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DAVID GOW (1964 - ) |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Agence Reisler Talent |
David Gow is the author of four full length stage plays, and an award winning internationally broadcast radio adaptation. His plays have seen productions across Canada with many of Canada's most prestigious theatres (MontrÇal, Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton etc.) across The United Sates and increasingly around the world. In May of 2000, David's play "Cherry Docs", premiered at Philadelphia's Wilma Theatre, starring David Strathairn. The play was one of the most successful dramas, in The Wilma Theatre's history. The play has also seen translation into Spanish, Hebrew and Polish and German. Mr. Gow's most recent play "Bea's Niece" recently had its United States Mid Western premiere with Next Act Theatre in Milwaukee and its East Coast premiere in Washington D.C. at Metrostage of Alexandria. "The Friedman Family Fortune" and "The Flight Of Peter Pumpkin-eater" are David's second and first plays. Cherry Docs has been performed at several prestigious German theaters. The first German Performance was shown in Mainfranken Theater in Wurzburg.
Plays by David Gow
Arrivals | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bank Street Theatre, NY | 2007 | ||||
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| 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 | #62161 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | music by Jesse Harris | |||||
Synopsis: | tells the story of a Syrian-born Canadian citizen who, having legally entered the US, is detained at Immigration by Homeland Security as a "person of interest." Stripped of his rights to defend himself or know the charges against him, the man relies on the heroic actions of his wife at home, as well as those of his lawyer, to fight against the unjust measures of a government they had once believed in. While diplomats quibble and security officers speak about the safety of the population, the man sits in a cell, civil liberties suspended, awaiting deportation to the land of his birth and certain torture. | |||||
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Bea's Niece | ||
| 1st Produced: | 25th Street Theatre of Saskatoon, Canada | 1999 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14151 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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Synopsis: | Rich storytelling, poignant character portraits and unconventional dialogue combine in an exploration into the mind of a female novelist, cloistered in a mental hospital. With rigour and humour, the play deals with memory and grief, sanity and reality, psychology and spirituality. | |||||
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Cherry Docs | ||
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| 1st Published: | Scirocco Press, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14152 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | In Canada the "Cherry Docs" has seen independent productions in the following cities: Toronto (Factory Theatre), Saskatoon (25th St. Theatre), Winnipeg (Manitoba Theatre Centre), Vancouver (Touchstone Theatre), Ottawa (Pressed For Time Theatre), Calgary (Ground Zero), Edmonton (Kurt Spenrath & Co.) Halifax (Bunnies In The Headlights). In the United States: Philadelphia (Wilma Theatre), Atlanta (Theatrical Outfit), Memphis (Playhouse In The Square/Workhouse), Evanston/Chicago (Next Theatre), Fort Collins(Bas Bleu Theatre), Los Angeles (Company Of Angels). In Poland, Polish TV's famed "Theatre Of Television" has produced an adaptation of the material in Polish. In Israel the play was translated and presented in Hebrew by Nephesh Theatre in Tel-Aviv. "Cherry Docs" was adapted by the author for a national and international Radio audience for CBC Radio. David's adaptation won the WGC Top Ten award for best radio play. Countless other companies in Canada and the US have done readings or smaller scale workshop productions of the play. | |||||
Synopsis: | Since its premiere, "Cherry Docs" has become one of the most successful dramas in Canadian Theatre History. The play has seen twenty productions in a number of languages and remains in International repetoire to this day. The play has sold well all over the US and abroad and has been seen by tens of thousands of live audience members. Part of the success is due to the story "A neo-nazi skinhead accused of a racially motivated murder is defended by a liberal court appointed Jewish lawyer." Another reason for the play's outstanding production history might be that its a tighttwo-hander. More than anything though, the play connects with audience and artists alike, demanding a great deal of both, and never shying away from dealing with the full repercussions and complexity of it's subject matter. | |||||
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Do You Have A Moment? | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1993 | ||||
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| 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 | #93444 | |||
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Flight of Peter Pumpkin-eater , The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14153 | |||
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Friedman Family Fortune, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14154 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | About the emotional fallout that results when a publically adored, iconic, family business passes from the hands of one generation to the next. | |||||
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Relative Good | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2005 | ||||
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| 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 | #93445 | |||
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