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DUANE KELLY |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Kelly's full-length plays have had staged readings at Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York and the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska with Edward Albee. The Thing With Feathers was one of six plays selected for the 2009 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference and a semi-finalist selection for the 2009 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Kelly has spent much of his career in show production, having founded the Northwest Flower & Garden Show in Seattle, producing that show and the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show for 21 years. In 2009 he sold the San Francisco and Northwest Flower & Garden Shows in order to devote more time to playwrighting. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the Playwrights' Center.
Plays by Duane Kelly
Dying Wish, A | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #97374 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A woman dying of ovarian cancer, in an effort to ensure the welfare of her husband and 17-year old daughter, issues instructions - including whom her husband is to remarry - from her deathbed. Despite the unwanted arrival of a long-estranged sister and a lack of cooperation from her husband and daughter, the family experiences a degree of healing | |||||
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Rousseau and Hobbes | ||
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Company: | Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Alaska | |||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #97375 | |||
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 | |||||
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Synopsis: | American scientist Dr. Abigail Nash is Director of a primate research station within the Torobe Nature Preserve in Tanzania. In June 1994 the Rwandan genocide is driving refugees across the Rwandan border into camps in northwestern Tanzania. Some starving refugees flee into the Nature Preserve and kill a chimpanzee for food. Primate research designed to uncover evolutionary roots for human aggression is threatened by human violence in the form of genocide. Other characters in the play are an African-American volunteer doctor with the relief agency "Doctors Without Borders," two American graduate students and African staff. | |||||
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Thing With Feathers, The | ||
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Company: | Seven Devils Playwrights Conference | |||||
| 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 | #97376 | |||
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 | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Parrot that recites poetry | |||||
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Synopsis: | Plummeting coffee prices in 2000 are endangering many coffee farms in Costa Rica, including that of expat American and Vietnam War veteran Harry Howell. Howell's mental condition has declined as this business crisis has deepened. Amidst these struggles, Howell is visited by a ghost from Vietnam and a business student from America, both bringing storms from his past. | |||||
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