PATRICIA JOUDRY   (1921 - 2000)


Patricia Joudry
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Plays by Patricia Joudry

PATRICIA JOUDRY
Galatea
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PATRICIA JOUDRY
I Ching
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1971
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Genre:
Two Act Drama
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Male
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Female
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Notes: -
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PATRICIA JOUDRY
Man With The Perfect Wife
1st Produced:
Royal Poinciana Playhouse, Palm Beach, Florida
1965
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Comedy
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Male
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Female
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Notes: -
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PATRICIA JOUDRY
My Lady Shiva
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1973
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Genre:
Two act dramatisation
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Male
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Female
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Notes: from her novel The Dweller on the Threshold
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PATRICIA JOUDRY
Now
1st Produced:
MacDowell Coloney, New Hampshire
1971
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Genre:
Science Fiction multi-media drama
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PATRICIA JOUDRY
Obsessors, The
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PATRICIA JOUDRY
Sand Castle, The
1st Produced:
Margo Jones Theatre, Dallas, Texas
1955
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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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PATRICIA JOUDRY
Semi-Detached
1st Produced:
Martin Beck theatre, NY
1960
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Play/Drama
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Male
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Female
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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PATRICIA JOUDRY
Song of Louise In The Morning, The
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Amateur
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Dramatists Play Service, NY
1960
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Genre:
Long 1 Act domestic drama
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Male
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Synopsis: Louise married Stanley years before, more in gratitude than in love, after he had been badly injured in saving her life in a car accident. Stanley, in turn, is psychotically obsessed with a smothering love for his wife, and has become a compulsive liar, intent on making himself the center of Louise's universe. She is drawn away from contact with her family when her brother is accidentally killed in a quarrel with Stanley. When their little boy is electrocuted on his third birthday by a live wire on the electric train Stanley had given him as a present, Louise is thrown into a state of shock. Stanley quits a promising job and a chance of promotion to stay by her side and nurse her. As the play opens, she has a job as nurse to someone else's little boy, and her love for this child has blocked out the pain of her own loss. But Stanley, fearing her attachment for the child has grown too strong, comes home that evening with the news that he had been promoted to manager of a branch store in Australia. Louise is heartbroken at having to leave the boy. The day they are to sail, she learns that Stanley's story is a lie, that in reality he has accepted a position at a much lower salary. Angrily, she confronts him with the truth and threatens to leave him. Then, in a sudden flash of understanding she realizes that all those accidents have not been accidents, and she runs out. What follows is a tragic and spine-tingling ending.
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PATRICIA JOUDRY
Stranger In My House, The
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Toronto
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One Act
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Female
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Notes: -
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PATRICIA JOUDRY
Teach Me How to Cry
1st Produced:
Theatre deLys, Off Broadway, NY
1955
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Dramatists Play Service, NY
1955
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Play/Drama
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Male
3
Female
7
Parts Other:
extras
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Synopsis: According to Kerr in the New York Herald-Tribune, the Play concerns "a delicately written relationship between a self-conscious, proud youngster who guessescorrectlythat her not-quite-bright mother was never married&There is a troubled, only reluctantly hostile relationship between a boy who thinks of himself as 'more the writer type' and the ambitious but ineffectual parents who want to urge him toward better things& As the boy and girl, both of them outcasts in the high-school world of prom dates and grapevine rumors, stumble upon one another and slowly find their ways toward dignity, open affection and some sort of identity. TEACH ME HOW TO CRY leafs over a good many attractive memory-sketches&Patricia Joudry, who wrote the play&has done honorably by most of her characters& it is everywhere marked by talent." Though the boy and girl are separated by their parents who refuse to acknowledge one another's worth, the vital steps to maturity have been taken and through their love for each other they emerge as important people.
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PATRICIA JOUDRY
Think Again
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1969
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1st Published:
in Canadian Theare review (CTR 23), Summer
1979
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Genre:
Satirical Comedy
Satire
Parts:
Male
7
Female
3
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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PATRICIA JOUDRY
Three Rings For Michelle
1st Produced:
Avenue Theatre, Toronto
1956
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Dramatists Play Service, NY
1960
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Genre:
Comedy Drama
Comedy
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Male
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3
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Synopsis: Maud's husband left her long ago and died in some far off place. She shares a barren, loveless home with her son, Joe. Maud and Joe can't reach each other except to inflict pain. She nags Joe for his uselessness and for the emptiness which has opened up between them. Joe retreats behind his books and into dreams. Lucinda is married to Maud's brother and has son, Eddie, who is a successful and unprincipled lawyer. She calls on Maud and Joe each week. Between these two there is also a sense of alienation made greater by Eddie's refusal to talk to his father, who is in prison. Into their midst comes Michelle. She is a gentle, other-worldly orphan, who calls Maud's long-lost husband "father, and believes that she has finally found her true home and family. Michelle has two ringsone from her mother and one from her father. She seeks a third ring-from a friend. How she finds this, and how she brings hope to people who had known only despair is the real story and meaning of the play. The lesson it teaches is warm with truth and understanding, and the way in which it is put forth constitutes an affecting and unique experience.
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PATRICIA JOUDRY
Three Way Destiny
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PATRICIA JOUDRY
Valerie
1st Produced:
CBC Playdate
1961
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Comedy
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PATRICIA JOUDRY
Walk Alone Together
1st Produced:
Duke of York's Theatre, London
1960
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Comedy
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Notes: aka Will You Walk A Little Faster
Synopsis:
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PATRICIA JOUDRY
Wind In The Wasteland
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