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STUART R BROWN (1954 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Stuart R. Brown's plays have been produced Off-Broadway and around the country. "Slice of Life," appeared at The Ensemble Studio Theatre on West 52nd. Street in New York, was later published by Smith and Kraus, and has gone on to a number of festivals and venues. Mr. Brown received a Decentralization Award for a production of three of his one-acts, staged at Chapel Hall, the Home of the Franklin Stage Company.
Plays by Stuart R Brown
Autumn of Frank Byrne, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury, NY (staged reading) | 2004 | ||||
Company: | The Roxbury Arts Group, in collaboration with the Todd Mountain Theatre Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #53737 | |||
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Genre: | 2 acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 2 girls | |||||
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Synopsis: | Frank, a retired postal worker, meets and befriends Roy, a man he meets in a playground when the two are watching their children: Roy's daughter and Frank's grand daughter. Their friendship causes trouble with Frank's live-in-daughter, Carol, and son-in-law, Larry, when Frank invites Roy back to his apartment to watch a Giant's football game and later when he takes him to a game. Carol threatens to move out and take the child with her if Frank continues to see Roy (and the consequences do prove dire). | |||||
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Cold Rain | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Studio, Inc, NY | 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #53738 | |||
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: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | An unemployed, hard up for cash man tries to buy a fishing license in bad weather. When Gary B. Trout meets Carter, the owner of a bait and tackle shop in the Catskills, he encounters more than resistance when he can't pay for his license: Carter is a religious fanatic who attributes three days of hard rain to an angry, vengeful God, wrathful over the horrors of the world. Trout says it's caused by a mixture of a warm air mass and a cold air mass. The two come to an understanding and the surprise ending is, if anything, an epiphany for both characters. | |||||
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Fish Story, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Utica School of Commerce Drama Club, NY | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #53739 | |||
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Genre: | 2 acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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Synopsis: | A Fish Story revolves around characters in a small, rural village in the Catskills, with the action centering on the disappearance of two truckloads of hatchery bred brown trout, bound for the junction of the West Branch and Little Delaware Rivers. The setting is Hogan's General Store where Don (the owner), Jenn (a young woman who works for him), and Sweet (a regular), often meet and interact. Don first mentions the missing trout to Sweet; Jenn overhears this. Later it is revealed that Don acted as a go-between in paaaapaying paying off the hatchery, but the money came from another source. The fish were taken to an undisclosed location. Don is implicated in the crime and arrested. Sweet, a war veteran, is reluctant to appear in court because he has recently been arrested himself. Jenn is hospitalized from a gunshot wound from Don that occurred during his arrest. The play takes place over Memorial Day weekend 2005 and some months later. Certain names, locales, and incidents are based on facts. | |||||
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Slice of Life | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
Company: | The Ensemble Studio Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Smith and Kraus, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #53740 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Lonely man seeks solace over the death of his cat. | |||||
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Three By Brown | ||
| 1st Produced: | Franklin Stage Company, Franklin, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | New York State Council on the Arts; Town of Andes, NY; Roxbury Arts Group, Inc. (sponsor) | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #81281 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 2007 Decentralization Award: New York State Community Arts Grant (Delaware County). | |||||
Synopsis: | Three By Brown included "Slice of Life," "Cold Rain," and "dog is god spelled backwards". "Cold Rain" concerns an unemployed, hard-up for cash man who tries to buy a fishing license in bad weather. "dog" is about two sisters, one of whom is mentally ill and housebound, and the other (a pregnant school teacher), who is visiting, is there to probate their mother's will. The women argue about the house, where the sick sister will live, money for the teacher's children and the upkeep of her house. All three plays are funny, in just the right places. | |||||
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