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Joyce Carol Oates

JOYCE CAROL OATES

  (1938 - )
Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of Joyce Carol Oates's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         (A Diptych)         American Holiday         Ballad Of Love Canal, The         Black         Duet         Eclipse, The         Friday Night         Grandpa Clemens and Angelfish: 1906         Greensleeves         Gulf War         Homesick         How Do You Like Your Meat?         I Stand Before You Naked         Interview, The         Key, The         Miracle Play         Negative         Ontological Proof Of My Existence         Perfectionist, The         Pinktoes         Procedure         Rehearsal         Sacrifice         Secret Mirror         Tone Clusters         Triumph Of the Spider Monkey         Under/Ground         Wild Nights!

(A Diptych)

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of Archipelago consisting of 10 short one-person plays that explore themes of solitude, self, And theatricality. All of the plays in Archipelago explore the different ways people relate to, And deal with, their own isolation. A woman trapped inside her own mind, A desperate man in A jail cell, An Artist with dynamite strapped to her chest, or A boy who finds hope in the seconds After jumping off A building. All of the characters confront, And ultimately come to grips with, the boxes they've created for themselves.

1st Produced:
Altered Stages    2007

Organisations:
the Intentional Theatre Group

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
short play One Act

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American Holiday

American Holiday
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Twelve Plays" published by Peguin USA 1991   978-0452267015

Music:
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Short play

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Ballad Of Love Canal, The

Ballad Of Love Canal, The
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Twelve Plays" published by Peguin USA 1991   978-0452267015

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

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Black

Black
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
INTAR, NY    1994

Organisations:
Women's Project

1st Published:
in the Perfectionist and other Plays, Ecco Press (January 1, 1995)   B0020BUEPI

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Duet

Synopsis:
A lover's quarrel

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Eclipse, The

Synopsis:
an aging woman's fantasies perplex and amaze her daughter

Notes:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Friday Night

Friday Night
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Twelve Plays" published by Peguin USA 1991   978-0452267015

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

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Grandpa Clemens and Angelfish: 1906

Grandpa Clemens and Angelfish: 1906
This play traces a Platonic love affair between the 70 year-old Sam Clemens / "Mark Twain", the most famous literary man of his time, and a naively innocent 15 year-old schoolgirl who reminds him of his deceased daughter Suzy. In 1906 Clemens is a brilliant but dispirited public man in the twilight of his career--his great successes like Huckleberry Finn are behind him--and susceptible to the charms of girls young enough to be his granddaughters, whom he invites to join a "prestigious" and "exclusive" club called the Aquarium Club, in which Sam Clemens is the only adult member. Based upon a little-known and scandalous interlude in the later life of Samuel Clemens / "Mark Twain," this play explores the poignancy of an elderly man's passionate love for a young girl and the disaster that results when his love is reciprocated.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
reading at McCarter Theatre center    26 Jan 2009

Organisations:
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1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Greensleeves

Greensleeves
A woman devastated by a friend's death from an AIDS related illness turns to a stranger for comfort

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Twelve Plays" published by Peguin USA 1991   978-0452267015

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play. - - AIDS, one act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Gulf War

Gulf War
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Perfectionist and Other Plays" published by W W Norton 1995   978-0880015806

Music:
-

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Homesick

Homesick
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: Perfectionist and Other Plays" published by W W Norton 1998   978-0880015806

Music:
-

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How Do You Like Your Meat?

How Do You Like Your Meat?
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Twelve Plays" published by Peguin USA 1991   978-0452267015

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

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I Stand Before You Naked

Synopsis:
eleven monologues are gripping portraits of the pathetic, the strange, and the horrifying

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Offstage, London    1992

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Monologues Ten Monologues

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  11            Other:  -

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Interview, The

Interview, The
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "the Perfectionist and Other Plays" published by W W Norton 1998   978-0880015806

Music:
-

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Key, The

Key, The
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Twelve Plays" published by Peguin USA 1991   978-0452267015

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

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Miracle Play

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Black Sparrow Press   978-0876852132

Music:
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Negative

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "the Perfectionist and Other Plays" published by Ecco Press   -

Music:
-

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Ontological Proof Of My Existence

Synopsis:
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Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Three Plays" published by Ontario Review Press   -

Music:
-

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Perfectionist, The

Perfectionist, The
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in the Perfectionist and other Plays, Ecco Press (January 1, 1995)   B0020BUEPI

Music:
-

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Pinktoes

Pinktoes
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Perfectionist and Other Plays" published by W W Norton 1995   978-0880015806

Music:
-

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-

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Procedure

Synopsis:
By adhering to strict hospital procedures, an experienced nurse helps a novice prepare a patient's corpse for its journey to the morgue. This riveting confrontation of body and soul explores the many-layered mechanism which protects the human psyche

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, Inc. in More Ten-Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville.,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Rehearsal

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "the Perfectionist and Other Plays" published by Ecco Press 1995   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

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Sacrifice

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "the Perfectionist and Other Plays" published by Ecco Press 1995   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

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Secret Mirror

Secret Mirror
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Twelve Plays" published by Peguin USA 1991   978-0452267015

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

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Tone Clusters

Synopsis:
a Father and mother endure an unnerving, often absurd interview with a disembodied voice that pries into secrets of a family tragedy

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, Inc. and by Smith & Kraus in 20/20: Twenty One-Act Plays from the Twenty Year History of the Humana Festival of New American Plays,    -

Music:
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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Triumph Of the Spider Monkey

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "thee Plays" published by Ontario Review Press   -

Music:
-

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Under/Ground

Under/Ground
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Twelve Plays" published by Peguin USA 1991   978-0452267015

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Wild Nights!

Wild Nights!
the famously reclusive poetess appears as an uncannily life-like computerized mannequin brought home by a childless, affluent suburban couple in the hope that their disaffected lives will be "enhanced" by a poet-genius in their household. Soon, like generations of literary critics and biographers, the Krims find themselves obsessed by the wraithlike Emily. they spy on her writing her riddlesome poems-they become infatuated with her, in very different ways. Mysterious, cunning, provocative, this "Emily Dickinson" is also very funny, at the expense of her hosts. After an erotic interlude of shocking-and comic-crudeness, Wild Nights! ends on a startling and unexpected romantic note

Notes:
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1st Produced:
reading at McCarter Theatre center    26 Jan 2009

Organisations:
-

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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