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John Lazarus

JOHN LAZARUS

  (1947 - )
Nationality:    Canadian
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John Lazarus's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Alien Mice         Babel Rap         Chester, You Owe My Bird An Apology         Cold Beer With A Warm Friend, A         David For Queen         Dreaming And Duelling         Encroaching Chaos         Fighting Fear At the Bus Stop         Genuine Fakes         Homework & Curtains         How We Killed the Moose         Ice: Beyond Cool         Illegal Playwriting Class, The         Late Blumer (Full Length), The         Late Blumer (One-Act), The         Mad King Andrew         Marks On Paper         Medea's Disgust         Midas         Night Light         Nightingale , The         Not So Dumb         Puppets         Schoolyard Games         Secrets         Trials Of Eddy Haymour, The         Village Of Idiots         Where Now, Captain Cook?         You Remind Me Of         You're Him         Yuppie Ciao

Alien Mice

Synopsis:
the lecturer tells the audience that he has a bomb and that they will stay a listen to his theories of alien invasion that links the fountains of Versailles and Mickey Mouse

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Babel Rap

Synopsis:
Two workers building the Tower of Babel argue about what they are doing and what will happen to the building when finished

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1st Produced:
Troupe, Vancouver    1972

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1972   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Chester, You Owe My Bird An Apology

Synopsis:
Chester is being driven mad by his sister's nagging and her foul mouthed cockatoo

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1st Produced:
West Vancouver Little Theatre Guild, Vancouver    1972

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1972   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  1 either sex

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Cold Beer With A Warm Friend, A

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Troupe, Vancouver    1973

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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David For Queen

Synopsis:
David comes out by entering the race to be Prom Queen

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama Comedy - gay one act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dreaming And Duelling

Synopsis:
Two fencing students are in love with the same girl. they decide to settle matters with a duel

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Encroaching Chaos

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Troupe, Vancouver    1973

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Fighting Fear At the Bus Stop

Synopsis:
Sexual misunderstandings between strangers

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Genuine Fakes

Synopsis:
Because of her resemblance to a famous rock star, Sharon joins a look alike agency - Genuine Fakes. She finds that she much prefers being the rock star

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Homework & Curtains

Synopsis:
Murray Greenspan comes to understand his teenage son better after revisiting his younger self and his dead father

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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How We Killed the Moose

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Play Centre, Vancouver    1977

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Ice: Beyond Cool

Synopsis:
Teenage Sarah tries to make sense of the world

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Illegal Playwriting Class, The

Synopsis:
the principles being taught in a playwriting course are echoed in a strange plot

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Late Blumer (Full Length), The

Synopsis:
1967 Blumer takes acid. When he wakes up it is 1984

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Late Blumer (One-Act), The

Synopsis:
1967 Blumer takes acid. When he wakes up it is 1984

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Mad King Andrew

Synopsis:
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Notes:
2nd prize British Columbia Centennial Pplaywriting Competition

1st Produced:
Unproduced    1970

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Children's One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Marks On Paper

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Chinook Touring Theatre, Fort St John, British Columbia    1979

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Medea's Disgust

Synopsis:
A lecture on the novel of a former protege by a failed novelist and convicted criminal

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Midas

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Tamahnous Theatre and New Play centre, Vancouver    1977

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Two acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Night Light

Synopsis:
Victor is the object for the school bullies. His sister has a monster in the top drawer of her dresser

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Nightingale , The

Synopsis:
A nightingale cures the emperor but he locks her up. When she escapes he banishes her

Notes:
Based on a story by Hans Christian Anderson

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Not So Dumb, Playwrights Canada Press,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Childrens 1 act Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Not So Dumb

Synopsis:
Two pupils with learning disabilities get into trouble with the school monitor

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Not So Dumb, Playwrights Canada Press,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Childrens 1 act Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Puppets

Synopsis:
A man and woman meet in a departmental shop. their thoughts are acted out

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Tamahnous "Writers' Show"    1978

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
seven minute curtain raiser

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Schoolyard Games

Synopsis:
Two sisters and their friend discover that games can turn sour

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Not So Dumb: Four Plays For Young People" published by Coach House Press 1993   -

Music:
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Genre:
Childrens 1 act Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Secrets

Synopsis:
the children from "Night Light", "Not So Dumb" and "Schoolyard Games" are now all adolescents. they are having a party at Victor's house

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Not So Dumb, Playwrights Canada Press,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Childrens 1 act Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Trials Of Eddy Haymour, The

Synopsis:
A Lebanese immigrant in Canada builds an Arabian theme park in the Bible Belt

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Village Of Idiots

Synopsis:
Yosef deserts from the Russian army and goes on the run. He collapses in a Polish village and stays there - but he finds that life in the village is the same as the one he had back home

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Frederick Wood Theatre, University of British Columbia    20 Jan 2005

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Where Now, Captain Cook?

Synopsis:
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Notes:
music by Joan Beeow

1st Produced:
Kaleidoscope Theatre, Vancouver    1978

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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You Remind Me Of

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Unproduced    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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You're Him

Synopsis:
More sexual misunderstandings with strangers

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Yuppie Ciao

Synopsis:
A take-away pizza leads to a couple breaking up

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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