The Award and Other Plays

The Award and Other Plays

The Award and Other Plays

The Award and Other Plays

Overview

When these one-acts were produced Off Broadway in New York, they were hailed as plays that bend your perceptions of theatre. In One for the Money, a man walks in asking the audience for donations. What does he really want? Moroccan Travel Guide is a visceral show and tells of a journey that begins in a boat in a dark cave. In The Queen of the Parting Shot, a woman desperately searches for an old memory. A runner-up contestant in The Audition is asked to give his second-prize performance. In the last selection, a soap-opera-star-turned-stage-actor is alone in his apartment lamenting losing The Award on the night of the ceremony.

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Warren Manzi

In 1980, while playing Mozart on Broadway in Amadeus, Warren Manzi wrote his first full-length play, the original version of Perfect Crime. The play was optioned for Broadway that same year, making Warren – then, age twenty-five – the youngest American ever to have a play opt ...
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