KEN MITCHELL   (1940 - )


Ken Mitchell
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Canadian
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Plays by Ken Mitchell

KEN MITCHELL
Chautauqua Girl
1st Produced:
Carousel Stage Company, Vancouver.
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1982
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Musical
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Based on the life of Nola Ericson who founded the first Canadian "tent show" in 1917
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KEN MITCHELL
Cruel Tears
1st Produced:
Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Pile of Bones Publishing, Regina, 1976
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Country Opera
-
Parts:
Male
8
Female
3
Parts Other:
chorus
Notes:
Music written by Humphrey and the Dumptrucks
Synopsis:
Based on Othello, this "country opera" looks at the loves and rivalries of Saskatchewan truck drivers
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KEN MITCHELL
Davin: The Politician
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
NeWest Press, Edmonton, 1979
ISBN
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Genre:
three-act drama
-
Parts:
Male
8
Female
1
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Canada's settlement is portrayed through the turbulent life of Nicolas Flood Davin: poet, politician, newspaperman and lover of Kate Simpson, one of Canada's first feminists
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KEN MITCHELL
Future Harvest
1st Produced:
Regina
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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KEN MITCHELL
Genesis
1st Produced:
Merely Players for a tour of Saskatchewan
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
two-act historical epic
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Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Douglas Hicton
Synopsis:
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KEN MITCHELL
Gone The Burning Sun
1st Produced:
Guelph Spring Festival
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1985
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with David Liang
Synopsis:
A compelling portrait of Dr. Norman Bethune, the brilliant medical man who devoted himself to saving the world in China, Spain and Montreal. Winner, 1985 Canadian Authors' Association Drama Award
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KEN MITCHELL
Great Cultural Revolution, The
1st Produced:
Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver.
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1980
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
8
Female
3
Parts Other:
musicians, ddancers
Notes:
written with Michael Taylor
Synopsis:
At the height of the Great Proletarian Revolution in 1966, a playwright faces destruction as a result of his political statements. Political drama is combined with acrobatics, mime & music
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KEN MITCHELL
Great Electrical Revolution, The
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1996
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
When the Moose Jaw Light and Power Company pulls the plug on the Gallagher family for non-payment, leaving them powerless in the dark, they rise against the monopoly in a gloriously funny revolution
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KEN MITCHELL
Grey Owl
1st Produced:
Saskatoon
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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KEN MITCHELL
Heroes
1st Produced:
Surrey University, Guildford, England
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1973
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Superman and the Lone Ranger find themselves in a battle of egos while awaiting interviews with the "Chief." Lois Lane and Tonto arrive raising banners of Women's Lib and Red Power
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KEN MITCHELL
Laffin' Jack Rivers Show
1st Produced:
Saskatoon
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Michael Taylor
Synopsis:
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KEN MITCHELL
Meadowlark Connection, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Pile of Bones Publishing, Regina, 1975
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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KEN MITCHELL
Medicine Line, The
1st Produced:
by the community of Moose Jaw
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
Saskatchewan Department of Culture and Youth, 1974
ISBN
-
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Genre:
outdoor drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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KEN MITCHELL
Melody Farm
1st Produced:
Saskatoon
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
?,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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KEN MITCHELL
Plainsman, The
1st Produced:
Saskatoon’s 25th Street House Theatre
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Coteau Books, Regina, 1992
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play with Music
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
After the 1895 Batoche rebellion, Madeline and Gabriel Dumont struggle to maintain the spirit and dignity of the Metis people
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KEN MITCHELL
Pleasant Street
1st Produced:
Saskatoon’s 25th Street House Theatre
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Black Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
It's 20 years after publication of the last Dick and Jane reader, and life on Pleasant Street has changed drastically
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KEN MITCHELL
Save The Pigs
1st Produced:
-
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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KEN MITCHELL
Shipbuilder, The
1st Produced:
University of Regina Drama Department
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Canadian Theatre Review (CTR 21), 1979
ISBN
-
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Genre:
full-length drama for voices and percussion
-
Parts:
Male
7
Female
2
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A Finnish immigrant, landlocked on the vast prairie, proceeds to build a steamship for a long journey
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KEN MITCHELL
Showdown At Sand Valley
1st Produced:
The Merely Players for a tour of Saskatchewan
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Gage Publishers in Cues and Entrances , 1977
ISBN
-
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Genre:
comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
8
Female
1
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A comic satire on Westerns in which a Mountie is pitted against an American gunslinger in Sand Valley, Saskatchewan
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KEN MITCHELL
Spirit Of Saskatoon
1st Produced:
Saskatoon
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Michael Taylor
Synopsis:
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KEN MITCHELL
That'll Be The Day
1st Produced:
Weyburn
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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KEN MITCHELL
This Train
1st Produced:
Tarragon Theatre (Toronto)
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Performing Arts in Canada, 1973
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Tragi-Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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KEN MITCHELL
Tommy!
1st Produced:
Wheatland Theatre, Regina
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
rollicking one-man show profiling Saskatchewan's Tommy Douglas, the man who brought medicare to the province
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KEN MITCHELL
Year Of The Moose
1st Produced:
-
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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