DEBORAH BREVOORT
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Deborah Brevoort
Blue Moon Over Memphis |
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| 1st Published: | in Japanese by Journal of Noh Research Archives, Musashino Univeristy, Tokyo | - | ||
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| Genre: | Noh Drama about Elvis Presley | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 |
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Synopsis: Judy, an Elvis Presley fan, makes a pilgrimage to Graceland on the anniversary of Elvis's death. During the candlelight vigil she meets the ghost of Elvis. | ||||
Blue Sky Boys, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 8 actors; 15 parts | Female | - |
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Synopsis: What inspired the men who made the Apollo Moon Landing happen. Buck Rogers and the Red Baron. | ||||
Cheechako Treatment |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Ten min | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Inspired by the play "The Contrast" (1787) by Raoyall Tyler and a minstrel sketch "The Colored Senators" | ||||
Synopsis: Visitors to Alaska are frightened by tales of ferocious bears | ||||
Coyote Goes Salmon Fishing |
| 1st Produced: | Perseverance Theatre, Juneau, Alaska | 1996 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Musical Comedy | Musical | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: Book & lyrics by Deborah Brevoort, Music by Scott Davenport Richards | ||||
Synopsis: Tells the story of the creation of the world and the evolution of man. Five actors play 8 characters ranging from Mosquitoes and Slugs to Brown Bears and Eagles taking the audience on a comic romp through the stages of life, including birth, coming of age, falling in love and death. | ||||
Goodbye My Island |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | 1g and chorus of 12-16 including 3 children | |||
Notes: Book and Lyrics by Deborah Brevoort, music by David Friedman | ||||
Synopsis: A fictionalized account of the removal of the King Islanders from their home in the Bering Sea of Alaska by the US Government in 1963 told through the eyes of different community members who experienced the loss of their island, community and culture. Inspired by the book by Jean Rogers. | ||||
Into The Fire |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: Alaskan fishing village is torn apart by a morals controversy when the mayor's wife walks naked through town in a desperate attempt to get the attention of her philandering husband | ||||
King Island Christmas |
| 1st Produced: | Perseverance Theatre, Juneau, Alaska | 1997 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Cast album recorded by Thomas Z. Shepard, orchestrations by Peter Matz, released by the King Island Record Company | 1999 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Christmas oratorio/musical | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | 1b 1g 16 chorus | |||
Notes: libretto by Deborah Brevoort, music by David Friedman | ||||
Synopsis: A heartwarming story about the power of community and the ability of the human spirit to overcome adversity inspired by a true story from the Bering Sea of Alaska. Based on the book by Jean Rogers. | ||||
Of Men and Mountains |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Monologue play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: A woman returns to Alaska and she is looking for a man. | ||||
Poetry Of Pizza, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: Professor Sarah Middleton arrives in Denmark on a teaching fellowship only to find her life thrown off-course when she stops by the Vermundsgade Pizzeria and falls suddenly in love with the pizza maker, a Kurdish refugee from Iraq who courts her with the most unusual pizzas. | ||||
Signs Of Life |
| 1st Produced: | earlier version done at Perseverance Theatre, Juneau, Alaska. Current version unproduced | 1990 | ||
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| 1st Published: | 2007 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: On a magical night in New Jersey, the stars talk to Abe, Sal gets a magic tattoo and a journey begins. Abe and Sal take off across the country, following the stars and looking for Birth and Life. Loosely based on the Sarah and Abraham story from the Old Testament. | ||||
Wet Willies |
| 1st Produced: | New Plays Festival, Browns University | 1992 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Monologue play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: A trip to Wet Willies' car wash and an encounter with a bear | ||||
Women Of Lockerbie, The |
| 1st Produced: | New Group and Womens Project Productions, off-Broadway, NYC | 2003 | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Dramatists 2001 Anthology Smith & Kraus publishers | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Tragedy, 120 min | Tragedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 |
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Notes: Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT, 1999. Won the silver medal in the Onassis International Playwriting Competition in 2001 and was awarded the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award | ||||
Synopsis: A mother from New Jersey roams the hills of Lockerbie Scotland, looking for her son's remains which were lost in the crash of Pan Am 103. She meets the Women of Lockerbie, who are trying to obtain the clothing of the victims found in the plane's wreckage so that they can be washed and returned to the families. Written in the structure of a Greek tragedy, it is a poetic drama about the triumph of love over hate. | ||||