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MARSHALL BUTTON |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: ACTRA Maritimes |
Founder and artistic director of The Comedy Asylum, this playwright-actor-director, is understandably proud that since its 1981 launching, his professional touring theatre company based in Fredericton, New Brunswick has run in the black with no government funding.
Plays by Marshall Button
Camp Harmony | ||
| 1st Produced: | Comedy Asylum, on tour | 1985 | ||||
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 | #102704 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | With country-western music by Bob Jensen, this is the story of Laura Taker, a famous country singer with a history of psychological problems. A couple of days of salmon fishing on the Restigouche River are prescribed where Camp Harmony is run by two men who only pretend to be fishing guides | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lucien | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre New Brunswick and The Comedy Asylum | 1986 | ||||
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 | #5580 | |||
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: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Performed by the author, this show features a millworker in Northern New Brunswick who, in a broken English dialect, speaks as a specific isolated character echoing universal themes. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lucien's Labour Lost | ||
| 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 | #5581 | |||
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: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Maritime Mixed Grill | ||
| 1st Produced: | Comedy Asylum, Theatre New Brunswick high school tour. | 1984 | ||||
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 | #102705 | |||
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: | musical revue with a heavy dose of political satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Joan Welihauser | |||||
Synopsis: | Billed as "a smiling salute to downhorne New Brunswick," the story revolves around a group of displaced Maritimers in Calgary, Alberta. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Misanthrope, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Comedy Asylum, as dinner theatre | 1983 | ||||
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 | #102706 | |||
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: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of 8 | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Moliere; translated by Marshall Button and Yves Mercier | |||||
Synopsis: | half in rhyming couplets and half in prose | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Passin' Thru | ||
| 1st Produced: | Comedy Asylum | 1984 | ||||
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 | #102707 | |||
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: | 60 min Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of 2 | |||||
Notes: | Music by Joan Wellhauser. Featured on CBC's The Journal. Subject of three separate CP articles. | |||||
Synopsis: | A satirical view of Atlantic Canada's tourist trade. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Viewed and Wooed | ||
| 1st Produced: | Comedy Asylum | 1983 | ||||
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 | #102708 | |||
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: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Co-written with Jenny Munday, Yves Mercier, Elizabeth Goodyear and Marshall Button | |||||
Synopsis: | This is a sequel to Georges Feydeau's "Wooed and Viewed" which ties together the unlikely combination of Feydau and Eugene lonesco's "The Lesson" in an evening of one-act plays. | |||||
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