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JOAN SCHIRLE (1948 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Joan Schirle is Founding Artistic Director of the Dell'Arte International, an ensemble of artists dedicated to collaboration and physical theatre. She has written 8 plays of her own and over a dozen collaboratively written works, all produced by the Dell'Arte Company as well as other theaters. Her solo show, Second Skin, continues to tour internationally. She is a specialist in devised work and now directs the MFA program in Ensemble Based Physical Theatre at the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake, CA. She has an MFA in Playwriting from Humboldt State University.
Plays by Joan Schirle
Casanova: Animal Instinct | ||
| 1st Produced: | Carlo Theatre, Blue Lake, CA; | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Dell'Arte International | |||||
| 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 | #104794 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | written by Joan Schirle and Giulio Cesare perrone | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on the memoirs of Casanova, the play explores desire and the ritual games of seduction. 3 actors play Casanova at various points in his life though in a non-linear fashion; he also has an imaginary dialogue at one point with the Marquis de Sade and Don Juan, as well as his actual meeting with Voltaire and other historical figures..' | |||||
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Intrigue At Ah-Pah | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1979 | ||||
Company: | Dell'Arte International | |||||
| 1st Published: | West Coast Plays, Vol 8 (1981) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104795 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | written by Joan Schirle, Michael Fields, Donald Forrest, Jael Weisman, Stephen Most, Mara Sabinson | |||||
Synopsis: | In this 'eco-thriller,' female detective Scar Tissue sets out on a vacation fishing trip only to end up on the trail of a killer. She falls in love with the wrong guy, but uncovers a plot to dam the wild rivers of Northern California. Noirish, with many comic scenes. | |||||
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Inverted Alba: Fable & Rondelay After Images of Garcia Lorca | ||
| 1st Produced: | Carlo Theatre, Blue Lake, CA; | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Dell'Arte International | |||||
| 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 | #104796 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | written by Joan Schirle, Ronlin Foreman, Richard C. Newman, Laura Munoz; translations by Laura Munoz. | |||||
Synopsis: | A conjoining of Lorca's plays & poetry with original text, adapted from Bernarda Alba, The Billy Club Puppets, Play With No Title. Performed by 3 actors playing multiple parts. Highly imagistic and thematically based on the struggle of the creative force against repression. One act in three scenes moving from comedy to melodrama to tragedy. Translations by Laura Munoz. | |||||
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Mad Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | Carlo Theatre, Blue Lake, CA; | 1998 | ||||
Company: | Dell'Arte International | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Ensemble Works, An Anthology," Ed. Ferdinand Lewis, NYC Theatre Communications Group 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104797 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | written by Joan Schirle, Michael Fields, Donald Forrest, Jael Weisman | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on the German Expressionist tradition, and the 1935 film with Peter Lorre. Set in the Theatre of the Grand Guignol, the play involves the obsession of a surgeon for an actress. When her pianist husband's hands are destroyed in an accident, the doctor gives him the hands of an executed murderer without telling the couple. | |||||
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Second Skin | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of Arkansas | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Dell'Arte International | |||||
| 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 | #104798 | |||
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: | Solo performance | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Written and performed by the playwright, with many masked characters. | |||||
Synopsis: | Fifteen characters meet at the door to the afterlife in an exploration of social masks, the masks of gender, age, and class, and our mask 'before we were born.' | |||||
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Weave, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Carlo Theatre, Blue Lake, CA; | 1998 | ||||
Company: | Dell'Arte International | |||||
| 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 | #104799 | |||
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 | - | Female | 6 | ||
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Synopsis: | Using the work of local native basketmakers, six women use prose, poetry and movement to explore the question of balance and the tensions between relationships, family, and artistic work. A non-linear work with strong images and original music composed by Gina Leishman. | |||||
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