RON COWEN (1944 - )
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Ron Cowen
Book Of Murder, The |
| 1st Produced: | ABC Mystery Theater | 1974 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1974 | ||
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| Genre: | Mystery/Drama | Mystery | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Henry T Aythecliff, a much married and once successful writer, now heavily in debt, summons his three ex-wives to his mansion, his plan being to extort a sizeable amount of money from each of them. He has a secret meeting with each in turn, and when he is discovered murdered the dues indicate that each of his wives (including his present one) could have done the deed - and had a strong motive to do so. Patiently and resourcefully the young detective assigned to do the case sifts through the ingeniously devised evidence - until, in a surprise ending, the truth is finally revealed and the guilty party is apprehended. | ||||
Gene & Jean |
| 1st Produced: | Stockbridge, MA | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Not available | - | ||
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Notes: written with Danny Lipman | ||||
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Lulu or Inside Lulu |
| 1st Produced: | Section Ten Theatre Co., NYC | 1974 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Not available | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original playwright - Frank Wedekind (Earth Spirit (1895) and Pandora's Box (1904)) | ||||
Synopsis: Lulu embodies the sexual impulse, leading all to disaster; but only.. | ||||
Porcelain Time |
| 1st Produced: | 1972 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 1 m/f | |||
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Synopsis: A family gathers after their mother's funeral to clear out possessions from the large old house she occupied until her death. The youngest son, the black sheep, has come home, saying everything she owned has been left to him. He will trade the fortune, however, if, in ex-change, his oldest sister agrees to destroy all of her mother's cherished possessions, and if his older brother agrees to give him his wife. To help the fun and games along, the younger brother has brought with him a transvestite | ||||
Redemption Center |
| 1st Produced: | 1968 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Not available | - | ||
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Saturday Adoption |
| 1st Produced: | CBS Playhouse, New York | 1978 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1969 | ||
| 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/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: televised 1968 | ||||
Synopsis: White college student tutors young black teenager in idealistic dream of overcoming racial barriers | ||||
Summertree |
| 1st Produced: | 1967 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York | 1968 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 1b | |||
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Synopsis: As the New York Times outlines: "Mr. Cowen's hero, just about to turn twenty, is discovered dreaming in the backyard (or is it less friendly territory?) and the action of the play is mostly what happens in his head as he surveys his life up to this particular afternoon. Going backward and forward in time with the swiftness of reverie, we see the young man's relationships with his well-meaning but obtuse father, his loving but possessive mother, his compliant but unsentimental girlfriend. The father keeps after him to dress better, make a lot of friends, stick to business, 'be a man.' The mother shuttles between a desire to see him out of the nest and a yen to keep him at home. The girlfriend will be faithful to him while he's in the Army; but, of course, she'll go to the movies with other fellows. Another character is a neighbor boy, in effect the hero's little brother and sometimes in effect, the hero as a kid. And there is a soldier who helps spell out the true location of this friendly summertree." Which i | ||||
Valentine's Day |
| 1st Produced: | Waterford, Connecticut | 1968 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: music by Saul Naishtat | ||||
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