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GORDON FARRELL |
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Literary Agent: Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency |
GORDON FARRELL is both a playwright and a screenwriter. His plays have been produced in San Francisco, at the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo, at Yale Drama School in New Haven, and at Primary Stages in New York. He authored the book for a trilogy of award-winning musicals based on the life and death of Sherlock Holmes that ran for three seasons in Buffalo, NY. He is also a member of the Writer's Guild of America, East. He has written for hire and sold screenplays to producers as varied as Robert Simonds, (producer of BIG DADDY, THE WEDDING SINGER); Neil Moritz (producer of I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, XXX); Bruce Berman (producer of THE MATRIX, THREE KINGS); and Norman Twain (producer of LEAN ON ME, BOYCOTT). In recent years, Gordon has been on consulting contract with various computer game companies. His level designs and scripts for PC games like Age of Empires, Age of Kings, Empire Earth and Empires: Dawn of the Modern World have won numerous awards. He is one of the most highly-rated computer game scenario creators on the Internet. Currently, Gordon is Lead Writer on Dawn of Fantasy, from Reverie World Studios. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama, a BFA in directing from the School of the Performing and Visual Arts in San Diego, and an AA in Speech and Drama. He is the author of THE POWER OF THE PLAYWRIGHT'S VISION, published by Heinemann Press; and a series of children's plays, published by Scholastic Press.
Plays by Gordon Farrell
Alice Again | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
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 | #53192 | |||
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Genre: | Drama/comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | An evening with the author of Alice in Wonderland, one Christmas Eve, as he awaits a visit from the little girl on whom he based his famous stories. She is now 28 years old and recently married. As he waits, Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), recounts the fantasy tales he composed for her when she was 8. Revised and re-written for this Alleway Theatre production. | |||||
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Death is the Big Goodbye | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Haven, CT | 1986 | ||||
Company: | Yale School of Drama | |||||
| 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 | #61360 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Dirk Dick is a private eye down on his luck, operating out of a coffee shop in San Francisco's Chinatown. The murder of his partner sends him on a hilarious investigation of criminal masterminds, dead merchant marines, and of course a femme fatale. But an alien force called the Unknown Galactic Terror engulfs him before he can finally piece together all the elements of the puzzle. . . | |||||
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Lewis Carroll Christmas, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco, CA | 1980 | ||||
Company: | Wm. Shakespeare and Friends | |||||
| 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 | #61356 | |||
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Genre: | Drama/comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This play was re-written for a larger cast and produced under the title "Alice Again" at the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo, New York. | |||||
Synopsis: | An evening with the author of Alice in Wonderland, one Christmas Eve, as he awaits a visit from the little girl on whom he based his famous stories. She is now 28 years old and recently married. As he waits, Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), recounts the fantasy tales he composed for her when she was 8. | |||||
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Separate Gardens | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Haven, CT | 1983 | ||||
Company: | Yale School of Drama | |||||
| 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 | #61358 | |||
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: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | At a private alternative school in Northern California, two teenage girls find themselves caught in a web of deceit and jealousy as they grow apart, seek new friends, and yet fight to cling to the past. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sherlock Alone | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
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 | #53193 | |||
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Genre: | Musical Drama Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | book by Gordon Farrell, music & lyrics by Neal Radice | |||||
Synopsis: | Part two in a trilogy of musicals that combine familiar elements of the classic Sherlock Holmes stories with an original new mystery. "Sherlock Alone" brings the Great Detective face to face with his brilliant brother Mycroft and the evil genius Prof. Moriarty. | |||||
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Sherlock Forever | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
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 | #53194 | |||
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Genre: | Musical Drama Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | book by Gordon Farrell, music & lyrics by Neal Radice | |||||
Synopsis: | Part three in a trilogy of musicals that combine familiar elements of the classic Sherlock Holmes stories with an original new mystery. "Sherlock Forever" dramatizes the return of Sherlock from his supposed death, just in time to foil an enemy master spy. . . as England and Germany spiral towards World War I. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sherlock In Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
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 | #53195 | |||
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 Drama Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | book by Gordon Farrell, music & lyrics by Neal Radice | |||||
Synopsis: | Part one in a trilogy of musicals that combine familiar elements of the classic Sherlock Holmes stories with an original new mystery. "Sherlock in Love" introduces a new twist on the Great Detective's relationship with the one woman who ever won his heart, Irene Adler. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Stop the Sun | ||
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco, CA | 1982 | ||||
Company: | Tour de Force Productions | |||||
| 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 | #61357 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A young college woman is on a personal journey of growth and discovery when she learns she is pregnant. But it's 1966. Abortions are illegal. She has to travel to the slums of a distant city to have her pregnancy terminated illegally. | |||||
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Tin Star Over Tombstone, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
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 | #53196 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A tragedy unfolds in the American West as the sheriff of a small frontier town tries to track down the man who killed his wife's family ten years earlier only to discover that he himself may be implicated in the crime. | |||||
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Voice Of America, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
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 | #53197 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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With More Than Voices | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Haven, CT | 1994 | ||||
Company: | Yale School of Drama | |||||
| 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 | #61359 | |||
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: | Political drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Revised and rewritten for Alleyway Theatre production 1994 | |||||
Synopsis: | An aging Hungarian refugee, living in the slums of Washington D.C., is solicited by the State Department and the Voice of America to record his story as a heroic freedom fighter during the 1956 Hungarian uprising against Russia. The recordings will be transmitted to other countries where the U.S. wants to encourage insurrections. The refugee, though, is reluctant to tell his story even though his daughter is hoping to use it as a way to advance her career in the State Department. Pressured by government officials, the defiant Hungarian freedom fighter finally reveals the way in which the United States betrayed the Hungarian Revolution, ending his daughter's career, but closing the chasm of silence between them at last. | |||||
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