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Dianne Lococo

DIANNE LOCOCO

  
Nationality:    Canadian
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expense accounts and monthly reports were the only fiction DiAnne wrote until she recently started writing plays. a Cordon Bleu cook, she has freelanced as a food/humour journalist. Her improv background is now put to good use as a professional simulator for Ryerson University's Interpersonal Skills Training Centre. She also acts and directs in community Theatre

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below is a list of Dianne Lococo's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Alien Guest         Dying Family Tradition, A         Georgian Bay Triangle, The         Head In A Fog         I Can't Go On Without My Dog         Kisses On the Bottom         Perfect Manhattan, The
Alien Guest

Synopsis:
Lt. Baron Hans von Preussen, a Luftwaffe pilot, is in a POW camp in a small Ontario town in World War II. It is 1945 and the war is over. While Hans awaits repatriation to Germany, he is the guest of a Canadian minister and his charmingly eccentric family for Christmas dinner. Twenty-five years later he returns.

Notes:
Finalist, Playwrights of Spring Playwriting Contest, 2008

1st Produced:
Reading, New Ideas Festival, Alumnae Theatre, Toronto     2006

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Genre:
Romantic comedy/Drama,2 acts Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Dying Family Tradition, A

Synopsis:
Cadence arrives home from her mother's funeral. She is all alone in the world-until her dead mother appears. then her dead father. then Melody, an Australian, bashes into Cadence's home and life, insisting that she is Cadence's long-lost sister. a mean yogi further disrupts the family by staking claim to Cadence's inheritance. People die. It's a family tradition.

Notes:
Finalist Samuel French Canadian Playwrights Contest, 2008. Finalist, Canadian National Playwriting Competition, theatre BC, 2008-jurors' comments: dark humour captures interest And A sense of 'what happens next'. . .original idea. . .dynamic relationships. . .very funny. . .fresh. . .script is tight. . .funniest character in this year's competition. . .fun ending

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Georgian Bay Triangle, The

Synopsis:
a long-married couple from the city celebrate their anniversary at an isolated island cottage on Georgian Bay. they are not cottage people. the cottage is rustic: no dishwasher and no air conditioning. even worse: no electricity, no screens, no bathtub and no plumbing. No gin, either. Can they and their marriage survive?

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New Ideas Festival

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Genre:
Comedy, running time 25 minutes One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Head In A Fog

Synopsis:
a come-hither Virgin Mary; a mother who views life through a martini glass and a sainted wife haunt a man drifting on the Atlantic

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1st Produced:
London Fringe Festival     2005

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Genre:
Dark Comedy, 30 min One act

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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I Can't Go On Without My Dog

Synopsis:
Who is the bigger bitch? the prima donna actress or her mongrel that will not get off the stage? a hapless director and cast give a nervous playwright pains at the dress rehearsal for the premiere of her play. It is community theatre.

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1st Produced:
Alumnae Theatre, New Ideas Festival, Reading     2009

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Genre:
comedy-30 minutes One act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  1 bitch

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Kisses On the Bottom

Synopsis:
a middle-aged widow develops a romance by e-mail with a younger man. Her late husband, who is more attentive to her in death than in life, and the younger man's ex-wife stir things up.

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1st Produced:
Theatre & Company, Kitchener, New Works Fest     2002

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Genre:
Romantic Comedy, 40 min One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Perfect Manhattan, The

Synopsis:
Socially inappropriate neighbours from hell move in next door to a couple in a posh neighbourhood and wreak havoc with the couple and the wife's imaginary lover.

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1st Produced:
Galt Little Theatre, Cambridge, Ontario    

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Genre:
100 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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