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BRIAN PARKS |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Brian parks was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Plays by Brian Parks
Americana Absurdum | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
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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 | #26996 | |||
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Genre: | Two 1 Act Black Comedies One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | In Vomit and Roses, a family-run funeral home business fights back a hostile corporate takeover while the two children of the family face the perils of the Senior Prom. Wolverine Dream takes us into the high-stakes courtroom arena as poet/airline president Wallace Stevens is slapped with a wrongful death suit when one of his pilots intentionally crashes an airplane, killing just about everyone on board, including a famous golfer. Stevens and his attorney must take on Irish lawyers, leprechauns, and the sole survivor and star witness, a talking wolverine. | |||||
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Goner | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #26997 | |||
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Genre: | Black Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | At the start of Goner, the President of the United States gets shot& and then the fun begins. The assassination attempt thrusts the President into the care of three screwball doctors, while a pair of manic FBI agents hunt down a conspiracy | |||||
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Imperial Fizz | ||
| 1st Produced: | Assembly @ George Street, Edinburgh: Fringe Festival, Scotland, EUR >>> | 05 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | Absurdum International in Association With Paula Frits and Wordmonger | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0856763403 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #118599 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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| A seemingly carefree high-society couple swill cocktails and exchange witty banter and pointed barbs as they sing and dance to melodies transmitting from a classic RCA radio in their swanky art deco apartment. They are persistently and comfortably tipsy and obviously relish a (mostly) good-natured verbal joust. They are awaiting the arrival of a very special guest, though gradually it becomes apparent that behind the brittle smiles, the free-flowing cocktails and the banter batted back and forth like a dazzling, gold-plated ping pong ball that there is something very wrong. Their world, that at once seems straight out of Noel Coward, veers towards a darker, Beckettian landscape as the music on the radio turns to static, thunder claps in the distance and the couple's bright smiles are stretched to the breaking point with anxiety with the imminent arrival of their special guest. | |||||
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Invitation, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ohio Theatre, NY | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Wordmonger | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Plays and Playwrights 2010" published by New York Theatre Experience 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0979485237 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #88914 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | In an elite city apartment, a birthday dinner celebration among a group of highly successful friends takes an abrupt, peculiar turn in a play that veers maniacally and sardonically through the worlds of politics, art. . .and revenge. | |||||
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Out Of The Way | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #123460 | |||
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Splayfoot | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Guy Masterson &Amp; Tti | |||||
| 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 | #70631 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of American Poodle a double bill of two short plays that look at that very special UK-US relationship. Snowball by Guy Masterson and Splayfoot by Brian Parks | |||||
Synopsis: | Did you know that the Welsh got to America and colonised Alabama long before Christopher Columbus was even a twinkle in the eye? Or that within 50 years of the arrival of the Mayflower, around 98% of the indigenous population of the US had been killed off by the arrival of guns, smallpox and syphilis? More an entertaining lecture - without any visuals, alas - than a fully fledged theatre show, Guy Masterson's slightly alternative history of America runs from the 11th century through to the declaration of independence that offered liberty and the pursuit of happiness to all Americans - except the slaves. Masterson's monologue is the first half of this double bill exploring the special relationship between the UK and the US. The title of the show says it all, although it may be the wide-eyed American businessman in the second part of the bill, written by Brian Parks, who is being sold a pup. Parks's script is a neat little satire of these isles delivered by an American abroad whose entire knowledge of the country seems to come from Hollywood movies and TV specials on Dickens and Shakespeare. There are some nice observations on the British way of life - taxis are described as hearses for dwarves - and our cultural influence on the US: the language and the best way to shoot Indians. | |||||
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Suspicious Package | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | Word Monger | |||||
| 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 | #77769 | |||
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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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Vomit And Roses | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Present Company | |||||
| 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 | #119514 | |||
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Synopsis: | All things American - cookies, shotguns, vomit and roses | |||||
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