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Walt Stepp

WALT STEPP  

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below is a list of Walt Stepp's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Mark Twain's Blues         Only Love Will Do         Siren's Heart. . .Marilyn in Purgatory         Skybox         View From K Street Steak, The         Why We Shot John

Mark Twain's Blues

Synopsis:
Mark Twain's Blues opens with the 65-year-old Mark Twain preparing for yet another of his frequent humorous lectures. But this one will be different, because soon after Twain begins to speak, he's surprised by a voice from the audience: it's Huckleberry Finn, now a full 20 years older than he was in Twain's book. He's soon joined by escaped slave Jim-now 50 years old-and together the two accuse their creator of betraying the truth of their lives in order to boost book sales. Determined to set the record straight once and for all, Huck and Jim act out some of the scenes in Twain's book. . .but this time, the way they really happened
- press release

Notes:
book by Walt Stepp, music And lyrics by Stepp And Twain

1st Produced:
Altered Stages, NY    2008

Organisations:
Cinna Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Only Love Will Do

Synopsis:
Two parallel erudite Manhattan couples, one gay, one straight, each of whom have been together for over 20 years (who also have a long-standing friendship with one another) are in a similar fix. Handsome Brad loves his sweet William, but he has a wandering eye. William has eyes only for Brad and a powerful desire for him to dine at home a lot more often. Ev loves his luscious Liz; Liz loves him back, but she has Daddy issues and finds her Ev an emotional cold zone and finds a succession of gorgeous young men to keep her warm. Enter an emotionally bruised, recently returned veteran of the Iraq War, who is working as an NYC cabbie. Ev gets into his taxi on his way to join Liz and his friends for dinner and finds himself on the ride of his life and an adventure that punches a hole in the consciousness of these four people.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009    14 Apr 2011

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Siren's Heart. . .Marilyn in Purgatory

Synopsis:
Siren's Heart is not the familiar victim narrative about Marilyn Monroe. She is still a living icon in the hearts and minds of millions, but in her own time, Norma Jean was suffocate by the mask of Marilyn and the weight of living up to that impossible ideal of beauty, crushed her. Imagines another place where we see Marilyn, or Norma Jean, as she might have been; as she wanted to be: the well-rounded, unhaunted person she couldn't be in her all-too-brief life.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009    06 Oct 2011

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Skybox

Synopsis:
In the play, a one-percenter named Richard Gunn, owner of a struggling Major League Baseball team, is caught canoodling with a young woman in the team's skybox by the Channel 8 Skycam. Being wealthy and influential, he's able to contain the news break, but not the accident that the young woman--his smart talking personal assistant, Kelly--has lost her diaphragm case among the cushions of the couch in the skybox. Her search for the item activates the suspicions of Richard's trophy wife, Rachel. The loyal stadium facilities manager stands ready to take the fall for his boss, but Rachel incites a confrontation that could bring down the whole ball club. The play lashes out wittily at the cheekyness of our moneyed class and the double standard that exists for men and women regarding adultery. It is filled with snappy repartee and role reversals.
nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre Row Studio
410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036    15 Nov 2012

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
90 min one act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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View From K Street Steak, The

Synopsis:
This Brechtian people-and-puppet play skewers the decadent world of Washington politicos and the lobbyists who love them. Riddled with psychosexual overtones, The View From K Street Steak observes Washington machinations in a series of ribald vignettes told with a vaudevillian spirit. Overseen by a Vegas puppet act, K Street pulls no punches, siding with no political party and sticking it to 'da man' in a myriad of perverse ways.
Press Relese

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Altered Stages, NY    2007

Organisations:
Cinna Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Why We Shot John

Synopsis:
Why We Shot John is an earnest and controversial new piece of journalistic theatre. After years of research, playwright Walt Stepp has pieced together a plausible addition to the JFK conspiracy canon. Told by the five conspirators themselves who are now in their eighties, they assume the 25 roles in the play including Jack Kennedy himself. Although their personal account is murky after so much time has passed, the evidence is clear. They feared the power of the Civil Rights Movement with Jack Kennedy as its Great White Messiah. The specter of the resulting Kennedy Dynasty was too much to bear.
Press release

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Altered Stages, NY    2006

Organisations:
Julie Carpenter

1st Published:
-   -

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

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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