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FRANK CANINO |
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Nationality: USA / Canadian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Frank received his M.A. in theatre at Catholic University then worked in New York. Thereafter he trained or worked in Canada, England, Poland, France and the U.S. as director, actor, teacher and dramaturg. Writing projects range from film scripts to musicals and dramas. His awards include a full Toronto Arts Council Grant and both year-long and short term grants from the Canada Council of the Arts, in addition to 30 awards and citations for scripts. His plays have been performed/read or workshopped Off-Off Broadway, Toronto, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sarasota, Hartford, and Memphis, and from Long Island to Texas and Alaska . The Angelina Project , published by Guernica Editions in June of 2000, has been produced at universities and high schools across the country, and had its professional premiere in Buffalo in 2008. Frank has written for the screen through the National Film Board's Video Drama Workshop and was script editor for Pacun Peras Productions for five years. He also co-wrote Looking for Angelina for Platinum Image Films, Canada which has been shown in Canada, Italy and India and received three awards to date. He currently resides at 724 Lafayette Ave, 14222 in Buffalo, NY
Plays by Frank Canino
16671 [formerly: The Morning Vigil] | ||
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| 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 | #99319 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | aka The Vigil | |||||
Synopsis: | 16671 follows a young Franciscan brother who is sent to Auschwitz in 1941. There he eventually discovers the horror of what the Holocaust will mean for everyone concerned. Day by day, he has to confront devastating challenges to his faith, his Church and his very personhood. In doing so, he discovers that a "saint" can impact your life forever - whether that person is a priest, imam, guru or rabbi. The story raises the difficult issue of Jewish-Christian relations, as it views the Holocaust from the point of view of a young religious who is totally unprepared by his training to deal with the evils he encounters. Canino traces the struggle between what we accomplish by our own actions versus what happens when we are inspired by "God's grace" - whatever that is. And in these dark and clownish times, the concept of "grace" may seem too remote and alien to merit any attention. | |||||
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All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2002 | ||||
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| 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 | #73401 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 silent walk on | |||||
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Synopsis: | In a funeral parlour two middle-aged brothers and their wives keep watch over the body of the their dead brother. Memories, accusations, nostalgia and embarrassing revelations spill out under the pressure of grief --- or maybe relief! Was the dead brother a hero or a thief? Who should get his jewellery? And what happened to those bonds? | |||||
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Alter Boys Picnic, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2007 | ||||
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| 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 | #73402 | |||
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Notes: | aka The Bishop's Sons | |||||
Synopsis: | Four priests who are coming up for retirement meet for their summer vacation. They have all been friends since seminary days. | |||||
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Angelina Project, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Alleyway Theatre Buffalo | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Guernica Editions [Toronto/Monteal] (2000) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6036 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | 1 female child [optional] | |||||
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Synopsis: | It's not a documentary or a kitchen sink soap opera about victims. But it is a play about how abuse travels from one generation to another. About how prejudice can destroy a family. And about the secrets and lies that shape you forever, even when you don't realize it. The Angelina Project is based on an actual event. In 1911 Angelina Napolitano, an Italian immigrant, killed her abusive husband as he lay asleep on Easter Sunday. Within a month she was on trial --- which lasted a single morning. Condemned to hang, her sentence was deferred until she gave birth to her fifth child. A reprieve saved her life, but she spent 11 years in jail. What happened to her and her children after that? Frank Canino creates an imaginative conjecture about the next three generations of her family. Along the way, he explores issues of abuse, violence, prejudice and media hype. | |||||
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Bishop's Sons, The [formerly >The Altar Boys' Picnic] | ||
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| 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 | #99248 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Four priests in their mid-fifties meet for a reunion at the dead bishop's summer residence where they used to come for their annual altar boys' picnic. Now the four men are at a critical moment in their careers. One of them is on the verge of leaving the priesthood, another is involved in a love affair, and still another is facing a life threatening illness. They spend the day with an aging priest and a young seminarian, a survivor from the Rwanda genocide. As the day wears on these six men reveal -- sometimes against their will-- how problematic their lives have become, and how they have become estranged from the Church which should have nurtured them. No one will be the same after this picnic, where decisions must be made and unpleasant news dealt with. | |||||
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Everybody Is Sexy For Somebody | ||
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| 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 | #99325 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy-farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Two senior couples are looking for sex in all the wrong places. The wives decide to go in for a new career as telephone sex-kittens, while the husbands pursue a new hobby that complements their wives' choice. Look out for trouble! | |||||
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Morning Vigil, The | ||
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| 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 | #6037 | |||
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Notes: | aka 16671 | |||||
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No Trifling With Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dorothy Somerset Studio Theatre, University of British Columbia | 20 Nov 1968 | ||||
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| 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 | #99322 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Chorus of Villagers | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Alfred de Musset | |||||
Synopsis: | Perdican, returns from the university of Paris to his father's chateau, where the elderly and fussy Baron presides over his pastoral kingdom. Also returning is Camille, Perdican's younger cousin, only 18 and fresh from the convent. They have not seen each other for nearly ten years, and it is the Baron's hope -- and detailed plot - that they will marry. All seems set for an ideal marriage, but Camille is withdrawn and announces her return to the convent to become a nun. A humiliated Perdican seeks consolation with a peasant girl, Rosette. So the stage is set for a pastoral love comedy. Or is it? The scenes shift between the grotesque and blinded older generation who act more like puppets than people, and the younger generation who use love as a weapon , but with no idea of what the tragic results can be. | |||||
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Sara Plays Her Game | ||
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| 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 | #99324 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Welcome to Madame Sara Joel's French class. Sara not only teaches you correct pronunciation but also relates stories from her childhood in Paris during the Second World War. She had a flirtatious mother, a jealous father - and then there were the Nazis who threatened their very existence. How did they survive? By learning to play a very special game --- a game that saved her life. After that, how difficult can French vowels be? | |||||
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Swan Queen, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Myriad Festival , New York | 1999 | ||||
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| 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 | #99318 | |||
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Genre: | monologue 35 minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Lenore Hayden Bigley encounters her step-son, her new psycho- therapist and then us as her closest friend as she deals with the shock of her diagnosis for cancer. | |||||
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Swan Queen, The & The Radical Faerie | ||
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| 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 | #6038 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy -drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Lenore Hayden-Bigley, a retired ballerina, finds unexpectedly that her stepson, Philip, has AIDS and a very bad attitude, while struggling with her own diagnosis of breast cancer. Her husband deserts her during this critical moment, leaving Philip as the only one left to help her. Slowly and clumsily, they find a way of living with each other, as they both face the threat of death. Ironically, they have each become the guide and model for the other's journey into death. This is a "comedy under a cloud", proving that art and laughter are the best revenge. | |||||
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Tango Ladies Dance On, The | ||
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| 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 | #99323 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1m [offstage voice] | |||||
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Synopsis: | Two women sit in the dressing room of a cheap "tango bar" somewhere in Toronto, preparing for their performance. Emperatriz came from Argentina 10 years ago, and has had most of her dreams stifled, while Rubidia, an emigrant of less than 5 years, still has hopes of an acting career. Each dreams of a different life and a home where they may be secure, though each has a very different image of what a "home" may be. The homes they came from were dark and troubled so that they know they can never go back. The play covers one critical day in their life when they are forced to make decisions that will affect the rest of their lives. | |||||
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Three of Us, The | ||
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| 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 | #99321 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy-drama with songs | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | Musician [optional] | |||||
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Synopsis: | Dentist Avi Feldman and teacher/poet Vinny Riccabono decide to leave New York and settle in Buffalo, where their plans also include adopting a child. In a series of short scenes interspersed with songs, Avi and Vinny pursue their often conflicting dreams in a series of encounters with friends, lawyers, and a priest, who alternately help and hinder, encourage and discourage them. Finally they adopt a bi-racial child. But the two men discover that parenting - with all its glories - also involves anxiety, jealousy, and resentment, in addition to prejudice from people around them and even between themselves. Why does anyone parent? How do you adapt to this baby, when the child brings new problems into your relationship? And can you adopt one child without thinking of adopting another? | |||||
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Wally Loves Claude Loves Wally | ||
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| 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 | #99320 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Wally and Claude move into their first house, but the unexpected arrival of Claude's mother drives Wally to the local park where he is entrapped and arrested for indecent assault. The script traces the comic -- and not so comic -- dilemmas of dealing with mothers, a court case, religious differences, AIDS, cultural friction ---- and trying to maintain a relationship in an unfriendly world. | |||||
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