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JOHN CARTER |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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John Carter is a former merchant seaman, salesman, railroadman, and proposal writer living in Maryland with his wife and dog. His poetry has appeared in a variety of publications, including Poetry USA, Lactuca, Gargoyle, Visions, and Prisoners of the Night. Prose sales include a number of pulp fiction stories and a screenplay to Roger Corman Productions. Acting experience includes roles in the film Disillusions and the play Birdie's Cage. He has presented his poetry both solo and with the rock bands Luna and Eros in various Baltimore and Washington nightspots and arts centers and most recently at the Library of Congress. Media appearances include Pacifica Radio's "The Poet and the Poem" and "Slumber Party," an arts program on Arlington (VA) Public Access TV. Where Three Roads Meet, a play about the turmoil surrounding Freud, Jung, the Oedipus complex, the libido and the soul, premiered in 2006 at the Midtown International Theatre Festival in New York. Feed the Beast, a revue of his poetry and song lyrics written in collaboration with composer Erica Lindsay, was presented at the Amos Eno Gallery in New York with excerpts performed in Washington at the Source Theatre Festival and in the National Theater's "Monday Night at the National" program.
Plays by John Carter
Feed the Beast | ||
| 1st Produced: | Amos Eno Gallery, New York | 1990 | ||||
Company: | The Strand Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #75745 | |||
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Genre: | Revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | Dancer, musicians | |||||
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Synopsis: | A revue featuring the playwright's carnivorous poetry and lyrics, Feed the Beast takes the audience over the edge. From the dark opening caveat to the rollicking Badass Cabaret, to the final transcendent affirmation, it alternately dares and seduces the viewer. Written in collaboration with composers Erica Lindsay and Francesca Tankersly. The barbarians are at the gates. Take heart! | |||||
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Lou | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York International Fringe Festival | Aug 2011 | ||||
Company: | Lou Lives! | |||||
| 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 | #129727 | |||
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Genre: | 1h 20m Solo Show Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | www.loulives.com | |||||
Synopsis: | Nothing was off limits to her. Nietzsche, Rilke and Freud fell under her spell. Watch her peel back her life to reveal the amazing bodies in her wake. The theater is small. You cant escape her. You wont forget her. | |||||
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Where Three Roads Meet | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Aim High Productions | |||||
| 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 | #70339 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Most of the action takes place in short, fast-paced dyads or triads. Performance space is spare and abstract. Scenery and props are minimal. Scene changes are via lighting, with revolving stage an alternative. Action can bleed over from scene to scene. | |||||
Synopsis: | It's 1906. Freud is 50 and needing a tough guy to push his creation, psychoanalysis, onto the gentile establishment. The imposing Jung is 31 and needing a mentor. It's a perfect match and a doomed one. Two visionary geniuses, larger than life, develop a friendship of amazing fertility then with piercing awareness tear it to bits. The problem is the myth. As there grows in Freud the concept of the Oedipus complex, it sinks its tentacles into his life. He becomes the old king, who believes himself doomed to die at the hand of his heir. Like the father of Oedipus, he takes preemptive action, with heartrending results. The terrain is the intellectual and emotional hothouse of the early days of psychoanalysis, when brilliance and vision abounded and miracles occurred and the possibilities seemed endless and maybe they were. On stage are seven characters alive with passion and eloquence at this amazing new magic they're bringing into being. Ideas erupt, emotions ignite, libidos swell, webs form and tear. Into each role the actor can sink teeth. | |||||
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