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Robert Chesley

ROBERT CHESLEY

  (1943 - 1990)
Nationality:    USA
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Robert was born on March 22nd 1943 in Jersey City, New Jersey. He was a composer, playwright and Theatre critic. He set poems by Gertrude Stein, Walter de la Mare and Emily Dickinson to music. He moved to San Francisco in 1976 to become the Theatre critic of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He died of an aIDS related illness at the age of 47. there is a yearly award for gay/lesbian playwrighting named after him

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         April First         Arbor Day         Beattitudes, A Farce And A Prayer         Breaking Up : Fragments         Christmas Card         City Pieces         Come Again - An Entertainment During the Siege         Dear Friends And Gentle Hearts         Deploration Of Rover         Dog Plays         Dog's Life, A         Et Tu, Lesbo         Happy Vd         Hell, I Love You         Hold         Jerker, Or, The Helping Hand         Laughter And Tears         Lost Doll         Madeline De Lucien         Maggie's Play         Morning, Noon And Night         Night Sweat         Nocturnes         Pigman         Private theatricals: Morning, Noon And Night         Scream, The         Somebody's Little Boy         Stray Dog Story         Wild (Person, Tense) Dog

April First

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Arbor Day

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Beattitudes, A Farce And A Prayer

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Breaking Up : Fragments

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Christmas Card

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City Pieces

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Chelsea Gay association Theatre Project    1981

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Three One act Plays. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Come Again - An Entertainment During the Siege

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Dear Friends And Gentle Hearts

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Deploration Of Rover

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Dog Plays

Dog Plays
A young man is dying from AIDS related illnesses

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staged reading at apple Corps Theatre, NY    32911

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Plays by Robert Chesley, Broadway Publishing Inc,    -

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triptych of themtically linked One acts. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Dog's Life, A

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Et Tu, Lesbo

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Happy Vd

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Hell, I Love You

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Theatre Rhinoceros, San Francisco    1980

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One act. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Hold

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Jerker, Or, The Helping Hand

Jerker, Or, The Helping Hand
at the start of the aIDS epidemic - two men have safe 'phone sex. a bond begins to develop between them - but then one starts to compalin about a cold he can't seem to shake off.

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Originally A radio play broadcast on Radio Station KPFK, California

1st Produced:
Celebration Theatre, Los Angeles    18 Jul 1986

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Plays by Robert Chesley, Broadway Publishing Inc.,    -

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Original cast recording of the full play: Man For Man 1994

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Play/Drama. - - AIDS, full length

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Laughter And Tears

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Lost Doll

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Madeline De Lucien

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Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Tragedie en 2 aces de Claire Pis. Badly translated from the nonexistent French by Betsy LeRocher

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Maggie's Play

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Morning, Noon And Night

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Night Sweat

Night Sweat
A number of young men all HIV+ form a suicide club

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the first full length play About AIDS on An American Stage

1st Produced:
Shandol Theatre, New York    24 May 1984

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Meridian Gay Theatre

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Contained in: "Hard Plays, Stiff Parts" published by alamo Square Press 1991   978-0962475115

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Genre:
AIDS, full length

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Nocturnes

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Pigman

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a new comedy. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Private theatricals: Morning, Noon And Night

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Scream, The

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Somebody's Little Boy

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Contained in: "Hard Plays/Stiff Parts" published by Alamo Square Press 1990   -

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Stray Dog Story

Stray Dog Story
"a play that is audacious in concept, cogent in politics, genuinely funny, emotional, and on top of all that, authentically concerned with the human condition. In this tale, Buddy, the dog of the title, s magically transformed into human shape and endowed with human language. Bereft of companionship, naive and trusting as a pooch, he sets out on a troubled adventure through contemporary Manhattan" - Jim Quinn, New York Native

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staged reading by the Glines, Shandol Theatre, NYC    May 1982

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TnTClassic Books >>>, 1983   0935672117

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Genre:
adventure in Ten Scenes. - - Gay, full length

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  numerous parts

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Wild (Person, Tense) Dog

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Genre:
Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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