THE PLAYS OF DEAN BARRETT




                                        ONE-ACT PLAYS
                          INTERIORS
                                                DEATH OF A LEGEND
                          THE HISTORY LESSON
                                                SERIOUS REPLIES ONLY


                                           Interiors

A four-character play for two male actors and two female actors set in a cafe. Explores the interior monologue as
well as the external dialogue between the two. Simple props. Fifteen minutes.

                                     Death of a Legend

A three-character play for three male actors set in an apartment. A young man wants to become a hit man for the
mob but gets quite a bit more than he bargained for. Simple props. Fifteen minutes.

                                   Serious Replies Only

A four-character play for three males and one female. The difficulties of being normal. The play has an element of
Theater of the Absurd. Simple props. Ten minutes.

                                    The History Lesson

A three-character play for three male actors. A Theater of the Absurd play about living according to Archbishop
Ussher's belief that the world began in 4004 B.C. Simple props. Twenty-five minutes.

                                         Barracoon

A short, full-length play without intermission. Set in the late 19th century in Swatow, China, Barracoon portrays the
horrors of the Chinese slave trade. Five male Caucasian actors; seven male Asian actors; one female Asian actor.

                                           Barracoon



                                     The Cracker Box

A full-length play without intermission. Set in present-day Vero Beach, Florida. A very elderly woman and her home
   health aid discover joy in life and dignity in old age. Five actors; three females, two Caucasian, one black; two
                                  males, one Caucasian, one black.

                                        The Cracker Box



                                        A Village Inn

A full-length play with intermission. Set in a New York city apartment in the late 80's. Veterans of wars, women who
 love them, and the mysterious workings of the Buddha. Love, humor, sexual seduction and the need to forgive. Six
                                  actors; three females, three males.

                                          A Village Inn


                                    Fragrant Harbour

    Synopsis, scene synopsis and cast list of a musical set in Hong Kong in 1857. Actors: Caucasian and Asian.

                                        Fragrant Harbour




                                      About the Playwright

  Dean Barrett has had several plays read and staged by various groups including Pasadena Playhouse of California, Virginia's
    Offstage Theatre, Florida's Riverside Theatre, New York's Phoenix Ensemble, Vox Theater, Love Creek Productions,
                  Fourplay Productions, PanAsia Repertory, and several colleges and universities.

  Dean has written the book and lyrics for a musical set in Hong Kong in 1857 entitled FRAGRANT HARBOUR (music -Ed
Linderman). Presentations of the musical have been held at BMI, York Theater, Directors Company and Penn State University.
  The musical was selected to be staged on 42nd Street under the auspices of the National Alliance of Musical Theaters. Mr.
  Barrett has co-written a one-man show with the Chinese actor, Robert Lin, entitled MAO: Red Star & Blue Apple, and his
 play about the 19th century Chinese slave trade entitled, BARRACOON, recently had a reading with VOX Theater Company
                                           in Manhattan.

  Dean is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Mystery Writers of America, an affiliate of BMI (librettist), and a member of the
                                         China Round Table.



                        Photograph taken by Mia Yun in Manhattan's East Village, April, 2000


                                       Dean Barrett's Novels

                        Contact the Playwright: deanbarrett@mindspring.com 



                                                      
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