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ReACT01
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Joined: 8/29/09 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 13 |
 Topic: New Drama ?Posted: 9/06/09 at 12:57am |
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We try to do new stuff that will push our actors and Directors....Any ideas?
Thank you
Chris
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donzolidis
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Joined: 5/15/07 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 156 |
Posted: 9/07/09 at 1:20am |
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For a drama/comedy, please check out A Tiny Miracle With a Fiberoptic Unicorn (5 F 3 M), winner of 2008's Texas Playwriting competition.
Here's the description from the publisher:
"In the winter of 1986, thirteen-year-old Louis vows to kiss the love of his life, the quirky theater queen Carolyn, before Christmas. Standing in his way are the forces of puberty, his big-haired vitriolic older sister, his anal-retentive mother, and his eternally amused father. The surprise arrival of both grandmothers, each crazy in their own way, throws the family into turmoil and cracks Louis' world wide open."
(think Brighton Beach Memoirs for the 80s)
You can read it online by clicking on read sample here:
And for something far sillier, you could try The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon which is being done at half a dozen community theatres this year. Here's the link:
Hope you like them!
Don
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Jo Norland
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Joined: 5/22/09 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Posted: 9/07/09 at 10:21am |
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My script, 'Lizzy, Darcy and Jane', published by Samuel French Ltd has had several UK productions, but is as yet unproduced in the US -- Jane Austen pits her wits & wills against her feistiest heroine, Elizabeth Bennet from 'Pride and Prejudice' when young Jane is crossed in love and sentences her heroine to marry the odious Mr. Collins. 7F, 5M roles. I also have an unproduced full length version of 'Pride and Prejudice' drawn almost entirely from the original text, which should be great fun. For a copy of either or both, email me at joanna.norland@gmail.com. Good luck! Joanna |
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ReACT01
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Joined: 8/29/09 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 13 |
Posted: 9/09/09 at 2:40am |
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I know The Brothers Grimm show and it is WILD ! So muh fun ! I am looking for more serious drama... Death of a Salesman...?
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donzolidis
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Posted: 9/09/09 at 12:37pm |
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I don't know that Death of a Salesman qualifies as new.
For small-cast shows, check out Doubt by John Patrick Shanley
and Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire.
Rabbit Hole, in particular, is an outstanding play if you really want to make everyone cry a whole lot.
Also (cough cough) my other show (I have lots) White Buffalo.
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ReACT01
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Posted: 9/10/09 at 12:00am |
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LOL I know that Death of a Salesman is not new ....That is the kind of play I like......Thanks for the ideas! I will read them...Please keep them coming |
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Joined: 1/27/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 543 |
Posted: 9/10/09 at 10:00am |
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Check out the play "Autistic License." It is about a family raising a child with autism and was named one of the Best New Plays of 1997.
http://autisticlicenseplay.com/ |
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"None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public." -- Keith Johnstone
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ReACT01
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Posted: 9/17/09 at 2:33am |
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Any others? Come on I know you have something in mind....
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DWolfman
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Posted: 9/17/09 at 9:54am |
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EARTH AND SKY by Douglas Post
…a genuine cop thriller, with devious plot turns, tough, corner-of-the-mouth, Chandler/Hammett-style dialogue, and enough surprises to startle rabbits out of holes let alone hats." — NY Post.
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Even a man who is pure of heart...
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teridtiger
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Joined: 10/24/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 69 |
Posted: 9/17/09 at 12:36pm |
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Anything by Lee Blessing! A couple of favorites:
"Two Rooms" - 4 person memory play about the Beirut Hostage Situation
"Patient A" - 3 person commissioned work by the Beralis family about Kimberly Bergalis
"Indepencence" - 4 women from one family trying to resolve past issues and confront the present
"Eleemosynary" - a relationship drama about 3 women from three different generations
And two from Bruce Graham.
"Burkie" - 4 person family drama dealing with the patriarch's battle with a terminal illness
"Coyote on a Fence" - 4 person prison drama about predjudice and death row inmates
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