TOM TOPOR   (1938 - )

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Plays by Tom Topor

TOM TOPOR

Answers

1st Produced:

Off Off Broadway

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1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

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Music:

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doollee no

#34828

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Genre:

Drama One Act

Parts:

Male

3

Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

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Synopsis:

Having been detained for questioning, in a crime about which he claims to know nothing, a suspect is grilled by two persistent police officers. They call him "Byron" (although he insists this is not his name) and their initially bantering attitude turns steadily more ominous as they attempt to force a confession. Ultimately, in a scene of shattering intensity, they succeed-but disturbing questions linger. Have justice and truth indeed been served? Or has another hapless victim been sacrificed to society's inexorable need for retribution at any cost?

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TOM TOPOR

Boundary County, Idaho

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Contained in: "The Best American Short Plays 1998-1999" published by Applause Books,

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doollee no

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Genre:

One act

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TOM TOPOR

But Not For Me

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1st Published:

Samuel French, NY,

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doollee no

#34829

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

1

Parts other:

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Notes:

part of Romances

Synopsis:

about the odd things that people do, and don't do, for love

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TOM TOPOR

Dearly Beloved

1st Produced:

(reading) La MaMa E.T.C., 82 Second Avenue on the second floor, NY, USA >>>

14 Apr 1965

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1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

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Music:

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doollee no

#107928

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TOM TOPOR

Here To Stay

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1st Published:

Samuel French, NY,

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Music:

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doollee no

#34830

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

1

Parts other:

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Notes:

part of Romances

Synopsis:

husband and wife as hopelessly inept bank robbers

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TOM TOPOR

Nuts

1st Produced:

WPA Theatre, Off Off Broadway, NY

1981

Company:

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1st Published:

Samuel French, NY, 1981

ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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doollee no

#34831

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

6

Female

3

Parts other:

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Notes:

Dear Doollee:

I happened to look up Tom Topor, sometime playwright, and noticed that for "Nuts" you listed the first production as having been on Broadway at the Biltmore.
Incorrect. No unknown playwright, even Topor, is first produced on Broadway, despite what someone may have said to you. It was first produced at the WPA theatre, when it was in its infancy, it may have subsequently died as a toddler, but that is where we did it-way off Broadway. I played Levinsky-get it, Levin, Levinsky, Tom stole my name plus a lot of my input. Hey, let it go. I couldn't do the show when the great impresario Alexander Cohen was supposed to stagger in from the nearest bar and see it. I had to shoot a pilot in LA. I only do that when I have to eat. Tom took it personally, and when I returned a week later he refused to speak to me. Tom was very busy with a crack team of has-beens putting his show together. Only a Mr. Dewars was able to take up any of his time.
He was going to Broadway with the incredibly talented and the unrelentingly dull, Anne Twomey. Fashion model turned Broadway fashion model that speaks.
I thought he was taking a risk going with an understudy in the lead male role, a gentile understudy, in fact, when you look up typical goy in the dictionary-there is a picture of this guy. But Al Cohen had given the nod, the understudy stays. It was this brave pioneering spirit that made Mr. Cohen what he was. A clueless failing producer who would have put a monkey with an accordion in the role if it meant he, A.C., could once again see his name in lights. Paging Bialystock.
Topor went on to incredible success. Nuts ran for. . . . .well. . ..a few months. But the movie. . ..the movie was. . . . .a dismal failure.
So, you got it wrong when you said Mr. Topor was first produced on Broadway.

Insincerely,

Charles Levin, the bitter, isolated, wretch, who spends each day counting his money from movies and television. He's an animal.
Grants Pass, Oregon
Kathy's Farm
Charles Levin [gronamox@gmail.com]

Synopsis:

In a courtroom watching a woman fight for her total future. Filmed with Barbra Streisand

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TOM TOPOR

Playpen

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Company:

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1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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doollee no

#136896

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TOM TOPOR

Up The Hill

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1st Published:

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