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BRYAN STARCHMAN |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Bryan Starchman is a playwright, actor, and teacher. He grew up in Mariposa, CA, where he teaches American literature and theatre at Mariposa County High School. Mr. Starchman graduated from UCLA with a BA in American literature and culture and an emphasis in dramatic writing.
Plays by Bryan Starchman
Feast Of Epiphany, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #54571 | |||
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Genre: | full legth Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | optional extras (With doubling 3 M, 5 F) | |||||
Notes: | Performance Time: Approximately 100 minutes. | |||||
Synopsis: | Colin McKinney, a successful romance novelist, wants to keep his profession a secret from his ultra-Catholic parents, especially his overbearing, neurotic mother. Colin writes under the pseudonym, Amber Waves, and tells his fans that he is a housewife. Colin also wants to prevent his parents from finding out that his fiancee, Jen, is really a Baptist. With his parents halfway across the country, Colin thinks his secrets are safe until his parents and sister decide to visit him to celebrate the Feast of Epiphany. To ready himself for their visit, Colin hides his romance novels and creates games like "Who Wants to be Canonized," "The Our Father Sing-a-long," and the "Patron Saints Board Game" to help Jen learn enough about Catholicism to pass as a Catholic. This outrageously entertaining comedy offers a blizzard of one-liners and outlandish situations. | |||||
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It Was The Butler! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mariposa: County high School, CA, USA | 2003 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54572 | |||
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Genre: | Farce, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 17 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | 6 flexible, optional extras | |||||
Notes: | Performance Time: Approximately 90-100 minutes | |||||
Synopsis: | In 1987, a murder-mystery series premiered on the BBC television network that would go down in history as the worst murder-mystery series of all time. It was entitled. . ."It Was. . .The Butler!" and as you can probably tell, the title alone didn't leave much to the imagination. After an hour of murder, mystery, and mayhem, it turned out that, yes, the Butler had done it. By the time the network decided to pull the plug, nobody was watching. Nobody, that is, except for a young boy named Peter Piper, who vowed to grow up and be just like that detective on TV and rid the world of evil butlers! And, unfortunately, that is exactly what he did. This is his story. . . | |||||
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Just Another High School Play | ||
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| 1st Published: | Eldridge Plays & Musicals | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129620 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 0 | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | Flexible 10-40 | |||||
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Synopsis: | ! Here's a comedy that covers nearly every angle of the typical high school play with a dose of history and improvisation thrown in for good measure! A group of actors, who have apparently been abandoned by their drama teacher, have to fend for themselves opening night in front of a live audience. Their teacher has left them hanging because no one has been showing up to rehearsals and no one is really quite sure what they are supposed to do. The student assistant director and the stage manager step in, find a box of scripts which they pass out to the cast, and try to throw something together. What follows is a rollicking show full of physical comedy, gags, and satirical re-writings of many plays from Shakespeare to Albee. The next time your high school wants to do a play, do them all...in under 90 minutes! This play offers opportunities for audience participation, plus it includes a part for your drama teacher. | |||||
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Resurrection Of Rocky Ricochet, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mariposa: County high School, CA, USA | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54573 | |||
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: | Farce, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | 3 flexible, optional extras | |||||
Notes: | Performance Time: Approximately 90 minutes | |||||
Synopsis: | Our story takes place in the small town of Minnewawa, California, population 300. On this tragic night, Rocky Ricochet's fabulous girlfriend, Athena, dumps him, and across town, an invalid dies of a heart attack at the local hospital. Has fate linked these two tragic events? Rocky seems to think so. After the town drunk (in this case, the town's doctor) arrives to examine the dead invalid and mistakes him for Rocky, word spreads through Minnewawa that Rocky has died of a broken heart. With the help of the town coroner, Rocky devises a plan to win back Athena by masquerading as his own long-lost twin brother, Jethro. This riotous farce features a host of zany characters. | |||||
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