Playwrights and their stage works 

Megan Terry

Born - Marguerite Duffy in Seattle, Washington, July 22, 1932.

Stage Works

I design my plays to provoke laughter - thought may follow. - Megan Terry

  1. Beach Grass (produced 1955).
  2. Seascape (produced 1955).
  3. Go Out and Move the Car (produced 1955).
  4. New York Comedy: Two (produced 1961).
  5. Ex-Miss Copper Queen on a Set of Pills (produced 1963). With The People vs. Ranchman, 1968.
  6. When My Girlhood Was Still All Flowers (produced 1963).
  7. Eat at Joe's (produced 1964).
  8. Calm Down Mother (produced 1965). 1966.
  9. Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place (produced 1965) 1967.
  10. The Magic Realists (produced 1966) 1972.
  11. Comings and Goings (produced 1966) 1967.
  12. The Gloaming, Oh My Darling (produced 1966) 1967.
  13. Viet Rock: A Folk War Movie (produced 1966) 1967.
  14. The Key Is on the Bottom (produced 1967).
  15. The People vs. Ranchman (produced 1967). With Ex-Miss Copper Queen on a Set of Pills, 1968.
  16. Home or Future Soap (televised 1968; revised version, as Future Soap, produced 1987). 1972.
  17. Jack-Jack (produced 1968)
  18. Massachusetts Trust (produced 1968) 1972.
  19. Changes, with Tom O'Horgan (produced 1968).
  20. Sanibel and Captiva (broadcast 1968) 1972.
  21. One More Little Drinkie (televised 1969) 1972.
  22. Approaching Simone (produced 1970). 1973.
  23. The Tommy Allen Show (produced 1970) 1971.
  24. Grooving (produced 1972).
  25. Choose a Spot on the Floor, with Jo Ann Schmidman (produced 1972) 1972.
  26. Couplings and Groupings (monologues and sketches). 1973.
  27. Susan Peretz at the Manhattan Theatre Club (produced 1973).
  28. Thoughts (lyrics only), book by Lamar Alford (produced 1973).
  29. Nightwalk, with Sam Shepard and Jean-Claude van Itallie (produced 1973) 1975.
  30. St. Hydro Clemency; or, A Funhouse of the Lord: An Energizing Event (produced 1973).
  31. The Pioneer, and Pro-Game (produced 1973). 1975.
  32. Hothouse (produced 1974). 1975.
  33. Babes in the Bighouse (produced 1974). 1979.
  34. All Them Women, with others (produced 1974).
  35. We Can Feed Everybody Here (produced 1974).
  36. Hospital Play. 1974.
  37. Henna for Endurance. 1974.
  38. The Narco Linguini Bust (produced 1974).
  39. 100,001 Horror Stories of the Plains, with others (produced 1976). 1979.
  40. Sleazing Towards Athens. 1977; revised version (produced 1986), 1986
  41. Willie-Willa-Bill's Dope Garden. 1977.
  42. Brazil Fado (produced 1977). 1977; revised version (produced 1978), 1979.
  43. Lady Rose's Brazil Hide Out (produced 1977).
  44. American King's English for Queens (produced 1978). 1978.
  45. Goona Goona (produced 1979). 1985.
  46. Attempted Rescue on Avenue B: A Beat Fifties Comic Opera (produced 1979). 1979. Fireworks, in Holidays (produced 1979). 1992.
  47. Running Gag (lyrics only), book by Jo Ann Schmidman (produced 1979). 1981.
  48. Objective Love I (produced 1980). 1985.
  49. Scenes from Maps (produced 1980). 1980.
  50. Advances (produced 1980). 1980.
  51. Flat in Afghanistan (produced 1981). 1981.
  52. Objective Love II (produced 1981). 1985.
  53. The Trees Blew Down (produced 1981). 1981.
  54. Winners (produced 1981).
  55. Kegger (produced 1982).
  56. Fifteen Million Fifteen-Year-Olds (produced 1983). 1983.
  57. Mollie Bailey's Traveling Family Circus, Featuring Scenes from the Life of Mother Jones, music by Jo Anne Metcalf. 1983.
  58. X-rayed-late (produced 1984).
  59. Katmandu 1985.
  60. Family Talk (produced 1986).
  61. Sea of Forms (collaborative work), text and lyrics with Jo Ann Schmidman (produced 1986). 1987.
  62. Walking Through Walls (collaborative work), text and lyrics with Jo Ann Schmidman (produced 1987). 1987.
  63. Dinner's in the Blender (produced 1987). 1987.
  64. Retro (produced 1988).
  65. Amtrak (produced 1988). 1990.
  66. Headlights (produced 1988).
  67. Do You See What I'm Saying? (produced 1990). 1991.
  68. Body Leaks, with Sora Kimberlain and Jo Ann Schmidman (produced 1990).
  69. Breakfast Serial (produced 1991).
  70. Sound Fields: Are We Hear (produced 1992).

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Other:

Editor, with Jo Ann Schmidman and Sora Kimberlain, Right Brain Vacation Photos: New Plays and Production Photographs 1972-1992, 1992.

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