ADRIANO SHAPLIN
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Adriano Shaplin
Hearts Of Man |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Hell Meets Henry Halfway |
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
| Company: | Pig Iron Theatre Company | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Witold Gombrowicz. Adapted by Adriano Shaplin in collaboration with Pig Iron Theatre Company from Possessed | |||||
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Pugilist Specialist |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
| Company: | The Riot Group | |||||
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| Genre: | 70-80 min | Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | 3 males, 1 female | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Four highly trained U.S. Marines are assigned the task of eliminating a Middle-Eastern leader. A microphone records their conversations as they meet, receive briefings, travel, and finally attempt to execute a modern political assassination. At the center of the mission is a female explosives expert with a bad reputation for following the rules. | |||||
Switch Triptych |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
| Company: | The Riot Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 1840026219 | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | The play is set in New York in 1919. This is a time of change following a war. In the telephone exchange where the action takes place, a more radical change is coming in the form of the Strogen, an automated switchboard that will make the triptych of operators (looking much more creations of Francis Bacon than the renaissance) redundant in their own mini industrial revolution. he exploration of their reactions encompasses a picture of New York, an investigation of the battle between the sexes in a patriarchal society where the men are weak, individuality versus unionisation and in a mysterious way, a look at religion. | |||||
Tragedy Of Thomas Hobbes, The |
| 1st Produced: | Wilton’s Music Hall, London | 2008 | ||||
| Company: | RSC | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 9781840028881 | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 1 |
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 | The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes charts the revolution in philosophical thinking that took place during the seventeenth century. The play celebrates the growth of public scientific demonstrations at a time when, under Cromwell (and less than thirty years after Shakespeare's death) the theatres were closed. Against this backdrop of civil war and social upheaval, science became the new theatre and philosophy a new faith | |||||
Victory At The Dirt Palace |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
| Company: | The Riot Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 1840024895 | ||||
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| Synopsis: | The two most popular news broadcasters in the nation are father and daughter working for rival networks. Their vicious battle for supremacy becomes a national drama as sex scandals, terrorism, and dementia threaten both their careers. Loosely based on King Lear, Victory At The Dirt Palace is a vicious, witty avant-drama about primetime royalty and corruption. | |||||
Why I Want to Shoot Ronald Reagan |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1998 | ||||
| Company: | The Riot Group | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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| Synopsis: | A multi-layered meditation on political assassination and pre-millenial tension, Why I Want to Shoot Ronald Reagan uses the life and writings of John Hinkley Jr. to explore the intersections of fame and obsession which compose the American media landscape. | |||||
Wreck The Airline Barrier |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1999 | ||||
| Company: | The Riot Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 1840024895 | ||||
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| Synopsis: | Steve, Stone, and Sarah are three peppy Americans who meet each other on a passenger flight to Spain. They each say goodnight to their kids on their mobile phones, share their fears of flying while waiting in the departure lounge, then board their flight (where the meal choices are "chicken or egg"). Later on, the plane will crash. . ..Wreck the Airline Barrier is a quick-witted and brutal indictment of new-age conservatism and middle-class race evasion, performed with religious intensity by three actors who occupy a dizzying array of characters and voices. | |||||
Zero Yard, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2000 | ||||
| Company: | The Riot Group | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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| Synopsis: | A dark and illegible tour-de-force on political and sexual domination. Set inside a prison, The Zero Yard details the struggle of a young female inmate against the structures of institutional terror. Locked amongst hardened criminals and sociopathic guards, she must translate the dense layers of violence and decode the prison mythology in order to survive her stay in "the zero yard, where no saints are allowed. . ." | |||||