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William McCauley

WILLIAM MCCAULEY

  
Nationality:    USA
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William McCauley's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Among the Others         Burned Down To A Hole In the Ground (Six Monologues From the End of the Rope)         Coelacanths and Troglodytes         Contrapuntal Shunt, The         Don't Disappear         Folie a Deux         Ghost's Wake (What Do You Hear From them?)         Hoax         I Do Not Choose You         Meetings         Other People's Things         Standard Deviation

Among the Others

Synopsis:
Over a single evening, several characters try to keep their footing in a psychodynamic dance, which includes desire, remorse, betrayal, defective ego boundaries, unbridled abandonment anxieties, rampant persecution complexes, and psychogenic fugue states, against a background of fraud, blackmail, larceny, and extortion.

Notes:
Truffle Hunt New Play Festival/ Staged Reading.

1st Produced:
Brooklyn     2011

Organisations:
Truffle Theatre Co.

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Burned Down To A Hole In the Ground (Six Monologues From the End of the Rope)

Synopsis:
Six interlocking monologues explore the final moments of characters going over the edge

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Monologues/Dark Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Coelacanths and Troglodytes

Synopsis:
Though his lack of connection to reality has obviously led to a life of privation, a woman continues to blindly believe in the wildly unrealistic, and ultimately ridiculous, fantasies of her husband.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Marshall Productions     2007

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act/Fantasia

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Contrapuntal Shunt, The

Synopsis:
Two pathologically shy individuals share a park bench and enter into elaborate, overlapping fantasies of meeting each other, without actually doing so. When physical contact is made, the illusion is shattered and they retreat back to their unique epidermal envelopes.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York, NY     2007

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Don't Disappear

Synopsis:
In three interconnected plays, two friends, a husband and wife, and two siblings weather the ups and downs of emotional blackmail.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York     2009

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Folie a Deux

Synopsis:
the six duologues of Folie a Deux explore the ways in which the illusions and delusions of one person affect another within various patterns of relationships.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York, NY     2007

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Ghost's Wake (What Do You Hear From them?)

Synopsis:
Four suicides speculate about another.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York, NY     2008

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Chamber Play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Hoax

Synopsis:
Confidence Man meets his match.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre 123, NY, NY     2007

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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I Do Not Choose You

Synopsis:
Obsessive love goes awry when a shut in gets loose.

Notes:
Staged reading

1st Produced:
New York     2012

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Meetings

Synopsis:
Six strangers experience the vicissitudes of "the presentation of self in everyday life."

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The National Arts Club, NY     2008

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy Of Manners

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Other People's Things

Synopsis:
Serendipity is the source of desire in this satiric comedy in which three characters encounter an impromptu love triangle and experience the misfortunes of getting what they wished for.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New York     2010

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Standard Deviation

Synopsis:
Alice and GERALD are sociopaths. LAURA and PAUL are their victims.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     2009

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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