| Anne Washburn. Anne Washburn's work has been produced by 13P, A.R.T., Cherry Lane Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, London's Gate Theatre, NYC's Soho Rep, DC's Studio Theater, and NYC's The Vineyard Theater. Her work has also been published in American Theater; in New Downtown Now, (ed. Young Jean Lee and Mac Wellman); New York Theater Review, (ed. Brook Stowe), and Yale's Theatre Magazine. Full-length plays include Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, I Have Loved Strangers, The Ladies, The Internationalist, and an adaptation of Euripides' Orestes. Support includes MacDowell and Yaddo Fellowships, a Bug 'n' Bub, and a Guggenheim. She has been commissioned by The Civilians, Soho Rep, Williamstown Theatre Company, and Yale Repertory Theatre. She is an associated artist with 13P, The Civilians and New Georges, and a member of New Dramatists. |
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$18.95 per book
NOTE: This book contains 6 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
Collected for the first time in one volume are six inventive theater pieces created by Obie Award-winning theater company The Civilians. Based on the creative investigation of actual experience, and often intertwined with experimental cabaret, their pieces are boldly theatrical and always unique -- from a story about a Hollywood movie and a lost flock of geese (Canard, Canard, Goose?); to a tale about things lost and found, charting a musical landscape of loss (Gone Missing); to a dark ride through the landscape of American public culture, asking a thorny question: how do we know what we know when everyone in power seems to be lying? ((I Am) Nobody's Lunch).
To purchase this book of 6 plays, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
Canard, Canard, Goose? by The Civilians
Gone Missing by The Civilians
(I Am) Nobody's Lunch by The Civilians
The Ladies by Anne Washburn
Paris Commune by Steven Cosson and Michael Friedman
Shadow of Himself by Neal Bell
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| "The Civilians [is] one of the city's smartest and most original troupes." |
| --Time Out New York |
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Drama/Comedy
Various durations
Various cast requirements
$9.99 per book
NOTE: This book contains 10 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
With a diverse blend of themes, styles, and cast requirements, Great Short Plays: Volume 7 contains ten extraordinary comedies and dramas. From the biography of the world's first particle board comedian (Particle Board by Elizabeth Meriwether), to a hilarious lesson in guy talk (How to Speak Man by Sharyn Rothstein), to the heart-wrenching struggle of a couple trying to conceive (The Levee by Taylor Mac), these collections deliver a little bit of everything in half the time.
To purchase this book of 10 plays, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
Cloudy
Drew Barrymore and Sigmund Freud Meet the Cookie Monster
Falling Up
How to Speak Man
Izzy Icarus Fell Off the World
The Levee
Look, a Latino!
October/November
Particle Board
Pissed Sister
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Enigmatic comedy
Full-length, 95-105 minutes
2 females, 4 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Lowell, an American on a business trip, is met at the airport by a beautiful colleague. They spend the night together and he thinks he's in one of those great American movies where you go to a foreign land and there's romance and adventure and the experience changes you. The next day at the office he discovers that he's not in one of those movies, he's in one of those foreign films where nothing is as it seems, where there is no moral, and most importantly: no subtitles.
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| "Welcome to Anne Washburn, an original new voice! The Internationalist is a new kind of play for the 21st century. Fresh, provocative, riveting, and more entertaining and satisfying than many long-running hits." |
| --Back Stage |
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 90-100 minutes
6 females (6 actors possible: 0-6 females, )
$75.00 per performance; $18.95 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called The Civilians: An Anthology of Six Plays.
Writer Anne Washburn and director Anne Kauffman set out to explore the lives of infamous first ladies Elena Ceausescu, Imelda Marcos, Eva Peron, and Jiang Qing (a.k.a. Madame Mao). They met over gin and coffee to discuss their research and left the tape recorder running. A play about women and power as told through gossip, torch songs, historical analysis, spectacle, and damning transcription.
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| "...it's brashly entertaining. And it's full of moments of quirky insight." |
| --Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times |
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Comedy/Drama
Short, 15-25 minutes
1 female, 1 male
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 7.
In this lyrical coming-of-age story, 13-year-old David falls under the tutelage of 15-year-old Nikkie, an alluring older woman who seems to have quite a bit to teach him. Set at a street corner in 1982 in the East Village, scenes and monologues unfold the world of David and Nikkie's enigmatic relationship in this play about experience: how it creates you -- and how it destroys you.
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| "Washburn makes the nerve wracking seriousness of childhood very funny." |
| --Variety |
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