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ROBERT ASTLE |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Plays by Robert Astle |
Hats Of Mr Zenobe, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Smokebrush Arts Centre, Colorado Springs, Colorado | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | NuAge Editions, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1238 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Astle, Robert; Jackson, Jim; Limbos, Agnes | |||||
Synopsis: | In an amazing succession of hats - which substitute for his squashed fedora, a bizarre military helmet, a dictaphone through which man may speak to God, a miner's helmet with lamp, and many others - Mr. Zenobe's own heart-wrenching story of exile, conscription, internment, and dispossession unfolds. | |||||
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Heart of a Dog | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edmonton Fringe Festival | 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | NuAge Editions, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1239 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Mikhail Bulgakov. Written with Agnes Limbos | |||||
Synopsis: | This one-man show is a dog's-eye view of Russia the Rational based on Mikhail Bulgakov's corrosive 1925 satire. What emerges, in fits and starts is a canine chronicle of privations | |||||
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Piano Tuner, 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 | #45967 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | When Bob, a blind piano tuner, is summoned out to a house on the prairie to tune a derelict piano, he discovers that the piano has been "prepared" with sounds, objects and stories from his own past which he must confront in order to bring the instrument back into tune. | |||||
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