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Spence Porter

SPENCE PORTER

  
Nationality:    USA
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Spence Porter'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 Spence Porter's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Chang and the Dragon's Daughter         Francesca         Hippolytus         Invincible Chastity of Arnie Bielowski, The         Life Among the Flowers         Man Who Ran From Death, The         Men/Women         Mouse Prince, The         Sick Minds         Woman from the Sea, The
Chang and the Dragon's Daughter

Synopsis:
A fairy-tale like story for adults, set in ancient China. A young scholar falls in love with the daughter of the Dragon King.

Notes:
Large-scale ensemble piece

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Francesca

Synopsis:
A doomed love story set in the Middle Ages. Very Big and Romantic. Visually spectacular. Fantastic role for a beautiful, intelligent, passionate young actress. When Francesca was done in Leiden, the Leidsch Dagblad wrote "the theater was vibrating with passion last night."

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Leiden, The Netherlands    

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

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  5

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Hippolytus

Synopsis:
Loosely based on the Greek play--Greeks and jazz and masks and modern dress. Flamboyantly theatrical.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Tucson, Az    

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

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  5

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Invincible Chastity of Arnie Bielowski, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Raucous And Anarchic ensemble piece."Chaos And lunacy reign! . . . Whipped cream, water, And birdpoop flew Around our heads . . . It is, Above All, filled with laughter!"--Rijn en Gouwe

1st Produced:
Gouda, The Netherlands    

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Life Among the Flowers

Synopsis:
A not very bright Chrysanthemum named Marvin falls in love with a self-involved Dahlia named Alice

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Genre:
play for puppets

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  3-4 performers

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Man Who Ran From Death, The

Synopsis:
A man tries to run from Death. Based on an old folk tale

Notes:
Ensemble piece for dancers, puppets, And onstage musicians

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Music:
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Genre:
Dance Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Men/Women

Synopsis:
Minimalism taken to the extreme

Notes:
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Genre:
Very brief experimental Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Mouse Prince, The

Synopsis:
A large-scale epic fantasy for a (more or less) adult audience

Notes:
For A mix of puppets And Actors

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

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  5

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Sick Minds

Synopsis:
Exactly what it sounds like it is (except much more so). 150 characters played by two men, three women, and a piano player. the Long Wharf theater recently turned it down, writing, "I think most of our audience would faint from some of these scenes." Sounds fine to me! (I was flabbergasted to discover recently that there's a teenage fan club for this play!)

Notes:
Subtitled "an evening of bad taste, featuring Warped Desires And Milton Eckendorf, Jr, Infant Detective"

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  Piano Player

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Woman from the Sea, The

Synopsis:
the HCNY Bulletin describes "this new off-off-Broadway hit", saying "Spence Porter's new play, the Woman from the Sea (based on a play by Ibsen) is the passionate and gripping story of a woman haunted by her past." My first "normal" play, it recently premiered in New York City, staged by the renowned acting teacher and Broadway director Terry Schreiber

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New York City    

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

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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