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Kenn Rabin

KENN RABIN  

 Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of Kenn Rabin's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Celadon Box 8         Cold Day in the Park         Country of Us, The         Found Objects         Hotel, Poststrasse         How to Chop Wood         Hunters and Gatherers         Interior Decorating         not yet discouraged of man         Reunion         When the Dead Weep

Celadon Box 8

Synopsis:
As the Twin Towers collapse on 9/11/01, two very different people meet on their way over the Brooklyn Bridge. Martin is a 50-ish businessman, who worked in one of the towers and managed to escape. But does he want to tell his family he's okay? Denise is a New Jersey working-class Latina who has come into the city to surprise her boyfriend by accepting his marriage proposal. While she wonders if her boyfriend survived and he wonders if he wants to return to his failing marriage or use the event to start a new life, they console each other, and give each other hope.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
A Traveling Jewish Theatre, San Francisco CA    2002

Organisations:
PlayGround

1st Published:
the Best of PlayGround, 2002   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama 15 min One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Cold Day in the Park

Synopsis:
Kate waits at the zoo on a chilly day. Her boyfriend, who wanted her to meet him there, is late, as usual, and hasn't called, as usual. So she uses the time to engage in conversation with an (unseen) animal in the cage in front of her. She confides her doubts about the relationship to the creature. And near the end of the 15 minute play, her boyfriend finally arrives - with an excuse for being late that turns the whole relationship around.

Notes:
15 minute play. Almost A monologue for the Actress; the Actor comes in At the very end.

1st Produced:
142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, CA    2007

Organisations:
the Playwrights Lab

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Dramedy/Romance (15 minute play) One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Country of Us, The

Synopsis:
Two women friends decide to leave the country - and their husbands, for personal and political reasons. One woman has waiting to tell her husband until she is about to leave.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, CA    2006

Organisations:
PlayGround

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama 15 min One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Found Objects

Synopsis:
A family Drama told through the eyes of the daughter, Chloe, a senior in high school. In a series of 2-hander scenes of different combinations of characters, we learn of Chloe's mother, Patricia, the owner of a chic gallery in downtown San Francisco; of her lover, David, who is also the artist keeping the gallery alive financially; and of Patricia's husband Martin, a foreign correspondent for a cable news network. Using a combination of live stage action and videotaped sequences (as Chloe is creating a documentary on her family for school), we come to understand the relationships between these four characters and the secrets and lies that go back into their history.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley, CA    2007

Organisations:
Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley, CA

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Hotel, Poststrasse

Synopsis:
Karen and Mickey, a thirtysomething couple from Los Angeles, find themselves in a hotel room in Bonn, Germany. they are there to bury Mickey's mother. they are jet-lagged and can't sleep, and as dawn comes up over the city, they begin to discover how fragile their relationship is, and what, in Mickey's past, truly threatens to end the relationship. A very minimal-dialogue, Pinteresque play, where silences are at least as important as the words.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, CA    2005

Organisations:
the Playwrights Lab

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama 25 min One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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How to Chop Wood

Synopsis:
the play takes place in Louisiana, near the Arkansas border. Julia, a farm woman in her 40s, sits on the porch, worrying about her daughter, serving in Iraq, and about the state of the world in general. Her best friend, Mirabelle, comes by and the two talk about each other, their dreams, their marriages, and their history, as, offstage, Julia's husband chops down trees.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Actor's Theatre, Santa Cruz    2004

Organisations:
Actor's Theatre, Santa Cruz

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Dramedy (15 minute play) One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Hunters and Gatherers

Synopsis:
HE and SHE meet on the tourist ferry going to Alcatraz island. they banter; they flirt. She is a photographer, obsessively taking pictures of the fog. He is intrigued. But are they meeting for the first time, or have they been in a long-term relationship and are performing some sort of repeating ritual?

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
A Traveling Jewish Theatre, San Francisco CA    2003

Organisations:
PlayGround

1st Published:
the Best of PlayGround, 2003   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Dramedy/Romance (15 minute play) One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Interior Decorating

Synopsis:
Charlie is a feisty young Texas woman, who explains the hole in her wall by recounting a date gone bad. We learn what makes Charlie tick. A character study, and a comic-Dramatic monologue for a young actress.

Notes:
25 minute monologue for A 18-25 year old woman

1st Produced:
Dominican University, San Rafael, CA    2000

Organisations:
Fringe of Marin

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Dramedy monologue One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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not yet discouraged of man

Synopsis:
Luther is the condemned man, African-American, 50-ish, spending his last hour in a cell on death row. Wilson is the white guard, thirtysomething, who watches him. they have known each other for some years during Luther's incarceration, and they have formed a kind of bond. This play about an unusual, and limited, friendship, explores themes about capital punishment, whether all killings are created equal, and whether the soul of the prisoner, and the soul of the executioner, can be saved.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, CA    2008

Organisations:
the Playwrights Lab

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Drama (15 minute play) One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Reunion

Synopsis:
Mid-30s Deb invites a new roommate into her home. His name is Gillette, and they are both quite nervous. As the dialogue progresses, we discover that Deb is a social reformer who believes human nature can change and everyone deserves a second chance. And Gillette is the man who, 15 years earlier, raped her. Each seeks forgiveness, redemption, and closure in their own ways. Do they succeed or fail?

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
A Traveling Jewish Theatre, San Francisco CA    2004

Organisations:
PlayGround

1st Published:
the Best of PlayGround, 2004   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Drama 15 min One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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When the Dead Weep

Synopsis:
the play has the feel of L.A. film noir and is accompanied by smoky jazz. Tommy is a young, pugnacious housebreaker, being grilled by the police about the most unusual thing he's ever found at a house he's broken into. David is a Hollywood screenwriter, sleepless and obsessed. Sara is a 16 year old student delivering a school paper to her class. What these people have in common, and the David Lynch-like story that unfolds, comes out through their intertwined monologues.

Notes:
25-minute play consisting of 3 inter-twining monologues

1st Produced:
142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, CA    2007

Organisations:
the Playwrights Lab

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Drama, intertwining monologues (25 minutes) One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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