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RICHARD B PURDUE |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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the retired founder and President of SuperiorBooks.com, Inc.
Plays by Richard B Purdue
Circumference | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (1999) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840942415 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28633 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Searching for fame on a previously unconquered wall of rock and ice, Otto and Hans find their destiny. The world watches their progress, then their desperate battle to survive, while among the spectators, a wife sees her own fate and the fate of her children unfold. The mystery of why men attempt to defy death on a mountain and what they feel in their most hopeless moments is etched against the backdrop of a heartless environment and the masculine compulsion to strive against it. | |||||
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Gus | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (1999) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840942729 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28634 | |||
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: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | +1 extra | |||||
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Synopsis: | This one-act play focuses on a marriage plagued by class warfare. A steeplejack and a school teacher drift intensely apart, as the former sticks to his working class habits and his wife aspires to better things. The contest seems to centre on their differences over Gus, a large (and growing) pet parrot whose devilish behaviour brings a quirky end to the marital conflict. | |||||
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Heaven Is Hard, Mr Lincoln | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (1998) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840942170 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28635 | |||
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: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | + extras | |||||
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Synopsis: | Heaven is Hard, Mr Lincoln although a play that primarily deals with Abraham Lincoln's alleged mishandling of the Civil War in America, it is, at the same time, a quirky and humorous take on an event that had far reaching consequences for America in general and politics in particular. Set in Heaven including a Lower Lever (Hell), a Middle Level and an Upper Level (Heaven) the play, in the form of a trial, assesses whether Lincoln is guilty of these charges. | |||||
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In Hatred Unsurpassed | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (1999) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840942712 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28636 | |||
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: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Brilliant eccentricity and the prejudices of the media meet head-on in this drama of great hope and great disappointment. Years of research bring Pearce Miller to the shocking conclusion that Hitler carried out the Holocaust on the basis of his religious convictions. Pearce's frustration and the visceral reaction of the media against him finally bring him to a crisis and an ironic climax. | |||||
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Living Backwards | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (1998) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840942217 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28637 | |||
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: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | +extras | |||||
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Synopsis: | A play that etches in reverse the failed life of an honest man, whose life of struggle involves the subtle, grinding assault of his in-laws and the reluctant support of a Heavenly Soulmate. Despite his resistance to the irresistible forces in his life, the best that can be said at the final curtain is, "What goes around comes around.". | |||||
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