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Trista Baldwin has had her plays produced and developed throughout the U.S. by groups including The Guthrie, New Georges, Perishable Theatre, The Empty Space Theater, Circle X, The Red Eye, Synchronicity, Stark Raving Theater, BPP, Chicago Dramatists, Urban Stages and HB Playwrights' Foundation. Plays include the award-winning Patty Red Pants, D O E, ElectroPuss, and Sex and Other Collisions. She is a graduate of The Evergreen State College and holds an MFA in Playwriting from Arizona State. Ms. Baldwin is the recipient of two Jerome Fellowships at The Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis and a McKnight Advancement Grant. |
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Falling Up
A Short Play for One Small Woman and One Large Man
by Trista Baldwin |
 
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Comedy
Short, 13-18 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.
During a mysterious citywide blackout, two office workers collide over drinks. As they get to know each other, the two discover that, despite their differences, they have one thing in common: a deep need for more than what their cubicles have to offer. A post-9/11 romantic comedy -- with a lemon twist.
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| "It's a stunningly successful collaboration of first-rate writing, acting, and directing that could serve as the gold standard for what the genre can accomplish." |
| --Bill Rodriguez, The Boston Phoenix |
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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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Drama/Comedy
Full-length, 60-75 minutes
2 females, 1 male (3-5 actors possible: exactly 2 females, 1-3 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
A chance encounter between girlhood friends raises unsettling questions about their youth, a time when desire bloomed in the shadow of a murder of their peer. Suspended in a web of memories, this unflinching, coming-of-age tale weaves between reality and dream as Patty Red Pants chases the truth of her own past.
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| "This is an exciting, soulful work." |
| --Kim Wilson, Chicago Reader |
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| Sand by Trista Baldwin |
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Drama
Full-length, 80-90 minutes
1 female, 2 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
In a Middle Eastern desert, three American soldiers guard a seemingly abandoned gas station. Trapped in a confusing, monotonous and sometimes terrifying occupation, they confront powers foreign and domestic, secular and divine, real and imagined. As past blurs with present and reality dissolves, boundaries between friends and enemies break down with horrific results. A complex, semi-expressionistic take on the consequences of modern war.
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| "Stunning, hallucinatory... the play suggests how the line between enemies, and even identity itself, shifts as easily as the sands for anyone in the surreal state of combat." |
| --Caryn James, The New York Times |
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Drama
Short, 30-40 minutes
6 females, 3 males (9-16 actors possible: 6-10 females, 3-6 males)
$35.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
Special 33% book discount!
Wade has always been the funny guy at his high school. But lately he's been acting weird -- talking to paper bags, yelling at teachers, and getting suspended. His friend Lisa begins to have recurring dreams of Wade jumping off bridges and turning into a bird. When Wade confides that he wants to die, his friends are met with an unexpected situation, forcing them to push their trivial fights aside, band together, and help Wade. In the process, they learn more about themselves, and each other, than they ever expected.
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