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JOHN STRAND |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Paradigm |
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Plays by John Strand |
Diaries, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Signature Theater, Arlington VA | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39413 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 4 characters playing multiple roles | |||||
Notes: | A finalist for the-2002 MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | |||||
Synopsis: | A young man attempts to solve the mystery of his grandfather's past through his war diaries, written 60 years ago while he was stationed in Paris during World War Two. Grandfather was a religious and spiritual man, a celebrated novelist and scientist-and a Nazi officer. But are his diaries a work of fiction, deliberately calculated to prepare his defense for later generations? Or was he really the enlightened moralist he paints himself to be, an innocent bystander at the scene of a crime? Inspired by the life and journals of German author Ernst Junger (1895-1998). Questions of how and if we can interpret the past are raised in this gripping drama. Single set, multiple locations. Approximate running time: 2 hours. | |||||
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Highest Yellow, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 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 | #42195 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | book by John Strand, Music/Lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa. | |||||
Synopsis: | about the physician who first treated Van Gogh | |||||
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Italian Straw Hat, An | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2008 | ||||
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 | #111823 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Dennis McCarthy; lyrics and book by John Strand. Based on the play by Eugene Labiche | |||||
Synopsis: | Emmy Award-winning composer Dennis McCarthy teams up with Charles McArthur prize winner John Strand for this spirited American musical adaptation of the classic French farce An Italian Straw Hat. Drawing on elements from vaudeville, ragtime, light opera and even barbershop quartet, the rollicking new musical follows a hapless young bridegroom through turn-of-the-century New York, as he tries to correct a horrendous problem ... | |||||
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Lincolnesque | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Old Globe, San Diego | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57979 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Socially relevant without ever becoming preachy, clever enough to pass for cynical but also so subtly moving that its emotional payoff comes as a surprise, John Strand's new comedy is a political fantasy, a notoriously difficult genre, and it works, presenting politics in our nation's capital with a kind eye for human foibles and an unerring sagacity . . . lets us laugh as we begin to grapple with some truly horrifying question ~ Octavio Roca, Miami New Times | |||||
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Lorenzaccio | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shakespeare Theater, in Washington D.C | 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 | #42196 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Alfred de Musset | |||||
Synopsis: | a vast fresco of fifteenth century Florence mixing freely a depiction of public life, of court intrigue with intimate scenes and moments of great personal introspection | |||||
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Lovers and Executioners | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arena Stage, Washington, DC | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39414 | |||
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Genre: | Dramatic Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 1999 Winner of the Helen Hayes Award - The Charles MacArthur Prize for Outstanding New Play | |||||
Synopsis: | This "startlingly modern" tale about attempted murder and a woman's revenge concerns a husband who discovers evidence that his wife has been unfaithful. He abandons her on a desert isle, expecting her to die. But she escapes and returns three years later disguised as a man. She manages to have herself appointed judge and promptly brings her husband to trial for the murder of his wife. Calling the play "funny, grim, superb" the Washington Post wrote: "Strand's very free adaptation is like the best comedy, wild yet precise. He's dared to translate Montfleury's 17th-century poetry into 20th-century verse, and the language rollicks along from comic anachronism to melancholy aphorism." Keeping certain conventions of the genre, such as the commedia dell'arte-inspired comedy, the play focuses on the very serious questions of justice and revenge. It features a superb leading-actress breeches role and a coup de theatre ending. "Darkly hilarious, brightly poetic and emotionally scary," said Washington City Paper." It's easy to imagine Lovers and Executioners having a long life on the repertory circuit in this country and Britain." Single set, two locations. | |||||
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Tom Walker | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arena Stage, Washington, DC | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33561 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | World Premiere | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in America's early colonial period, Tom Walker is "deep and provocative, smart and funny, finely crafted" (The Washington Post), a tale about one man's journey to hell and back. Tom, a chronically unemployed fiddler, is given the chance of a lifetime to turn his woeful fate around when he meets the devil in a dismal swamp outside Boston. Tom bargains away his soul for riches, and in the process, loses his wife, his friends and all joy in living. When the devil arrives one night to claim Tom's mortal life and send him off to hell, Tom is unexpectedly given another chance-to solve the mystery of this devil's true identity and reclaim his own soul. Full of stunning plot twists, the play offers up "a juicy web of deception and revenge" as we follow Tom's journey through an early American underworld of fugitives and runaways. Critics in Washington and Los Angeles called the play "wily and penetrating, richly entertaining&crowd-pleasing in the best way," "spooky and roaring fun," and "one of those rare experiences in theater, an almost perfect marriage of language and craft-a must-see!" (Curtain Up.com) One set, multiple locations. Approximate running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes. | |||||
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