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HENRY BEISSEL (1929 - ) |
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Nationality: naturalised Canadian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Playwrights Guild of Canada |
born in Cologne
Plays by Henry Beissel
Are You Afraid of Thieves? | ||
| 1st Produced: | Universite du Quebec | 1973 | ||||
Company: | La Troupe Brin'si | |||||
| 1st Published: | Simon & Pierre, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2675 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from Louis Dominique Lavigne | |||||
Synopsis: | The play portrays three couples and the myriad games they invent to pretend they are having a marvellous time | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Curve, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of Alberta | 1963 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2676 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Tankred Dorst | |||||
Synopsis: | Two brothers worry about a dangerous highway. They petition for action, and the very man they petition becomes a victim of the road's lethal curve. The play deals with ethics and moral responsibility | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Emigrants, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal. | 1981 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2677 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Slawomir Mrozek | |||||
Synopsis: | two immigrants in discussion on New Year's Eve. Politics and philosophy between intellectual a and ditch digger | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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En attendant Gaudreault (Waiting for Gaudreault) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Les editions Lemeac, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #81869 | |||
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Genre: | translation Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Andre Simard. Translated by Henry Beissel & Arlette Francière | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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For Crying Out Loud | ||
| 1st Produced: | Char-Lan Theatre Workshop, Williamstown, Ontario. | 1975 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Canadian Drama, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2678 | |||
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Genre: | play for young adults One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A play for young adults. Ricky, a teen-ager, wakes up to find there has been a revolution and he is now Ruler of the World, with his father Field Marshal and his English teacher Secretary of State. After a series of mind-boggling adventures,, he is mercifully returned to his own bed and-his own life when his alarm clock rings | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Glass Mountain, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of Winnipeg, Manitoba. | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | PAJ, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2679 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Tor Age Bringsvaed. Written with Per Brask | |||||
Synopsis: | A parable about the dehumanization of the modern world | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Goya | ||
| 1st Produced: | Montreal Theatre Lab | 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2680 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The aged Spanish artist attempts a self-portrait and is forced, through a series of flashbacks, to take stock of his own life | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Grand Tirade At The Town hall, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2681 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Tankred Dorst | |||||
Synopsis: | A woman begs an oriental Emperor to return her husband, one of his soldiers. With strong Brechtian overtones, an argument ensues between the wife, her supposed husband, and two office | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hedda Gabler | ||
| 1st Produced: | Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal. | 1982 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2682 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | |||||
Synopsis: | A lucid and strongly Canadian translation of the Ibsen classic | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Improvisations For Mr X | ||
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Improvisations for Mr. X & The Noose, Cormorant Books, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2683 | |||
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Genre: | Tragi Comedy Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A modern Everyman is forced to confront the moral abyss into which his life has fallen when a theatre troupe picks him from the audience to improvise a play about himself. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Inook And The Sun | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Stratford Festival, Canada | 1973 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2684 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | puppets | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | lnook, an Eskimo boy, sets off with his father in search of the sun to save his family from starvation. They meet a bear and the father is killed, nook, after killing the bear, meets various spirits which aid, scold, menace and admire him. A chorus of giggling seals provides comic relief as nook journeys under the sea. After solving 3 riddles, nook finds and marries the sun. A play for children and adults, combining poetry, fantasy and reality | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Noose, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of Winnipeg | 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Improvisations for Mr. X & The Noose, Cormorant Books, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2685 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Mike has a confrontation with his twin brother who has hanged himself and has left a tape explaining the suicide | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Poems New and Selected | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Mosaic, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2686 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Eugeniou piles on the agony. His central figure, Tina, has been wrenched from her immigrant Cypriot parents by the social services on grounds of emotional abuse". Reared by foster parents, an underage, psychologically wrecked Tina gives birth to a daughter, Rosie, and chooses to kill herself rather than yield her child to intrusive social workers. And when Rosie grows up and finds her groom has been accidentally killed on the eve of her wedding, she takes her own life and that of the twins she is carrying in her womb. It's a grisly family saga, but that doesn't make it a classical drama. In Greek tragedy the gods are essentially just in that they represent the laws of the universe; in Eugeniou's version, suicide and infanticide stem from remediable flaws in the social system. And although he accurately conveys the cultural gap between the immigrant Cypriot community and case workers ("We're not English, we're very emotional people," says one of the former), he takes it as a given that intervention is always | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Season of Blood | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Mosaic, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2687 | |||
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Synopsis: | No reader will fail to be touched by the disturbing juxtaposition of images of senseless political violence in Latin America and images of growth and fecundity of spring in eastern Canada. - Gary Geddes | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Stones to Harvest | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | MOO, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2688 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An affirmation of faith in the ultimate goodness of mankind, the importance of deep and honest relationships, and the inherent potential in every individual for personal happiness and fulfilment | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Thistle in his Mouth , A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Cormorant Books, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2689 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Poems by Peter Huchel | |||||
Synopsis: | everybody's caught up in a fractured world that they can't even see, what's happening is unfathomable but they have a suspicion, Shepard | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Trumpet For Nap, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Little Angel Theatre, London, England. | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2690 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 20 puppets, 1 narrator | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Tankred Dorst | |||||
Synopsis: | a marionette play. Napoleon, a lowly dishwasher, possesses a magic trumpet, which brings joy to the world. But it lands him in a series of both pleasant and unpleasant events | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Under Coyote's Eye | ||
| 1st Produced: | Other Theatre, Chicago | 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2691 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The true story of Ishi, the last Stone Age Indian. When Ishi is found outside an Oroville, California slaughterhouse in 1911, an expert deciphers his language and communicates with him | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Waiting For Gaudreault | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Simon & Pierre, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2692 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The play deals with a group of house painters who are renovating the facade of an Unemployment Insurance Office. A discussion ensues among them about the weariness of their lives and working conditions | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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