RONNIE BURKETT   (1957 - )

Nationality:   Canadian    Email:   n/a   Website:   n/a

Literary Agent:  John Lambert and Associates  

RONNIE BURKETT

10 Days on Earth

1st Produced:

Canadian Stage Company, Toronto, Ontario, Canada >>>

2006

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Playwrights Canada Press (2008)

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0887547379

Music:

-

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#47905

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

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Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

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Synopsis:

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RONNIE BURKETT

Billy Twinkle: Requiem for a Golden Boy

1st Produced:

Barbican, London, EUR >>>

2009

Company:

Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes

1st Published:

Playwrights Canada Press

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0887548857

Music:

-

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#96061

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Genre:

Puppets Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

1

Female

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Notes:

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Billy Twinkle (breathlessly played by Burkett) is a suicidal cruise-ship puppeteer. Once the golden boy on the Saskatchewan puppet circuit, Billy has fallen into a compromised, commercial cul-de-sac. His spark gone, his marionettes tired and crude (showgirl Rusty Knockers bursts out of her corset), and his career at sea, Billy is tempted by the oblivion beyond the ship's edge. Enter Sid, Billy's deceased mentor and boyhood hero. Revitalised as a hand-puppet apparition, Sid attempts to galvanise his wilting protege by replaying (puppet style) Billy's life before him. The ensuing biopic is a bedlam of the comic, the endearing and the absurd, as the extent of Burkett's dexterity and imagination unfurl. We meet Benji, a twisted ginger modernist about as cool as credit based economies; Brian, Billy's one time boyfriend who cradles a poodle called Mr Hamlet and endorses horizontal stripes for the podgy; Doreen Gray, a bum-bagged fundamentalist whose own hand-puppet (imagine Kermit and Christ fused) espouses dogma in the medium of rap ('His crib is really famous&'); and a mental, slippered pensioner with inflatable pink genitals. The list, quite wonderfully, goes on.
- Ben Aitken, British Theatre Guide

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RONNIE BURKETT

Happy

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Coteau Books (2003)

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1895836882

Music:

-

doollee no

#92828

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Parts:

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Notes:

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RONNIE BURKETT

Provenance

1st Produced:

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Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Playwrights Canada Press (2005)

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0887547881

Music:

-

doollee no

#92829

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

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Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

-

Synopsis:

An art historian travels to Europe to see and research a painting of a beautiful young man known as "Tender". It now hangs in a brothel presided over by a Madam who is verging on madness.

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RONNIE BURKETT

Street of Blood

1st Produced:

Winnipeg: Manitoba Theatre Centre, Manitoba, CAN >>>

1998

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Coteau Books (2003)

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1895836875

Music:

2003

doollee no

#78391

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Parts:

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Parts other:

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Notes:

-

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RONNIE BURKETT

Tinka's New Dress

1st Produced:

Winnipeg: Manitoba Theatre Centre, Manitoba, CAN >>>

1994

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Coteau Books (2003)

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1895836868

Music:

-

doollee no

#78392

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

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Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

-

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

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