JOHN MURRELL (1945 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by John Murrell
Arena |
| 1st Produced: | Pleiades Theatre, Calgary | 1975 | ||
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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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: about group psychotherapy | ||||
Bajazet |
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 1979 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
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Before the War At l'Anse á Gilles |
| 1st Produced: | Free Theatre, Toronto | 1986 | ||
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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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Marie Laberge | ||||
Synopsis: Realising the mediocrity of her life a young widow sells her home and moves to Quebec | ||||
Cyrano de Bergerac |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
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Death In New Orleans |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1998 | ||
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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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Democracy |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1991 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - |
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Faraway Nearby, The |
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| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC | - | ||
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Farther West |
| 1st Produced: | Calgary | 1982 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Coach House Press, Toronto | 1985 | ||
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Great Noise, A Great Light, A |
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: about William 'Bible Bill' Aberhart and the 'Dirty Thirties' in Alberta | ||||
Haydn's Head |
| 1st Produced: | an amateur production in Edmonton | 1973 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: about the bizarre but factual adventures of the composer Haydn's skull after his death | ||||
Mandragola |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Calgary | 1978 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Machiavelli | ||||
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Memoir |
| 1st Produced: | Guelph Spring Festival, Ontario | 1977 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Avon, New York | 1978 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: about the last days of actress Sarah Bernhardt | ||||
Metamorphosis |
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| 1st Published: | Alberta Department of Culture, Edmonton | 1970 | ||
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New World |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1984 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Coach House Press, Toronto | 1985 | ||
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October |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1988 | ||
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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 | - |
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One Yellow Rabbit |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Power In The Blood |
| 1st Produced: | Edmonton | 1975 | ||
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: about a crisis in the life of a female evangelist | ||||
Seagull, The |
| 1st Produced: | Stratford, Ontario | 1980 | ||
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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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | ||||
Synopsis: Can the young people's dreams be realised or will their desires turn sour when confronted by the cruelties of the adult world? | ||||
Teaser |
| 1st Produced: | Pleiades Theatre, Calgary | 1975 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Farce | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: written with Kenneth Dyba | ||||
Synopsis: about porno-graphic movie-making | ||||
Uncle Vanya |
| 1st Produced: | Stratford, Ontario | 1978 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Theatrebooks, Toronto | 1978 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | ||||
Synopsis: story of an uncle in love with a young lady who is married to an old and ill man, she is attracted to the doctor who attends her husband | ||||
Waiting For The Parade: Faces Of Women In War |
| 1st Produced: | 1977 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Talonbooks, Vancouver | 1980 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Dramatic Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 |
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Synopsis: World War II from the point of view of five women left behind to wait and work for their men | ||||