama. - - Lesbian, theme/character, full length

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Boyfriend Riff

Boyfriend Riff
Fim maker talks about past boyfriends - but can't remember the name of the best of them all

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Play One act. - - Gay, one act

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Child, The

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Credo

Credo
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Contained in: "What I Meant Was" published by Theatre Communications Group 1998   

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One act

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Drugs In America

Drugs In America
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Contained in: "What I Meant Was" published by Theatre Communications Group 1999   

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Dying Gaul, The

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the Dying Gaul is a revenge Drama: the story of a strange love triangle gone wildly off-course. the three people who form the triangle are Robert, a self-effacing playwright whose lover Malcolm has recently died of aIDS; Jeffrey, the high-powered yuppie film producer who wants to buy the script Robert has written about his life with Malcolm; and elaine, Jeffrey's wife, who knows that Jeffrey sometimes dallies with his male clients but, for some reason, isn't willing to ignore his affair with Robert. So Jeffrey comes on to Robert rather strongly, though perhaps only to ensure that Robert comes through with the screenplay he wants (in which the character based on Malcolm will be changed to a woman). and elaine logs onto an Internet chat room and begins a cyberaffair with Robert, pretending to be Malcolm's spirit, communicating with Robert from beyond. and, when Robert discovers all of this duplicity, he finds a way to trump both Jeffrey and elaine that is as surprising as it is cold-hearted.

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Samuel French, NY,    

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Play/Drama. - - AIDS, full length

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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God's Heart

God's Heart
a when-worlds-collide story about one late New York night. a comfortable professional couple, Janet and David, are reading news on their laptop and smoking a little grass before bedtime. Sharing the split screen with them on the second floor are a famous activist interracial lesbian couple, Barbara and eleanor, on a train from Maine so eleanor can receive an award from a gay organization before she dies of cancer. Beneath both scenes is Carlin an African-American high school kid who works for a thug and lives on a park bench. He is near enough to Janet and David that, this night, she dares to wave to the young homeless stranger from her privileged window. there is far too much story to summarize here, but you should know that these lives overlap in a botched drug deal, a yuppie murder mystery, a gay-bashing incident, a crack house, a living video game and a suddenly campy "artificial intelligence" science-fiction lab where the dying eleanor - whose childhood had been recorded for TV as a black version of "the Louds" called "America's Child" - is given immortality as a data base on a huge screen with the ability for infinite knowledge.

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Lincol Center Newhouse Theater    

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Contained in: "What I Meant Was" published by Theatre Communications Group 1999   

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Play One act. - - Lesbian, theme/character, full length

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Grief

Grief
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Contained in: "What I Meant Was" published by Theatre Communications Group 1999   

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If Columbus Does Not Figure In Your Travel Plans

If Columbus Does Not Figure In Your Travel Plans
It is closing time in the bar where Geoff works. When a drop dead gorgeous young man comes in and does not seem to be in a hurry to leave.

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Contained in: "What I Meant Was" published by Theatre Communications Group 1999   

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Play One act. - - Gay, one act

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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King Kong

Synopsis:
A film maker goes to a remote island to make a documentary

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Music by Marius de Vries; lyrics by Craig Lucas; Michael Mitnick; book by Craig Lucas. Based on the movie "King Kong" 1933 screenplay by James Creelman; Ruth Rose

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Broadway Theater, New York     08 Nov 2018

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Light In the Piazza, The

Light In the Piazza, The
a young American tourist has a chance meeting with a charming young Italian in a Florentine piazza, setting off a whirlwind romance with an unsettling revelation.

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book by Craig Lucas; music And lyrics by Adam Guettel; based on the novel by eliazabeth Spencer

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Seattle     2003

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Original Broadway cast recording: Nonsuch (79829-2) 2005

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  extras

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Lying Lesson, The

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In a remote seaside village in Maine, a woman who may or may not be a legendary movie star shows up to buy the home of an elderly couple. escorted by a young local woman who appears never to have heard of her, Ruth stakes a claim on her distant past, and plays a relentless game of cat and mouse with her new assistant.In this hilarious and unsettling homage to the films of Hollywood's Golden Age, the celebrated author of Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless and the Light in the Piazza twists and turns the audience around essential questions about memory, identity and truth-telling.

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Atlantic theater: Linda Gross theatre
336 West 20th Street, NY     22/2013

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Marry Me A Little

Marry Me A Little
Two single people alone in their Brooklyn apartments spend another lonely Saturday night.

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Music And lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; book by Craig Lucas; Norman Rene. In 1999 An A version was performed that had the two leads gay men

1st Produced:
Off-Off-Broadway Production Company     29 Oct 1980

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Original cast recording: RCa (7142-2-RG) 1981

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Miss Julie

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In this new adaptation of Strindberg's classic Drama, mistress of the house, Miss Julie, and her servant play a dangerous game of seduction in an effort to relieve themselves of their trapped existences. Using everything in their arsenals from sex to money, the two battle each other in a struggle for power and escape.

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Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:
Berkshire Theater Festival (Stockbridge, Ma, United States)     2002

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   

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75-90 min Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  1 male, 2 females

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Missing Persons

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Independently wealthy, a published author and tenured professor at Swarthmore College, addie Pencke spends Thanksgiving holiday struggling to hold together her splintered ego and her fractured family. Her capacious, book-lined home is peopled with real and imagined figures from sixty years of political activism, hard-drinking, a failed marriage and lost opportunities. Neighbors, strays, in-laws, children as they once were and as they could never be, remembered selves, all inhabit addie's home for the holidays. In shifting power struggles, the critic attempts to reconcile with the artist, the parent with the child, and the living with the dead.

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1st Produced:
New York     1985

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Ode To joy

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Adele, hard at work on a large triptych, looks back on the two major loves of her life, which somehow managed to provide her with everything she needed to know about the art of living. Through these two tumultuous loves, Adele discovered both the limits of her powers and the true depths of her gifts. The road to redemption remains before her with the return of both loves to her side.

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   

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drama

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Orpheus In Love

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music by Gerald Busby

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New York     1992

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Genre:
Libretto

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Prayer For My Enemy

Prayer For My Enemy
In Prayer for My enemy, a hell of a night for the Noones finds Father austin watching his nature shows and trying to keep from falling off the wagon, mother Karen keeping an eye on austin, son Billy just back from Iraq, and pregnant daughter Marianne upset about the state of her marriage to Tad, Billy's childhood friend who may still harbor a crush on him. as an enigmatic outsider, Dolores (Victoria Clark), relates a tale of taking responsibility for her ailing mother, an American family's long-held secrets are dragged to the fore in what may be its final reckoning. Prayer for My enemy is a paean to our age, a keenly-layered Drama about the preciousness of life and the grace to share common ground-even with those we love the least
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1st Produced:
Intiman Theatre, Seattle, Washington     01 Jul 2007

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commisioned by Long Wharf Theatre

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Prelude To A Kiss

Synopsis:
It's about a young couple who meet, fall in love, have a whirlwind courtship, and marry. at the wedding, the bride is kissed by an elderly man no one has seen before-and mysteriously, the bride and the old man exchange souls

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1st Produced:
Costa Measa, California     1988

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Dutton, New York, 1990
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2010   

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Genre:
Fantasy Comedy

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Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Reckless

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at home on Christmas eve, Rachel is informed by her guilty husband that he has hired a hit man to kill her, and she must flee for her life-which she does by scrambling out the kitchen window and into the snowy night. She meets and joins up with Lloyd Bophtelophti, a true "original" who has changed his name to avoid alimony payments and who now lives with a paraplegic named Pootie (who also pretends to be deaf in order to get double disability). Rachel then wins $100,000 on a TV game show and begins a series of picaresque escapades involving numerous psychiatrists and, eventually, an ill-fated reunion with her husband. In the end Rachel becomes a therapist herself, treating her own child (who fails to recognize her) and is led more and more to ponder whether the modern world might not be a vast conspiracy designed to systematically undermine her own increasingly shaky sanity.

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1st Produced:
New York     1988

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Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1989   

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Genre:
Black Comedy Drama Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  many roles are doubled

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Savage Light

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Written by David Schulner and Craig Lucas. Was due to be performed at The Humana Festival of New American Plays but banned for being too sexually explicit

1st Produced:
uproduced    

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Drama

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Singing Forest

Synopsis:
a play about gay history. Comparing the Nazi Vienna in the '30s and the celebrity intoxicated New York Freud appears as a friend in Vienna. investigates how history collides with the human heart in his funniest and most poignant work to date. the Riemans are your typical American family: they haven't spoken to each other in decades. Severed by deeply buried secrets from the Holocaust, these endearing individuals are desperate to stay out of contact with each other. their story takes you on a passage from today's world of Starbucks, celebrity, and therapy to Freud's inner circle in Vienna and to Paris at the end of World War II. This is a classic inter-generational story that both moves and transports, sweeping through one family's journey to reconcile their past

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1st Produced:
Intiman Theatre, Seattle, Wa     21 Aug 2004

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Small Tragedy

Synopsis:
Backstage and global politics unexpectedly collide during an amateur production of Oedipus. This powerful, timely play investigates the contemporary meaning and relevance of tragedy, launching a surprisingly funny, sharply pointed salvo directly at the heart of a generation

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Samuel French, NY,    

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Square, The

Square, The
meditating on 120 years of relationships between non-Asian Americans and the Asian American community, set in a public square of an American city's Chinatown

Notes:
a choral piece by sixteen leading playwrights (including Maria Irene Fornes, Jessica Hagedorn, David Henry Hwang, Craig Lucas, Jose Rivera, And Mac Wellman)

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Version 3.0: Contemporary Asian American Plays, Theatre Communications Group (2 aug 2011)   

Music:
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choral piece

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Stranger

Synopsis:
Two passengers on a plane start to talk to each other and talk over the terrible things they have done or had done to them. the man is fresh out of prison after serving 15 years for abusing a young girl and the woman has just survived a horrendous attack in which she was humiliated and robbed by her boyfriend

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in 'Reckless and Other Plays', Theatre Communications Group, New York, 2005   

Music:
-

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This Thing Of Darkness

Synopsis:
abbey and Donald, best friends, have just graduated college. Sharing a birth date, Donald travels to visit abbey and his parents at a remote country house to celebrate their twenty-second birthdays together as an uncertain future looms ahead of them. the birthday celebration on the heels of their graduation seems to have rendered abbey into an unstable emotional state. Donald, less sensi-tive, is suffering too, but abbey was the one who, during graduation, chewed his nails off and kept going until he hit bone. after all, in an ever dangerous and violent world, what is one to feel secure about? Does friendship even stand a chance? as abbey and Donald try to strike a deal to ensure their friendship for life, the birthday cake appears, and the candles are blown out, but the lights go out as well, and a new holocaust has hit. as the play goes on, we wonder if we're being treated to a seriously eerie vision of the future or if we're being invited to witness a beautiful, painful exploration of what it's like to become an adult as the twenty-first century enters its infancy. With a tip of the hat to Prospero in his acknowledgment of Caliban, life itself seems to have become "this thing of darkness" that abbey and Donald must accept as their own.

Notes:
written by Craig Lucas And David Schulner

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    

Music:
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Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character full length

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Three Complaints

Synopsis:
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Notes:
music by Stewart Wallace

1st Produced:
New York     1985

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-   

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Three Postcards

Synopsis:
the place is a trendy restaurant in Greenwich Village, empty except for Bill (the pianist) and Walter (the waiter). Three young women, Big Jane, Little Jane and K.C., arrive for dinner, and for the conversation, daydreams and memories which then engage them. Deceptively simple and often very funny their table talk is mostly about everyday things, but in the fantasies to which they escape the veneers of their lives are peeled back as they regress to childhood, take an imagined trip to outer space, or reveal the problems besetting their marriages and careers. Punctuated by songs, accompanied (and sometimes joined in) by Bill, and with Walter (the waiter) assuming a variety of roles as the action requires, the play probes deftly and surely ever deeper until (in the words of edith Oliver) "at the end, when Little Jane hands her credit card to Walter, there is little we do not know about the inner and outer lives of these three women over the years."

Notes:
music And lyrics by Craig Carnelia

1st Produced:
Costa Measa, California     1987

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1989   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy Drama Musical Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Three Sisters

Synopsis:
Olga, Irina, and Masha are restless. Trapped in menial jobs and uninspiring relationships, these sisters yearn for more than what their small provincial town has to offer -- the cosmopolitan and sophisticated life of Moscow. This heartfelt new version of Chekhov's classic play passionately retells the three women's attempts to rise above their dictated circumstances and examines the timeless question -- is happiness mandated by fate or can fulfillment be of your own making?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Intiman Theatre (Seattle, Wa, United States)     2005

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   

Music:
-

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120-130 min Comedy/Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  5            Other:  9 males, 5 females, 3 either (14-20 actors possible: 9-12 males, 5-8 females)

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Throwing Your Voice

Synopsis:
Dinner is over, but the conversation has just begun for four politically conscious New Yorkers. Things get heated when a discussion about ethics becomes personal. accusations fly and solid relationships are shaken as all the characters ask themselves: "Do we have a moral responsibility to make sure the goods we consume come from ethical sources?"

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Naked Angels (New York, NY, United States)     1991

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   

Music:
-

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Genre:
10-15 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  2 males, 2 females

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Uncle Vanya

Synopsis:
This new adaptation of Chekhov's classic tragicomedy, where a visit from a professor and his beautiful young wife turn one family's simple country life upside-down, is refreshing and full of nuanced humor. Long-suffering Uncle Vanya yearns for the professor's wife, elena, a desire made even more painful by the realization that he has wasted his life serving her husband. Meanwhile, the professor's daughter longs for the doctor, who only has eyes for elena. and, just when it seems that things couldn't go any more awry, the professor has an announcement that could change the lives of the entire household. This timeless study of human behavior and relationships remains relevant and modern.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Intiman Theatre (Seattle, Wa, United States)     2007

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   

Music:
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120-130 min Tragicomedy

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  5 males, 4 females

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Unmemorable

Unmemorable
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

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1st Published:
Contained in: "What I Meant Was: New Plays and Selected One acts" published by Theatre Communications Group 1999   

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What I Meant Was

Synopsis:
1968 - a family meal to talk over Fritzie's long hair and moves on to the fact that he is gay as time changes back and forth and everyone apologises for things done or said.

Notes:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Applause in the Best American Short Plays: 1996-97; Smith & Kraus in Humana Festival '96, the Complete Plays; and by Samuel French Inc. in Ten Minute Plays: Volume 4 from Actors Theatre of Louisville, 1996   

Music:
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Ten Min. - - Gay, theme/character one act

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Y2K

Synopsis:
Two couples. A woman on a plane flight becomes overly friendly with the man sitting next to her. A gay couple - one partner cannot bring himself to say "I love you" in case it is not true

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, New York     17 Oct 2010

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   

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Genre:
Gay full length

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