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IAN FRASER |
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Nationality: South African Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Beginning under Apartheid in 1988, without any formal education to speak of, Ian Fraser gathered up most of the available theater awards in South Africa, for his plays - and performed his comedy to record-breaking crowds, from tiny bars, through to sold out 600 seater shows at arts festivals. After being conscripted in the then South African Defence Force, for a 2 year period (1981 - 1982) - at the height of Apartheid repression, he began to write and perform his own material, and became a significant anti-apartheid critic, and misbehaved playwright, beating notables such as Athol Fugard and Peter Dirk Uys at times, by virtue of the quality and massive volume of award-winning work. He relocated to the US in April 2006.
Plays by Ian Fraser
Accidental Antichrist, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Civic Theater, Johannesburg, South Africa | 1994 | ||||
Company: | Ian Fraser 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 | #65002 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | AWARD WINNER. Nominated for the 'FNB-Vita 'Playwright of the Year' Award. Won a special FNB-Vita Award for 'Most Outstanding New Production' 1994. | |||||
Synopsis: | A priest in a future Court, tells a tale of a vampire who falls in love with a young girl, and accidentally causes the end of humankind. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Blitzbreeker & the Chicken From Hell | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nico Malan Theater, Cape Town | 1990 | ||||
Company: | Cape Performing Arts Council, South Africa. (CAPAB) | |||||
| 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 | #64996 | |||
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/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | AWARD WINNER: Amstel 'Playwright of the Year' nomination (1990) - 'Pick of the Fringe' Award 1990 Grahamstown Arts Festival, South Africa. | |||||
Synopsis: | A boring accountant and an ex soldier with a killer chicken, trapped in an apartment for the weekend, along with an awful lot of drugs. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bring Me Gandhi | ||
| 1st Produced: | Black Sun Theatre | 1987 | ||||
Company: | Ian Fraser 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 | #64993 | |||
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: | Political/horror Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | As a fierce anti-apartheid piece, staged in South Africa during Apartheid, it caused official Government reaction and secret police attention. A black newspaper's wildly positive review of the plays pro-violence message, was cited as a reason for closing the newspaper down (the 'New Nation') The author who also acted the piece, had to go into hiding to avoid being detained. | |||||
Synopsis: | An ex policeman sitting on his porch, details the progressive torture and ultimate death of a young female prisoner, and justifies his sadistic actions and to the audience. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Charles Manson | ||
| 1st Produced: | Windybrow Theater, Performing Arts Council Transvaal (PACT) | 1989 | ||||
Company: | Ian Fraser 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 | #64994 | |||
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 | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Amstel Playwright of the Year nomination. (1989) | |||||
Synopsis: | As a way of showing the persuasiveness of the real life character of Manson, the piece puts a self-aware Manson onstage, and lets him persuade the audience around to his point of view. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dead Soldier in the Family, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Black Box Theater, Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida | 2008 | ||||
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 | #85896 | |||
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: | Ten minute play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A dead marine returns home to seek revenge on those who sent him to war | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dogs of the Blue Gods | ||
| 1st Produced: | Windybrow Theater, Johannesburg | 1990 | ||||
Company: | Ben Kruger 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 | #64995 | |||
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/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | AWARD WINNER: Tonight AA Life Vita Award for Comedy. South Africa, 1990. Repeatedly performed at various schools in South Africa, by pupils. | |||||
Synopsis: | The play put actors on all fours, playing police dogs, and used this to play out discussions on God, violence and pacifism - and doing this in the genre of a pseudo-children's play. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gospel According to the Mafia, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grahamstown Arts Festival, South Africa | 1991 | ||||
Company: | Ian Fraser 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 | #64997 | |||
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/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | AWARD WINNER 'Pick of the Fringe' award at Grahamstown Arts Festival 1991 | |||||
Synopsis: | A dead gangster rises from his coffin and tries to work out how come he's dead, and looks back over his lurid and violent life. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Heart Like a Stomach | ||
| 1st Produced: | Windybrow Theater | 1992 | ||||
Company: | Ben Kruger 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 | #64999 | |||
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: | Horror-comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | AWARD WINNER. Won the 1992 Amstel Playwright of the Year Award. South Africa | |||||
Synopsis: | Two women each decide to pick up a man for the night, and the play details the horrific consequences of what starts out as a sexual comedy of manners, and heads towards something rather vicious. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Like the Pyramid on the Camel Packet | ||
| 1st Produced: | Windybrow Theater | 1991 | ||||
Company: | Performing Arts Council Transvaal (PACT) South Africa | |||||
| 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 | #64998 | |||
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 | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A copywriter with an insane home life, suddenly has to deal with invisible Vikings, climbing out of a pyramid he's trying to find ways to write about. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sleeping Chickens | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grahamstown Arts Festival, South Africa | 1993 | ||||
Company: | Ben Kruger 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 | #65000 | |||
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 | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An old style radio serial is recreated live in front of an audience - the serial deals with the search for just one creative person, in a future society. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sugar Plum Fairy, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grahamstown Arts Festival, South Africa | 1993 | ||||
Company: | Ben Kruger 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 | #65001 | |||
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 drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | AWARD WINNER. 'Pick of the Fringe' Award, 1993, Grahamstown Arts Festival. | |||||
Synopsis: | Two elevators in a building about to be demolished, try to make sense of their reality - and the debate over the existence of a God, becomes rapidly very important as their situation becomes clear to them. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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