HRANT ALIANAK   (1950 - )


Hrant Alianak
   Nationality:
Canadian
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Plays by Hrant Alianak

HRANT ALIANAK
Big Hit, The
1st Produced:
Factory Theatre Studio Cafe, Toronto.
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
About an experimental, politically incorrect writer with a fistful of bad reviews and his quest to stop his killer streak and come up with that "Big Hit
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HRANT ALIANAK
Blues, The
1st Produced:
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
G. Gordon Shillingford Publishing (Scirocco Drama)
2003
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A philosophical bartender, a broken-hearted hooker, an idealistic novelist and a gal from the Sally Ann--four characters play out their desperation and dreams in a dingy New York bar circa 1951.
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HRANT ALIANAK
Brandy
1st Produced:
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-Op, Toronto
1973
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
A clearing in the jungle; The Big Guy, The Little Guy, The Dizzy Dame, The Dumb Blonde. Sexy, fast and furiously funny action as The Little Guy wins the heart of the Dumb Blonde.
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HRANT ALIANAK
Christmas
1st Produced:
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Return of the Big Five, Finglow Plays, Toronto
1974
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
a Christmas Tree brightens the life of a young couple, but all too soon, the holidays are over. Shamelessly sentimental
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HRANT ALIANAK
Four Little Girls
1st Produced:
New Theatre, Toronto
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
written by Pablo Picasso
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HRANT ALIANAK
I Love You, Baby Blue 2
1st Produced:
-
Company:
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1st Published:
-
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
written by Hrant Alianak and Paul Kelman based on an original idea by Paul Thompson
Synopsis:
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HRANT ALIANAK
Lucky Strike
1st Produced:
Factory Theatre Lab, Toronto.
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press
1989
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Holed up in a North African warehouse, a desperate gunman, his unfaithful moll and his partner in crime repeatedly replay their motions of loss and betrayal. All action, little dialogue
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HRANT ALIANAK
Mathematics
1st Produced:
Factory Theatre Lab
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-Op, Toronto
1973
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Genre:
90 sec
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
a play for, and by, objects, from a feather duster to Playboy Magazine. A comic-satiric average day of an average couple.
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HRANT ALIANAK
Mousetown
1st Produced:
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto
-
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
Hoods and "Dames" love, cheat on and shoot each other in this 1920's detective flick with lots of music and action
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HRANT ALIANAK
Night
1st Produced:
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Two gangsters. Two molls. Exploring the hallucinatory eruptions of love, lust and rage in the doomed underworld of 1960 New York
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HRANT ALIANAK
Noah's Kiosk
1st Produced:
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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HRANT ALIANAK
Passion And Sin
1st Produced:
Toronto Free Theatre
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
Canadian Theatre Review (CTR 19)
1978
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A surrealist, satirical gangster drama set in a dilapidated shack on a Havana beach
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HRANT ALIANAK
Tantrums
1st Produced:
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-Op, Toronto
1972
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
a starkly powerful play about social and personal collapse in 4 parts
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HRANT ALIANAK
Violinist And The Flower Girl, The
1st Produced:
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto
-
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
1920`s silent movie with music. Heiress loses fortune, hits the skids, poor violinist saves her from lecherous attacker. They fall in love, get married. But when the violinist falls for a rich enchantress, tragedy ensues
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HRANT ALIANAK
Walls Of Africa, The
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
G. Gordon Shillingford Publishing (Scirocco Drama)
2002
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
In 1950s London, Mr. Pym, a shy middle-aged academic, rents a room from divorcee Mrs. Fields. Alone upstairs, Mr. Pym dreams of the perfect woman. Downstairs on the sofa, a book and a glass of sherry her only companions, Mrs. Fields longs for warmth and human contact
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HRANT ALIANAK
Western
1st Produced:
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-Op, Toronto
1973
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Genre:
15 min Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
Tree travellers, a gunfighter, an eastern belle, and a farmer's daughter are ambushed by bloodthirsty Indians. A typical story of love, violence, survival. ..so typical in fact that the dialogue is composed of titles of Western movies and the names of Western stars.
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