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Alisha Silver

ALISHA SILVER  

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

         Golden         Miss Hope's         Paper Dragon         You Are Here

Golden

Synopsis:
New York 1862. there are not many job opportunities for young women - so May dresses up in her brother's clothes and gets a job at a bakery. the owner's daughter becomes infatuated with the new young man

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Miss Hope's

Synopsis:
Somewhere amidst the cracked asphalt and overgrown weeds on the highway to nowhere is Miss Hope's, a small-town diner where wistful wannabes with half-forgotten dreams meet, mingle and tell their stories. Consisting of three timeless tales with more than a little laughter, tears, irony and a pinch of the Twilight Zone, and told against the backdrop of the presidential inaugurations of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Miss Hope's is written by Jack Karp, Alisha Silver and Joseph Samuel Wright of the Nylon Fusion Writers Collective. Everyone comes to Miss Hope's Diner, the place people end up when they have nowhere left to go. Prom queens and football heroes, school teachers and businessmen, housewives suffocated by their well-ordered lives, young people trying to come to terms with their sexuality, the ones who couldn't make it in the big city, those who still want to try and an old man who has seen all this happen over and over again. Miss Hope's is where plans for the future become a march from innocence, where passing through temptation can lead to either vice or virtue, and where broken promises come from broken dreams.
- nytheatre.com

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written by Jack Karp, Alisha Silver And Joseph Samuel Wright

1st Produced:
American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019    23 May 2012

Organisations:
Nylon Fusion Collective

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Paper Dragon

Synopsis:
Set in a three-bedroom apartment in Manhattan, Paper Dragon looks at the unspoken feelings between a close circle of friends - all members of what one of them calls "the servant class." there's Walter and his younger sister Ronnie, a lesbian hairdresser; her best friend Eleanor, and Bot, Ronnie's current main squeeze. Bot, who doesn't get along with Eleanor, is furious that her married girlfriend is being deported to Canada. Walter pops pills to ease the pain of his all-too real dreams. He's also talking with his brother Andy's girlfriend, for who he feels much more than friendship, about Andy's obsession with origami; an art form where, once a piece of paper is creased, it can never be uncreased - just like life. And there's a flasher who lives next door. Over the course of the play, these people will come together and pull apart, all in the name of love, desire and need for contact. As one of the characters quietly pleads: "Pick me."
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Manhattan Theatre Source
177 MacDougal Street, New York, NY 10011    17 Apr 2011

Organisations:
Nylon Fusion

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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You Are Here

Synopsis:
You Are Here follows three central story lines about home and finding and creating your own family: a troupe of drag queens and celebrity impersonators touring across middle America; an American woman fighting to stay in London permanently; and a young married couple on a less than ideal honeymoon in Japan. Woven into the fabric ofthese stories are reflections of the nature of travel, self-exploration and transformation. Created collaboratively during workshops over the summer, You Are Here explores themes of rootlessness and alienation and features a rich ensemble of memorable characters.
- nytheatre.com

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Author: Jack Karp, Kate Mulley, Alisha Silver and Joseph Samuel Wright

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Organisations:
Nylon Fusion Collective

1st Published:
You Are Here follows three central story lines about home and finding and creating your own family: a troupe of drag queens and celebrity impersonators touring across middle America; an American woman fighting to stay in London permanently; and a young married couple on a less than ideal honeymoon in Japan. Woven into the fabric ofthese stories are reflections of the nature of travel, self-exploration and transformation. Created collaboratively during workshops over the summer, You Are Here explores themes of rootlessness and alienation and features a rich ensemble of memorable characters.   -

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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