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Douglas Bowie

DOUGLAS BOWIE  

 Nationality:    Canadian
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below is a list of Douglas Bowie's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Goodbye, Piccadilly         Love And Larceny         Noble Pursuit, The         Rope's End         Sgodsdogs

Goodbye, Piccadilly

Synopsis:
Bess Brickley is struggling with the shocking news that her husband, Brick, has been found dead in Leicester Square, London. This is a tragedy cloaked in a mystery because she thought he was on a canoe trip in algonquin Park. as layers are peeled away, secrets stretching back to World War II are uncovered. Full of heart, humour and surprises, Goodbye, Piccadilly is a universal story about the families we have and the families we make.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
ThoUSAnd Islands Playhouse    2002

Organisations:
Blyth Festival

1st Published:
Contained in: "Two Plays by Douglas Bowie" published by Playwrights Canada Press 2007   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Love And Larceny

Synopsis:
an "almost true" musical, this is the larger-than-life saga of Betsy Bigley, a simple Ontario farm girl, born in 1857, who became one of the most successful con artists of her age. The "seductive swindler", she used brains, beauty and sheer nerve to separate rich men from their money all the way from small-town Ontario to Wall Street. This ingenious and lively caper shines a musical spotlight on one of our most notorious characters.

Notes:
Book And Lyrics by Douglas Bowie, Music And Lyrics by David Archibald

1st Produced:
ThoUSAnd Islands Playhouse    2004

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  6            Other:  some flexibility with doubling

Further Reference:
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Noble Pursuit, The

Synopsis:
Rumours are rife that Canada's pre-eminent man of letters, the August Noble Harmsworth, is on the verge of becoming the first Canadian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. But if the Nobel poo bahs want to immortalize him, why does his former friend and admirer Lyle Lemmerman want to kill him? a sophisticated, suspenseful comedy about literary fame, fortune and fakery.

Notes:
Newly revised And updated, 2005

1st Produced:
ThoUSAnd Islands Playhouse    1991

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playwrights Union of Canada,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Rope's End

Synopsis:
a man, Toby Boone, sits alone in a drab room. He's reached the end of his rope - figuratively - and perhaps literally, because he's trying to tie an ominous-looking loop in a rope. The possibility of suicide looms in the air. But he comes across a photo -- the love of his life. She can rescue him if he can just get up his nerve to contact her. There's only one small problem. He last saw her at summer camp when they were 13, 31 years ago. What if she doesn't remember him? Even worse, what if she does?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
ThoUSAnd Islands Playhouse    2006

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sgodsdogs

Synopsis:
Tim "Timbit" Simkins' little theatre is on the verge of bankruptcy when he gets the idea of luring back his old university pal Jacko Germaine, now a famous, albeit B-List TV actor, to lure in the crowds and save the day. Tim gets much more than he bargained for as a bumbling stagehand, a frustrated wife, an ambitious ingenue, and a trap door with a mind of its own contribute to the twists, turns and laughs in this rapid-fire spoof of the backbiting, back-scratching, backstabbing world of theatre.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
ThoUSAnd Islands Playhouse    1997

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy/Farce Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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