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RICHARD EPP (1948 - ) |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Playwrights Guild of Canada |
Richard Epp is a playwright and actor educated at the Universities of Saskatchewan and Victoria. A member of Canadian Actors' Equity Association and the Playwrights' Guild of Canada (PCG) his plays have been produced by Edmonton's Theatre Network, Theatre Calgary, the Stratford Festival, the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, CBC Radio, and a number of university drama departments in Canada and the U.S.A. Richard is the author of two screenplays, numerous one-act plays and eight full-length plays including Sea of Showers, Kristallnacht, Cipangu: The Tale of Columbus, and Intimate Admiration. Amateur performance rights to some plays are available from Playwrights Guild of Canada. Professional inquiries by email, please.
Plays by Richard Epp
Christmas Pudding | ||
| 1st Produced: | Yates Centre, Lethbridge Alberta | 1982 | ||||
Company: | Southern Stage | |||||
| 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 | #101377 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 3 children | |||||
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Synopsis: | A comedy in two acts, Christmas Pudding is seasonal family entertainment. In a country school house on the Canadian prairie in 1957 a group of unlikely actors prepare to perform 'A Christmas Carol'. The feisty chairman of the school board, an absent-minded clergyman, and a new doctor, who delivers a baby by telephone, contribute to the fuss and the fun. Behind the scenes young love is rewarded, but not before trials and tribulations are courageously resolved. | |||||
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Cipangu: The Tale of Columbus (originally titled Japango) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Thompson Shelterhouse Theatre | 1992 | ||||
Company: | Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Guild of Canada (1992, on-line 2004) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101378 | |||
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: | Drama, Biography | |||||
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Synopsis: | Surrounded by the extraordinary characters of his long life, Christopher Columbus recounts his tempestuous voyages of discovery. Driven by a passion to reach the Orient, the old admiral, nearing the end of his life, continues to deny the existence of the new world. Cipangu is a contemporary portrait of an outrageous hero. 2 acts 6m/2w/1boy, running time 110 minutes. | |||||
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Intimate Admiration | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Calgary | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, (1988; on-line 2004) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11064 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, Biography | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Also produced by the Stratford Festival, Canada. | |||||
Synopsis: | This engaging two-hander traces the relationship of playwright Anton Chekhov and his wife, Olga Knipper, star of the Moscow Art Theatre, through joyous and turbulent times. In its portrayal of this remarkable pair, the play celebrates the world of the stage and its vital connection to audience. Written in four short acts, Intimate Admiration requires a unit set and can be performed with or without intermission. | |||||
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Japango | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11065 | |||
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Kristallnacht | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of Lethbridge, Canada | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, (1987; on-line 2004) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11066 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Also produced by Theatre Network, Edmonton, AB, Canada. | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in Southern Alberta in the summer of 1944, Kristallnacht is a buoyant drama of love and loyalty played out against the background of teaming enemy prison camps and the war's cruel reality. A German soldier, haunted by his memory of 'the night of shattering glass' and a Canadian farm girl, who longs to see the world, are brought together under circumstances which threaten their dreams and test their humanity. | |||||
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Sea of Showers | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #101379 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Pamela's actress mother Wynne is missing. So is that farmer-turned-inventor Zeke she met in Montana. An intercepted phone call reveals that the pair are camped out in a place called the Sea of Showers. If that's in the Rockies, fine. If Mom's on the moon, she had better get down at once. | |||||
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Winter Pond | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of Lethbridge, Canada | 1997 | ||||
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 | #101380 | |||
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/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Set in Southern Alberta in the 1940s this play, also available as a screenplay, is the story of a young woman's struggle for acceptance. Chiemi is a Japanese Canadian uprooted with her family from her home in Vancouver and moved to a sugar beet farm on the prairies. In a community which knows only prejudice, she finds scarce opportunity to prove herself. Her self-confidence is severely tested and her future is in doubt, until Elinor, an English school teacher, is drawn into Chiemi's circumstances. Through success and failure, both Chiemi and Elinor exchange the restrictions of their lives for opportunities which lie ahead. | |||||
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