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LEAR DEBESSONET |
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Plays by Lear deBessonet |
Death Might Be Your Santa Claus | ||
| 1st Produced: | 15 Nassau Street, NY | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Stillpoint Productions | |||||
| 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 | #54753 | |||
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: | site-specific work Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | conceived by Lear deBessonet with additional text by Juliana Francis | |||||
Synopsis: | Inspired by an article in The New Yorker titled 'God Doesn't Need Ole Anthony', Death Might Be Your Santa Claus explores the intersection of faith and capitalism in American today. The show centers around Ole Anthony, a 68-year-old man in Dallas who leads a group of former homeless and addicts in an undercover spy operation to expose televangelistic fraud. Other source material includes the faith-based merchandise department at Wal-Mart, testimonies of lightning victims, the oncology ward, Internet prayer circles, 1940s musicals, and Tammy Faye | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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St Joan of the Stockyards | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #68085 | |||
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: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | |||||
Synopsis: | This is a "re-invention" of Bertolt Brecht's play St. Joan of the Stockyards, created and directed by Lear deBessonet. The press release says, "Set in a richly imagined anachronistic world of 1920s Chicago and featuring original music by country/blues singer Kelley McRae, intrepid St. Joan and her Slaughterhouse King weave a cautionary tale for the 21st century.". | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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transFigures | ||
| 1st Produced: | Julia Miles (WPP) Theatre, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Women's Project | |||||
| 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 | #63904 | |||
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: | site-specific work Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | conceived by Lear deBessonet; Text by Bathsheba Doran, Charles Mee, Erin Sax Seymour, Russell Shorto, Joan of Arc, and Henrik Ibsen | |||||
Synopsis: | inspired by the Jerusalem Syndrome (the well-documented psychosis that causes ordinary tourists to channel Biblical figures, create togas out of hotel bed-sheets, and parade through the Holy City as Moses, Mary Magdalene, Jesus, and other religious icons). Created from sources as varied as the writings of Bathsheba Doran and Joan of Arc, scientific journals, and post-it notes from the desks of corporate secretaries, the play skips from New York to Jerusalem to map the intersection of religious revelation and insanity. | |||||
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