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Dog Ear: Complete Play List

Full-Length Plays

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Chatter

(Intrigue, Lies, Secrets, and Spies)

Dog Ear Collective

An evening of ten minute deceptions 



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Swimming

Steve Totland

Denise, anxious to save her marriage, enacts a deception that sets in motion a chain of events that exposed the tenuous nature of her marriage. 



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THE GIVER

Kim Dunbar

A maid is dead. The floors won't come clean. A woman comes to claim what's hers. But who will clean up the mess? 



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Better Angels

Wayne Peter Liebman

The story of the woman who was Abraham Lincoln's conscience 



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Transference

Wayne Peter Liebman

Freud, Jung and the mysterious woman who drove them apart. 



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Eat Me

Jacqueline Wright

Bob and Tommy search for an answer to their own individual mix of 'monster'. 




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Vita & Violet

Wayne Peter Liebman

A true, fly-on-the-wall account of scandelous romance. 



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HOUSE OF HUMOURS

Robert Fieldsteel

Backstage and onstage during one evening's performance of a radical re-imagining of DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. Comic/romantic dualities played out in real time. 



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...And the Two Romeos

Jennifer Maisel

Stacy is plagued by the ghosts of the two boys who killed themselves in a suicide pact that she was supposed to be part of. How can she move on with her life when she can't leave them behind? 



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Birds

Jennifer Maisel

Jorie is taken on a dark ride into New York's underbelly when she gives a homeless man her lover, James' coat. An urban, post 9-11, adaptation of a Grimm fairy tale. 



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Dark Hours

Jennifer Maisel

The story of Rip, an artist blinded at the height of his career, and Jane, the woman who comes to take care of him and ultimately makes him the center of her life. 



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Match

a work in progress

Jennifer Maisel

A journey into the underbelly of bartering for your organs…and perhaps for your soul 



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OUT OF ORBIT

Jennifer Maisel

A mother and daughter attempts to find themselves and each other on Earth and on Mars. 



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THERE OR HERE

Jennifer Maisel

An American couple outsources their pregnancy to a woman in a third world country. 




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Driving Wilde

Jacqueline Wright

A post modern re-imagining of  



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Mixquixtil

Jacqueline Wright

Ann descends into the world of the dead, in her quest to find and kill God. 



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ASYLUM

Robert Fieldsteel

Victims of political imprisonment and torture, given asylum in Las Vegas. Strange lifestyles and strange bonds develop. 



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SMART

Robert Fieldsteel

An anatomy of a murder at a prestigious New England college 



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Rowing to Canaan

Wayne Peter Liebman

It's 1934 and six Polish Jews see the writing on the wall. What to do but escape to the mountains and rehearse a play? 



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Hard-hat Area

Leon Martell

When a Nuclear engineer's life begins to melt down, he struggles to find some way to have an impact, and in nuclear physics, impact is often explosive. Dark Comedy. 



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Mooncalf

Leon Martell

Mentally disabled Timmy Moon, clings to his job in a toxic tanning factory, as his one hope of pride and independence. 




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Strange Case

Steve Totland

A man struggles to come to terms with what he feels is his own complicity in a friend's demise. 



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Spider Bites

Jacqueline Wright

A world where beauty looks like death and death looks like beauty and the caller on the telephone wants to know, “What’s the dead guy doing on your floor?” 




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WAR MUSIC

Bryan Davidson

Three tales of war and music torn from the pages of history. 



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CRAZY DRUNK

Robert Fieldsteel

Los Angeles, 1904. Philanthropist Griffith J. Griffith is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife. Brilliant, matinee-idol attorney Earl Rogers creates a novel defense ... that comes back to haunt him. 



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Mad Love

Jennifer Maisel

A thirteen year old girl, Jace, persuades a reclusive thirty-one year old Christmas tree salesman to help her kidnap her hissing mother from the insane asylum. 



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PORCHMONKEY

Kim Dunbar

A black lawn jockey is repainted white, and the pot gets stirred in an ambitious young woman's life. 



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A POINT IN THE HEART

Co-written with Jan Lewis

Robert Fieldsteel

A contemporary drama about the mystical dimensions of love. Inspired by The Dybbuk



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GENIUS

Co-written with Jan Lewis

Robert Fieldsteel

Gertrude Stein & Co. and the question, What is a genius? 



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The Sun Maiden

Wayne Peter Liebman

A Gabrielino woman leads an attack against the San Gabriel Mission. 



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Eden

Jennifer Maisel

A bride's cold feet, a mother seeking her daughter's saviour and a downtown New York City nightclub that disappears. 



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Mallbaby

Jennifer Maisel

An abandoned infant at the sprawling mall's google-plex sparks a search for his mother - and a longing in all those whose lives he touches. 



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Division Street:America

Steve Totland

Stage adaptation of Terkel's ground-breaking book. 



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MEDEA/MYTH

Robert Fieldsteel

An adaptation of the Euripides original, created for a cast of nine women. 



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BRIGHT BOY The Passion of Robert McNamara

Katy Hickman

Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara collapses at a women’s college while attending a memorial service for Dean Rusk. 



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Brimful of Push

Wayne Peter Liebman

A man, a plan, a tunnel--the Comstock Lode! How the west was won, nearly. 



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Bing

Jacqueline Wright

Cherry, a rock-n-roll messiah, joins Waldo on his quest for One Song to save the world. 



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The History of Fairfax - According to a Sandwich

Leon Martell

Woolly mammoths, illegal immigrants, cowboy oil barons, slap fighting movie stars, gun running Zionist gangsters, musical rabbis, and hippie/doctors (or doctoring hippies), as told by the ghost of a stand-up comedian while haunting a deli. 



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Bea[u]tiful In The Extreme

Leon Martell

The last days of Meriwether Lewis. Whiskey, meat, and laudanum on the long trail to immortality. 




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Love Water

Jacqueline Wright

A boy, Antonio, and a woman, Lulu, find friendship and refuge in a water pipe high above a city's polluted concrete water bed. 



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The Last Seder

Jennifer Maisel

When Lily and Marvin Price's daughters return for the last Passover in their family home, they find that the magic of the Seder ritual is the one thing that will allow them to heal the past and move on with their lives. 




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STEEL

John Henry and the Shaker

Leon Martell

A new play with songs, based on the legend of John Henry, whose contest with the steam drill is a mile post of industrial revolution lore 



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BANNED AND BURNED IN AMERICA

co-written with Bryan Davidson

Kim Dunbar

Adaptations of 4 classic novels banned (or burned) in the U.S. 



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THE DYBBUK

Robert Fieldsteel

A co-adaptation of S. Ansky's classic play about the ghost of a scholar possessing the young girl he loves. 



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The Dybbuk

Jennifer Maisel

A co-adaptation of S. Ansky's classic play about the ghost of a scholar possessing the young girl he loves. 




One-Act Plays

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REQUIRED READING

Katy Hickman

Comparing and contrasting; it's all we ever do. 



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Animal Dreams

Jennifer Maisel

Natalie sums up her life from the depths of her coma. 



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INTELLIGENCE MEASURES

Robert Fieldsteel

CIA recruitment in academia. Professor Beverly recruited student Tessa 7 years ago, now they're on their first mission together. Is this a happy reunion? 



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Wooden Horses

Jennifer Maisel

Two old friends visit the condemned amusement park of their childhood to relive the night that ruined their friendship. 



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Hoss Drawin'

Leon Martell

SEE---a demonstration of Draft Horse Pulls, by Russ Whitman, self proclaimed expert. 



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impenetrable

Jennifer Maisel

A romance despite technological advances 



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Mating Season

Jennifer Maisel

A family explores the legacy their unfaithful husband and father left behind. 




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Wedding Spell

Wayne Peter Liebman

A Dog Ear Witch Play 



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Feed Them Dogs

Leon Martell

On a break from "technical college" John makes the pilgrimage to his godmother's trialer in the woods. 



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The Goose Girl

Wayne Peter Liebman

The classic Grimms' tale of naked betrayal and revenge. 




Ten-Minute Plays

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Nomenclature

Katy Hickman

Social savagery in a community garden. 



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Don in Thailand

Bryan Davidson

A continuation of the Don saga, in which Don takes a sex tour of Thailand. 



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Travelogue with Viewmaster #47128

Bryan Davidson

A man confronts the collapse of his marriage and his lack of meaning via a holiday slide show. 



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COTTON

Robert Fieldsteel

Beijing, New Year's Day, 2000: an American textile salesman, his wife, and the Decline of the American Empire. 



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DOUGLAS

Robert Fieldsteel

A woman loses her husband's masterpiece: Douglas, a life-sized taxidermy elephant. 



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ESSENTIAL MAGICK

Robert Fieldsteel

A suburban mom and her 13 year old daughter, bound through blood and witchcraft. 



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IN THE SHADOW OF THE NORTHEAST KINGDOM

Robert Fieldsteel

A local woman and her college-senior lover on the eve of his graduation. What makes a good day's work? 



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CHILLIN'

Katy Hickman

A bright, 17 year-old video game junkie ticks off security weaknesses, as his gaming buddy grows uneasy. 



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LAYERED BOB

or, The Angela Carter Beauty Parlor

Katy Hickman

What will a woman give to become 



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OPEN ENROLLMENT

Katy Hickman

A woman tries to enroll her badger in a public school. 



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Secret Identity

Wayne Peter Liebman

Two twelve year old girls (played by adults) explore the secret world of boys. 



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soar

Jennifer Maisel

An adolescent’s rebelliousness turns to tragedy. Now a mother cannot sleep. Can the late night arguments with the daughter who deceived her finally give her the strength to cut the ties to her debilitating grief? 



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Gingersnap and Scissors Face

Leon Martell

A dark comedy in dog-speak. George and Martha in the back yard. 



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Sympathy for the Devil

Steve Totland

Two friends, finding themselves on opposing sides of a civil war, must choose between loyalty to the past and devotion to a new cause. 



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The Racing Life

Steve Totland

A teenage boy learns to accept his father's limitations. 




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Mantis

Jacqueline Wright

Katherine is asked to face the haunting events leading up to her husband's death. 





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Biblio

Wayne Peter Liebman

A homicidal daddy's girl confronts her father's past. 



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Goody Fucking Two Shoes

Jennifer Maisel

The drama club. The new girl. The lead in the school play. High school politics get dirty. 



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How I Learned to Spell

Jennifer Maisel

Madeline dives into puberty by using her phone sex operator mom as a role model. 



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Objects Seen in Mirror are Closer than they Appear

Jennifer Maisel

A crosscountry custodial battle hits every McDonalds possible as Babe, a Nevada stripper, chases after her ex, trying to get her daughter back. 



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Storyteller

Jennifer Maisel

A couple whose marriage is collapsing finds the only way to communicate is through their dance teacher's lessons in fantasy. 



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The Waiter

Jennifer Maisel

Lunch with her mother turns out to be an elaborate blind date ruse for Marilyn. 



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Welcome to Nuclear Beach

Jennifer Maisel

A hairdresser. A stockbroker. Her retarded twin brother. A world where chemicals have twisted nature. 



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Bleeding Sergeants

Leon Martell

When an old restauranteur dies, and his daughter takes over, things change. 



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Face Value

Steve Totland

Aaron has a rash. Or, does he? 



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BOO-WHO

Robert Fieldsteel

Two boys, a scary, dual-faced mask ... and an unnerving meeting years later. 



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fissshhhh

Jennifer Maisel

A mother and a daughter. How is it that you can no longer communicate with someone who used to live inside you? Anne and Rachel must find each other again. 



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Open Season

Jennifer Maisel

The deerboy who lives in the woods just may be Marge and Rafe's lost son. 



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Sleeping Spider

Jacqueline Wright

crayon drawings come to life to help Kiley get to the truth of something hidden 



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Death's Messengers

Bryan Davidson

An adaptation of a Grimm Brothers chiller in which Death comes for an old man. 



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FABRIC

Robert Fieldsteel

Textile business skullduggery meets upper-class British anti-Semitism at the Ascot Races, circa 1910 





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Cause of Death

Bryan Davidson

Revenge and black magic during the US occupation of Haiti 



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Three Pennies

Bryan Davidson

An adaptation of a Grimm Brothers ghost story in which a dead child returns to make peace. 




Plays for Young Audiences

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4 Virginia Avenue Project Plays

Robert Fieldsteel

Major league baseball, rock climbing, a cross-country drive, and a rebellious court jester: 4 short plays about how guys deal with each other. 




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Impatience and Her Brother Invention

Wayne Peter Liebman

What's a girl to do with her newly discovered little brother? 



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SuperBelle, Enemy of All Shmuckiness

Wayne Peter Liebman

A troubled teen with superpowers discovers her arch-enemy is her own sister. 




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Millennium Shock

Wayne Peter Liebman

A scientist bent on experimenting with a bug finds that turnabout is fair play. 



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Reckoning

Wayne Peter Liebman

A struggling writer confronts her old English teacher in Purgatory. 




Plays for Solo Performer

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BAD LANGUAGE

Robert Fieldsteel

Words make Lisa uncomfortable. 



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THE ISTHMUS

Robert Fieldsteel

A chipper young officer experiences malaria, madness, and manifest destiny at the building of the Panama Canal. 



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METEOR GIRL

Katy Hickman

Take a trip with a job seeker, a high school student, and a sixth grade science teacher all trying their best to do the right thing. 



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A Taste for Turkish Coffee

Steve Totland

How can you love someone when their looks are so unlovely? 



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The Mis-Adventures of Penelope

Jacqueline Wright

Have you seen this girl's vagina? 




Collective Projects

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Cuts

(Duplicity and a pair of scissors)

Dog Ear Collective

An evening of eight ten-minute plays by Dog Ear 



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The Witching Hour

(The Dog Ear Witch Plays)

Dog Ear Collective

An evening of ten-minute Witch plays. Not really for children.