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Ross MacLean

ROSS MACLEAN

  (1954 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Don Buchwald and Associates  

Born in Detroit, Ml on May 18, 1954. First Los Angeles playwright to be produced by La Mama Hollywood. Worked there as writer, actor, direc-tor and stage hand. Writer/director for Drama therapy program with mentally and emotionally handicapped adults. Organized midnight Theater program at La Mama and has worked in many capacities at small Theaters in L.A. Playwright-in-Residence at Deja Vu Coffeehouse, first L.A. underground Theater.
address (in 1981): c/o 1705 N. Kenmore ave., Hollywood, Ca 90027 (213) 653-3202; (213) 660-9862

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

         Cock Machine, The         Commercial Theatre         December Wedge         Experiment In Lust, An         Follies Of Grandeur         Food         Four Play         Hero Of the Jungle         Hyaena         Multiple Fractures         Nelson '76         Sluts         Story

Cock Machine, The

Synopsis:
the professor has invented a machine that enlarges the male member

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1st Produced:
Theater For The New City, New York    37288

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Comedy

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Commercial Theatre

Synopsis:
People giving everything for their art

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1st Produced:
Theater For The New City, New York    1982

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December Wedge

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Deja Vu Coffeehouse, L.A., Ca    -

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1st Published:
Dramatics Magazine, Vol. 50, Cincinnati, OH,    -

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Experiment In Lust, An

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Deja Vu Coffeehouse, L.A., Ca    -

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Follies Of Grandeur

Synopsis:
Hollywood's Ivar theater once featured a round-the-clock show advertising 'the Most Beautiful Girls in the World' at 'America's Home of Burlesk'. Patrons recall the Ivar as 'a sticky-floored dump' and 'a chamber of desperation, a mausoleum for souls--on and off the runway'. Lewd and notorious in its day, the Ivar inspired lyrics in the songs of Tom Waits, and photographer Garry Winogrand's images of the Ivar strippers have been displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of art. Follies of Grandeur follows the career path of Melody, a teenage drifter who aspires to greatness on the Ivar's runway. Playwright MacLean was the Ivar's stage manager and spoitlight operator for two years in the 1970s

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Play/Drama

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Food

Synopsis:
Jos and his wife, Carol, are dinner guests at the home of Carol's brother Mack, and his wife Bonnie. Joe is unemployed. Mack had invited them over initially as a kindness to help his sister out, but this is the third week the two have been showing up for free meals and Carol's husband shows no signs of supporting himself. Mack is suffering financially from this sponging and the quality of the meals has turned wretchedly poor. the play is a sharp argument on dependence, responsibility and the decline in the quality of living.

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1st Produced:
Deja Vu Coffeehouse, L.A., Ca    -

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1st Published:
Dramatics Magazine, Vol. 51, Cincinnati, OH,    -

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Genre:
play One act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Four Play

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A.C.T. Workshop, San Francisco, Ca    -

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Hero Of the Jungle

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La Mama Hollywood, Ca    -

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Hyaena

Synopsis:
a failing patient shuttles across his final perceptions of the world around him. Nearing cessation, his family and friends pull away. Into this twilight zone comes the Hyaena, a spiritual carnivore, who devotes himself to the dying man. a disturbing and seductive Drama of mortality, surrender and irrepressible life

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Genre:
Two act Play/Drama

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Multiple Fractures

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Deja Vu Coffeehouse, L.A., Ca    -

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Nelson '76

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Los Angeles Garden Theater Festival    -

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Sluts

Synopsis:
Hedonism flirts with authority to an unhealthy degree. a group of gay men, finding themselves hard pressed by the outside society, make efforts to prove they are normal human be-ings, deserving of a place in the world. Unfortunately, they succeed. Moving from the caste of out-casts to renegades, they are absorbed into the mainstream at the expense of their uniqueness, their moral liberty and their own individuality.

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Deja Vu Coffeehouse, L.A., Ca    -

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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Story

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1st Produced:
La Mama Hollywood, Ca    -

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