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ALFRED PREISSER |
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Plays by Alfred Preisser |
Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe | ||
| 1st Produced: | Clurman Theatre, NY | 2009 | ||||
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 | #99166 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Alfred Preisser and Randy Weiner | |||||
Synopsis: | The Classical Theatre of Harlem continues its current season with Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe, an original play with music, inspired by Moliere's great comic classic and informed by the gloriously unorthodox ministries of Reverend Ike, Daddy Grace, and Rasputin. Set within a fabulously theatrical Harlem Renaissance-era 'church', the play explores the outrageously creative criminal mind of the title character through a series of songs, dances, sermons, and feats of divine inspiration | |||||
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Black Nativity Now | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre at St. Clement's | 03 Dec 2010 | ||||
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 | #122280 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 7 | ||
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Notes: | written by Alfred Preisser and Tracy Jack; music and lyrics by Kelvyn Bell | |||||
Synopsis: | Black Nativity Now is a holiday gospel pageant for our time and for all people. Set inside a fabulous show-biz church in the midst of the famed and scabrous landscape of Times Square, Black Nativity Now tells the story of the birth of Christ. This setting provides a colorful world of seekers, hustlers, and lost souls, providing the perfect jump off for an evening of exuberant music and dance that celebrates humanitys need for hope and grace. Presided over by a pastor heavily influenced by the likes of James Brown and supported by a choir of singers and dancers who perform musical sets infused with gospel, pop, funk, and soul, Black Nativity Now is the universal journey of our search for salvation and "peace on earth." | |||||
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Caligula Maximus | ||
| 1st Produced: | HSA Theatre, New York | 01 Apr 2005 | ||||
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 | #111974 | |||
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Genre: | play with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | Written By Alfred Preisser and Randy Weiner. Also known as "Caligula" | |||||
Synopsis: | Caligula Maximus takes place on the last night of the notorious dictator's life, in his palace where he is stage managing, directing, and starring in one of his famous "entertainments" which test the limits of human intellect and appetite. Caligula, sensing the encroachment of monotheistic religions (Christianity and Judaism), holds a phantasmagoric revival meeting in which he attempts to save the world by ushering in a new religion with himself as its principle prophet and god. Caligula's "senate" is an outrageous collection of circus performers, wrestlers, animals, show girls, and freaks who enact his spectacles and indulge his whims and fantasies. As the revival meeting reaches fever pitch, his troupe grows weary of being used as toys, gains a sense of their own power and, bedecked in the war paint and leather costumes of barbarian invaders, descend upon him and murder him in mob frenzy. Expect circus, music, dance, rhetoric, and the unexpected. | |||||
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Electra | ||
| 1st Produced: | Classical Theatre of Harlem (HSA), NY | 2007 | ||||
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 | #67215 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Sophocles | |||||
Synopsis: | Sophocles's Electra, written around 409 B.C., is based on the legend of the House of Atreus, a story which contemporary Greek audiences would have known from childhood. The major themes of this story concern retribution for crimes committed within the family of Atreus, who was Electra's grandfather. Electra's duty in the play is to avenge her father's murder, but this involves killing her own mother, another crime that will have consequences down the line. The text is a completely new take on the story. | |||||
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