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JIMMY CURRIN |
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Plays by Jimmy Currin |
My Dinner With Dick | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fortune Theatre Studio, Dunedin | 15 Mar 2012 | ||||
Company: | Theatre As Is (Dunedin) | |||||
| 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 | #137602 | |||
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: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written and acted by Richard West and Jimmy Currin | |||||
Synopsis: | In what might be subtitled Sideways, but with beer , two men in their 5th decade ' sun-dappled billabongs in a man drought ' ponder their 30,000+ days of existence, and whether a four-course meal can be prepared with only the aid of a toaster. A play that's so funny they almost put it in the Comedy section of the Fringe guide; but then they put it back in the Theatre section cos it's so artistic and deep. No really that's a true story. "My Dinner With Andre", the 1981 Louis Malle movie of the Wallace Shawn play, took audiences by surprise by doing something that had scarce been done before: the whole film was simply two guys talking, in a restaurant, for 2 hours. Just, y'know, talking about stuff. MY DINNER WITH DICK takes that very same premise and toys with it. First, they've shaved half an hour off the running time - phew! Secondly, although it is based on Currin and West's real-life shambolic conversational habits, it throws in a desperate bid to save the world as we know it, a mysterious appearance by the ghost (OR IS HE REAL?!?!?!) of a well-known author, a brain-damaging breakdown of reality as we know it, and a 5-course buffet based entirely around toast. So.. yeah... it's actually not very similar. | |||||
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Once Was | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Theatre As Is, Dunedin, NZ | 21 Mar 2011 | ||||
Company: | The Theatre As Is (Dun) | |||||
| 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 | #126211 | |||
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: | 80 min dystopian black comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | devised by Dell McLeod, Jimmy Currin and Richard Huber | |||||
Synopsis: | In the not too distant future, things are very strange indeed | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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