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"MEDEA NOIR
Arthur Meiselman - MEDEA NOIR-
Medea Noir by Arthur Meiselman, taken in part from the Euripides story with newly adapted translations of the original, follows Medea to Athens and the sanctuary of its king, Aegeus, who becomes the mirror of her passion and continuing anguish.There, ten years after the original story ends, a new story begins. And with it, a new myth of Medea the woman, the woman of power, and a woman haunted by the torment of memories that must finally be reconciled with her will to live.
Commissioned for the 2002 Ancient Theatre Alive! International Festival in Athens, Greece, Medea Noir is a merged media production that blends the live stage with film, graphics and the strident use of lighting and music as significant characters on stage.
JULIUS KRINSKI- A Life
Here is the life-long journal of a writer, a confidante of Australia's Nobel Laureate, Patrick White, a lover to world famous actresses Zoe Caldwell, Pamela Stevenson (and others), and friend of artists, politicians, and free spirits throughout the world. This is not an autobiography. It is a raw reckoning... a poetic journal, a journey, a life.
LESTER COLE- Hollywood Red
The Autobiography of Lester Cole, legendary screenwriter, one of the founders of the screenwriters guild ( now the WGA) and the most unrelenting and outspoken member of the blacklisted "Hollywod Ten".
LES MARCOTT - Character Flaws
A zesty, tasty collection of Monologues (great for auditions!) along with short plays and short stories by writer, composer, performer Les Marcott.
GITO MINORE - Ceilings-Cielorrasos (English/Spanish)
An intense portrayal of the captivity of a man inside his own skin and the thoughts and feelings that torture him, in a poetic autobiography by Argentine poet, Gito Minore. A bilingual edition
IRI KOPAL- Loving/Laid/Fucking
Three from "Times In The Garden of Eden"
A Show of One
by Iri Kopal
Setting: Abstract
Characters: 1 Woman, 1 Man
This is a set of three short plays from the 34-play cycle: Times In The Garden of Eden. It portrays a time when there are only two beings in existence - innocent, but aware and in great need of each other.
JACK ADLER - A Savage Duty
Set in Monterey, California in the 1844 period when California was still shakily part of Mexico. Coveted by the U.S.,England and France, each had agents, secret and otherwise, operating in the city trying to help Mexico retain "sovereignty" under terms most favorable to themselves.
A Savage Duty explores cultural strains that still exist today, tensions that began with the influx of Americans into this area.
FARZANA MOON - Lady In Black
Set against the clouds of warfare gathering to deliver India and Pakistan into Independence, Farzana Moon's novel stirs the myth that when a serpent gets to be one hundred years old, it can transform itself into human form.
Aladdin's Electric Lamp by Arthur Meiselman
A Fantasy
Setting: Abstract, free-form
Characters: 2 Women, 1 Man
An apparently light, comic fantasy with a strange, sinister undertone that uses a continuous flow of lyric dialogue, time-shifts, backflashes, comedic bits, music and dance..
It is the fable of what makes ROBERT run,
what makes MADELINE rebound, and what makes SHE... she!
Running time: Approximately 50 minutes
Come In, Stranger, Out of the Fog by Rich Yurman
A Play in One Act
Interior setting.
Characters: 2 men, 1 woman
During the December 1962 "killer fog" that blanketed London for 5 days, a man, having lost his way, knocks on a door to seek assistance. He is admitted into the home of a widow whom he takes to be alone. His error! A sinister mystery builds around their mutually inappropriate, inexplicable and threatening behavior. And then... a man appears!
Running time: Approximately 25 - 30 minutes
Even After All These Years by Nathan Albright
A Play in 24 Scenes
Multi-settings
Characters: 2 Men, 2 Women and Multi Male and Female Characters with doubling possibilities
Set in the Middle East (Israel and Palestine) and paralleling two time lines 2000 years apart, this is a love story and the portrayal of the endurance cultures that survive and abide even in the destructive fires of turmoil. The play is large in scope, provocative in its ideas, and rich in both Biblical and contemporary detail,
Running Time: Approximately 120 minutes
Hello And... Goodbye by Arthur Meiselman
A Play in One Act
Split-Interior setting.
Characters: 1 man, 1 woman
A duet between a young Gay man with AIDS and a young Straight HIV positive woman who confronts him. When it premiered, it was the first drama of its kind. This is not a play about the politics of social issues. It is a portrait of a relationship. Except at the end, this entire two-character work takes place over the telephone.
Running time: Approximately 60 minutes
Madelin de Rumba - A Show of One by Arthur Meiselman
Characters: 1 woman and her dummy
What happened? This is what happened. You just... honored your family... you just... respected your culture... you just... did the right thing. Bullshit! It's fear, woo-mahn... it's fear. Afraid not to go to college. Afraid not to take that job. Afraid to go on that date. Afraid not to go on that date. Afraid to fuck. Afraid not to fuck. Afraid to light a candle, close the bathroom door, look in the mirror and say: You... you're me. My eyes to your eyes, you're me. Fear...
Running time: Approximately 45 minutes
Meka and Alexander by Gregory Walker - A Screenplay
Setting and Time: Urban, Contemporary
Genre: Love story and Action thriller
Hardship-stricken, a Japanese-American family moves into a Black slum and are terrorized by a gang who try to scare them out. The daughter, Meka, meets and falls in love with Alexander, a young black man. Her father is infuriated, but in the heat of battle with the gang, Alexander helps the family and wins their trust.
The Wafer by Arthur Meiselman
A Play In One Act
Multiple Selective Setting
Characters: 2 Women, 7 Men
A band of rebels is floundering in their attempt to overthrow a brutal, third-world regime. Though the suppressed population adores and supports the group, the rebellion is failing. The leader, Juan Castia, is haunted by nightmares that underscore his doubt and lack of resolve. In a desperate attempt to spur the rebellion into a full-blown revolution, a decision is made: Castia will allow himself to be captured, to be given up to the authorities who will be forced to martyr him.
Running Time: Approximately 60 minutes.
Firedance - A Trilogy by Arthur Meiselman
Part 1 - Awakening
Multi-Level Interior Setting
Characters: 3 Women, 2 Men
The year is 1976. A rainy, late Autumn Friday in New York. Five brothers and sisters have gathered for the funeral of their mother. Though this was a typical middle-class Jewish family, the passing-on of the parents has opened up the core of threads that binds them together, and the threads are unraveling.What was typical has become bizarre. What was comfortable has become frightening. What was secure has become unstable and chaotic. Against a backdrop of accumulated disillusionment, the 1960's, the Kennedy assassinations, the Vietnam war, the Nixon fiasco, these five place themselves in confrontation with each other and with the world they live in.
Running Time: Approximately 2 hours.
Jody Thomas Doesn't Want To Die by Arthur Meiselman
A Play In Two Parts
Split-Level Interior Setting
Characters: 1 Women, 11 Men
What if a death-row inmate, just before the appointed time of execution, manages to grab a weapon and hostages? What does he have to lose? How do you negotiate with him? It is the nightmare of every prison official. Here is a young man, a cop-killer, condemned to death, and now commands his own future. He has twisted the system; there is nothing to negotiate except his own survival. It is the madness of capital punishment.
Running Time: Approximately 90 minutes
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