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  • Pick Up Ax
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    Pick Up Ax

    Anthony Clarvoe
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    Play Description

    Silicon Valley greed is the subject of Anthony Clarvoe’s PICK UP AX, a reference to a command in a computer game. Brian and Keith are out of ideas to move their software company forward when a stranger, Mick, arrives, ready and willing to do what it takes to get ahead, even if it means extortion.

    Production Info

    Cast: 3 total (3 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
    Categories: The Plays Tags: 1980s
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    “PICK UP AX … has a smart, sassy script that’s studded with bright, funny dialogue … Clarvoe’s very hip script centers on the fortunes of two bright young men, Keith Rienzi and Brian Weiss, who have bootstrapped themselves from a free-wheeling, penny-ante operation into a multi-million dollar computer software corporation through Keith’s inventive brilliance and Brian’s business instincts. But at twenty-seven, Keith is losing some of his whiz-kid brain, Brian’s financial pipeline is drying up, and their supplier is refusing to deliver vital microchips to them. Just when these two aging wunderkind are facing disaster, in walks … Mick Palomar, a slick operator armed with an M B A and a flair for old-fashioned extortion …” —Richard Christiansen, Chicago Tribune

    “PICK UP AX is a fast, funny, entertaining play about a fascinating subject: the growing pains of the personal computer industry … PICK UP AX is likely to be an audience-pleaser because of the sheer exuberance and wit of the script …” —Brin., Variety

    Author(s)

    • Anthony Clarvoe

      Anthony Clarvoe’s plays PICK UP AX, SHOW AND TELL, THE LIVING, LET’S PLAY TWO, THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, AMBITION FACING WEST, WALKING OFF THE ROOF, CTRL+ALT+DELETE, THE ART OF SACRIFICE, GUNPOWDER JOE, and PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE and his translations of Henrik Ibsen’s GHOSTS and THE WILD DUCK are published by Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. He has received American Theatre Critics, Will Glickman, Bay Area Theatre Critics, Los Angeles Drama Critics, Garland, Elliot Norton, and Edgerton New American Play awards; fellowships from the Guggenheim, Irvine, Jerome, and McKnight Foundations, National Endowment for the Arts, Theater Communications Group/Pew Charitable Trusts, and Kennedy Center; commissions from South Coast Rep, Mark Taper Forum, and Playwrights Horizons; the Berrilla Kerr Award for his contributions to American theater; and many others. He teaches dramatic literature at OLLI@UC Berkeley and playwriting in Oakland, CA. A native San Franciscan and long-time resident of New York City and the Midwest, he lives with his family in Berkeley, CA.

    Book Information

    Publisher BPPI
    Publication Date 11/1/1991
    Pages 70
    ISBN 9780881451030

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    Originally produced by the Eureka Theater, San Francisco

    In addition, the following must appear within all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play:

    Pick Up Ax is produced
    by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
    www.broadwayplaypub.com

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