SEAN DIXON
| Nationality: | Canadian |
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Plays by Sean Dixon
Aerwacol |
| 1st Produced: | skam.ca | 2000 | ||
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| 1st Published: | chbooks.com | 2002 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Mixed | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: Aerwacol is an Anglo Saxon word that means 'Early Awake.' The musical note with the synopses for Billy Nothin' and District of Centuries also applies here. These three plays are published in a single volume by Coach House Press, entitled, AWOL, Three Pla | ||||
Synopsis: a couple flees personal tragedy on a manual railroad car headed across the prairies, encountering drifters along the way. | ||||
Billy Nothin' |
| 1st Produced: | skam.ca | 1999 | ||
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| 1st Published: | chbooks.com | 2002 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Mixed | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: An important feature of these plays is priority given to the use of song in the simple tradition of minstrelsy, folk music and balladry, as distinguished from the slick, modern, musical-theatre form. Many of his characters are singers, in the natural way | ||||
Synopsis: an existentialist cowboy play in which horse trainer Billy None loses the 'cowboy way' so entirely that his best friends don't even recognize him anymore. A comic examination of the malleable personality. | ||||
Convict Lover |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1998 | ||
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Courtship |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2000 | ||
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District Of Centuries, The |
| 1st Produced: | skam.ca | 1998 | ||
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| 1st Published: | chbooks.com | 2002 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Mixed | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: An important feature of these plays is priority given to the use of song in the simple tradition of minstrelsy, folk music and balladry, as distinguished from the slick, modern, musical-theatre form. Many of his characters are singers, in the natural way | ||||
Synopsis: a dystopian romance, DISTRICT tells the story of a suburban innocent seeking his long-lost brother in a downtown housing project designed to crumble so fast that inhabitants come to believe they're hundreds of years old. | ||||
Dog Day |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1989 | ||
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End of the World Romance , The |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | 1992 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Mixed | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: first full-length play | ||||
Synopsis: a twelve year old girl tries to reunite her estranged parents. Since the story is being told from her point of view, it unfolds as if it were a children's tale, even though it is not. | ||||
Epic Period |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2001 | ||
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Falling Back Home |
| 1st Produced: | Exploded Satellite Projects, Toronto | 1990 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | 1992 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Mixed | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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Notes: dramatic monologue in 3 parts. there is a shorter and a longer version of this play. The shorter version is written for a signle performer, though the longer version can be played by three actors of progressing ages. | ||||
Synopsis: Joseph John attempts through his life to prove the veracity of the tall tales he was told as a child. His successes, like his songs, are comic and buoyant; his failures are tragic. | ||||
Finance Minister's Mother |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1999 | ||
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Gift of the Coat, The |
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Lost Heir, The |
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Painting, The |
| 1st Produced: | Invisible City, Toronto, with the Factory Theatre | 1995 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Farce | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: In the first half, the actor plays all the male parts in Annie's life (her husband and several painted images of Saint Sebastian); in the second half, the actress plays all the female parts in Christian's life (his mother, a lover, his wife, and finally, | ||||
Synopsis: a woman with Stendhal Syndrome steals a painting of Saint Sebastian from a gallery and brings it to the home of a man who has been burdened for fifteen years with a permanent erection which he can neither relieve nor conceal. | ||||
Sam's Last Dance |
| 1st Produced: | theatresmithgilmour.com | 1997 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | 1997 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: inspired by the short silent film FILM, written by Samuel Beckett and starring Buster Keaton. | ||||
Synopsis: a twilight bio-play of Samuel Beckett, who is visited at the moment of death," between the moment of stirring still and stop," by his wife, Suzanne, who has disguised herself as Buster Keaton in order to get his attention. Keaton has come to collaborate on a new show, which amounts to a sort of Last Temptation of Samuel Beckett. | ||||
Six |
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