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Aaron Bushkowsky

AARON BUSHKOWSKY

  (1957 - )
Nationality:    Canadian
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Aaron Bushkowsky is a Vancouver-based playwright with publications and productions across several genres, including film, theatre, prose, poetry and non-fiction. His first collection of short fiction, The Vanishing Man, was published by Cormorant Books in 2005, and his two collections of poetry, ed and mabel go to the moon and Mars is for Poems, are available through Oolichan Books. Aarons plays, Strangers Among Us and The Waterhead and Other Plays have been published by Playwrights Canada Press. His plays have been nominated for Jessie Richardson Awards several times, winning twice. He teaches film and playwriting at several institutions, including Langara College, Studio 58, Kwantlen University, and Vancouver Film School. He also helps run Solo Collective Theatre, a professional mid-sized theatre in Vancouver that produces original plays by Western Canadian playwrights. Aaron Bushkowsky is a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada.

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

         After Jerusalem         Angel Bones         Bethlehem         Between Mothers         Big Blue Bird, The         Dancing Backwards         Dead Reckoning         Farewell, My Lovely         Java Life         Landscape Of the Dead         Love Child         My Chernobyl         One Last Kiss         Play With Monsters         Project, The         Promised Land         Souless         Spoon Faced Girl, The         Stone Boy         Strangers Among Us         Waterhead, The
After Jerusalem

Synopsis:
A down-on-her-luck middle-aged schoolteacher tries to find love in Israel by making herself up to be a famous actress only to run into a wannabe script-writer Israeli soldier with many tall tales to tell.

Notes:
part of Unknown Country

1st Produced:
WorkShop Theater Jewel Box
312 West 36th Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10018     26 Jan 2013

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Guild Canada 2013   

Music:
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Angel Bones

Synopsis:
Two priests clash over who should save the soul of a woman who is claiming she had an affair with an angel

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1st Produced:
New Play Festival, Vancouver     02 May 2005

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Drama

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Bethlehem

Synopsis:
ari needs to make more money to keep his wife happy. He becomes the leading foreclosure expert. His wife's ex-boyfriend - the one she never got over - is his next assignment

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1st Produced:
Tarragon Theatre, Toronto     2009

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Drama

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Between Mothers

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1st Produced:
Performance Works, Vancouver     2002

Organisations:
Solo Collective

1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press, 2004   

Music:
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Genre:
Short Play One act

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Big Blue Bird, The

Synopsis:
Three generations of men - grandfather, father, and son - come to terms with the missing women in their lives and find love and compassion

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Vancouver Little Theatre, Vancouver.     1998

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1st Published:
Playwrights Union of Canada, Toronto, 1998   

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  doubling

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Dancing Backwards

Synopsis:
an independent and successful businesswoman is suddenly struck by alzheimer's Disease, and her daughter and son-in-law struggle to cope

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1st Produced:
Phoenix Theatre, Edmonton     1992

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1st Published:
Playwrights Union of Canada, Toronto,    

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dead Reckoning

Synopsis:
Rivalry between William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe

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1st Produced:
Vancouver Playhouse     2002

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1st Published:
Playwrights Guild Canada   

Music:
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Genre:
Historical drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Farewell, My Lovely

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Based on the novel "Fraewell, My Lovely" by Raymond Chandler

1st Produced:
Vertigo Theatre, Calgary     2014

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Java Life

Synopsis:
Five people find hope, friendship, and cappuccino in an all-night coffee bar.

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Theatre Centre, Vancouver, B.C..     1997

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1st Published:
Playwrights Union of Canada, Toronto, 1998   

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Genre:
Comedic Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Landscape Of the Dead

Synopsis:
a mother uses her fame to manipulate her son until she discovers that she has not long left to live

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Solo Collective Theatre, Vancouver     2006

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwights Guild Canada   

Music:
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Genre:
Drama

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Love Child

Synopsis:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Brave New Play Writes" published by anvil Press 2006   

Music:
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My Chernobyl

My Chernobyl
a Canadian man goes to Belarus to hand over a bequest to a distant cousin. He some how finds himself engaged to a Russian woman

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Gateway Theatre, Richmond, Bc     2008

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press 2009   

Music:
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Genre:
Drama

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One Last Kiss

Synopsis:
a retired couple find themselves with nothing to do until antonio Stradivari turns up with a suggestion

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Belfrey Theatre, Victoria, Canada     Jan 2004

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Guild Canada 2007   

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Play With Monsters

Synopsis:
An American on holiday in France is trying to woo the owner of a winery. His parents come to haunt him - as zombies

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Guild Canada   

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Project, The

Synopsis:
A documentary film maker down on his luck has an idea for a movie. He will take an ageing Hollywood star to Africa a film her nursing children. Things go wrong when his liaison officer plots a coup and his rich assistant is kidnapped

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Solo Collective Theatre, Vancouver     2009

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Guild Canada   

Music:
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Genre:
Black comedy

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Promised Land

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Performance Works

1st Published:
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Music:
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Souless

Synopsis:
a woman objects to the redevelopment of a downtown area. When her body is found at the building site the developer is arrested for murder

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Rumble Theatre, Vancouver     Apr 2004

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Guild Canada   

Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Spoon Faced Girl, The

Synopsis:
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1st Published:
International Readers theatre   

Music:
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Stone Boy

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Performance Works

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Monologue play

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Strangers Among Us

Strangers Among Us
Gabrielle and Michael meet by accident, fall in love, part, meet again and fall in love all over again. every time they meet, they forget each other's name because they suffer from alzheimer's Disease. eventually, they end up at a long-term care facility where they meet other people suffering from the same malady, extraordinary people who live and die with courage and hope. In the end, Michael and Gabrielle find love again and, in the process, change the lives of the people around them.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Western Gold Theatre, Vancouver, Bc.     1998

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Union of Canada, Toronto, 1999   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  doubling

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Waterhead, The

Waterhead, The
a middle aged man comes to terms with the mystery of his missing sibling

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Performance Works, Vancouver     2002

Organisations:
Solo Collective

1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press, 2004   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short Play One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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