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Rebecca L Nesvet

REBECCA L NESVET  (1978 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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 Babes With Blades         Chekhov's Gun         David's Lyre         Diamond Net, The         Galileo in the Underworld         Girl in the Iron Mask         Jesus and Jupiter         Lime Aid         Minna Darling         Mystery Prince, The         Offensive, The         Piecemakers         Shadowlovers         Shape Shifter, The         Troglodytes

Babes With Blades

Synopsis:
If you met yourself would you like her?

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Chekhov's Gun

Synopsis:
Two women, one without a past and one without a future, meet in a house designed by Quentin, an architect who wanted to be a set designer and became a criminal. In Quentin's house, the rules of theatre always trump those of life-or do they?

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1st Produced:
Washington, D.C.    1998

Organisations:
Source Theatre Company

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Symbolist drama? One Act

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David's Lyre

Synopsis:
When xenophobic 'patriotism' fuelled by the Napoleonic wars sweeps England, 20-year-old Jewish composer Isaac Nathan is a frustrated near-unknown. In light of Nathan's elopement with a Christian woman, Eliza, and his sister Rahel's rejection of traditional womanhood, he finds himself at odds with his father, the Cantor, a liturgical singer and traumatised refugee. Then, Nathan gets what looks like his big break, when his music attracts the attention of the most famous poet alive--Lord Byron. Apparently passionate about the liberation of 'the Jewish nation', Byron agrees to a collaboration that may solve Nathan's problems--if the young musician agrees to weld his music to lyrics that betray everything he, Eliza, Rahel, and the Cantor hope for their futures and that of the world. The outcome of this struggle will help decide all their destinies--and will reverberate into our own century.

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Diamond Net, The

Synopsis:
A true story of love, war, hate, intrigue, censorship, and 'patriotism'. In 1916 London, Toronto-born 'Salome dancer' Maud Allan, lover of Margot Asquith, the closeted wife of the Prime Minister, has won fame and notoriety for her signature dance as the biblical femme fatale. Then Noel Pemberton-Billing, MP accuses her of membership in a 'cult' of 47,000 lesbians and gay men allegedly blackmailed into collaborating with German espionage. Allan has Billing prosecuted for libel, but his desperate accusations dragnet an expanding blacklist--including Margot. As distinctions between fantasy and reality, entertainment and terror collapse, Allan must fight to save her career, her relationship, and even, perhaps, her life.

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With original incidental music by Elaine Fine.

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Genre:
Gay/Lesbian, historical characters

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Galileo in the Underworld

Synopsis:
It's 1992, and Pope John Paul II has apologised for the church's condemnation of Galileo's ideas. Forced to release the patient astronomer from the underworld, Lucifer must confront the possibility that more unexpected changes are in store for his kingdom. With revolution suddenly possible, does Lucifer desire is as sincerely as he once did?

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Oxford; New York    -

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Burton Taylor Theatre (UK) Vital Theatre (US)

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Genre:
Absurdist Comedy One Act

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Girl in the Iron Mask

Synopsis:
The twin sister of Louis XIV is imprisoned in the Bastille

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Based on "The Man in the Iron Mask" by Alexndre Dumas

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Jesus and Jupiter

Synopsis:
Timon a Roman citizen whilst on the road to Damacus with his slave-wife meets Jesus who is living in a cave with a friend. The Timon meets Jupiter and becomes a born again Pantheist.

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Lime Aid

Synopsis:
A busker searches a record company for a recording of a lost love

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Inspired by "Sicilian Limes" by Luigi Pirandello

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One act

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Minna Darling

Synopsis:
Minna Darling's three children disappear and her husband takes up living in a dog kennel so she calls in the police.

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One act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Mystery Prince, The

Synopsis:
Based On An Unsolved Historical Enigma And Adapted From A Novel By Mary Shelley, This Play Questions Whether Or Not Richard Iii Murdered His Nephews When A Mysterious Young Man Claims To Be One Of The Lost Princes, Now An Adult And Ready To Depose The Tyrannical Henry VII.

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The Georgetown Theatre Company

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Offensive, The

Synopsis:
When the Venetian Senate refuses to punish a graffiti artist convicted of libel with the death penalty, the Doge Marino Faliero decides to get 'justice' by murdering the Senators and establishing a dictatorship. All the Doge needs to accomplish 'regime change, leader stabilization'; is accomplices -- wrong word, 'backup'; -- but the only backup; available is the Conspiracy -- a group whose main objective is to get rid of HIM. Can the Doge turn this terrorist cell into a unit of well-trained 'patriots' and 'freedom fighters', overnight, or will the Republic be overrun by Vandal(ist)s? Most importantly, can he do this without setting off the jewel of the Republic's defence system -- the mysterious Ratapult?

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A Satirical Variation on Byron's Tragedy of Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice (1823)

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60 min One Act

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  may be played by an all-women cast

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Piecemakers

Synopsis:
Three women in Newgate Gaol - a murderer's accomplice and two forgers

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Part of Miniaturists 2 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today

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short play

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Shadowlovers

Synopsis:
Something strange happened to Lily's boyfriend, John and his younger brother Michael when they were children, but John doesn't talk about it because no one would believe him. When Michael mysteriously disappears from an upstairs window, Lily must confront her household's past, her own unarticulated desires, and the cost of their silence.

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Genre:
40 min One Act

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Shape Shifter, The

Synopsis:
Dr. Gilbert Chesnet 'diagnoses' 18-year-old Alice Barbin (played by a woman) as a biological male, catalyzing for both a strange journey through the labyrinth of their gender-segregated, name-obsessed society. While Barbin embarks upon a Kafkaesque new life as a man without a past, Chesnet finds himself unexpectedly attracted to the 'man' he has determined Barbin to be; and Barbin's former lover, Agathe, searches for the woman she has lost. When the assumed boundaries between female and male, medicine and religion,'the love of enigma and the enigma of love'; erode, Chesnet, Barbin, and Agathe all face the disintegration of their most fiercely defended certainties.

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inspired by H.A. Barbin's Souvenirs (1868)

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London    2004

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Troglodytes

Synopsis:
The Empress of all the Russias and an American Statesman somewhere in the United States.

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Genre:
One act

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