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DAVID SCHUTTE |
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Nationality: English Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Born in Crouch End, London, wrote three one-act comedy plays, now a children's author writing mystery/adventure/humourous novels for 8-12 year-olds.
Plays by David Schutte
Bite Of The Apple, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Woking | 1969 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Alex Scott Publications, 1977 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31118 | |||
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: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | As the spirits of Cloud Nine are sexless, some 'male' parts may be played by females. This one-act play may be acted independently, or as part of the trilogy of one-act plays "Three Origins of Man". The other two plays are "Homo Sapiens" and "Laughing Fever". This play won the National Eisteddfod short play competition at Bala in the 1990s. | |||||
Synopsis: | The action takes place in the Celestial Patents Office on Cloud No.9, some time pre-history. The office is run by three spirits: Christian, Agnosticus and Atheous. God is anxious to take out patents on his new invention of the Earth and everything on it, and brings in Adam and Eve to clinch the deal. Unfortunately, he dropped Adam on the way. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Homo Sapiens | ||
| 1st Produced: | Woking | 1981 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Alex Scott Publications, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #46303 | |||
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: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 3 | |||||
Notes: | This one-act play may be acted independently, or as part of the trilogy of one-act comedies, "Three Origins of Man". The other plays are "A Bite of the Apple" and "Laughing Fever". | |||||
Synopsis: | The action takes place in two caves on opposite sides of the same mountain, around 40.000 B.C. The female Sapiens (The Wise Ones) are intelligent, resourceful, and missing something in their lives, but they don't know what. The Homos are lazy and not missing anything apart from sufficient brain cells. It takes an earthquake to bring the two tribes together to create Homo Sapiens. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Laughing Fever | ||
| 1st Produced: | Woking | 1981 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Alex Scott Publications, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58790 | |||
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: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 3 | |||||
Notes: | This one-act play may be acted independently, or as part of the trilogy of one-act plays "Three Origins of Man". The other two plays are "A Bite of the Apple" and "Homo Sapiens". | |||||
Synopsis: | The action takes place on the planet Gloom, where it rains all the time. The play is set several thousand years B.C. related to Earth time. The population of Gloom is being decimated by laughing fever - some people become hilariously ill, others die laughing. They need to find out what's doing it and escape to a better planet - the Extraterrestrial Area for the Rehabilitation and Treatment of "Happies". You've guessed it - E.A.R.T.H. | |||||
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