REX DEVERELL   (1941 - )


Rex Deverell
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Plays by Rex Deverell

REX DEVERELL
Afternoon Of The Big Game, The
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
NeWest Press
1989
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The two most popular weekend pastimes in Saskatchewan are watching the Roughriders play and arguing politics. East vs. west, old vs. young, male vs. female, ideals vs. apoliticism - all take turns being the football in this witty and telling play.
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REX DEVERELL
Belonging
1st Produced:
Golden Horseshoe Players
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press
1997
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The story of a child with a gift for poetry - but whose giftedness sets her apart from other children
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REX DEVERELL
Beyond Batoche
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
NeWest Press
1989
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Matthew, the artist with good intentions, wants to write a filmscript about the Riel rebellion. Shane, the actor, wants the role of Riel, and Burns, the producer, wants to get rich. There's only one thing they've forgotten - the Metis point of view
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REX DEVERELL
Black Powder (Estevan, 1931)
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
Coteau Books
1982
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Genre:
-
Musical
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Music and lyrics by Geoffrey Ursell
Synopsis:
A forceful and controversial look at the famous Estevan strike of 1931
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REX DEVERELL
Boiler Room Suite
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
Talon Books, Vancouver
1978
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Winner, 1978 Canadian Authors' Association Award.
Synopsis:
Two of life's losers pass an evening huddled for warmth in the basement of a derelict prairie hotel. Together they act out their fantasies, trying to bring "a little warmth, a little kindness to each other's lives
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REX DEVERELL
Brooks!
1st Produced:
Canadian Artists Workshop, Windsor, Ontario.
1997
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto
1998
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Genre:
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Biographical
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Charles Brooks was the first president of local 444, the union at Windsor's Chrysler auto plants. The play follows his charismatic and turbulent life to his violent death in 1976.
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REX DEVERELL
Brothers, The
1st Produced:
Studio Lab Theatre, Toronto
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with others
Synopsis:
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REX DEVERELL
Copetown City Kite Crisis, The
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto
1974
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Genre:
childrens
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A small town with a famous kite factory has to choose between prosperity or pollution. The audience participates by playing the workers at the factory and are called on to vote for or against the polluting machinery
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REX DEVERELL
Drift
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A portrait of a young woman who comes to Canada during the thirties and marries a Canadian farm boy, and the struggles of a writer of the next generation trying to recreate this portrait
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REX DEVERELL
Fallout
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto
-
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Under the threat of nuclear war, a group of Grade 6 students discover that they have the power to take positive action for their future
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REX DEVERELL
For Lands Sake
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
revue
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
for conference on Land Use, Department of Environment
Synopsis:
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REX DEVERELL
Gadget, The
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto
-
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A boy genius creates a device that just eats and makes noise, markets it, then realizes that it's a monster
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REX DEVERELL
Harry Oddstack And The Case Of The Missing King
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Christmas Entertainment
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Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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REX DEVERELL
In Short Supply
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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REX DEVERELL
Invitation, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Religion and Theatre Council
1966
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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REX DEVERELL
Mandarin Oranges II
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina, Saskatchewan
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto
2000
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Genre:
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Satire
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
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Synopsis:
A Regina small time politician - innocent and naive - goes to Ottawa where he finds love and power politics. Note: Some of the material is specific to the time and region.
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REX DEVERELL
Mark On The Corner Of Scarth and 11th, The
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Full Length
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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REX DEVERELL
Medicare
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
NeWest Press
1982
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
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Synopsis:
A documentary about the Doctors' Strike of 1962, the year Saskatchewan introduced the first socialized medical care plan on the North American continent.
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REX DEVERELL
Melody Meets the Bag Lady
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto
-
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A bag lady loses her individuality in a "habit removing machine" and gains the audience's sympathy until she is changed back.
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REX DEVERELL
Next Town: Nine Miles
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Three At
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
consisting of three of the small prairie town plays - Shortshrift, Copetown City Kite Crisis , and Shinbone General Store Caper
Synopsis:
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REX DEVERELL
Power Trip
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Two act anthology of the playwrights own work
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Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
for high school students
Synopsis:
includes scenes from classic plays, philosophers, and biographies on the theme of Power
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REX DEVERELL
Quartet for Three Actors
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
NeWest Press
1989
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
Three actors find themselves on an empty stage unable to leave until they perform the play they've been given. An examination of themselves as artists and as human beings is the result.
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REX DEVERELL
Riel Commission , The
1st Produced:
CBC Radio
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Coteau Books
1990
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Genre:
Inquiry
One Act
Parts:
Male
6
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
An inquiry into the survival of a people
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REX DEVERELL
Righteousness
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The last days of St. Augustine's life were spent in solitude and penance. The ghosts of his past help him find a distinction between morality and moralism. Set in exotic fifth century North Africa, amid the crumbling remains of the Roman Empire.
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REX DEVERELL
Sam And The Tigers
1st Produced:
Studio Lab Theatre, Toronto
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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REX DEVERELL
Sarah's Play
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto
1975
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Genre:
childrens
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
lvan, a child prodigy, invents a cornputer but can't make it work. The out-spoken Sarah tinkers with the wondrous machine and fInds, to her surprise, that it offers to make all her wishes come true. She also finds, however, that her new power can't win her the ability to make friends.
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REX DEVERELL
Shinbone General Store Caper, The
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto
1977
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
When the General Store disappears, the local Mountie attempts to unravel the mystery
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REX DEVERELL
Short Circuit , The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto
1997
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
Four high school students are putting together a play about "Men and Women". Their deep-rooted fears and prejudices about the opposite sex emerge, and force them to re-examine their own views, and shed some of the views they've inherited from their elders
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REX DEVERELL
Shortshrift
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto
1973
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Genre:
childrens
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
All but one of the inhabitants of the tiny prairie town of Shortshrift are suddenly feeling under the weather. The exception, Fred, is convinced that the decline in health is linked with the mysterious disappearance of the town sign. And so it proves.., in the march of progress, Shortshrift has been simply wiped off the map
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REX DEVERELL
Soup
1st Produced:
Unproduced
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
childrens
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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REX DEVERELL
Superwheel
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
Coteau Books
1979
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Genre:
Musical revue
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music and lyrics by Geoffrey Ursell
Synopsis:
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REX DEVERELL
Switching Places
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
Coteau Books
1994
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A look at the difficulties of teenage sex, pregnancy and single Parenthood - with a twist.
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REX DEVERELL
Underground Lake, The
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto
1977
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Tiffin tells the bigoted Typhoon a teaching tale of reconciliation
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REX DEVERELL
Up-Hill Revival, The
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto
1977
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