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ALLAN STRATTON |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Plays by Allan Stratton |
101 Miracles Of Hope Chance, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Words In Play: three comedies by Allan Stratton, ed. Robert Wallace, Coach House Press, Toronto, 1988 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33579 | |||
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Genre: | satiric comedy/thriller Satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Performance Rights : The Core Group Talent Agency | |||||
Synopsis: | Ellen Chance claims to have raised a boy from the dead. Televangelists Eddie Cruickshank and the Reverend Wally Stone sign her to their "God Loves You Club". They plan to make a fortune faking miracles on her behalf, while her faith in her powers will enable her to pass on-air lie detector tests. Ellen falls in love with an undercover journalist, and soon finds herself caught in an ever-widening net of betrayal and greed. | |||||
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72 Under The O | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0887540837 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102533 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Bag Babies | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Coach House Press, Toronto, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978088754238 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33580 | |||
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Genre: | comedy of (bad) manners | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 2 extras | |||||
Notes: | Performance Rights : The Core Group Talent Agency | |||||
| Dick and Jane Jones run "Having With Heart", a company which uses philanthropy as a front for greed. Their newest venture, "Bag Babies", transforms the international foster parents plan into a tax deductible scheme in which wealthy clients adopt street people to improve their public image. All goes well until the arrival of Jane's homeless Uncle George. The rich speak rhyming couplets and the poor speak prose in this comic and wildly theatrical satire on hypocrisy and greed. | |||||
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Bingo! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vancouver Playhouse (under the title 72 Under The O) | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33581 | |||
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Genre: | Farce Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Performance Rights : Samuel French. Revised form at The Gryphon Theatre, 1987 | |||||
Synopsis: | A young professor has his goals of stability and tenure thrown into chaos by an alcoholic colleague, her hysterical husband -- his boss -- a romantic poetry studennt, and an insurance salesman with a wife addicted to bingo | |||||
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Dracula: Nightmare Of The Dead | ||
| 1st Produced: | Skylight Theatre, Toronto | 1995 | ||||
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 | #33582 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Performance Rights : The Core Group Talent Agency. From the classic Bram Stoker text | |||||
Synopsis: | A female van Helsing, a comic look at Victorian mores, a recreation of the novel's sweep, and a disturbing reflection on the relationship between sex and death, distinguish this adaptation of the Victorian classic.The play opens in a graveyard. Tonight, those who lived the tale of DRACULA, return from the dead to tell us their story. Using simple props, banners, and the techniques of epic theatre, actors assume multiple roles and whisk us from the port at Whitby, to the Transylvanian Castle, Dr. Seward's asylum, a crypt, a Romanian convent, a ghost ship, and the finest homes in London. | |||||
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Flush Of Tories, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg | 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | editions nu-age, Montrea, in Canada Split, two plays by Allan Stratton, ed. Odette Dube, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0921833314 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33583 | |||
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Genre: | historical comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | A hat play, with eight actors playing 23 roles | |||||
Notes: | Performance Rights : The Core Group Talent Agency | |||||
| satiric look at Prime Minister John A. MacDonald and his four hapless Tory successors as they bumble their way through a crisis with parallels to today's obsessions on language, race and politics | |||||
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Friends Of A Feather | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shaw Festival, Mainstage | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press, Toronto, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33584 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 2 extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche and A Delacour (Celimare). Performance Rights : The Core Group Talent Agency | |||||
Synopsis: | Newlywed Celimare dodges former flames, jealous husbands and suspicious in-laws in this hilarious adaptation of the classic French farce | |||||
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Joggers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Calgary | 1981 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Words In Play: three comedies by Allan Stratton, ed. Robert Wallace, Coach House Press, Toronto, 1988 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33585 | |||
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Genre: | nightmarish comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Performance Rights : The Core Group Talent Agency | |||||
Synopsis: | A young man, stranded in a blizzard, is chased by faceless men in scarves to the home of Vanessa, a murderous Venus flytrap. A disturbing, nightmare comedy about sexual and family repression | |||||
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Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii | ||
| 1st Produced: | Phoenix Theatre, Toronto | 1980 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Theatre Ontario Printing Centre, Toronto, 1981 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33586 | |||
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Genre: | Farce Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Performance Rights : Samuel French | |||||
| When Vivian Bliss, author of Harlequin Romances, comes to spend a romantic weekend with respectably married school teacher Edgar Chisholm, she starts a chain of events which involves all the classic elements of farce -- confused identities, disguise, long-lost relatives, ambushes, chases and glorious mayhem. How Vivian gets her new novel finished in the face of, behind the back of, in spite of and with the help of an advice columnist, a nosy reporter, a doctor with panty hose on his head, an orphan with a cake, and Helga the evil physicist, is the story of this outrageous comedy | |||||
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Papers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press, Toronto, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33587 | |||
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Genre: | Romantic Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Performance Rights : Samuel French | |||||
Synopsis: | Professor Moira Fitzsimmons is lecturing about a new novel by colleague Martin Edwards. Her hilarious version of the love affair that inspired the novel comes to life in a compassionate comedy about two lonely and would-be lovers and their terrible inability to communicate. | |||||
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Phoenix Lottery, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grand Theatre, London, Ontario | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press, Toronto, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978189632161 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33588 | |||
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Genre: | Farce Satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Performance Rights : The Core Group Talent Agency | |||||
| Junior Beamish has inherited his father's private corporation, BEI. Determined to repay society for the shady deals that built his family's fortune, he uses his corporate profits to finance ambitious philanthropies. His company soon teeters into bankruptcy. Desperate for cash, he creates The Phoenix Lottery, which offers its winner the twin cults of Instant Celebrity and Wealth. Celebrity by publicly taking a blowtorch to his prized van Gogh Self-Portrait in an event beamed live to the Internet and stadium Jumbotrons around the world. Wealth by selling the story to TV, tabloids and Hollywood. Fighting Junior's scheme is the ghost of Beamish Senior, carrying on their father/son battle from beyond the grave, and Cardinal Giuseppe Wichita, the illegitimate son of an Italian peasant girl and an American GI, sent by the Vatican on a mission to defend the interests of Western civilization. At Junior's side is lottery winner Lydia Spark, a former runaway turned performance artist, and Emily Pristable, Junior's mild- | |||||
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Rexy! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Phoenix Theatre, Toronto | 1981 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press, Toronto, 1981 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33589 | |||
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Genre: | Historical Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Performance Rights : The Core Group Talent Agency | |||||
Synopsis: | A witty look at Mackenzie King, the prime minister who consorted with spiritualists, ghosts and prostitutes, while holding the country together through war. | |||||
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