MARSHALL BUTTON
| Nationality: | Canadian |
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Plays by Marshall Button
Camp Harmony |
| 1st Produced: | Comedy Asylum, on tour | 1985 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | 60 min | Musical | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | With country-western music by Bob Jensen, this is the story of Laura Taker, a famous country singer with a history of psychological problems. A couple of days of salmon fishing on the Restigouche River are prescribed where Camp Harmony is run by two men who only pretend to be fishing guides | |||||
Lucien |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre New Brunswick and The Comedy Asylum | 1986 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | Performed by the author, this show features a millworker in Northern New Brunswick who, in a broken English dialect, speaks as a specific isolated character echoing universal themes. | |||||
Lucien's Labour Lost |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
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Maritime Mixed Grill |
| 1st Produced: | Comedy Asylum, Theatre New Brunswick high school tour. | 1984 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | musical revue with a heavy dose of political satire | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Music by Joan Welihauser | |||||
| Synopsis: | Billed as "a smiling salute to downhorne New Brunswick," the story revolves around a group of displaced Maritimers in Calgary, Alberta. | |||||
Misanthrope, The |
| 1st Produced: | The Comedy Asylum, as dinner theatre | 1983 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | cast of 8 | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Moliere; translated by Marshall Button and Yves Mercier | |||||
| Synopsis: | half in rhyming couplets and half in prose | |||||
Passin' Thru |
| 1st Produced: | Comedy Asylum | 1984 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | 60 min | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | cast of 2 | |||||
| Notes: | Music by Joan Wellhauser. Featured on CBC's The Journal. Subject of three separate CP articles. | |||||
| Synopsis: | A satirical view of Atlantic Canada's tourist trade. | |||||
Viewed and Wooed |
| 1st Produced: | Comedy Asylum | 1983 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Co-written with Jenny Munday, Yves Mercier, Elizabeth Goodyear and Marshall Button | |||||
| Synopsis: | This is a sequel to Georges Feydeau's "Wooed and Viewed" which ties together the unlikely combination of Feydau and Eugene lonesco's "The Lesson" in an evening of one-act plays. | |||||