BRIAN SHEIN (1947 - 1988)
| Nationality: | Canadian |
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Plays by Brian Shein
Boss Ubu |
| 1st Produced: | University of Ottawa. | 1977 | ||
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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 | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Alfred Jarry. Written with Richard Payne | ||||
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Cowboy Island |
| 1st Produced: | Factory Theatre Lab in Toronto | 1972 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | 1972 | ||
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| Genre: | Kabuki-style version of the Billy the Kid story; | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Entertainment at the Cafe Terminus, An |
| 1st Produced: | CBC | 1974 | ||
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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: | radio drama | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: It centers around Emile Henry, a French anarchist who threw a bomb into a crowded cafe. Shein, at the time, thought it was his best play to date. With the sort of amazing coincidence that sometimes shows up in writers' lives, it was first done on CBC the night of the gala publication party for the Pulp Press book "Class Warfare, Selected Fiction" by his close friend D.M. Fraser. | ||||
Exhibitions |
| 1st Produced: | the Vancouver Art Gallery | 1973 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Glossolalia |
| 1st Produced: | the Vancouver Art Gallery | 1972 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Ground Zero |
| 1st Produced: | Steady-State Productions, Vancouver | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | published under the title Ground Zero by Pulp Press in Theatrical Fxhibitions | 1975 | ||
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| Genre: | two-act science fiction | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: aka Steady-State Doomsday | ||||
Synopsis: dealing with an atomic holocaust | ||||
Kafka |
| 1st Produced: | University of British Columbia in Vancouve | 1967 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Prism International | 1968 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | ritual drama with a science fiction flavour | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Rex Morgan, M.D. |
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Theatrical Fxhibitions by Pulp Press, Vancouver | 1975 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Steady-State Doomsday |
| 1st Produced: | Steady-State Productions, Vancouver | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | published under the title Ground Zero by Pulp Press in Theatrical Fxhibitions | 1975 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | two-act science fiction | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: aka Ground Zero | ||||
Synopsis: dealing with an atomic holocaust | ||||
Taking Steam |
| 1st Produced: | Jewish Repertory Theatre | 1983 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Published | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | - |
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Notes: written by Klonsky, Kenneth and Shein, Brian | ||||
Synopsis: A comic play about encroaching death amongst the older members of a Jewish health club. A member dies, causing a crisis amongst those left behind. | ||||
Trickster |
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Two Act | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: reworking of North American/African trickster myths | ||||