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Islands of Repair by Leslie Bramm

#2006-0024

ISBN #1-933159-74-X

Have you seen Leslie Bramm's full length play Oswald's Backyard or his other one-act with JAC, Big Ball?

Cast Requirements: 1M/1W

MAN: Her husband.

WOMAN: His wife.

Both characters are erudite and a bit cynical. They are frustrated and have always expected more. They are upwardly mobile and professional. Just not so young anymore.

The Setting
Time: The 3rd day.
Place: The entire action of the play takes place on a rubber raft in the Caribbean ocean.

	Scene I. Early morning.
	Scene II. Mid morning.
	Scene III. Noon.
	Scene IV. Late afternoon.
	Scene V. Dusk.

Approx. Running Time: 40 minutes. Notes on the Text: Though the blocking is minimal the play should be emotionally choreographed. The utter banality of the arguments must feel like "life or death" .

Synopsis

A man and a woman are stranded in the middle of the ocean. They battle sharks, thirst, starvation and each other. They are burned, delirious and married. Will they survive?

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"Bramm creates some very interesting abstractions with his stereotypical characters...bizarre and funny with chucks of truth and sarcasm flying around."
-Richard Hinojosa, nytheatre.com

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$20/package +
$35/performance royalty

lbheadshot.jpg (358123 bytes) Author Biography
Leslie Bramm’s plays have been produced all over the U.S. and in New York City at The Kraine, Currican, Theatre Off Park, Todo Con Nada, The Theotorium, The Lucille Lortel, The Beckett and CBGBS 313.

He is a recipient of a Stanley Drama Award (Oswald’s Backyard), a Tennessee Williams Award (Big Ball) and The Paul. T. Nolan Award (Islands of Repair) Islands of Repair was also read as a radio play on NPR-WJFF. Big Ball was a finalist in the Edward Albee Last Frontier Playwriting Competition, while A.B.C. (or the man in the red suit) was shot as an indie film by Pick UP Sticks Productions. It was also banned from performance by an upstate SUNY. Bramm’s 9/11 duo Lovers Leapt and The Uncaring Dog are part of an Oxford doctoral dissertation.

Bramm is a five time Fringenyc vet and wrote 23 gripe columns for Insight for Playwrights. He co-authored the screen play This is Not Here (about John Lennon) with Kevin Corrigan. He was the lead singer and played guitar for Diz Dam. Bramm is a member of the Dramatist Guild and the Present Company’s “Pool”.

Bramm’s plays are published by Smith and Kraus, One Act Play Depot, Brooklyn Publishers and JAC Publishing & Promotions.