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10 Minute Play, Dark Comedy  /  2w, 4m

Tony Kushner

Six playwrights come together to bury their contemporary and friend,
Ding. They discuss and brood on their lives, writings, and loves.

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w, 4m
  • Duration
    Duration
    10 minutes
  • Suggested Use
    • Scene work
    • Competition or audition material
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary
Six playwrights come together to bury their contemporary and friend, Ding. They discuss and brood on their lives, writings, and loves.
History
Reverse Transcription was first produced at the 1996 Humana Festival of New American Plays in March 1996. It was directed by Tony Kushner.
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HAUTFLOTE– A playwright in his late forties. He writes beautiful plays everyone admires...
ASPERA – A playwright in her early thirties. She writes fierce splendidly intelligent challenging plays, frequently with lesbian characters
BIFF – A playwright in his late thirties. Scruffy, bisexual, one success…
HAPPY – A playwright in his late thirties. His plays were widely admired, then one big success and he’s become a Hollywood writer…
OTTOLINE – A playwright in her fifties. African-American, genuinely greatly hugely influential experimentalist…
FLATTY – A playwright in his late forties. Colossally rich.
DING – A dead playwright wrapped in winding sheet.
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting A cemetery on Abel’s Hill, Martha’s Vineyard in December near midnight.
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Duration 10 minutes
  • Cautions
    • Strong Language
    • Mild Adult Themes

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Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner’s plays include Angels in America; Hydriotaphia, or the Death of Dr. Brown; The Illusion, adapted from the play by Pierre Cornelle; Slavs!; A Bright Room Called Day; Homebody/Kabul; Caroline, or Change, a musical with composer Jeanine Tesori; and The Intelligent ...
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