LONNIE BURR (1943 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Lonnie Burr
Fantasies |
| 1st Produced: | IBM workshop, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, L.A | 1985 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | 12 chorus - possible with 6 | |||||
| Notes: | Wrote book/lyrics with M. Silversher composer | |||||
| Synopsis: | Wilma's husband and daughter have lost interest in her, just as she has lost all belief in herself. She escapes depression by bringing forth grandiose, musical fantasies to make her life livable. She learns from her journey and travails that weeding her own musical garden will bring back what she really longs for and loves and all that is of value | |||||
Icons Are Not In Vogue |
| 1st Produced: | University of California at Los Angeles | 1963 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Comedy of manners, 2 act | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | A sophisticated cat burglar is surprised by a striking female victim and he would rather romance than pilfer despite the milieu being one he fits into but cannot abide due to its pretentious pomposity and panglossian pedantry rather than down to terra firma banditry and aplomb. | |||||
Occam's Razor |
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Drama, 2 act | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Notes: | starring Dan Hedaya, 1973. Second production at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA starring Jerry Dodge. Winner of ARTACT Award, Kentucky and honorable mention Forest Roberts Drama Award; adapted by me for radio hitting 200 stations U.S., nomina | |||||
| Synopsis: | A young man and woman of formidable intellect have lived together to the point of tedium and ennui when a mysterious intruder, who is first one person, then another - perhaps - inadvertantly foments a menge a trois that eventually emboldens the female to seek neither of them but to seek herself elsewhere | |||||
Over the Hill |
| 1st Produced: | MET Theatre, Los Angeles | 1980 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Comedy, two act | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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| Notes: | I directed and then took over the lead when lead actor returned to TV soap. | |||||
| Synopsis: | Wally's 40th birthday depresses him thoroughly and is followed apace by a flood of disasters and a lack of an ark that proprels him into middle-age-aphobic convolutions that would make a veteran tight rope walker cross eyed. Fortunately, there appears to be some illuminaton at the end of the hurly-burly funnel of aging. | |||||
Phantom Pain |
| 1st Produced: | Fountain Theatare, L.A | 1992 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Drama, 2 act | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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| Notes: | Academy of Dramatic Arts, Washington, D.C. 2000. | |||||
| Synopsis: | man in his thirties searches for himself and the father he had only known as an uncaring ass through two family corrupted Thanksgivings. Although Bake, the dad, appears in his irascible persona before and after the grave, the interaction of the two ultimately results in their being more conclusively at opposite polarities and forever separated and lost to each other - not by death, but by the way in which they conduct their lives | |||||
Who's Afraid of David Mamet |
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| 1st Published: | Entertainment Weekly magazine, 1982 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Five male playwrights, some American, have hostile dialogues, using their recognizable, unique styles, to solve the overwhelming problem of the s--- that the Mamet upstart has thrust upon the boards all smelly and steaming | |||||
