Noir

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    Eric Overmyer

    Description

    A richly atmospheric, riveting noir peopled with lowdown characters who raise double and triple-crossing to high art.

    Production Info

    Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
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    Firesign Theatre

    Description

    Danger is Firesign's take on the hard-boiled detective character, with first-person narration and crazy adventures that often involve mistaken identity, and of course there's always a dangerous dame... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 4 total (4 male)
    Short Comedy (about 40 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
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    book and lyrics by Eric Overmyer, music by August Darnell

    Description

    In Eric Overmyer's hilarious send-up of private-eye pulp fiction, Shrimp Bucket and his brother, Gut, are stealing the sexy Dolores Con Leche's dreams... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
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    Jeff Goode

    Description

    A murder-mystery serial-comedy with gratuitous sex and violence and a cliffhanger ending every 10 minutes... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 15 total (5 female, 10 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 210 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes
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    Len Jenkin

    Description

    Len Jenkin's noir fantasy entertainment is a cross between a surreal radio melodrama and wacky comedy filled with music and fantasy... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
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    Joseph Zettelmaier

    Description

    Los Angeles, 1933. PI Frank Ellery doesn't know it, but he's taken on the strangest case of his life... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male)
    Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
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    Daniel Therriault

    Description

    In a satire of hard-boiled film noir, a priest-operative force-baptizes sinners at gunpoint to save their souls... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male, flexible casting up to 8 actors)
    Full Length Dark Comedy (about 120 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes