ARTHUR MILNER
| Nationality: | Canadian |
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Plays by Arthur Milner
1997 |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN | 1-55155-338-4 | |||
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| Genre: | 105 mins | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | An out-of-work detective is hired to investigate the bombing of a nuclear plant. He never quite solves the mystery but what he does learn is far more important. | |||||
Cheap Thrill |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN | 1-55155-094-6 | |||
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| Genre: | 2 acts | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | A welfare mother takes a cabinet minister and an investor hostage in the fancy restaurant where her son works. When the investor's daughter joins them, sparks begin to fly. | |||||
City, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1991 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in Take Five, BlizzardPlaywrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN | 0-921368-21-6 | |||
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| Genre: | Play/Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | It's easy to be a big city liberal - until they want to open a halfway house on your street. | |||||
Crusader of the World |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2000 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN | 0-88754-652-8 | |||
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| Genre: | Play/Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | A teenager travels to a third-world country to participate in a development project. While there she comes to understand that the issues of the developing world are more complex then she had thought. | |||||
Facts |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2009 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | Murder mystery set in the West Bank | |||||
Forest, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2003 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Guild of Canada | ISBN/ASIN | 1-55173-966-6 | |||
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| Genre: | 120 Min | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | A modern fable about a remorseful captain of industry who pulls together an odd assortment of characters, including his three estranged daughters and two lost actors. Their mission? To establish a utopian society. | |||||
Intimacy |
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays In English Translation volume Two" published by Playwrights Canada Press | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Emma Haché | |||||
| Synopsis: | Alex and Frauke meet in Nazi Germany. They only feel alive when death is near | |||||
It’s Not a Country It’s Winter |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Joan Henry |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2003 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Guild of Canada | ISBN/ASIN | 1-55173-198-6 | |||
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| Genre: | 105 min | Musical | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | 4 | |||||
| Notes: | Written by Arthur Milner, Allen Cole, Estelle Shook | |||||
| Synopsis: | Part fairy tale, part political fable, JOAN HENRY is the story of young woman and her incredible, improbable rise to the status of political/national/popular hero. | |||||
Learning to Live with Personal Growth |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1991 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in New Canadian Drama 5, BOR | ISBN/ASIN | 0-88887-098-1 | |||
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| Genre: | Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | Jeff's relationship with his wife is going nowhere and his job has become more boring and more difficult, but then he makes two new friends who change his life forever. | |||||
Masada |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1994 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in Singular Voices, PLCN | ISBN/ASIN | 0-88754-510-6 | |||
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| Genre: | Play/Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | A visiting Israeli professor delivers a stunning and disquieting lecture about the history of Israel. | |||||
Sandinista! |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Guild of Canada | ISBN/ASIN | 1-55155-648-0 | |||
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| Genre: | 2 acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
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| Notes: | Written with the Great Canadian Theatre Company collective. | |||||
| Synopsis: | A priest, a student, a peasant and two members of the National Guard take us through the five years leading up to Nicaragua's overthrow of the Somoza dynasty. | |||||
Zero Hour |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2004 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN | 0-80206-812-X | |||
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| Genre: | 75 min | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | Two CIA operatives and a young mercenary find themselves in a Costa Rican jail. No one seems to know why. Who would arrest U.S. citizens in Costa Rica? And why? | |||||