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FRANK MANLEY |
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Plays by Frank Manley |
Cockfighter, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 1999: The Complete Plays, ed Michael Bigelow Dixon & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22294 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | adapted by Vincent Murphy | |||||
Synopsis: | Inspired by the courage and fierceness he associates with fighting cocks, a young man rebels against an adult world tainted by his father's flawed vision of manhood. Animated by a highly theatrical rendition of the ancient bloodsport of cockfighting, this drama moves through the turbulent landscape of adolescence and traces the steps by which a boy becomes a man, not on his father's terms, but on his own | |||||
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Two Masters | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22295 | |||
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Genre: | Two thematically linked scenes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | explores Southern hospitality and the performing of Good Works. The first concerns the confession of a rural couple who entertain a murderer, and the second reveals the awkward attempt of two well-intentioned women who try to comfort a bedridden hospital patient | |||||
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