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JACK WINTER (1936 - ) |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Gary Goddard Agency Ltd |
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Plays by Jack Winter |
And They'll Make Peace | ||
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1962 | ||||
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 | #37816 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Full-length adaptation of Aristophanes' "Lysistrata". | |||||
Synopsis: | A sex-strike in ancient Greece | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Before Compiegne | ||
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1963 | ||||
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 | #37817 | |||
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Genre: | full-length drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The playwright's (and TWP's) first professional production. | |||||
Synopsis: | Joan of Arc's final days. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Caboose To Moose Jaw | ||
| 1st Produced: | unproduced | - - - | ||||
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 | #29790 | |||
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Genre: | full-length drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written in 2001, the playwright's personal sequel to "Ten Lost Years" (see below) | |||||
Synopsis: | Across middle Europe, the mid Atlantic, and mid-century Canada - the history of one Jewish family's various exiles and journeys into the present. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Centre, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ontario Housing Corporation in Sudbury, Ontario | 1971 | ||||
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 | #37818 | |||
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Genre: | full-length drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Commissioned by The Ontario Housing Corporation for its 19th annual housing conference | |||||
Synopsis: | A group struggle against conditions in Canada's oldest and worst public housing development | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Death of Woyzeck, the | ||
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1965 | ||||
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 | #37819 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Georg Buchner | |||||
Synopsis: | An abused ordinary soldier murders his mistress | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Family Matters | ||
| 1st Produced: | Concordia U | 1988 | ||||
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 | #37820 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Inadvertently commissioned by the Department of Drama. | |||||
Synopsis: | Several students examine their personal histories and the nature of internal exile. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Golem of Venice, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 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 | #37821 | |||
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Genre: | full-length drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Medieval Jews and Christians in religious (superstitious) and economic (mercantile)combat | |||||
Synopsis: | Two rabbis and two ecclesiasts battle to save Shylock and Antonio's widow . . . and to benefit and to entertain themselves | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Golovlovo | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC radio | 1988 | ||||
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 | #37822 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A full-length dramatisation of Saltykov-Shchedrin's novel, The Golovlovs | |||||
Synopsis: | The decline and demise of a 19th century Russian family | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Happy Birthday, Death! | ||
| 1st Produced: | CBC radio | 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 | #37823 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based on correspondance between General Leslie Groves, Robert Oppenheimer and President Harry S. Truman. | |||||
Synopsis: | The building and testing of the first atomic bomb | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hey Rube! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1965 | ||||
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 | #37824 | |||
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Genre: | full-length circus drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A new version of T.W.P.'s original 1961 production | |||||
Synopsis: | The life and death . . . and life of a contemporary circus | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Letters from the Earth | ||
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1973 | ||||
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 | #37825 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A full-length dramatisation of satirical prose by Mark Twain with contemporary additions | |||||
Synopsis: | Satan visits Earth and witnesses the history of mankind | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mask Of The Bear | ||
| 1st Produced: | CBC TV | 1988 | ||||
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 | #37826 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A dramatisation of linked stories in Margaret Lawrence's collection "A Bird In The House". | |||||
Synopsis: | A young prairie girl experiences death in the family, and plots her escape from female servitude | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mechanic, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1964 | ||||
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 | #37827 | |||
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Genre: | full-length drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A contemporary take on Moliere and the commedia del arte | |||||
Synopsis: | An automobile mechanic pretends to be a medical doctor to help out two lovers . . . and himself | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mr Pickwick | ||
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1972 | ||||
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 | #37828 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A dramatisation of Charles Dickens' "Pickwick Papers". | |||||
Synopsis: | Mr. Pickwick bumbles through life high and low and lower | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Party Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | Studio TheatreNational Arts Centre | 1969 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1972 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37829 | |||
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Genre: | long one-act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | commissioned and first produced by the National Arts Centre to celebrate its opening in 1969 | |||||
Synopsis: | Joseph Goebbels, the Director of Ottawa's National Arts Centre, reviews his past nationalist artistic productions: Nazi party rallies, propeganda films, inflamatory broadcasts, etc. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ravers | ||
| 1st Produced: | unproduced | - - - | ||||
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 | #29846 | |||
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Genre: | full-length drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written in 2003 with the co-operation of "service users" at the Bath City branch of MIND. | |||||
Synopsis: | Women whose lives are defined and entwined by schizophrenia pass a day in rest, recreation, and death. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Summer 76 | ||
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1976 | ||||
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 | #37830 | |||
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Genre: | full-length Olympics play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Piece d'occasion to honour the Montreal Olympics | |||||
Synopsis: | A satirical history of the modern Olympics | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ten Lost Years | ||
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1974 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in CTR Anthology, University of Toronto Press, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37831 | |||
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Genre: | full-length musical adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written with Cedric Smith. A full-length dramtisation of Barry Broadfoot's book of interviews | |||||
Synopsis: | The Great Canadian Depression as seen by victims of it. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Untimely Death | ||
| 1st Produced: | CBC radio | 1976 | ||||
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 | #37832 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Thirty minute one-act play for voices | |||||
Synopsis: | The life and death of a Prince Edward Island farmer are accounted for by his wives, family and friends . . . and by himself | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Waiting | ||
| 1st Produced: | Department of Manpower and Immigra-tion, Toronto | 1972 | ||||
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 | #37833 | |||
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Genre: | full-length drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Comissioned by the Local Initiatives Program | |||||
Synopsis: | Tales of unemployment as experienced by four applicants waiting for an interview at Canada Manpower | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Who Am I?: | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Performing Arts in Canada, Vol. 7, No. 4, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37834 | |||
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Genre: | play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A response to a request by Performing Arts In Canada for an article | |||||
Synopsis: | A short circular dialogue about playwrighting. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Wrecked Blackship, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | CBC TV | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Performing Arts in Canada, Vol. 7, No. 2,, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37835 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Radio, television and stage productions | |||||
Synopsis: | A 19th century clipper ship founders. The rescue attempts reveal much about the coolie trade and U.S./Japan international relations then and now | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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You Can't Get Here from There | ||
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1975 | ||||
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 | #37836 | |||
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Genre: | full-length drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | An examination of Canada's role in the murder of Allende's Chile. The eve of the premiere was the occasion for the fire-bombing of TWP. The theatre was re-built, and the play opened there 3 months later | |||||
Synopsis: | Asylum seekers occupy the Canadian Embassy in Santiago, and struggle to enter Canada | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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