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Allan Stratton

ALLAN STRATTON  

 Nationality:    Canadian
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Allan Stratton has had a number of plays produced and published. Some of his other plays include Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii, which has had more than 200 national and international productions; Papers won the Chalmers Award for Outstanding New Play and was a finalist for the Governor General's Award and the Dora Mavor Moore Award; Friends of a Feather, mounted at the Shaw Festival and filmed by the CBC, won an award for artistic excellence at the Colombus International Film Festival; Bingo!, which has been produced in Canada and the U.S.A., has been translated into Spanish. Stratton received his M.A. in Drama from the University of Toronto. He has given lectures, readings, and seminars at universities and colleges across the country.

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below is a list of Allan Stratton's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 101 Miracles Of Hope Chance, The         72 Under The O         Bag Babies         Bingo!         Dracula: Nightmare Of The Dead         Flush Of Tories, A         Friends Of A Feather         Joggers         Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii         Papers         Phoenix Lottery, The         Rexy!

101 Miracles Of Hope Chance, The

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.

Notes:
Performance Rights : The Core Group Talent Agency

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1st Published:
in Words In Play: three comedies by Allan Stratton, ed. Robert Wallace, Coach House Press, Toronto, 1988   -

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Genre:
satiric comedy/thriller Satire

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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72 Under The O

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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op   978-0887540837

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Bag Babies

Allan Stratton
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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Performance Rights : The Core Group Talent Agency

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1st Published:
Coach House Press, Toronto, 1991   978-088754238

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Genre:
comedy of (bad) manners

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  2 extras

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Bingo!

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

Notes:
Performance Rights : Samuel French. Revised form At The Gryphon Theatre, 1987

1st Produced:
Vancouver Playhouse (under the title 72 Under The O)    1987

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1987   -

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Genre:
Farce Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dracula: Nightmare Of The Dead

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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Performance Rights : The Core Group Talent Agency. From the classic Bram Stoker text

1st Produced:
Skylight Theatre, Toronto    1995

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Flush Of Tories, A

Allan Stratton
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

Notes:
Performance Rights : The Core Group Talent Agency

1st Produced:
Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg    1991

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1st Published:
editions nu-age, Montrea, in Canada Split, two plays by Allan Stratton, ed. Odette Dube, 1991   978-0921833314

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Genre:
historical comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  1            Other:  A hat play, with eight actors playing 23 roles

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Friends Of A Feather

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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Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche And A Delacour (Celimare). Performance Rights : The Core Group Talent Agency

1st Produced:
Shaw Festival, Mainstage    1984

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1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press, Toronto, 1984   -

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  2 extras

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Joggers

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

Notes:
Performance Rights : The Core Group Talent Agency

1st Produced:
Theatre Calgary    1981

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Words In Play: three comedies by Allan Stratton, ed. Robert Wallace, Coach House Press, Toronto, 1988   -

Music:
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Genre:
nightmarish comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii

Allan Stratton
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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Performance Rights : Samuel French

1st Produced:
Phoenix Theatre, Toronto    1980

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1st Published:
Theatre Ontario Printing Centre, Toronto, 1981
Samule French, NY   -

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Genre:
Farce Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Papers

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.

Notes:
Performance Rights : Samuel French

1st Produced:
Tarragon Theatre, Toronto    1985

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1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press, Toronto, 1986   -

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Genre:
Romantic Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Phoenix Lottery, The

Allan Stratton
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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Performance Rights : The Core Group Talent Agency

1st Produced:
Grand Theatre, London, Ontario    2001

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press, Toronto, 2001   978-189632161

Music:
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Genre:
Farce Satire

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Rexy!

Synopsis:
A witty look at Mackenzie King, the prime minister who consorted with spiritualists, ghosts and prostitutes, while holding the country together through war.

Notes:
Performance Rights : The Core Group Talent Agency

1st Produced:
Phoenix Theatre, Toronto    1981

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press, Toronto, 1981   -

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Genre:
Historical Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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