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Hyde in Hollywood

Peter Parnell
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In Hollywood in 1939, an actor/director named Julian Hyde is blackmailed by a gossip columnist known as Hollywood Confidential who threatens to reveal Hyde’s homosexuality. Hyde is coerced into revealing secrets of other Hollywood stars. Hyde plots revenge by making a film about Hollywood Confidential’s life, revealing all of his secrets.

Production Info

Cast: 13 total (3 female, 10 male, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
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Press Quotes

“Mr. Parnell argues that the dreams perpetrated by the dream factory during the movies’ golden age were as monstrous as … nightmares but far more lasting and lethal … ‘A nation lives by its symbols,’ says the playwright. Implicit in HYDE IN HOLLYWOOD is the belief that a braver 30’s Hollywood might have helped produce a more courageous nation than the one that was tardy in mobilizing against Hitler in one generation and against Joseph McCarthy in the next… a fascinating piece.” —Frank Rich, The New York Times

About the Author

Author

  • Peter Parnell

    Peter Parnell's plays have been produced by the Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, the Mark Taper Forum, the Seattle Rep Theatre, the Old Globe, and Center Stage in Baltimore, among others. His two-part stage adaptation of John Irving's The Cider House Rules won the American Theatre Critics Association Award, Ovation Awards, Joseph Jefferson Awards, and Drama League nominations, and was produced at the Seattle Rep, the Taper, Trinity Repertory, and the Atlantic Theatre Company in New York. His play QED was produced at the Taper and then on Broadway at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre. For television, he was a co-producer for The West Wing (NBC; two Emmy Award Citations, two Humanitas Awards), producer for The Guardian (CBS, GLAAD episode nomination), and Inconceivable (NBC). He has written television pilots for ABC and Fox. He has served on the Literary Award Committee in Playwriting for PEN, and been the recipient of Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, NEA, and Fund for New American Plays grants. He has taught playwriting at Dartmouth and at the New School, and television writing in the Columbia University Film Division. His children's book, And Tango Makes Three, co-authored with Justin Richardson, was published by Simon & Schuster and is an ALA Notable Book, a Henry Bergh Award winner, and was nominated for a LAMBDA Literary Award as best children's book of the year.

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Book Information

Publisher BPPI
Publication Date 3/1/1991
Pages 110
ISBN 9780881450903

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Special Notes

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Originally produced by Playwrights Horizons, New York

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