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Ralph Tropf

RALPH TROPF

  (1956 - )
Nationality:    USA
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RALPH TROPF holds an MFA in Playwrighting and has completed 13 full length scripts. His plays the Hourglass and Squid and Fishy each won awards from the Kennedy Center/ACTF. Shadow Hour is published by Samuel French. His screenplay, the Orchid and the Cross was a semifinalist for a Nicholl Fellowship. A former producer for FOX Television, he now teaches Humanities in Los Angles. He is a member of the Dramatist's Guild and Neo Ensemble Theatre.

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

         21 Century Romance         Animal Within, The         Falling Headlong         Green Spaniard, The         Hourglass, The         Impression: Sunrise         Laying the Boogie Woogie         Love Sucks         Public Service         Serendipity         Shadow Hour         Shoe, The         Squid and Felicity         War Story
21 Century Romance

Synopsis:
A young couple meet, date, fall in love, plan to marry and then break up all over their answering machines.

Notes:
This play requires sound cues And two specially rigged Answering machines. the playwright will provide A CD of the cues And the machines At no charge provided the producer returns them by mail At the end of the production.

1st Produced:
Theatre Neo, Los Angeles    

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Genre:
Comedy, ten minutes

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Animal Within, The

Synopsis:
When socialite Sylvia Argus hires a sexy young girl as a live-in housekeeper, it awakens her long-suppressed attraction to women. the girl seduces both Sylvia and her husband, driving them both crazy.

Notes:
A single set; the kitchen of A well-to-do home in Malibu, California.

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Genre:
Comedy, full length

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Falling Headlong

Synopsis:
the Supreme Court of the United States has overturned Roe V. Wade, and abortion is illegal again. Sara Pindar, an obstetrician in her first year of practice, must find ways to give her patients the best care possible within the restrictions of the law. Her patients include a devout Christian woman who needs a life saving abortion procedure but refuses consent. Also, an impoverished woman who tries to self-abort when she feels she has no other option. there's funny stuff in it, too.

Notes:
A unit set with two locations: A doctor's office And An Apartment living room

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Genre:
Drama, full length

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Green Spaniard, The

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1st Published:
In Way Out West Broadway, seniortheatre.com    

Music:
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Genre:
5 min Single Play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  0

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Hourglass, The

Synopsis:
After an accident in his laboratory, a scientist finds that he can remember the future as he forgets the past. He wanders into a Diner where he meets a waitress and instantly knows he loves her. After convincing her that he is sincere, he slowly begins to forget who she is. An apparently demented old man turns out to be more than he seems, and leads the scientist on a path to his future.

Notes:
Set in A diner, with An upstairs Apartment.

1st Produced:
University Of Nevada, Las Vegas     1994

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Genre:
Seriocomedy. full length

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Impression: Sunrise

Synopsis:
Terry, a fashion design student in a small private college, has a one-night stand with a local photographer. She becomes pregnant. Shortly after, she is offered an internship with a top designer in New York. She must decide whether to remain in her small town an build a relationship with the photographer, or leave for New York and deal with the pregnancy on her own.

Notes:
Multiple locations on A unit set. It is intended to be produced with minimal technical requirements.

1st Produced:
Rockford, Il     2003

Organisations:
New American Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama, full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Laying the Boogie Woogie

Synopsis:
After a weekend of drinking and sex, two teenage girls realize that the man they thought was Elvis Presley is an imposter. For adults only.

Notes:
A hotel room.

1st Produced:
Colony Theatre, Los Angeles    

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Genre:
Drama, ten minutes

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Love Sucks

Synopsis:
A woman seduces a man in order to sell him a vacuum cleaner.

Notes:
A living room set with A vacuum cleaner.

1st Produced:
Theatre Southwest, Houston    

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Genre:
Comedy, ten minutes

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Public Service

Synopsis:
the Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe (from the nursery rhyme) applies for welfare.

Notes:
the set requires one desk, two chairs, one telephone And one newspaper. That's All.

1st Produced:
Madhouse Theatre, Philadelphia    

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Genre:
Comedy, ten minutes

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  1 m/f

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Serendipity

Synopsis:
A man and woman are breaking off their relationship while in the audience of a play. the audience doesn't know it's a play until a cab driver comes in to pick up the man. He invites the audience to vote on whether then couple should stay together or break up. Two endings are written depending on how the audience votes.

Notes:
This play takes place in several scene in the Audience over the course of An evening of ten minute plays.

1st Produced:
Theatre Neo, Los Angeles    

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 m/f

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Shadow Hour

Synopsis:
A United States Senator is on trial for sexual assault. As the jury deliberates the evidence, it becomes clear that each person remembers the testimony differently, filtered through his or her own experience. Flashbacks to the trial show the witnesses giving widely divergent accounts of the events. the truth, it seems, is lost in a shadow hour.

Notes:
Multiple locations on A unit set. Scenes change with lighting And A few simple props.

1st Produced:
Stella Adler Theatre, Los Angeles     01 Oct 1998

Organisations:
All Roses Company

1st Published:
Samuel French, 2000   

Music:
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Genre:
Courtroom Drama, full length

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  8            Other:  play 23 characters

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Shoe, The

Synopsis:
A film noir parody of Cinderella. Charlie Knuckles, a hard-bitten from the mean streets of the dirty city, is hired by the Prince of Wall Street to find a girl who lost her shoe at a charity ball.

Notes:
Multiple locations on A unit set. Scenes Are changed with lighting, And by changing tablecloths on the tables.

1st Produced:
Theatre Neo, Los Angeles     2002

Organisations:
Theatre Neo

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy, 10 minutes

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Squid and Felicity

Synopsis:
Squid and Fishy are a punk couple who run a used clothing store on New York's Lower East Side. Fishy is pregnant, and tries to convince Squid that its time to grow up and get serious about their lives.

Notes:
This one Act recieved A meritorious Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center/American College theatre Festival. Multiple locations on A unit set.

1st Produced:
University Of Nevada, Las Vegas     1995

Organisations:
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy, one act, 45 minutes

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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War Story

Synopsis:
Madeline has been wounded, and is deaf, blind and mentally scarred. A holy woman cares for her, but insists that Madeline observe religious rites. When a soldier takes refuge in her home, Madeline sees her chance for a moment of happiness.

Notes:
In A poor woman's hovel during A war.

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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