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RON COWEN (1944 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: International Creative Management |
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Plays by Ron Cowen |
Betty Blue Eyes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Novello Theatre, London | 13 Apr 2011 | ||||
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 | #122429 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | book by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman; music by George Stiles; lyrics by Anthony Drewe; adapted from the original story by Alan Bennett and Malcolm Mowbray | |||||
Synopsis: | Belts are being tightened and the country's long-suffering citizens are being told by the government that there will be fair shares for all in return for surviving Austerity Britain. Meanwhile local officials feather their own nests by taking far more than their own fair share. It is of course 1947, and having won the war Britain seems to have lost the peace, and the country is staggering under the burden of acute rationing, unemployment and the coldest winter for decades. The only bright spark on the horizon is the impending marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. With a simply marvellous cast of great British actors headed by Sarah Lancashire and Reece Shearsmith, Betty Blue Eyes is like no musical you will have ever seen - but she is worth saving up for! | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 08 Page 399 | |||||
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Book Of Murder, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | ABC Mystery Theater | 1974 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1974 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8009 | |||
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Genre: | Mystery/Drama Mystery | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Henry T Aythecliff, a much married and once successful writer, now heavily in debt, summons his three ex-wives to his mansion, his plan being to extort a sizeable amount of money from each of them. He has a secret meeting with each in turn, and when he is discovered murdered the dues indicate that each of his wives (including his present one) could have done the deed - and had a strong motive to do so. Patiently and resourcefully the young detective assigned to do the case sifts through the ingeniously devised evidence - until, in a surprise ending, the truth is finally revealed and the guilty party is apprehended. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gene & Jean | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stockbridge, MA | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Not available, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8010 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Danny Lipman | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lulu or Inside Lulu | ||
| 1st Produced: | Section Ten Theatre Co., NYC | 1974 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Not available, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8011 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Frank Wedekind (Earth Spirit (1895) and Pandora's Box (1904)) | |||||
Synopsis: | Lulu embodies the sexual impulse, leading all to disaster; but only.. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Porcelain Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #8012 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 m/f | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A family gathers after their mother's funeral to clear out possessions from the large old house she occupied until her death. The youngest son, the black sheep, has come home, saying everything she owned has been left to him. He will trade the fortune, however, if, in ex-change, his oldest sister agrees to destroy all of her mother's cherished possessions, and if his older brother agrees to give him his wife. To help the fun and games along, the younger brother has brought with him a transvestite | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Private Function, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2011 | |||||
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 | #108695 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | book by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe; libretto by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman | |||||
Synopsis: | musical version of the 1984 film | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Redemption Center | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1968 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Not available, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8013 | |||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Saturday Adoption | ||
| 1st Produced: | CBS Playhouse, New York | 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8014 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | televised 1968 | |||||
Synopsis: | White college student tutors young black teenager in idealistic dream of overcoming racial barriers | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Summertree | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1967 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1968 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8015 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1b | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | As the New York Times outlines: "Mr. Cowen's hero, just about to turn twenty, is discovered dreaming in the backyard (or is it less friendly territory?) and the action of the play is mostly what happens in his head as he surveys his life up to this particular afternoon. Going backward and forward in time with the swiftness of reverie, we see the young man's relationships with his well-meaning but obtuse father, his loving but possessive mother, his compliant but unsentimental girlfriend. The father keeps after him to dress better, make a lot of friends, stick to business, 'be a man.' The mother shuttles between a desire to see him out of the nest and a yen to keep him at home. The girlfriend will be faithful to him while he's in the Army; but, of course, she'll go to the movies with other fellows. Another character is a neighbor boy, in effect the hero's little brother and sometimes in effect, the hero as a kid. And there is a soldier who helps spell out the true location of this friendly summertree." Which i | |||||
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Valentine's Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | Waterford, Connecticut | 1968 | ||||
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 | #8016 | |||
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Notes: | music by Saul Naishtat | |||||
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