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W O MITCHELL (1914 - 1998) |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Plays by W O Mitchell |
Back To Beulah | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre | 31 Jan 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Dramtaic W O Mitchell" published by Gage Distribution 1982 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0771597282 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112600 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Dr Anders has set up a half way house for patients from the Beulah Mental Institution. She plans to leave three patients there over Christmas but they rebel and hold her hostage and she is forced to take their medication | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacKrimmon, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Calgary | 06 Mar 1979 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "The Devil Is A Travelling Man" published by Oxford University Press (Canada) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0195430042 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24521 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 1 | ||
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| The Devil disguised as a travelling salesman overhears Wullie MacKrimmon make a wish about his curling team and he approaches Wullie. The upshot of this is Wullie's team play a match against the Devil's team of Judas Iscariot, Guy Fawkes and Macbeth | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Day Jake Made Her Rain, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #90576 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Also known as "Jake and the Kid" | |||||
Synopsis: | In a prairie town in 1944 drought threatens to ruin the crops. Jake a farmhand starts claiming to be a rain-maker. He sets about building a rain making machine | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Devil's Instrument | ||
| 1st Produced: | Peterborough Theatre Guild | 1972 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "The Devil Is A Travelling Man" published by Oxford University Press (Canada) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0195430042 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112601 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | others | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Jacob is a sixteen year old Hutterite Protestant. He is given a mouth organ by a stranger. He plays it to his sweetheart Marta in the moonlight. The elders are appalled. The mouth organ is smashed on the anvil as it must have come from the Devil. It is also arranged for Marta to marry someone else. Jacob decides it is time to rebel | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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For Those In Peril On The Sea | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Calgary | 1982 | ||||
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 | #112602 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Margaret Arnold runs a boarding - she has six lodgers. Her son is Howard who is seventeen but with the mind of a twelve year old. Howard tells the oldest boarder, Lon, of his dream to build a boat | |||||
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Kite, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Dramtaic W O Mitchell" published by Gage Distribution 1982 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0771597282 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #90577 | |||
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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| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The world's oldest man decides his time is up and that he will die at his 117th birthday party. Can his great-great-great grandson persuade him otherwise? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Royalty Is Royalty | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1959 | ||||
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 | #112603 | |||
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 | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A Royal visit to a little Canadian town - but who should present the bouquet? The Mayor's daughter, a native American boy, the daughter of the town's richest man, or the college's top boy? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Wild Rose | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1967 | ||||
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 | #112604 | |||
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: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | 2 boys; 2 girls; extras | |||||
Notes: | Music by Morris Surdin; lyrics and book by W O Mitchell | |||||
Synopsis: | A Royal visit to a little Canadian town - but who should present the bouquet? The Mayor's daughter, a native American boy, the daughter of the town's richest man, or the college's top boy? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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