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Carolyn Moses

CAROLYN MOSES

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency  (agent: Marta Praeger)

Carolyn Moses's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

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

         Cannibals         Caribbean Couples         Gospel of Judas, The         Madman of Russia, The         Nasty Tempered Man, A         Whiplash

Cannibals

Synopsis:
Barry, filled with hype but battered by defeats and debts, visits his Uncle Frank on his 70th birthday. Barry hopes to induce Frank to invest in a "killer idea" to lift him from his mire of failed media deals, but Frank turns him down. A producer who once "erected and climbed a zenith of success," Frank has dropped and flattened and obsesses with morbid thoughts. Barry glimpses an opprortunity and asks to tape Frank's coming suicide to give him an authentic wedge into the network doors. Sheila, Frank's younger wife and TV news magazine host, lacerates Barry for his request and presents a plan of her own: to tape Barry's suicide for her depression-at-Christmas-time show. She promises $200,000 and a medical swat team to revive him from an overdose of pills. the plan goes awry and the characters nearly consume one another and themselves in their fear of failure and lust for success. Finally, all find peace: Sheila in a nun-like media role; Barry, after having been shot by Frank, confined to a wheelchair; and Frank having become Barry's permanent caretaker.

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1st Produced:
Trustus Playwright's Theatre, Columbia, S.C.     2002

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
100 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Caribbean Couples

Synopsis:
In these related one-acts, each of three vacationing couples find themselves unable to contain impulses they didn't know they had in their usual, more buttoned-up, climes. Laura embarks on a painting of her physician husband with free, loose strokes, terrorizing him. Trying to get her to work with care and precision, he starts a self-portrait using a ruler to measure his face. . . . In the second play, Roger, a meek banker-type, doesn't show up for lunch with his wife, Daisy. He lost himself on a shopping spree and returns late with expensive hors d'oeuvres and colorful shorts that shock his controlling, fearful wife. He met an old friend he played football with in his youth. Now, picking up a coconut as a football, he recalls a freer existence, and ends up tackling Daisy. . . . In the third piece, Gerald and Pauline have invited a couple they met on the beach to cocktails. Gerald prepares by mixing a plantation punch to knock 'em dead, and rehearsing bits of information he'll drop to impress with his affluence. Pauline, meanwhile, was impressed with how nice and simple she thought the couple were - a minister and his wife who didn't even polish her nails. Pauline wonders why they aren't nice and always have to "knock 'em dead". She decides to remove her own nail polish, make-up and glitzy outfit and try to be nice and simple. Gerald grows depressed until he sees his visitors coming up the walk: he in a loud shirt, she in multiple bracelets. they scramble to rearm themselves for social combat.

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1st Produced:
Clurman theatre
410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036     1998

Organisations:
Gail Bell, Producer

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
95 min Comedy, 3 Related One-Acts

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Gospel of Judas, The

Synopsis:
In the afterlife, a somewhat satirical, somewhat poetic, Judas Iscariot is bound to an existence of hammering sandals. When told he must file for pardon in the Royal Tribunal Court, he suspects one more trick from a universe, in which wrong is right and right is wrong, and plots some trickery of his own.

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1st Produced:
33rd Street Theatre, NY     2000

Organisations:
Grace Theatre Company

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Music:
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Genre:
Poetic Realism 85 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Madman of Russia, The

Synopsis:
In this fantasy, Russian author, Nikolai Gogol, is called before a Censors Court to explain his stories which the censors see as an assault on the nation. Gogol explains his work as just for chuckles over "the muck we wrap ourselves in." Unpersuaded, the censors are about to pronounce sentence when Nikolai faints. Waking in their arms, he promises to reform. then, before officials, he recites his past sins and embraces their "evolved ethics," tearing out a clump of his hair to enormous applause. Having attempted loyal conversion, Nikolai lies sick, but hides new writings within his bed. the censors discover his secret. Saddened by their failure to "redeem" him, they wheel him off to some final solution, saying, "His brain has sickened, his thinking's gone askew." In the last scene, Nikolai tumbles into heaven where he reflects, "what a topsy-turvy world we're given."

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1st Produced:
Staged Reading Six Figures Theatre Festival, NY     2002

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Music:
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Genre:
90 min Absurdist

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Nasty Tempered Man, A

Synopsis:
In a newly-sprouted state with Slavic roots, civil order is being created: "All people shall dance together--all citizens must now join hands." But what will become of Pimpol Antonovich, cranky comic-author called before the Censors Court in this good-intentioned society? Can he eviscerate his arrogant head?
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Theater for the New City
155 First AVenue, New York, NY 10009     02 Sep 2012

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Whiplash

Synopsis:
A media star, a media maker and a media failure tangle themselves in a plot gone wacko. A taped suicide to save lives disintegrates into missteps, mishaps and moral chaos.

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Genre:
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Parts:
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