Tag: Women
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My Old Life (But Not For Love)
THE SET-UP Eleanor and Ephram, sister and brother, are both getting married on the same day. And they’re each getting married to a man. With protesters, policemen and a TV news crew outside the church, inside the couples are split over what their day and their ceremony should mean, to themselves or anyone else. Patrick,…
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Time to Leave (Leave, or The Surface of the World)
THE SET-UP Seth is a young Marine serving during wartime. Nicholas is his civilian longtime companion who waits back home. In addition to the strain on their relationship caused by distance and absence, they must hide their love for one another behind code words and secret identities because of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy…
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Letters from an Angry Mother (Leave, or The Surface of the World)
THE SET-UP Seth is a young Marine serving during wartime. Nicholas is his civilian longtime companion who waits back home. In addition to the strain on their relationship caused by distance and absence, they must hide their love for one another behind code words and secret identities because of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy…
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Graveside Thoughts (Leave, or The Surface of the World)
THE SET-UP This is the speech that begins the play. Read on… “If I’d done everything I could, everything I should, this boy wouldn’t be in the ground.” (A gravestone. ANNE, a woman in her 50s.) ANNE This isn’t my grave. There are days I wish it was. Days I think it should be. A…
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Leave (or, The Surface of the World)
(a drama of “don’t ask, don’t tell” in two acts) Seth is a young Marine serving during wartime. Nicholas is his civilian husband who waits back home. In addition to the strain on their relationship caused by distance and absence, they must hide their love for one another behind code words and secret identities because…
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4-Way Crush (Studpuppy)
THE SET UP This is the first appearance of these characters in the play. They are all in their late teens/early twenties and have just started college. They have all gone shopping together as a supposedly neutral and safe activity, but Linc and Isobel are at it again. Linc is openly gay. Isobel knows this,…
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Hiding Behind Me (Studpuppy)
THE SET UP Diana is a closeted lesbian who has not yet come out to her friend Isobel, a girl whom she met both in church and college classes they share, and on whom Diana harbors a crush. Diana finds it hard to watch Isobel relate to her high-school friend Linc. Linc is openly gay. …
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What Works for the Skin (Studpuppy)
THE SET UP Diana is a closeted lesbian who has not yet come out to her friend Isobel, a girl whom she met both in church and college classes they share, and on whom Diana harbors a crush. Diana finds it hard to watch Isobel relate to her high-school friend Linc. Linc is openly gay. …
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God Let Him Die (Heaven & Home)
THE SETUP Vincent’s best friend Byron died almost two years ago, but Vincent is still haunted by memories of his helplessness in the face of Byron’s illness, and personally adrift without his childhood friend to speak with anymore. While Vincent’s gay brother Cian is haunted by Byron’s ghost, still his unrequited love, Vincent is left…
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Sex with Vince Report (Heaven & Home)
THE SETUP Gabby is the long-term girlfriend of Byron’s childhood best friend Vincent, on whom Byron has always had a hopeless crush. Gabby holds a vigil at the hospital bed of her friend Byron, unconscious, and likely dying. But between the two of them, they manage to conjure up a better time, when Gabby and…