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Eric Overmyer

ERIC OVERMYER

  (1951 - )
Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of Eric Overmyer's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Alki         Amphitron         Dark Rapture         Don Quixote De La Jolla         Double Bass, The         Duke Kahanamuku vs the Surfnappers         Figaro/Figaro         Hawker         Heliotrope Bouquet, The By Scott Joplin And Louis Chauvin         In A Pig's Valise         In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe         Kafka's Radio         Mi Vida Loca         Native Speech         On the Road To Jerusalem         On the Verge, Or the Geography Of Learning
Alki

Synopsis:
adaptation of Ibsen's PEER GYNT, set in the Pacific Northwest and in South America

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
Dallas Theater Center, TX, USA >>>     1992-1993 Season

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
Fable Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  6            Other:  with doubling

Further Reference:
-

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Amphitron

Amphitron
the story of Jupiter's cuckolding of Amphitryon has come in a variety of theatrical styles over the centuries. Plautus, by all accounts, had great success with it as a burlesque for the Romans; Moliere turned it into a farce, of course; Kleist made a romance of it; and Giraudoux fashioned it into a fantasy. In the new version, Mr Overmyer seems to aim for the sophistication of a Saturday Night Live skit, a sort of Classics Comics for the theater.
- Wilborn Hampton, the New York Times

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Giraudoux

1st Produced:
East 13th Street Theatre, New York     18 Apr 1995

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Dark Rapture

Synopsis:
When Ray and Julia Gaines' house burns down a body is found in the ruins. Is it Ray or a burglar? And why was Julia not at home at the time of the fire?

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Seattle     1992

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
In Eric Overmyer: Collected Plays Newbury, Vt: Smith And Kraus, 1992
Broadway Play Publishing, New York,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
Noir fiction

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Bibliographies/VN_drama_bib.php

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Don Quixote De La Jolla

Synopsis:
It is mainly just a free-wheeling romp that takes off some of the characters, incidents, and ideas in Cervantes' book.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
La Jolla, California     1990

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing, New York,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
Zany Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Double Bass, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York     1986

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Duke Kahanamuku vs the Surfnappers

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
This book provides the full texts of plays produced through the New Generation Play Project A consortium that included the Seattle Children's theatre, the Children's theatre Co. of Minneapolis, Louisville Children's theatre And the Honolulu theatre for Youth in 1989.

1st Produced:
-     1989

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Eight Plays for Children, University of Texas press - available fromSamuel French, NY   

Music:
-

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Genre:
youth audience

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Figaro/Figaro

Synopsis:
adaptation of Beaumarchais's the Marriage of Figaro and odon von Horvath's Figaro Gets a Divorce. Figaro/Figaro follows the iconic characters Figaro, Susanna, the Count and Countess Almaviva, and other favorites through the ups and downs inherent in all relationships-husband and wife, master and servant, family ties and the like.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Beaumarchais And Horvath

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing, New York,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Large Cast

Further Reference:
-

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Hawker

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Plays from New Dramatists", Broadway Play Publishing, 1989   

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Heliotrope Bouquet, The By Scott Joplin And Louis Chauvin

Synopsis:
Fact and fancy played against a backdrop of memory, loss and the redemptive power of art.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Baltimore     1991

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing, New York,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
Dream Play

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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In A Pig's Valise

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Baltimore     1986

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 1989   

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe

Synopsis:
Even a group of paranoid ghost writers have enemies in the virtual reality

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Baltimore     1988

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 1989   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Black Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Kafka's Radio

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York     1990

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
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Mi Vida Loca

Synopsis:
Tells the story of members of a troubled family who are reunited at their home on Washington's Olympic Peninsula as the Father begins treatment for drug addiction.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York     1990

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 1991   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Native Speech

Synopsis:
Chilling vision of a society about to go belly up.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Los Angeles     1983

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 1984   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Surreal Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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On the Road To Jerusalem

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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On the Verge, Or the Geography Of Learning

Synopsis:
A rain forest uncovers artefacts from the future much to the discomfiture of three Victorian lady explorers

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Baltimore     1985

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 1986   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Historical SF

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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