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David MacGregor

DAVID MACGREGOR

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

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

         18 Holes         Adventure Of the Elusive Ear, The         Consider the Oyster         Epiphany         Gravity         Hero's Journey, The         Late Great Henry Boyle, The         Paris Of The West         Paternity Ward         Revelation         Scrooge Macbeth         Towards the Perpetuation Of the Human Species         Vino Veritas         Visitation         Waiting Room, The

18 Holes

Synopsis:
Two friends engage in eighteen completely unrelated conversational snippets as they play a round of golf. there is no plot, no story, and no character development. Just two people who know and trust one another well enough to speak with complete candor.

Notes:
Performed in numerous one-act festivals (and voted Audience Favorite At the Barebones theatre Group's Festival in 2003). Published in 35 in 10: Thirty-Five Ten-Minute Plays.

1st Produced:
Heartlande Theatre, Birmingham, Michigan    2003

Organisations:
Heartlande Theatre Company

1st Published:
the Dramatic Publishing Company, 2005   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One-act Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Adventure Of the Elusive Ear, The

Synopsis:
a distraught Vincent van Gogh arrives at the rooms of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson and enlists their aid in the recovery of his missing ear.

Notes:
also performed in Heartlande theatre's One-act Marathon in Birmingham, Michigan in 1998.

1st Produced:
Livonia-Redford Theatre, Redford, Michigan    1998

Organisations:
Livonia-Redford Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One-act Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Consider the Oyster

Synopsis:
CONSIDeR the OYSTeR is a comedy based on the facts that doctors are now using oyster shells to repair human bone and all oysters are born male and turn female. after shattering his femur during a Super Bowl celebration, our newly engaged protagonist undergoes such a procedure and then gradually realizes that he is turning into a woman. Can true love withstand a little thing like gender change, and what does it really mean to love someone?

Notes:
the lead role in this play can either be played by A male or female Actor throughout, or by A male in the first Act And A female in the second Act.

1st Produced:
Purple Rose Theatre, Chelsea, Mi    Jun 2011

Organisations:
Purple Rose Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full-length Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Epiphany

Synopsis:
a middle-aged man having coffee with his wife comes to a startling realization-he doesn't give a damn about anything any more. Concerned that he has become a psychopath, his wife is able to ease his mind by revealing to him what he has really become.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Tipping Point Theatre, Northville, Mi    Jul 2010

Organisations:
Tipping Point Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One-act Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Gravity

Synopsis:
Gravity takes place in the rooms of Isaac Newton at Cambridge University in September, 1693, when Newton went through what subsequent biographers would call a "discomfiture of the mind." Newton's tragic past, conflicted sexuality, heretical religious beliefs and alchemical experimentation had led him to lock himself away in his rooms and to do nothing less than attempt to touch the face of God. arrogant, paranoid, and absolutely certain that he had been chosen by God to reveal the eternal unity of all things in the universe, the play takes place in a crucible-like atmosphere where Newton's most ambitious work would finally come to fruition. Or failure. It features Newton's friend, the philosopher John Locke, and Newton's nemesis, Dr. Robert Hooke, a brilliant polymath and devoted ladies' man, whose jealousy of Newton unhinged him from time to time. Finally, the play features the mysterious woman with whom Newton became "embroiled." Based on Newton's letters and journals, the play reveals a man riding the delicate line between divinity and madness, grappling with the choice between immortality and love, and lays bare the fact that while many people regard Newton as humanity's first scientist, he was actually our last sorcerer.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Purple Rose Theatre, Chelsea, Mi    Feb 2010

Organisations:
Purple Rose Theatre Company

1st Published:
Purple Rose Theatre Company, Chelsea, MI (www.purplerosetheatre.org), 2011   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full-length Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Hero's Journey, The

Synopsis:
the classic twelve steps of the Hero's Journey are covered in a blistering ten minutes.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Livonia-Redford Theatre, Redford, Michigan    1999

Organisations:
Livonia-Redford Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One-act Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Late Great Henry Boyle, The

Synopsis:
Henry Boyle is a shy, reclusive Professor of Medieval Studies whose life begins to fall apart when his wife divorces him. at the urging of a colleague who encourages him to "try something different," Henry begins indulging in absinthe and soon produces a best-selling book which transforms him into a pop-culture celebrity almost overnight. as he visibly disintegrates in the public eye, his popularity soars as people anticipate a Van Gogh/Hemingway/Cobain explosion. His only chance at salvation is to somehow become a nonentity again, but he is foiled at every turn until finally. . .

Notes:
Originally produced in A workshop production by Heartlande theatre At Performance Network in Ann Arbor, MI in 2000. Subsequently received its Midwest premiere At the Purple Rose theatre (Chelsea, MI) in 2006.

1st Produced:
B Street Theatre Company, Sacramento, California    2002

Organisations:
B Street Theatre Company

1st Published:
the Purple Rose Theatre Company, Chelsea, MI (www.purplerosetheatre.org), 2008   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full-length Comedy/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Paris Of The West

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Part of "Detroit, NY" short play programme

1st Produced:
45th Street Theatre, New York    19 Jun 2014

Organisations:
Dirty Blondes

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Paternity Ward

Synopsis:
an unwed Father and a gay woman wait together as their partners give birth elsewhere in the hospital.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Heartlande Theatre, Birmingham, Michigan    1999

Organisations:
Heartlande Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One-act Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Revelation

Synopsis:
a couple are about to go out to a dinner party when the husband discovers he is the antichrist. they debate the benefits of waging war on God as opposed to simply going out to dinner.

Notes:
Has been performed in numerous one-act festivals, from the Brass Tacks Rosetta Festival in New York (2003) to the Cockpit theatre in London, england (2004). It was published in New One-act Plays for Acting Students.

1st Produced:
Heartlande Theatre, Birmingham, Michigan    2000

Organisations:
Heartlande Theatre Company

1st Published:
Meriwether Publishing LTD., 2003   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One-act Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Scrooge Macbeth

Synopsis:
violent collision between all things Christmas and all things Shakespeare

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Theatre B in Fargo, ND.    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Heuer Publishing   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
full-length holiday comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Towards the Perpetuation Of the Human Species

Synopsis:
a man and woman at a singles bar speak to one another with uncommon candor.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Heartlande Theatre, Birmingham, Michigan    2001

Organisations:
Heartlande Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One-act Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Vino Veritas

Synopsis:
the play takes its title from the Latin proverb, which literally translated: "in wine, the truth," suggests that people reveal their truest feelings under the influence of alcohol. On Halloween night, two middle-aged couples prepare to attend a friend's annual party. Though the evening begins as usual, familiar traditions slowly unravel when the foursome share a bottle of South American ceremonial wine made from the skin of blue dart tree frogs. Under the influence of this tribal truth serum, they share an unpredictable and hilarious night of unbridled honesty that stretches the bounds of their friendship and their relationships forever.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Purple Rose Theatre, Chelsea, Mi    2008

Organisations:
Purple Rose Theatre Company

1st Published:
the Purple Rose Theatre Company, Chelsea, MI (www.purplerosetheatre.org), 2008   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full-length Comedy/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Visitation

Synopsis:
a couple going out on a date stop at a funeral parlor to pay their respects to a deceased co-worker and find that they are the only people who showed up.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Ringwald Theatre, Ferndale, Mi    2009

Organisations:
Barebones Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Waiting Room, The

Synopsis:
a son helps his widowed Father get ready for the father's upcoming wedding.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Heartlande Theatre Company, Birmingham, Michigan    1999

Organisations:
Heartlande Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One-act Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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