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ROBERTO F CICCOTELLI
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Roberto F. Ciccotelli has been a theatre artist and educator for over 20 years. In this time, Ciccotelli has been a professional playwright and screenwriter, theatre and film director, photographer and audio engineer. His published plays include THe FIFTeeN MINUTe MINIMUM, WaLTZ OF THe ReD MOONBeaM, THROUGH THe MIRROR, LORD CHaMBeRLaIN'S WOMeN, and THe PeRSISTeNCe OF DaLI (HeUeR PUBLISHING). His produced films include THe LeGeND (Cin-o-matic Films), THe FINe aRe OF BOCCe (Mythic Productions) and STONe LaKe (HD Films). He also engineered the score to the films WaR OF THe DeaD, HaUNTING aT THOMPSON HIGH and CHICKNaPPING (Cin-o-matic Films). Ciccotell's plays have played to sold-out audiences at the 1000-seat Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto and the 2400-seat Leid Centre at the International Thespian Festival in Lincoln, NebraskA. Ciccotelli is a member of the Playwrights Guild of CanadA. He is also the artistic Director of Theatre anon Productions, which produces original theatre, film and music.
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15 Minute Minimum Asphalt Rhythms Berkoff Blue Fantasia Death And Private Conversations El Picador Fine Art Of Bocce, The Four Le Spa, The Musical Lord Chamberlain's Women Macbeth Persistence Of Dali, The Smack! Crack! Stand Up! Taming Of The Two Through The Mirror Twisted Waltz Of The Red Moonbeam15 Minute Minimum
Synopsis:
a hilarious satirical comedy that attacks the conventions and expectations of many competitive Drama festivals. With strong allusions to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, and Laurel and Hardy, this play illuminates two inept and apathetic actors on stage trying to win a Drama competition by accomplishing all of the elements of a great Drama while remaining on stage for the required fifteen minute minimum that their Drama competition requires.
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1st Produced:
Malton Community Theatre, Malton, Ontario 1992
Organisations:
ascension Drama
1st Published:
Heuer Publishing, 2000 -
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Genre:
absurdist comedy absurd
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: 3
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Top of PageAsphalt Rhythms
Synopsis:
an exploration of the life, feelings and background of six squeegee kids. Through the use of monologues and short dialogues, the play illuminates the art of washing windshields, their reasons for working the streets, and their attitude toward the government's recent legislation banning their practice. In between these scenes, percussion STOMP-style improvisations, using their tools-of-the-trade, squeegees, cans, buckets, garbage cans, serve as transitions.
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1st Produced:
Cawthra Park Theatre, Mississauga, Ontario 1999
Organisations:
Hall Drama
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy (with Percussion) Comedy
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageBerkoff
Synopsis:
a play whose content and structure is directly borrowed from literature, Drama, and film. BeRKOFF is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, a satire of Stephen Berkoff's Greek, a parody of Francis Ford Coppola's apocalypse Now, and a continuation of the Cohen brother's Barton Fink. Ultimately, however, the play is about none of these works. BeRKOFF is about the fundamental search for God and the consequences of finding him. The majority of the play is set in the backstage of a theatre. There are minimum or no stage lights used in the play; only a variety of stage specials are used to illuminate the scenes; all lights and cables are in full view of the audience; there is no attempt to hide them from the audience's view. Some actors will serve as Stage Crew; there is no attempt at hiding these alternating roles from the audience. The first scene takes place, however, in the bachelor apartment of a "starving" playwright while the following scenes take place in the backstage and rehearsal areas of a professional theatre.
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1st Produced:
Cawthra Park Theatre, Mississauga, Ontario 1993
Organisations:
ascension Drama
1st Published:
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Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: 6 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageBlue Fantasia
Synopsis:
a dance Drama with both dance and theatrical elements. It incorporates ballet, modern jazz, farce, slapstick, burlesque, and classic physical comedy. Influenced by Disney's Fantasia, this play is a visual representation or interpretation of a classic piece of music. In this case, Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue."
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1st Produced:
Cawthra Park Theatre, Mississauga, Ontario 1996
Organisations:
Hall Drama
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Dance Drama
Parts:
Male: - Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageDeath And Private Conversations
Synopsis:
a modern homage to arthur Miller's DeaTH OF a SaLeSMaN. DeaTH and PRIVaTe CONVeRSaTIONS maintains Miller's focus on the modern dysfunctional family and how one generation can significantly affect the next. The play has a similar plot, beginning with an attempted suicide and ending with a completed suicide. The play has the same basic structure, with the story slowly unfolding and the audience eventually piecing together the whole history of the family. The play makes use of the flashback technique and of the two-story staging technique. The play maintains the use of selective lighting and music to separate reality from flashbacks. and finally, DeaTH and PRIVaTe CONVeRSaTIONS incorporates the use of symbolism as embodied by certain objects and setting used during the play. a teenage girl goes into the boy's washroom of her high school in order to kill herself by slashing her wrists. While there, she has a number of flashbacks, including the time she caught her father snorting cocaine in the washroom of their home, the time her mother died in a car accident because of her father's drug addiction, the time her father seduced her, and her mother's funeral. While in the boy's washroom, a couple of boys go in, creating some comic relief, and a couple of girlfriends try to get her out, having no idea that she plans to kill herself. Overwhelmed by her mother's death and her father's drug abuse and sexual advances, the girl finally kills herself with her father's straight edge razor.
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1st Produced:
Mayfield Theatre, Caledon, Ontario 1995
Organisations:
Hall Drama
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Genre:
Drama/tragedy Tragedy
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageEl Picador
Synopsis:
eL PICaDOR is in many ways a classic tragedy. On a basic level, it examines the relationship between a great picador and his family, and chronicles its eventual downfall. More profoundly, it explores the themes of honour and respect, the art of bullfighting and of dressage, and the devastating effects of infidelity and divorce. eL PICaDOR manages to follow the style of classic Greek tragedy while remaining contemporary and topical. eL PICaDOR is also a play with several literary influences. ernest Hemingway's Death in the afternoon provides the necessary background on the art of bullfighting. Peter Schaffer's equus proves a model for one of the plays' tragic moments. and David French's Leaving Home provides the style for the final battle between the father and son. although admittedly influenced by these singular works, and by classic tragedies in general, eL PICaDOR stands on its own as a unique blending of the above, within a modern Canadian context, and with a modern cautionary message. Sonya and Maria are excellent dressage riders and have just finished one of their best exhibitions ever. Behind the equestrian arena, their friends, Pedro and Frankie, and Sonya's older brother, Marcos, celebrate their success and possible championship. Marcos, however, has disturbing news. Marcos and Sonya's father have decided to enter their prize winning dressage horse, Caesar, into a bullfighting event, an event that could maim or kill the horse. Marco confronts his authoritarian and overbearing father who calls him a coward and weakling. In order to prevent the father from taking Caesar, Marcos takes matters into his own hands, exits the stage and stabs the horse in the eyes with two picas. The father finds the maimed horse and shoots him dead. Marcos and his father have a huge argument, Marcos accusing his father of eliminating the horse the way his father eliminated their mother. During the argument, Sonya tries everything she can to break up the fighting. The father finally loses his sense and begins whipping Marcos with a horsewhip. Marcos eventually takes the horsewhip from him and begins whipping the father. Sonya, trying to get between the two, trying to stop the violence and anger, gets pushed back by both father and brother into a pile of razor sharp picas. She is stabbed in the back by a dozen picas, killing her.
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1st Produced:
Cawthra Theatre, Mississauga, Ontario 1996
Organisations:
Hall Drama
1st Published:
Directplays.com, -
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Genre:
Drama/tragedy Tragedy
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageFine Art Of Bocce, The
Synopsis:
In order to improve his chances at getting a partnership with his company's marketing firm, Gianni Buonamamme agrees to enter a team in his boss' annual Lawn Bowling Tournament. after some coercion, Gianni manages to convince his Italian grandfather, father and younger brother to form the team. Unfortunately, Gianni's family thinks they're entering a typical bocce match. Once Gianni's family arrives at the pristine Brampton Lawn Bowling club, they begin, to Gianni's dismay, unloading their pick-up truck with a gas BBQ, coolers, lawn chairs, etc. The grandfather begins making tomato sauce; the father begins repairing the Club House, and the brother begins sun tanning. What ensues is a chaotic attempt from Gianni to keep up appearances and his dignity in front of his boss, while arguing and fighting with his embarrassing family. THe FINe aRT OF BOCCe is both a comedy of manners (Italian manners) and a Drama about the relationships of three generations of Italians, and their feelings and thoughts concerning Italian culture, parenting and relationships
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written by Frank Adriano And Roberto F Ciccotelli
1st Produced:
Heritage Theatre, Brampton, Ontario 2004
Organisations:
Theatre anon Productions
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Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: - Other: -
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Synopsis:
follows the lives of four boys, friends since toddlers, and shows them at ages four, eight, twelve and sixteen. The play begins in 1972 in the basement rec room of one of the characters. as they gather to watch the Olympics, their individual joys and sorrows are slowly revealed. and what starts off as a look at childhood innocence and wonder, ends with an exploration of fate, parenting, friendship and death.
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1st Produced:
Mayfield Theatre, Caledon, Ontario 2002
Organisations:
Hall Drama
1st Published:
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageLe Spa, The Musical
Synopsis:
a comedic musical set in a Parisian Spa. The employees of the Parisian spa Le Petite Morte Spa are competing in an annual spa competition called the International Spa Grand Prix. Under great duress from their manager, Monsieur de Monnee, they must compete against an esoteric and holistic team from California and an aggressive almost violent team from Turkey.
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Book, lyrics And music written by Frank Adriano And Roberto F Ciccotelli
1st Produced:
Rose Theatre Brampton 2006
Organisations:
Hall Drama and Theatre anon Productions
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Genre:
Musical comedy Musical
Parts:
Male: 10 Female: 8 Other: -
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Top of PageLord Chamberlain's Women
Synopsis:
a classic farce with a Shakespearean twist. It incorporates many classic comedic elements, including mistaken identity, cross-dressing, innuendo, deceit, word play, romantic entanglements, and also, a dog. Set in the backstage area of the Globe Theatre in 1595, it focuses on a famous actor's attempts to seduce a beautiful French woman while avoiding various suitors, both male and female. Performed with dizzying speed and multiple costume changes, the play rushes forward in a whirlwind of humour, lust and chaos.
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1st Produced:
Mayfield Theatre, Caledon, Ontario 2001
Organisations:
Hall Drama
1st Published:
Heuer Publishing
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Genre:
45 min Farce
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageMacbeth
Synopsis:
a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's original. Set in modern day Glasgow, the story follows the rise and fall of a young, street hustler, commonly known as Mac, as he takes over the organized crime ring of his block by any means possible. Influenced by the style and content of Irvine Welsh and Stephen Berkoff, MaCBeTH takes Shakespeare's classic story and fuses it with contemporary, Scottish language and references. although updated for a modern audience, MaCBeTH still remains a story of blind ambition, violence, self-determination and fate.
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1st Produced:
Winter Garden Theatre, Toronto 2003
Organisations:
Hall Drama
1st Published:
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Genre:
Drama adaptation
Parts:
Male: 17 Female: 4 Other: 10
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Top of PagePersistence Of Dali, The
Synopsis:
an absurdist piece of theatre that seeks to explore the great 20th Century surrealist artist's life, theories and philosophies. Combining references to actual works of art, documented statements, and biographical details, the play explores, both in a comical and profound manner, the brilliant Spanish painter that was Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali.
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1st Produced:
Mayfield Theatre, Caledon, Ontario 2002
Organisations:
Hall Drama
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