MICHAEL (1) COOK (1933 - 1994)
| Nationality: | Canadian |
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Plays by Michael (1) Cook
All The Funny People Are Dead |
| 1st Produced: | workshopped at the Banff School of Fine Arts | 1977 | ||||
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Apocalypse Sonata, The |
| 1st Produced: | Regina, Saskatchewan | 1980 | ||||
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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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Colour The Flesh The Colour Of Dust |
| 1st Produced: | St. John's, Newfoundland | 1971 | ||||
| Company: | The Open Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Simon and Pierre, Toronto, 1972 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Historical Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | set in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1762. The ebb and flow of life, first under British rule, then under French, with its effect on this isolated outpost | |||||
Deserts Of Bohemia, The |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1980 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
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End of the Road , The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Fisherman's Revenge, The |
| 1st Produced: | Trinity Bay, Newfoundland | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | Newfoundland Traveling Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights, Toronto, 1976 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Childrens 1 Act Farce | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Gayden Chronicles, The |
| 1st Produced: | Lennoxville, Quebec | 1977 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Canadian Theatre Review (CTR 13), 1977 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | historical drama | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Great Harvest Festival |
| 1st Produced: | Stratford, Ontario | 1986 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
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Head, Guts And Soundbone Dance, The |
| 1st Produced: | Arts and Cultural Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland | 1973 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Canadian Theatre Review (CTR 1), 1974 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | 3c | |||||
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| Synopsis: | A drama of the changing times in a small Newfoundland outport. The people must adapt to a new lifestyle but Skipper Pete refuses to face the truth; his resistance to the present destroys all around him | |||||
J. Arthur Prufrock Hour, The |
| 1st Produced: | St. John's, Newfoundland | 1968 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | Revue | Show | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Jacob's Wake |
| 1st Produced: | St. John's, Newfoundland | 1974 | ||||
| Company: | The Open Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talonbooks, Vancouver, 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Drama of the near future | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | A Newfoundland family gathers for Easter but there is nothing holy in their reunion. The home - the ship - is running aground, wrecking itself on the ice, sinking with a roar. Nevertheless, there is a ribald, often wry humour, which constantly challenges the grimness of their lives | |||||
Not As A Dream |
| 1st Produced: | Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights, Toronto, 1976 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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On The Rim Of The Curve |
| 1st Produced: | Gander, Newfoundland | 1977 | ||||
| Company: | Avion Players | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Three Plays", Breakwater, Portugal Cove, Newfoundland, 1977 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | about the last of the Beothuks | |||||
Quiller |
| 1st Produced: | St. John's, Newfoundland | 1975 | ||||
| Company: | Breakwater Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights, Toronto, 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | one man struggles against the tide of memories which engulf him, his monologue revealing the direction of his life in a Newfoundland outport. Quiller finally canes to a blessed realisation: that man cannot really be conquered by time | |||||
Special Providence |
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Split |
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | only copy sent to Theatre Toronto, "where it disappeared without trace". | |||||
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Therese's Creed |
| 1st Produced: | Centaur Theatre, Montreal | 1977 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Tiln and Other Plays, Talonbooks, Vancouver, 1976 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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Tiln |
| 1st Produced: | Toronto | 1972 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights, Toronto, 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | broadcast 1971 | |||||
| Synopsis: | the sea and death continue to obsess the central character, but Tiln's realisations, unlike Quiller's, end in despair | |||||