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 Dave's Plays

Dave's plays are listed below in the order in which they were written.  A brief description is provided for each play; for more detailed information contact the playwright or follow the link to the site that provides the play on-line.  An asterisk indicates that the play has been awarded a prize or recognition (from honorable mention to the winner) in a national playwriting competition. All plays except Let It Rain are available from PPP as a published scripts or in a pdf format for downloading from stageplays.com or proplays.com. Acting editions are $10.00 each plus postage. Let It Rain is available from the Dramatic Publishing Company.

TITLE
 CAST
 SUMMARY
 GENRE
 AVAILABILITY
Let it Rain
8 M
5 W
 Modern telling of the Noah's Ark story with Noah as a shrink in Manhattan trying to treat God for psychosis.
 Comedy
 Dramatic Publishing Company
American Pies, Happy Lives,
Blue Skies & Other Lies
 2 M
1 W
 The Vietnam War fought 10 years after the fact in a home in Westchester County.
Drama
 Available at http://www.stageplays.com/


The Oldest Trick in the Book*
 3 M
4 W
 Contemporary comic-drama dealing with a woman's fear of intimacy.
Drama
 Available at http://www.stageplays.com/
A Day in the Wife of Avery Mann*
 3 M
8 W
 Contemporary comic-drama dealing with a  man's fear of intimacy.
 		Comedy
 Available at http://www.stageplays.com/

 
Ezra and Evil*
 9 M
3 W
 An inquiry into the nature of good and evil told through the voice of 17-year-old Ezra Nori Thorpe Casey on the eve of his shotgun wedding to Preacher Bascom's daughter.
Comedy
 Available at http://www.stageplays.com/

 
Red Hot Mamas*
 4 M
3 W
 Contemporary comedy on aging. (Has sold out and had extended runs in Australia, Canada, and Detroit Rep.)
 Comedy
 http://singlelane.com/proplay/index.html

This Blood's For You*
 6 M
4 W
 Dark comedy about capital punishment. Charlie James has 10 days to live and the Warden's son needs a kidney. What's a state to do?
 Dark
Comedy

 		http://singlelane.com/proplay/index.html
The Walk* (Thy Brother's Wife)
 3 M
2 W
 Twice widowed at 24, Haddie Elizabeth Gardner Starbuck finds her own voice in the insular world of Quaker Nantucket in 1825.
Comedy

 		Available at http://www.stageplays.com/
Bui-Doi: The Dust of Life*
 3 M
2 W
 Third play of a Vietnam trilogy. In 1998, hack writer Taylor Munroe is confronted by his 30-year-old Chinese American son he didn't know existed. And Wei Chan has his mother in tow and is intent on arranging a marriage.
 Drama
 Available at http://www.stageplays.com/
The Wall*
 6 M
3 W
 Second play of Vietnam Trilogy. A squad of young soldiers of misfortune is reunited at the Vietnam Memorial in D.C. with the only survivor of a VC ambush that took place 20 years ago in the Ia Drang Valley. In the wee hours of the morning, the fireworks begin.
 Drama
 Available at http://www.stageplays.com/

 
Children of the Midnight Sun
 6 M
3 W
 Point Barrow, Alaska 1871. After being rescued from the ice and raised by Quakers in New Bedford for four years, a young Inupiat girl returns to her village to embrace her past and confront her future.
Drama
 Contact playwright
The Babe, The Bard and the Baron*
 6 M
4 W
 Leadville Colorado, 1882. Silver Baron, Horace Tabor hires Oscar Wilde to direct a production of Romeo and Juliet with Tabor's lover, Baby Doe, in the lead.
Comedy

 		Available at http://www.stageplays.com/
The Bitch of Bailey's Beach*
 4 M
3 W
 Contemporary comedy about class set in Newport, RI. Heiress, Claire Vanderbilk meets drifter, Fast Eddie Sullivan, on Bailey's Beach and new worlds open for both of them.
Comedy

Available at http://www.stageplays.com/

What About Mimi?*
 4 M
3 W
 Contemporary comedy about accountability. The day after getting engaged to his long time girl friend, Alex Brownell's world is shaken dramatically by the arrival of Madison Halley and the daughter Alex fathered the previous year while on spring break in Ft. Lauderdale.
 Comedy

 		Available at http://www.stageplays.com/


Free Shot* 4W
3M		 Lauren Alexander is a high school All American basketball player from LA , who, for reasons she doesn't fully understand, has a stormy relationship with her mother, Kate. Things get worse when Lauren is recruited by Aaron Kingsley, a former NBA All-Star and now coach at a small college in New England. All hell breaks loose when Kate finds Aaron in her home alone with her daughter.  Drama Available at http://www.stageplays.com/

 

 
A Little Lower than the Angels 4M 3W Period play that deals with the slave trade in Newport, RI in 1803-1804. RI was at the center of the slave trade in the Colonies and the new nation following the American Revolution.  Drama Available at http://www.stageplays.com/

 
Something of Value 4W
3M		 A brilliant engineer's life is turned upside down and inside out when he gives a homeless woman and her daughter a place to stay for the night. Comic-drama

Available at http://www.stageplays.com/

 
A Cat Named Dog and a Dog Named Cat 2 M
3 M or F
 Twelve-year-old Victoria Townsend must convince her unappreciated dog, "Cat", to rescue her beloved runaway cat, "Dog", from a vicious cougar that is stalking domestic animals on Whidbey Island, WA. This play for young audiences runs about 50 minutes. One Act Comedy

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