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JIM FINDLAY |
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Plays by Jim Findlay |
Accidental Nostalgia | ||
| 1st Produced: | St. Ann's Warehouse (Brooklyn, NY) | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Accinosco | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Play - A Journal Of Plays" issue three | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #100487 | |||
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Genre: | operetta | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | by Cynthia Hopkins with the collaboration of Jim Findlay and Jeff Sugg. Part I of The Accidental Trilogy | |||||
Synopsis: | Accidental Nostalgia is an operetta about the pros and cons of amnesia. The main character is one Cameron Seymour, a neurologist specializing in the memory function of the brain, who is delivering a lecture about an autobiographical book she has just published called How to Change Your Mind: A Self-Help Manual for Psychogenic Amnesiacs. She begins to tell the audience the story of the research she did to write the book, which was an investigation of her own psychogenic (emotionally driven) amnesia. The audience then follows her journey back to the house she grew up in - located in her home town of Carlson, Georgia - where she hopes to trigger missing memories of her childhood, and to find her father, from whom she has been estranged for many years. It turns out that her father is missing and that she is wanted for his murder, though it is unknown whether he was murdered, committed suicide, or simply disappeared. . .. . . and from that point on, the show becomes a bit of a thriller. The narrative of Accidental Nostalgia is punctuated by songs, dance numbers, and interactions with peripheral characters who appear on a large film projection screen. The screen also serves to shift the atmosphere via projections of text and images, manipulated live by designers/performers Findlay and Sugg. It is a hybrid form containing hybrid content, from the outlandish to the philosophical to the deeply personal. It is a mixture of truth and fiction, song and text, movement and stillness. | |||||
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Must Don't Whip 'Um | ||
| 1st Produced: | Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Accinosco | |||||
| 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 | #81709 | |||
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Genre: | operetta | |||||
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Notes: | by Cynthia Hopkins with the collaboration of Jim Findlay and Jeff Sugg. Part II of The Accidental Trilogy | |||||
Synopsis: | A prequel to the events in the critically acclaimed operetta Accidental Nostalgia, Must Don't Whip 'Um is the story of one Cameron Seymour (the same Cameron Seymour whose identity was stolen by the narrator in Accidental Nostalgia): an obscure and almost totally forgotten pop star from the 1970's whose financial, artistic, personal and political failures have brought her to the verge of a nervous breakdown, resulting in her desire to quit the entertainment industry and escape from the United States, in order to join a Sufi brotherhood in Morocco. Must Don't Whip 'Um uses as its main conceit Ms. Seymour's "farewell concert" - a celebratory, ecstatic last waltz' during which she mysteriously disappears - presented by Ms. Seymour's daughter, who is attempting to create a documentary about her mother's disappearance. | |||||
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Success of Failure (or, The Failure of Success), The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis | - - - | ||||
Company: | Accinosco | |||||
| 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 | #101759 | |||
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: | operetta | |||||
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Notes: | by Cynthia Hopkins with the collaboration of Jim Findlay and Jeff Sugg. Part III of The Accidental Trilogy | |||||
Synopsis: | Just returning home from a triumphant world premiere at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, Cynthia Hopkins and her collaborators are heading to St. Ann's Warehouse to present this 3rd and final chapter of her Accidental Trilogy: an immersive exploration of time, space, and the pros and cons of evolution. An epic folk tale from the far distant future, The Success of Failure (or, The Failure of Success) is the heroic saga of Ruom Yes Noremac's secret mission to save the world. During the course of her lonely journey through space, Ruom Yes Noremac realizes that only by failing to save the Earth can she succeed in saving The Universe. This inter-galactic tale is told through Accinosco's signature hybrid of thought-provoking text, heart-wrenching songs, and handcrafted videoscapes. | |||||
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