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Dennis Cooper

DENNIS COOPER

  (1953 - )
Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of Dennis Cooper's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         I Apologize         Jerk         Kindertotenleider         Pyre, The         them         Un Belle Enfant Blonde (A Young Beautiful Blonde Girl)
I Apologize

Synopsis:
A man and a woman and twenty twelve year old girls (represnted by dolls) and monologues and poetry by Dennis Cooper

Notes:
Music by Peter Rehburg

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Genre:
Performance piece

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Jerk

Synopsis:
Dean Corll is a mass murderer he has raped tortured and killed many teenage boys. Later in his crime spree he had two teenage accomplices. Corll puts on a puppet show for himself reconstructing various murders. He abandons the puppets and carries on with the story but doing it as a ventriloquist

Notes:
Music by Peter Rehburg. Had originally been performed in French in Brest, France 2008. Based on the book "Jerk" by Dennis Cooper

1st Produced:
South London Gallery, London     01 Jul 2009

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Genre:
Gay historical character full length puppetry

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Kindertotenleider

Synopsis:
about a black metal fan who has been murdered by his best friend.

Notes:
script by Dennis Cooper; music Stephen O'Malley And Peter Rehberg

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Organisations:
Gisele Vienne (France/USA)

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Genre:
Piece

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Pyre, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music by Stephen O'Malley; Peter Rehburg

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Genre:
Performance piece

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them

Synopsis:
Ishmael Houston-Jones, whose intensely physical improvisations have been a staple of New York's contemporary dance scene for over three decades, sparked controversy in 1986 at Performance Space 122 with them. Made in collaboration with Dennis Cooper (text) and Chris Cochrane (music), this incendiary work addressed some of the many ways men could be with men. after a successful run of the work-in-progress at PS122 in 1985 the creators of them felt that the urgency of the aIDS epidemic demanded a presence in this piece about men with men. In the 1986 premier of the full-length version for six male dancers at PS122 Cooper read his own provocative words, and Cochrane played cacophonous electric guitar live; frequently violent and exhausting dance sequences, culminated in a horrific duet between Houston-Jones and an animal carcass on a dusty mattress. the production almost got PS122 shut down.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
author Dennis Cooper; music Chris Cochrane; director Ishmael Houston-Jones

1st Produced:
P.S. 122
150 1st aVenue, New York, NY 10003     1986

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Genre:
Piece. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Un Belle Enfant Blonde (A Young Beautiful Blonde Girl)

Synopsis:
A continuation of "I Apologize"

Notes:
Written by Dennis Cooper and Catherine Robbe-Grillet; music by Peter Rehburg

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Genre:
Performance piece

Parts:
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