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Elizabeth Wray

ELIZABETH WRAY  (1950 - )

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Born in Rochester, NY on January 15, 1950. B.A. in English, Mills College, 1970; M.F.A. in Writing, Columbia University, 1976. Poems published in: Partisan Review, New Letters, Kayak, Epoch and many others. Worked for four years as an editor and radio producer for Black Box Magazine, Watershed Tapes (series of contemporary poets reading their own work on cassette tapes), The Poem That Never Ends, a series of programs on contemporary U.S. poetry for public radio. In 1981 was Playwright-in-Residence, Julian Theatre, San Francisco, CA. Address (in 1981) 100 Delores St., 3 San Francisco, CA 94103

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 Border         Broken Borders         Cold Pipes         Cold Storage         Corners         Double Shift         Forecast - A Fable         Knitting         Memory Motel: Chrysalis         Mobile Homes         Nightstone         Rock Island

Border

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Contained in: "Theatre Of Wonders Six Contemporary American Plays" published by Sun and Moon Press 1985   978-0940650381

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Broken Borders

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An episodic play in twelve scenes, following the journey of a woman over the decimated landscape of an unspecified war, It explores the anonymity of modern war and the difficulty any person has in choosing sides or taking action.
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Long one Act (90 minutes). Setting: minimal suggestions of A one room Apartment, A trench, A railroad station, A road, A border post, A look-out post. 23 speaking characters played by An ensemble of 8 Actors, 4 males, 4 females; 3 non-speaking extras.

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American Place Theatre, Women's Project Series, NYC    -

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Cold Pipes

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Cold Storage

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Corners

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Washington Project for the Arts, Wash., D.C.    -

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Double Shift

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Forecast - A Fable

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Knitting

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Memory Motel: Chrysalis

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Mobile Homes

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Three American Scenes: The action follows a thirty-year-old waitress and former rock singer, Ava, who decides to leave her home and family in Baltimore where her life has come to a standstill and travel across the country to make an audition set up for her at a club in San Francisco. The play is about taking responsibility for one's own actions, about the pain of leaving home, the limbo of being on the road and the difficult joy of beginning again.
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Setting: Three locations, Porch, the front porch of A Baltimore row house; Border, A cafe/gas station on the Texas-New Mexico border; Car, near A Dodge van, San Francisco

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Nightstone

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Rock Island

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The time is 1936 in the Dust Bowl, on a Rock Island Railroad right-of-way along the Oklahoma-Arkansas border. Five American types" (former IWW man, would-be starlet, itinerant female soapboxer, former ringmaster with PT. Barnum, newspaperman from Trenton) wait to hop a train west. They become involved with each other as a Drama unravels involving the discovery, capture and escape of the former IWW man, who has dynamited a border post set up to collect revenues from itinerant farmers.
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