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Eric Overmyer
Eric Overmyer’s sparkling adaptation and synthesis of Beaumarchais’s THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO and OEdoen von Horvath’s FIGARO GETS A DIVORCE. FIGARO/FIGARO follows the iconic characters of Figaro, Susanna, the Count…
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MI VIDA LOCA - My Crazy Life - tells the story of members of a troubled family who are reunited at their home on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula as the father…
A richly atmospheric, riveting noir peopled with lowdown characters who raise double and triple-crossing to high art. Eric Overmyer [is] one of this nation’s most accomplished and vividly imaginative playwrights…
IN A PIG’S VALISE is a musical comedy spoof of the hot-cool private-eye pulp fiction associated with Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. Except that it’s wilder, much wilder. VALISE, among…
First published by BPPI in November 1986 –Colophon.
Blissfully zany……it is mainly just a free-wheeling romp that takes off some of the characters, incidents, and ideas in Cervantes’s book. It is that form of comedy, known as…
In 1888, three experienced, nineteenth-century American lady adventurers, armed with umbrellas, a picnic and pith helmets, set out to explore "Terra Incognito", eagerly embracing cultures and replicas of distant civilizations…
…Duke was the man. The play [is] essentially a not-so-thinly-disguised homage to his amazingly rich and humble life, from early Olympic beginnings to an acting career in Hollywood, to being…
In a futuristic city, one man tells it like he sees it - Hungry Mother! He’s the DJ with a strong pulse but a weak signal. He riffs on the…
Henrik Ibsen
Eric Overmyer’s remarkable adaptation of Ibsen’s PEER GYNT, set in the Pacific Northwest and in South America. Writing skills unequalled among American playwrights, [a] brilliant wordsmith … -Richard Stayton, Los…
A dreamy, meditative telling of the story of the father of ragtime Scott Joplin’s rivalry with fellow musical genius Louis Chauvin.
Eric Overmyer is not a playwright who does things…
One of Wilbur’s world-renowned translations of Moliere’s brilliant farces.
