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C E WILKINSON (1948 - ) |
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Studied playwriting and theater at Sarah Lawrence College with Wilford Leach. Co-founded KukuRyku Theater Lab at the Cloud Chamber, New York City. Performed, directed, wrote, taught, toured experimental theater festivals in US and Europe: La MaMa ETC, Baltimore Theater Festival, Munich Theater Festival, Teatre Laboratorium, Wroclaw, Poland, others. Wrote and produced in NYC "Sacco and Vanzetti Meet Julius and Ethel Rosenberg!! (or, Patrick Henry in Hell)" and "Mr. Cripple Kicks the Bucket." Moved to Kathmandu Nepal, founded the Extreme Off-Off Broadway Alliance, which produced many plays and staged reading of "You Only Hurt the One You Love;" also workshopped at Cape Rep in New England 1998.
Plays by C E Wilkinson
Mr Cripple Kicks the Bucket | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Cloud Chamber, NYC | 1977 | ||||
Company: | Kuku Ryku Theatre Lab | |||||
| 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 | #63645 | |||
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: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | In this odd expressionist play, an unbelievably old gentleman on his death-bed, a retired hunter of swans, struggles to make his whole life's work understood and appreciated by his two nursing-home nun nurses, the callous Mother Organza and her sidekick, sweet but sniveling Sister Swallow. Finding it's all for naught, he expires. | |||||
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Sacco and Vanzetti Meet Julius and Ethel Rosenberg!!! (or, Patrick Henry in Hell) | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Cloud Chamber, NYC | 1978 | ||||
Company: | Kuku Ryku Theatre Lab | |||||
| 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 | #63134 | |||
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: | Full length black comedy (with music) Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 6 | ||
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Notes: | some parts can be doubled, some can be played by males or females (Mao Tse-Tung, Jonathan Livingston Seagull). Main parts: Patrick Henry, Marilyn Monroe, Ethel Rosenberg, Julius Rosenberg | |||||
Synopsis: | A vaudeville view of guilt-edged modern history, in which the wit, wisdom and bodies of numerous political, literary and cultural heroes and villains are artfully juxtaposed without undue reverence for "March of Time" theories of linear development. Screams "J'Accuse at everyone from Leon Trotsky to Jonathan Livingston Seagull and William Randolph Hearst's Mistress. | |||||
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She Just Beats Her Dog to Death Because She is Unhappy | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Kuku Ryku Theatre Lab | |||||
| 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 | #63647 | |||
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: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Writer Peter Porter has a lodger, the beautiful Miss Emma, a young girl of a delicate disposition. When Amanda Opal comes to check on Miss Emma's progress, Peter suddenly learns the awful truth about everything, and then suddenly learns that even the awful truth is other than it seems. But it's too late. | |||||
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You Only Hurt the One You Love -- a play about lethal romances | ||
| 1st Produced: | British Council, Kathmandu | 1993 | ||||
Company: | The Extreme Off-Off Broadway Alliance, Kathmandu, Nepal | |||||
| 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 | #63646 | |||
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: | Two act black comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | voices | |||||
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Synopsis: | Reality and illusion become indissociably united as two young male brutal murderers and their female murderees are mysteriously re-united on a local access cable television show in deepest darkest Ohio. Not that there's anything wrong with that? | |||||
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