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HRANT ALIANAK (1950 - ) |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Kensington Literary Representation |
born Khartoum, Sudan
Plays by Hrant Alianak
Big Hit, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Factory Theatre Studio Cafe, Toronto. | 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #446 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | About an experimental, politically incorrect writer with a fistful of bad reviews and his quest to stop his killer streak and come up with that "Big Hit | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Blues, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | G. Gordon Shillingford Publishing (Scirocco Drama), 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0920486351 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #447 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| A philosophical bartender, a broken-hearted hooker, an idealistic novelist and a gal from the Sally Ann--four characters play out their desperation and dreams in a dingy New York bar circa 1951. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Brandy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-Op, Toronto, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #448 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A clearing in the jungle; The Big Guy, The Little Guy, The Dizzy Dame, The Dumb Blonde. Sexy, fast and furiously funny action as The Little Guy wins the heart of the Dumb Blonde. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Christmas | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Return of the Big Five, Finglow Plays, Toronto, 1974 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #449 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a Christmas Tree brightens the life of a young couple, but all too soon, the holidays are over. Shamelessly sentimental | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dorothea | ||
| 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 | #105366 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Four Little Girls | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Theatre, Toronto | 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 | #450 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | written by Pablo Picasso | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Good Death | ||
| 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 | #105367 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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I Love You, Baby Blue 2 | ||
| 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 | #451 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Hrant Alianak and Paul Kelman based on an original idea by Paul Thompson | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lucky Strike | ||
| 1st Produced: | Factory Theatre Lab, Toronto. | 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0887544729 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #452 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Holed up in a North African warehouse, a desperate gunman, his unfaithful moll and his partner in crime repeatedly replay their motions of loss and betrayal. All action, little dialogue | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mathematics | ||
| 1st Produced: | Factory Theatre Lab | 1972 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-Op, Toronto, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #453 | |||
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Genre: | 90 sec | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a play for, and by, objects, from a feather duster to Playboy Magazine. A comic-satiric average day of an average couple. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mousetown | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #454 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Hoods and "Dames" love, cheat on and shoot each other in this 1920's detective flick with lots of music and action | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Night | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #455 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Two gangsters. Two molls. Exploring the hallucinatory eruptions of love, lust and rage in the doomed underworld of 1960 New York | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Noah's Kiosk | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #456 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Passion And Sin | ||
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Free Theatre | 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Canadian Theatre Review (CTR 19), 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #457 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A surrealist, satirical gangster drama set in a dilapidated shack on a Havana beach | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tantrums | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1972 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-Op, Toronto, 1972 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #458 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a starkly powerful play about social and personal collapse in 4 parts | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Violinist And The Flower Girl, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1972 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #459 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | 1920`s silent movie with music. Heiress loses fortune, hits the skids, poor violinist saves her from lecherous attacker. They fall in love, get married. But when the violinist falls for a rich enchantress, tragedy ensues | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Walls Of Africa, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | G. Gordon Shillingford Publishing (Scirocco Drama), 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #460 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In 1950s London, Mr. Pym, a shy middle-aged academic, rents a room from divorcee Mrs. Fields. Alone upstairs, Mr. Pym dreams of the perfect woman. Downstairs on the sofa, a book and a glass of sherry her only companions, Mrs. Fields longs for warmth and human contact | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Western | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-Op, Toronto, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #461 | |||
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Genre: | 15 min Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Tree travellers, a gunfighter, an eastern belle, and a farmer's daughter are ambushed by bloodthirsty Indians. A typical story of love, violence, survival. ..so typical in fact that the dialogue is composed of titles of Western movies and the names of Western stars. | |||||
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