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DIANNE LOCOCO |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Expense accounts and monthly reports were the only fiction Dianne wrote until she recently started writing plays. A Cordon Bleu cook, she has freelanced as a food/humour journalist. Her improv background is now put to good use as a professional simulator for Ryerson University's Interpersonal Skills Training Centre. She also acts and directs in community theatre
Plays by Dianne Lococo
Alien Guest | ||
| 1st Produced: | Reading, New Ideas Festival, Alumnae Theatre, Toronto | 2006 | ||||
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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 | #46065 | |||
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Genre: | Romantic comedy/drama,2 acts Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Finalist, Playwrights of Spring Playwriting Contest, 2008 | |||||
Synopsis: | Lt. Baron Hans von Preussen, a Luftwaffe pilot, is in a POW camp in a small Ontario town in World War II. It is 1945 and the war is over. While Hans awaits repatriation to Germany, he is the guest of a Canadian minister and his charmingly eccentric family for Christmas dinner. Twenty-five years later he returns. | |||||
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Dying Family Tradition, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #92389 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Finalist Samuel French Canadian Playwrights Contest, 2008. Finalist, Canadian National Playwriting Competition, Theatre BC, 2008-jurors' comments: dark humour captures interest and a sense of 'what happens next'&original idea&dynamic relationships&very funny&fresh&script is tight&funniest character in this year's competition&fun ending | |||||
Synopsis: | Cadence arrives home from her mother's funeral. She is all alone in the world-until her dead mother appears. Then her dead father. Then Melody, an Australian, bashes into Cadence's home and life, insisting that she is Cadence's long-lost sister. A mean yogi further disrupts the family by staking claim to Cadence's inheritance. People die. It's a family tradition. | |||||
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Georgian Bay Triangle, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | New Ideas Festival | |||||
| 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 | #46066 | |||
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: | Comedy, running time 25 minutes One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | A long-married couple from the city celebrate their anniversary at an isolated island cottage on Georgian Bay. They are not cottage people. The cottage is rustic: no dishwasher and no air conditioning. Even worse: no electricity, no screens, no bathtub and no plumbing. No gin, either. Can they and their marriage survive? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Head In A Fog | ||
| 1st Produced: | London Fringe Festival | 2005 | ||||
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 | #46795 | |||
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: | Dark Comedy, 30 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | A come-hither Virgin Mary; a mother who views life through a martini glass and a sainted wife haunt a man drifting on the Atlantic | |||||
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I Can't Go On Without My Dog | ||
| 1st Produced: | Alumnae Theatre, New Ideas Festival, Reading | 2009 | ||||
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 | #61559 | |||
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Genre: | comedy-30 minutes One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 1 bitch | |||||
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Synopsis: | Who is the bigger bitch? The prima donna actress or her mongrel that will not get off the stage? A hapless director and cast give a nervous playwright pains at the dress rehearsal for the premiere of her play. It is community theatre. | |||||
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Kisses on the Bottom | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre & Company, Kitchener, New Works Fest | 2002 | ||||
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 | #46067 | |||
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: | Romantic Comedy, 40 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | A middle-aged widow develops a romance by e-mail with a younger man. Her late husband, who is more attentive to her in death than in life, and the younger man's ex-wife stir things up. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Perfect Manhattan, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Galt Little Theatre, Cambridge, Ontario | - - - | ||||
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 | #46068 | |||
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: | 100 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Socially inappropriate neighbours from hell move in next door to a couple in a posh neighbourhood and wreak havoc with the couple and the wife's imaginary lover. | |||||
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