HENRY BEISSEL   (1929 - )


Henry Beissel
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naturalised Canadian
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Plays by Henry Beissel

HENRY BEISSEL
Are You Afraid of Thieves?
1st Produced:
Universite du Quebec
1973
Company:
La Troupe Brin'si
1st Published:
Simon & Pierre, 1978
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The play portrays three couples and the myriad games they invent to pretend they are having a marvellous time
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HENRY BEISSEL
Curve, The
1st Produced:
University of Alberta
1963
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1985
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Adaptation
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Tankred Dorst
Synopsis:
Two brothers worry about a dangerous highway. They petition for action, and the very man they petition becomes a victim of the road's lethal curve. The play deals with ethics and moral responsibility
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HENRY BEISSEL
Emigrants, The
1st Produced:
Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal.
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
2
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Slawomir Mrozek
Synopsis:
two immigrants in discussion on New Year's Eve. Politics and philosophy between intellectual a and ditch digger
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HENRY BEISSEL
En attendant Gaudreault (Waiting for Gaudreault)
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Les editions Leméac, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1976
ISBN
-
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Genre:
translation
Farce
Parts:
Male
4
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Andre Simard. Translated by Henry Beissel & Arlette Francière
Synopsis:
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HENRY BEISSEL
For Crying Out Loud
1st Produced:
Char-Lan Theatre Workshop, Williamstown, Ontario.
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Canadian Drama, 1975
ISBN
-
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Genre:
play for young adults
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A play for young adults. Ricky, a teen-ager, wakes up to find there has been a revolution and he is now Ruler of the World, with his father Field Marshal and his English teacher Secretary of State. After a series of mind-boggling adventures,, he is mercifully returned to his own bed and-his own life when his alarm clock rings
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HENRY BEISSEL
Glass Mountain, The
1st Produced:
University of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
PAJ, 1989
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Tor Age Bringsvaed. Written with Per Brask
Synopsis:
A parable about the dehumanization of the modern world
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HENRY BEISSEL
Goya
1st Produced:
Montreal Theatre Lab
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The aged Spanish artist attempts a self-portrait and is forced, through a series of flashbacks, to take stock of his own life
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HENRY BEISSEL
Grand Tirade At The Town hall, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1985
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Adaptation
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Tankred Dorst
Synopsis:
A woman begs an oriental Emperor to return her husband, one of his soldiers. With strong Brechtian overtones, an argument ensues between the wife, her supposed husband, and two office
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HENRY BEISSEL
Hedda Gabler
1st Produced:
Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal.
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen
Synopsis:
A lucid and strongly Canadian translation of the Ibsen classic
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HENRY BEISSEL
Improvisations For Mr. X
1st Produced:
Unproduced
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Improvisations for Mr. X & The Noose, Cormorant Books, 1989
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Tragi Comedy
Tragedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A modern Everyman is forced to confront the moral abyss into which his life has fallen when a theatre troupe picks him from the audience to improvise a play about himself.
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HENRY BEISSEL
Inook And The Sun
1st Produced:
The Stratford Festival, Canada
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 2001
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
5
Parts Other:
puppets
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
lnook, an Eskimo boy, sets off with his father in search of the sun to save his family from starvation. They meet a bear and the father is killed, nook, after killing the bear, meets various spirits which aid, scold, menace and admire him. A chorus of giggling seals provides comic relief as nook journeys under the sea. After solving 3 riddles, nook finds and marries the sun. A play for children and adults, combining poetry, fantasy and reality
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HENRY BEISSEL
Noose, The
1st Produced:
University of Winnipeg
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Improvisations for Mr. X & The Noose, Cormorant Books, 1989
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Mike has a confrontation with his twin brother who has hanged himself and has left a tape explaining the suicide
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HENRY BEISSEL
Poems New and Selected
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Mosaic, 1987
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
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-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Eugeniou piles on the agony. His central figure, Tina, has been wrenched from her immigrant Cypriot parents by the social services on grounds of emotional abuse". Reared by foster parents, an underage, psychologically wrecked Tina gives birth to a daughter, Rosie, and chooses to kill herself rather than yield her child to intrusive social workers. And when Rosie grows up and finds her groom has been accidentally killed on the eve of her wedding, she takes her own life and that of the twins she is carrying in her womb. It's a grisly family saga, but that doesn't make it a classical drama. In Greek tragedy the gods are essentially just in that they represent the laws of the universe; in Eugeniou's version, suicide and infanticide stem from remediable flaws in the social system. And although he accurately conveys the cultural gap between the immigrant Cypriot community and case workers ("We're not English, we're very emotional people," says one of the former), he takes it as a given that intervention is always
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HENRY BEISSEL
Season of Blood
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Mosaic, 1984
ISBN
-
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-
Parts:
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-
Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
No reader will fail to be touched by the disturbing juxtaposition of images of senseless political violence in Latin America and images of growth and fecundity of spring in eastern Canada. - Gary Geddes
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HENRY BEISSEL
Stones to Harvest
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
MOO, 1993
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
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-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
An affirmation of faith in the ultimate goodness of mankind, the importance of deep and honest relationships, and the inherent potential in every individual for personal happiness and fulfilment
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HENRY BEISSEL
Thistle in his Mouth , A
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Cormorant Books, 1987
ISBN
-
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-
Parts:
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Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Poems by Peter Huchel
Synopsis:
everybody's caught up in a fractured world that they can't even see, what's happening is unfathomable but they have a suspicion, Shepard
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HENRY BEISSEL
Trumpet For Nap, A
1st Produced:
Little Angel Theatre, London, England.
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1985
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
20 puppets, 1 narrator
Notes:
Original Playwright - Tankred Dorst
Synopsis:
a marionette play. Napoleon, a lowly dishwasher, possesses a magic trumpet, which brings joy to the world. But it lands him in a series of both pleasant and unpleasant events
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HENRY BEISSEL
Under Coyote's Eye
1st Produced:
Other Theatre, Chicago
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
8
Female
2
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The true story of Ishi, the last Stone Age Indian. When Ishi is found outside an Oroville, California slaughterhouse in 1911, an expert deciphers his language and communicates with him
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HENRY BEISSEL
Waiting For Gaudreault
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Simon & Pierre,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
4
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The play deals with a group of house painters who are renovating the facade of an Unemployment Insurance Office. A discussion ensues among them about the weariness of their lives and working conditions
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