BRUCE GOODMAN
| Nationality: | New Zealander |
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Plays by Bruce Goodman
Ancestral Fling |
| 1st Produced: | Hastings, NZ | 1990 | ||
| 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: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Set in an old English tavern, the ghoulish characters gather to watch hangings | ||||
Cafe Play |
| 1st Produced: | unperformed | 2004 | ||
| 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: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Two women and two men "accidentally" meet up in a coffee bar | ||||
Chimney, The |
| 1st Produced: | Christchurch, NZ | 1996 | ||
| 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: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Belinda is distraught. The chimney sweep is stuck up the chimney. The arrival home of husband, Timothy, does not help matters. Nor does the arrival of guests for dinner | ||||
Cloud Mother |
| 1st Produced: | Christchurch, NZ | 1993 | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | 8 dancers | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Irish and English settlers come to New Zealand on a sailing ship in the 19th century. | ||||
Deep End |
| 1st Produced: | Christchurch, NZ | 1992 | ||
| 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: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Five women meet for a synchronized swimming rehearsal. Gradually Doris increases her control over Claudia. | ||||
Fishbone In The Blancmange |
| 1st Produced: | Christchurch, NZ | 1997 | ||
| 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: | soap for the stage | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: The bitchy lives of Caitlan, Briar and Holly are cluttered with money, men and New Age crystals | ||||
Here Legends Lie |
| 1st Produced: | Christchurch, NZ | 1994 | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: The story of Captain William Jackson Barry: New Zealand's "Champion Spinner of Yarns". | ||||
Pearl of York, The |
| 1st Produced: | Christchurch, NZ | 1994 | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: The trial and death of English Reformation woman, Margaret Clitherow. | ||||
River Songs |
| 1st Produced: | Christchurch, NZ | 1995 | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Three animal trappers live with their partners in the mountains. Events that occurred in the same place in 1904 mingle and interact with the events of now. | ||||
Secundus |
| 1st Produced: | Christchurch, NZ | 1992 | ||
| 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: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1/2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Secundus' contempt for women reaches its depth when he attempts to seduce his own mother | ||||
Sheer Silence |
| 1st Produced: | Auckland, NZ | 2002 | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: The Lightoller family of New Zealand discover their brother when he's saved off the Titanic | ||||
Um |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 2002 | ||
| 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: | interlude | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: An interlude designed to be played to an unsuspecting audience (in house lights) between two one-act plays | ||||
Voyage In A Boat |
| 1st Produced: | Christchurch, NZ | 1992 | ||
| 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: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Bert and Millicent are overwhelmed with the ordinariness of their lives. | ||||
Zachustra |
| 1st Produced: | Christchurch, NZ | 1994 | ||
| 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: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Zachustra cannot bear to excel. He escapes into a world of fantasy | ||||