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E THOMALEN |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Plays by E Thomalen |
Clara's Christmas Dreams | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre at St. Clement's, 423 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036 >>> | 2004 | ||||
Company: | StageRight | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780874402186 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84350 | |||
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Genre: | Musical Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | musicians | |||||
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| Clara's Christmas Dreams is a stage adaptation of the Dumas (pere) version of the Nutcracker story used by Tchaikovsky for his ballet. It tells the story of the journey of a young girl from childhood to emotional maturity condensed into a series of dreams brought on by a high fever during a single special night. The audience for the play is children from nine to fourteen, and adults of all ages. One reader commented on this adaptation as follows: "The dream sequences interspersed with the 'real' illness scenes made sense of the ballet story line to me. The characters were simple and clear, appropriate for a fable/fairytale. I enjoyed the dialogue in verse. . .I found Clara's fight for her life and character journey stronger than in the ballet. . .". The NY Times commented: "the show mesmerizes even boys" | |||||
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El Tigre | ||
| 1st Produced: | U. of Texas at Arlington and Bass Theatre, Fort Worth, Texas | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Hip Pocket Theater Co. & U. of Texas Theater Arts Program | |||||
| 1st Published: | Baker's Plays, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84351 | |||
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Genre: | Poetic drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 10 | ||
Parts other: | musicians | |||||
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Synopsis: | This play is adapted from a story by Horacio Quiroja called Juan Darien. It is a wild, exuberant, visionary tale probably based on Indian legends with Mayan roots. The play dramatizes a universal theme of loss and redemption, but also the destruction that comes to all from the rejection of the "outsider". The piece is written in rhyming verse and is to be performed in masks to improvisational musical accompaniment, dance, and employing masks and magic. Because of a heavy rhyme scheme it lends itself to a variety of musical styles: Latin, jazz, even ethereal Andean flute music. | |||||
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Hecuba - In the Darkness of the Fire | ||
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| 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 | #84542 | |||
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Genre: | Poetic drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Like Shakespeare's King Lear, Hecuba - in The Darkness of the Fire is an epic story of losses and grief in old age. Hecuba, the Queen of defeated Troy, loses her power and possessions, sees her husband killed, children lost in the war and its aftermath, her city burned to the ground, its men killed and its women taken off in slavery. The play vividly captures the Trojan Queen's desperate fight against oblivion and challenges the most accomplished actress. It is also a meditation on war and the savagery it evokes in the victors and the vanquished alike. As in all of the classical Greek literature, it is civilizing in its unflinching look at our common, and all too human, failings. Translator and Poet Robert Fagles comments: "A fine, frightening transformation of Hecuba, and throughout, a taut dramatic sense, filled with the unexpected. . .I've gone through your pages (hastily, I admit, but time is short) with admiration for the ambition of the play and, in contemporary terms, its Greekness. Many thanks and best of luck." | |||||
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Metamorphosis A Play, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jose Quintero Theatre, New York City, NY | 2003 | ||||
Company: | StageRight Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Baker's Plays, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84352 | |||
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Genre: | Tragicomic surreal drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 1 Klezmer fiddler | |||||
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Synopsis: | This play is a dramatic adaptation of Kafka's novella. The story, first published in 1915, is of a man who finds himself transformed one day into an insect. In this adaptation Gregor Samsa, portrayed by a mime, awakens into a dream. Inviting the audience to view the experience as Gregor perceives it, the Stage Manager summons the play. In the nightmare he can neither speak nor alter the conduct of those around him who see him as a bug. A musician communicates Gregor's choked internal feelings while the mime communicates the spectacle of the man in the bug. The action takes place in the moment of the dream rather than in real time. There is a tragicomic dimension to this surreal tale. Set in early 20th century Prague and written in verse, this new adaptation captures the experience of anyone who has been a stranger in a strange land. A special feature of this work is it opens a dramatic space in the schools community for an individual with strong mimic, but not declamatory, talent to perform in a great work of world literature with special relevance to the pain and struggles of adolescence and young adulthood. Is there anyone who has not felt like such an outsider? It should be performed in every school. This play was a past winner of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education, Unpublished Play Reading Project | |||||
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Platform, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #84353 | |||
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Seed for the Planting | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #84354 | |||
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Tale of 2 Murderers | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #84355 | |||
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