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Jack Fitzgerald

JACK FITZGERALD  (1932 - )

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Jack Fitzgerald is the author of many plays and screenplays. He is also an actor, linguist and educator. He was raised in Mississippi and comes from a family of writers, poets, and historians. He attended Mississippi State University, Middlebury College, Cambridge University, the Sorbonne and the University of Madrid. He has acted in films and on stage in France, Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the USA and has written screenplays in both Paris and Hollywood. He resided for nine years in Paris where he established the only permanent English language theater, The Paris Theatre, where many of his plays had their initial productions. His plays have since been produced in many theatres throughout the United State. He sees life as a "serious circus" and in his writing combines the deadly serious with the comic.

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

 Apollo Experiment, The         Cold Duck         Fp 140         Hotel Virginia         Killing Time         News From Frieda         Tijuana Lady         Us History 101         Yes Sir

Apollo Experiment, The

Synopsis:
Emerson, a college professor who is behind in his "publish or perish" obligation at his university, and his wife Ruth have left their children with their grandparents and have rented a house in an isolated area for the summer so he can finish the uninspiring educational research book he is writing. He is amazed to find out that a neighbor of his at his summer retreat is Harriet Grayson, who is vacationing in the same area. She is a university professor too but she has avoided the obligatory writing pit by authoring a series of books for children. Emerson is envious and wishes he had a more creative and possibly lucrative project. Robert, the cleaning lady's son, is almost a wild child of 18 and Harriet convinces him Robert should be the basis of his new book. Greed, envy and jealousy soon abound, showing how good intentions can sometimes end up our worst nightmare.

Notes:
Each character represents A human quality or condition As in the tradition of the 15th Century play Everyman. The five characters Are Strength, Knowledge, Death, Materialism, And Kindred Spirit

1st Produced:
Salle Thurber, The American Church, Paris, France    1973

Organisations:
The Paris English Theater

1st Published:
Paris Plays, iUniverse Inc., 2004   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Ddama Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Cold Duck

Synopsis:
This is an updated, modern-telling of the Cinderella story in Freudian terms. Francine, who works at the County Clerk's office, has three daughters, Joetta, Vita Jean and Ericka. Two are beautiful but dumb; the youngest is homely and lacking hardly any figure, but she is a brainy math major at the local university. Francine and the two babes go to a fancy re-election party for handsome Senator, allan Whiting. Erica home alone is visited by a door-to-door saleslady, Lottie Lamboy, with two suitcases of dresses, wigs, phony body parts, and cosmetics. She convinces Erica to let her turn her into a babe. Lottie then calls her son who drives a limousine to take her the party. She meets the senator but in rushing to leave the party, she loses one of her phony hips which the senator traces down.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Theatre de Tertre, Paris, France    1974

Organisations:
The Paris English Theater

1st Published:
Paris Plays, iUniverse Inc., 2004   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  6            Other:  1 walk on

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Fp 140

Synopsis:
Cleo drinks a little too much vodka. Her husband is an ex-Marine who is presently employed as a guard at a penitentiary. Their effeminate high school son is interested in French, commercial courses and everything which pleases a budding sophisticate with good taste. Their daughter Donna jean is interested only in a man and very little else. Her parents are trying to get her to get a job. Out of nowhere pops Buck's born-again aunt for a visit. Cleo hits the bottle even more. a door-to-door salesman comes by and sells Cleo a "Dear abby" type machine which dishes out Dutch uncle sort of advice. The machine ends up getting crucified because no one is comfortable with the truth except Cleo.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Theatre de la Bonne, Paris, France    1978

Organisations:
The Paris English Theater

1st Published:
Paris Plays, iUniverse Inc., 2004   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  1 female voice off

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Hotel Virginia

Synopsis:
Six American tourists are in Central America on a tour of Indian ruins. Their guide, Raul, whom they really like and trust tells them the roads are washed out and they cannot get back to the capital. He finds them rooms at a very low-class hotel. They do not know that the hotel is in all reality a whore house and that their guide is a revolutionary terrorist who has kidnapped them. The terrorist give the American government until midnight to accede to their demands or else they will shoot the tourists. The group has no idea of their circumstances and they quickly get on one another's nerves, ask dumb questions and get far too nosey into one another's lives. Meanwhile the clock is ticking toward midnight.

Notes:
Even though listed As A drama, there is A lot of comedy in this play

1st Produced:
Theatre de Tertre, Paris, France    1974

Organisations:
The Paris English Theater

1st Published:
Paris Plays, iUniverse Inc., 2004   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Killing Time

Synopsis:
Minnie Markham, an elderly woman in her 80s, decides she has lived too long. She no longer is productive and is economically not well off. When young she taught singing, piano and declamation and had a marvelously creative life. But now all of that has disappeared and all she has left is the company of her cat Colette. a knock on the door interrupts her plan for doing herself and her cat in. Standing there is Ernestine Gruber, who is young and has no interests in life being that it has dealt her so many disappointments. She too was going to do herself in but noticed Minnie's name and announcement in an old church hymnal. She decided to see if maybe she could take lessons of some type and again get interested in life. Minnie and Ernestine end up saving one another's lives.

Notes:
This is A study of loneliness in both the elderly And the young

1st Produced:
Le Potau, Paris, France    1972

Organisations:
Killing Time

1st Published:
Paris Plays, iUniverse Inc., 2004   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Long 1 act Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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News From Frieda

Synopsis:
Frieda is in her forties and looks as though she is in between trips to the super market and Home Depot. She is an oral Christmas newsletter. She tells the audience in glowing terms what happens to her family of 4 each of the 12 months of the year. Then there is a sketch that shows what really happened. The difference is night and day. Very humorous and funny.

Notes:
This is A series of 12 sketches And is A living Christmas newsletter. It shows how tough it is being middle-class in the USA

1st Produced:
Cafe Theatre arlequin-Parnasse, Paris, France    1973

Organisations:
The Paris English Theater

1st Published:
Paris Plays, iUniverse Inc., 2004   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
12 sketches One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Tijuana Lady

Synopsis:
Small town southern bigotry and fascism is alive and kicking. J.W. Dillard, local godfather in a rural arkansas area, dies in a whore house. With true hypocrisy, his funeral is to be one of the biggest of the year with the church sanctimoniously setting the drumbeat. all scandal is totally erased until J. W.'s youngest son returns as a transsexual porno star named Clytee de Khunt. She sets the family and the town on its ear and rights all wrongs. Very funny. a very popular play.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Theatre adyar, Paris, France    1977

Organisations:
The Paris English Theater

1st Published:
Paris Plays, iUniverse Inc., 2004   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  1 corpse in a coffin

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Us History 101

Synopsis:
gives a representational history of the United States in which our amazing patterns of verbal misunderstandings and eccentricities are brought to light

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Paris    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in anthology "Paris Plays", 2006   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Yes Sir

Synopsis:
Hilary Farrell, who works for the District attorney's office in San Francisco, is getting married to the daughter of a prominent judge. He out of nowhere gets a Christmas card from his father whom he hasn't seen since he was a child. He tells his fiancee and her parents about his father popping up. They insist he look his up and invite him to the wedding. It turns out Hilary's father works as a drag queen at The anatomy academy, a local gay bar. The problem is what to do. He can't lie and say he couldn't find his father. The two worlds, gay and straight, collide in a very funny way and in a strange way they learn to mix into one another's world.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Theatre adyar, Paris, France    1979

Organisations:
The Paris English Theater

1st Published:
Paris Plays, iUniverse Inc., 2004   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  customers at a bar (extras)

Further Reference:
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