The Cock Machine and other plays

MacLean, Ross, foreword by Robert Patrick, introduction by Dean Abley

ISBN 10: 0998417335 / ISBN 13: 9780998417332

Published by Plays to Order, Los Angeles, 2018

About this Item

328p., introduction, foreword, ten short plays, essay, playwright bio, b&w production photos fine first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. MacLean was a driving force in Black Box alternative & gay theatre in Los Angeles in the 1970s-80s: a member of the playwright's workshop at Los Angeles Actors Theatre (LAAT) and the house playwright at the Deja Vu Coffeehouse. His work has been performed at La Mama, Hollywood, LAAT, Changing Scene in Denver, the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville where his play "Hayaena" was a hit, and Theatre for the New City, NYC. Two of the plays included "Fourplay" and "Nelson Americana" were noted in Furtado & Hellner's "Gay and Lesbian American Plays: annotated bibliography" His humorous essay at the back of the book, "The Advent and Art of the One-Line Play" is alone well-worth the price of admission. As are the author photos featuring a perfect porn-stache wearing the face of the author at 20 something and 40 years later!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cock Machine and other plays
• Publisher: Plays to Order, Los Angeles
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0998417335
• ISBN 13: 9780998417332
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Gay Studies
  • Theater, theatre
  • Sex
  • 1980S
  • 1970S

About this title

Synopsis

Ten never-before published plays by Off-Off-Broadway playwright Ross MacLean. Plays include, HERO OF THE JUNGLE, DECEMBER WEDGE, NELSON AMERICANA, FOUR PLAY, EAST MONROE, FOOD, DELUSIONS REVEALED, HYAENA (which premiered at the Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival), THE COCK MACHINE, AN IVAR MEMOIR.

About the Author

Ross MacLean was first produced at La Mama Hollywood, the West Coast branch of the New York company. He was the house playwright at Smitty's Deja Vu Coffeehouse in Hollywood for five years, and a member of Los Angeles Actor's Theater's Playwrights Unit. Regionally his plays have been produced at Denver's Changing Scene and at the Actor's Theater of Louisville. In New York he's worked with Theater for the New City, Ensemble Studio Theater, the 4th E Company, and Manhattan Theater Club. He lives in New York City.