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MARION ANDRE (1921 - ) |
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Nationality: French Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Playwrights Guild of Canada |
Active as director and writer in theatre, radio and television in Poland, Mr. Andre (Czerniecki) has been in Canada since 1957. His theatre experience includes that of Artistic Director, Saidye Bronfmari Centre, Montreal, 1967-72; Founder and Artistic Director of Theatre Plus, Toronto, 1973 to present; teacher-director, National Theatre School, Montreal and York University, Toronto. This playwright has had numerous dramas and documentaries aired on CBC radio and television.
Plays by Marion Andre
Aching Heart of Samuel Kleinerman , The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Plus, Toronto. | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Gates, Mosaic Press, Canada, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #815 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In 1936 Berlin, Kleinerman's moral convictions are put to the ultimate test with the arrival of a friend escaped from a concentration camp. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Betrayer, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | CBC Radio, Vancouver | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #816 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A variation on a theme of Jean Paul Sartre's "The Wall | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Captive of Yesteryear | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #817 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Set on a sandy beach in Florida, it depicts the emotional torment of a Jewish/Polish immigrant to Canada, now a married university professor who accidently meets and is strongly attracted to a young Polish woman. He then discovers that she is his daughter | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Glu Glub, or The Power of Persuasion | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #818 | |||
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Genre: | Tragic Farce Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Set on the planet Archaica, a top banker and his cronies endorse a "medical" treatment that purifies human skin and so entrenching at the same time the rule of the racist persuasion. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Invented Lover , The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Plus, Toronto | 1980 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #819 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written with Martin Bronstein | |||||
Synopsis: | A Muskoka summer mansion is the setting for this sex farce | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sand , The | ||
| 1st Produced: | York University, North York, Ontario | 1979 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Canadian Theatre Review, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #820 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A Jewish family lives in fear for their lives as they struggle to maintain a sense of themselves and of God during wartime in the Polish ghetto | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Savage Storm (Soldat Hans Stumpf) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #821 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In 1942, a family of Polish Jews and a common German soldier find themselves tied together by Fate. (Soldat Hans Stumpf | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Skinny Dip Of An Aging Professor | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Verdict of Fire, Mosaic Press, Canada, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #822 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A humorous and heart-rending account of a professor's mid-life crisis | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Snob, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Plus, Toronto | 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | PLCN Chapbook, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #823 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Carl Sternheim | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in pre-WWI Germany, a man sacrifices family and friends in his struggle to rise from bourgeois origins but is redeemed by love | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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