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The Body of an American

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Dan O'Brien

~playauthor~Written by~ Dan O'Brien

Oberon Books, 2014

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 10

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...Mogadishu, 1993. Paul is a Canadian photojournalist who is about to take a picture that will win him the Pulitzer Prize. Princeton, the present day, Dan is an American writer who is struggling to finish his play about ghosts. Both men live...

The House in Scarsdale

Written by

Dan O'Brien

~playauthor~Written by~ Dan O'Brien

Oberon Books, 2019

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Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (21), Female (7), Male (12), Unassigned (2)

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...Winner of the 2018 PEN America Award in Drama. As Tolstoy said, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” In The House in Scarsdale, playwright Dan O'Brien traces the roots...

The Voyage of the Carcass

Written by

Dan O'Brien

~playauthor~Written by~ Dan O'Brien

Oberon Books, 2017

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (7), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

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...The first collection from the multi-award-winning American poet and playwright Dan O’Brien. Bo’sun Smythe is dead. Trapped in the ice at the North Pole, only three members of the doomed Carcass crew survive: Bane Barrington,...

The Cherry Sisters Revisited

Written by

Dan O'Brien

~playauthor~Written by~ Dan O'Brien

Oberon Books, 2017

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (6), Female (6), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

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... of Broadway, where their egregiously talentless act becomes a smash hit—bringing them fame, and a relentless barrage of rotten fruit and vegetables. Based on a true story, Dan O'Brien’s provocative comedy-with-music takes a look at the American compulsion to perform, and our inability to look away....

The House in Hydesville

Written by

Dan O'Brien

~playauthor~Written by~ Dan O'Brien

Oberon Books, 2017

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (7), Female (5), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

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...The first collection from the multi-award-winning American poet and playwright Dan O’Brien. In the winter of 1848 the Fox family moves to a bleak cottage in the isolated hamlet of Hydesville, New York. Soon the youngest Fox...

The Dear Boy

Written by

Dan O'Brien

~playauthor~Written by~ Dan O'Brien

Oberon Books, 2017

Oberon Modern Playwrights

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Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (4), Female (1), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

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...The first collection from the multi-award-winning American poet and playwright Dan O’Brien. James Flanagan is not a kind teacher. Is he a good teacher? He likes to think so. On the verge of retirement, a potentially...