|
|
GORDON ARMSTRONG |
|
Nationality: Canadian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
|
|
Literary Agent: n/a |
Please send me a biography and information about this Playwright
xxx doollee
Plays by Gordon Armstrong |
Blue Dragons | ||
| 1st Produced: | Canadian Stage Company, Toronto | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | G. Gordon Shillingford Publishing (Scirocco Drama), 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1088 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Through memory and imagination, Simon searches for truth and the play explores relationships, the quality of living, and the nature of love in a world of cynicism, fear, and AIDS | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Hashisch | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vancouver Fringe Festival | 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1089 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Black Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A ghastly couple plot the downfall of three young women in Paris of the 1920's. A dark romp of insatiable appetites, exquisite manners and meticulous murder | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Mona Lisa Toodle-oo , The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Play Centre, Vancouver | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1090 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Mistakenly arrested in connection with the theft of the Mona Lisa, Guillaume Apollinaire waits in vain for his Cubist circle of friends, including rising young artist Pablo Picasso, to come forward and clear his name. A dialectic between the civilized and the primitive | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Plague Of The Gorgeous | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gastown Theatre, Vancouver | 1995 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | In Plague of the Gorgeous & Other Tales, G. Gordon Shillingford Publishing (Scirocco Drama), 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1091 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A unique approach to theatre and to the subject of AIDS. Remarkable pageantry. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Scary Stories | ||
| 1st Produced: | Martha Cohen Theatre, Calgary, Alberta | 1995 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Blizzard Publishing, Canada, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1092 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The 1954 senate committee's investigations into the effect of horror comics on juveniles, and the newly imposed Comics Code Authority are a backdrop for this subtle commentary on the state of censorhip and freedom of the artist | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Secrets of an Usherette | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in two plays by Gordon Armstrong, Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1093 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
| |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Spot | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in two plays by Gordon Armstrong, Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1094 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
| |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Three Questions | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1095 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
| |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Ultravista | ||
| 1st Produced: | as A Map of the Senses by Touchstone Theatre, Vancouver. | 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1096 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | At the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, a young Canadian woman collapses. When she awakes in hospital, she doesn't know who she is. Her condition is diagnosed as the Stendhal syndrome, experienced when confronted with the powerful merging of spirituality and sensuality in great works of Renaissance art. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
