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J PETER BERGMAN (1946 - ) |
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Plays by J Peter Bergman |
Ghostly Voices: A Concert Of Old Songs | ||
| 1st Produced: | Colt Mansion, Pittsfield, Massachusetts | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Berkshire Concert Artists | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2984 | |||
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Genre: | Historical/environmental Play with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 1 soprano/1 accompanist | |||||
Notes: | Well received, with sections revived for a regional celebration of the work of Herman Melville; also televised regionally | |||||
Synopsis: | During a song recital, and inspired by the music she sings, a soprano is overwhelmed by the spirits of long dead, world-famous American authors who read in the same room during the period just following the American Civil War. Characters include Louisa May Alcott (Little Women), Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin), Oliver Wendell Holmes, Herman Melville and James Russell Lowell (publisher of The Atlantic Magazine). | |||||
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Handsome Is | ||
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced to date | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | The Berkshire Review, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2985 | |||
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 | |||||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | A world famous actor encounters a notorious killer in a steambath in Kansas City | |||||
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Madame | ||
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced to date | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | The Berkshire Review, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2986 | |||
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 | |||||
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Genre: | Mono-drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Premiered at a reading in 2000 as part of a book release celebration for a collection of short fiction by J. Peter Bergman, entitled COUNTERPOINTS Unproduced to date | |||||
Synopsis: | A no-longer-young woman avenges her mother's mistreatment and her own long history of abuse | |||||
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Sullivan and Clappertino's (and Gilbert's) THESPIS; or Gods Grown Bold | ||
| 1st Produced: | Thaddeus Clapp House, Pittsfield, Massachusetts | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Berkshire Concert Artists | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2987 | |||
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 | |||||
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Genre: | Historical/musical/enviornmental play with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | accompanist | |||||
Notes: | second in a series of three semi-historical plays about the Clapp family of Pittsfield in the 1870s.Reviewed by conductor/librettist, Charles Kondek in The Independent, Hillsdale, NY, March 5, 2004 | |||||
Synopsis: | Wealthy industrialist and his socialite neighbors attempt a production of G&S's first collaboration, Thespis, despite the internal obstacles presented by their own slippery relationships. | |||||
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