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Carson Kreitzer. Carson Kreitzer's The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer won the Lois and Richard Rosenthal New Play Prize, the American Theatre Critics' Steinberg New Play Citation, the Barrie Stavis Award, and is published in Smith and Kraus' New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2004 and by Dramatic Publishing. Self Defense, or death of some salesmen has been produced in Providence, Minneapolis, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and is published by Playscripts, Inc. and in Smith and Kraus' Women Playwrights: Best Plays of 2002. Other work includes 1:23, The Slow Drag (New York and London), Valerie Shoots Andy, Heroin/e (Keep Us Quiet), Freakshow, Dead Wait, and Take My Breath Away, featured in BAM's 1997 Next Wave Festival. Ms. Kreitzer has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre Communications Group, and the Jerome and McKnight foundations, as well as a BA from Yale University and an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers, U.T. Austin. She is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, an associated artist with Clubbed Thumb and New Georges, and a member of The Playwrights' Center, the Dramatists Guild, The Fire Department, and the Workhaus Collective. She is currently under commission from The Guthrie Theater, Chicago's Next Theatre, and the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. |
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$14.95 per book
Discover a monologue book like no other. Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men gives you an extraordinary array of cutting-edge new monologues, from comedic to dramatic and everything in between. Unlike other monologue books, the source of every monologue is easily accessible -- each play is available through one website (www.playscripts.com), where you can read nearly the entire published script online for free. Explore the work of today's most celebrated theatrical voices, including Naomi Iizuka, Mac Wellman, Tanya Barfield, Jordan Harrison, Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang, and many more!
Also in this series:
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens
Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
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$14.95 per book
Discover a monologue book like no other. Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women gives you an extraordinary array of cutting-edge new monologues, from comedic to dramatic and everything in between. Unlike other monologue books, the source of every monologue is easily accessible -- each play is available through one website (www.playscripts.com), where you can read nearly the entire published script online for free. Explore the work of today's most celebrated theatrical voices, including Naomi Iizuka, Rinne Groff, Jane Martin, Pulitzer Prize winners Lynn Nottage and David Lindsay-Abaire, and many more!
Also in this series:
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens
Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
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Dark comedy/drama
Short, 35-40 minutes
1 female, 2 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Languishing in Limbo, two dead waiters and Jayne Mansfield share the intimate details of their lives, and the violent tragedies that brought them to their current state. A sly and haunting meditation on being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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| "Kreitzer's piece brilliantly eavesdrops on this trio and their randomly poignant, puerile, psychotic reminiscences of young lives lost." |
| --Deborah Caulfield Rybak, Star Tribune (Minnesota) |
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Drama
Full-length, 70-80 minutes
3 females, 4 males
$75.00 per performance; $19.95 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays from Clubbed Thumb.
At the turn of the last century, a traveling Freakshow grinds to a halt. Things are changing. The anger of being stared at, trapped, caged, is at war with the comfort of knowing your place in the universe. But the growing defiance of the freaks is no act. Will the Dog Faced Woman break her bonds from the show, collapsing the fragile bubble of sustaining interdependence? Can the jaded Ringmaster, a profoundly broken man, find redemption through his love for the Woman With No Arms and No Legs? In this poetic, gritty world, there may only be one way out.
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$19.95 per book
NOTE: This book contains 7 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
This anthology includes seven plays produced by Clubbed Thumb, the Obie Award-winning downtown New York City theater company that burst onto the new play scene in 1996. Edgy and thought-provoking, each play is funny, strange, and provocative in surprising, widely varying ways -- including an apartment that both adores and despises its inhabitants in Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), a metropolitan housewife who senses that something is watching her in 16 Spells to Charm the Beast, and a group of traveling freak show performers who reveal a deep humanity underneath their crowd-drawing deformities in Freakshow, among other uniquely inventive stories. For over a decade, Clubbed Thumb has had its finger firmly planted on the pulse of new work, and these plays prove it.
To purchase this book of 7 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
The Typographer's Dream by Adam Bock
Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake) by Sheila Callaghan
Demon Baby by Erin Courtney
16 Spells to Charm the Beast by Lisa D'Amour
Inky by Rinne Groff
Dearest Eugenia Haggis by Ann Marie Healy
Freakshow by Carson Kreitzer
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| "This anthology represents the jazziest, most edgy writers in contemporary American drama today. And Clubbed Thumb has more nerve, more guts, more class per square inch than any not-for-profit small theatre in New York. Reading these writers makes me want to go back to my own computer and try harder, dare more, and storm the barricades for funding for this rising generation." |
| --Paula Vogel, Pulitzer-winning author of How I Learned to Drive |
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Comedy
Short, 10-12 minutes
3 females, 2 males (5-6 actors possible: 3-4 females, exactly 2 males)
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Ten-Minute Plays from the Guthrie Theater: Volume 3.
In the present: The Scholar has lost her data. She's writing about the Monk. She flirts with the Techie to get it back; her girlfriend calls her on it. In the past: The Monk copies down the story of Daphne and Apollo. A girl sneaks in the window to steal him away. In the distant past, and now: Daphne lives inside her tree, breathing eternal in the writing of her. The Glory of God is sought. Love is found.
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$19.95 per book
NOTE: This book contains 10 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
Humana Festival 2012: The Complete Plays brings together all ten scripts from the 2012 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 36th annual cycle of world premiere productions staged at Actors Theatre of Louisville. This unique compilation features an exceptional array of work by some of the most exciting new voices in the American theatre, from a group of suburban kids in the late 80s who forge a cultural identity through hip hop (How We Got On), to a rich, dying woman who suspects her nurse is being paid off to expedite her death (Death Tax), to a 500-year-old Austrian vampire struggling with the existential grind of modern living (Michael von Siebenburg Melts Through the Floorboards). This original and diverse collection of plays is a must-have for anyone seeking fresh, daring, and compelling theater.
To purchase this book of 10 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
The Ballad of 423 and 424
by Nicholas C. Pappas
Death Tax
by Lucas Hnath
The Dungeons and the Dragons
by Kyle John Schmidt
Eat Your Heart Out
by Courtney Baron
Hero Dad
by Laura Jacqmin
The Hour of Feeling
by Mona Mansour
How We Got On
by Idris Goodwin
Michael von Siebenburg Melts Through the Floorboards
by Greg Kotis
Oh, Gastronomy!
by Michael Golamco, Carson Kreitzer, Steve Moulds, Tanya Saracho, and Matt Schatz
The Veri**n Play
by Lisa Kron
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| "One of the most prestigious showcases for original theater in the country." |
| --The New York Times |
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Drama
Full-length, 95-100 minutes
5 females, 3 males (8-24 actors possible: 5-14 females, 3-10 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Seven white men have been found dead along I-95 in Florida. A prostitute is arrested and charged with their murders. The police say she's a serial killer. She claims seven separate acts of self-defense. Inspired by the true story of Aileen Wuornos, Self Defense, or death of some salesmen is a whirlwind seven acts in 95 minutes. The play is fast and furious, shocking and funny, and at its center, a portrait of a very complicated human being. She is complex, charismatic, dangerous, damaged, full of love and anger; above all else, she is alive. An investigation of capital punishment, destitution, violence against (and by) women, and whether a prostitute is considered a person under our justice system, Self Defense gives a long, hard look at an America most of us don't want to admit exists.
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| "Stunning and compelling...raw and bold, brutal and ironic, and full of nagging questions. Whereas the film Monster dealt with the more sensational aspects of Wuornos' Florida killing spree, Self Defense...lashes out at the twisted society that turned her trial into simply another media-driven circus." |
| --Ed Kaufman, The Hollywood Reporter |
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Comedy/Drama
Various durations
Various cast requirements
$9.99 per book
NOTE: This book contains 8 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
Since its founding in 1963, the Guthrie Theater of Minneapolis has pioneered the American regional theater movement, bringing to life both the traditional classical repertoire and a diverse body of new works. The ten-minute plays in this volume were commissioned by the theater for its Guthrie Experience summer acting conservatory. The Volume 3 anthology includes eight plays by eight outstanding playwrights, every one expanding the possibilities of the ten-minute form.
To purchase this book of eight plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
The Glory of God by Carson Kreitzer
Hurry! by Bridget Carpenter
A Little Lunch by Kristina Halvorson
No More Static by Kevin Kell O'Donnell
The Second Beam by Joan Ackermann
Three Dimensions by Jerome Hairston
Wanting North by Tanya Barfield
Zion Science by Laurie Carlos
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