MORRIS PANYCH (1952 - )
| Nationality: | Canadian |
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Plays by Morris Panych
2 B WUT U R |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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7 Stories |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
| Company: | Rocketship Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | A man teeters on the ledge of an apartment building, seven floors up, contemplating suicide. Before he can take the final leap he is confronted by the stories of the manically eccentric residents inside. The two lovers who constantly threaten to murder one another, the actor on his wedding day who plans to stay in character for the rest of his life, and the lady who keeps her own faith by answering the prayers of residents on the sixth floor. After hearing these 'seven stories' it looks like all the insanity is inside, and that the suicidal man is the least likely to jump. - press release | |||||
Auntie And Me |
| 1st Produced: | Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh | 2002 | ||||
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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: | Black Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | A nephew visits his dying aunt - but she's not going just yet. | |||||
Cost Of Living, The |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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Dishwashers, The |
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| 1st Published: | Talonbooks, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | Dressler scrambles to keep the basement scullery of an upscale eatery functioning, marshaling his rag-tag team with a stream of hilarious rhetoric and old-fashioned working class pride. His fellow wage slaves, the ancient Moss and the downwardly mobile Emmett, just can't seem to grasp his inspirational style. Playwright Morris Panych walks a razor's edge between comedy and tragedy chronicling the plight of men working in the lower depths of a high end restaurant | |||||
Earshot |
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| 1st Published: | Talonbooks (February 15, 2000) | ISBN/ASIN | 978-0889224445 | |||
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 | Doyle has super sensitive hearing. He can hear all the conversations that go on in his building | |||||
Ends Of The Earth, The |
| 1st Produced: | Sanford Meisner Theatre, NY | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | VariantTheatreCompany and JJL Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | An absurd comedy, tragedy, and mystery, Morris Panych's tale of mirrored paranoia demonstrates how fear becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Frank Gardener, a garden columnist, and Henry Walker, a man with a lifetime of bad luck, are determined to confirm their suspicions that the other is out to get him. In their attempt to flee their projected doom, tye journey to a hotel at the end of the earth where they ultimately collide with what they are escaping--each other. From a drug-dabbling truck driver to a gun-toting aspring actres and a gypsy psychic, Frank and Walker encounter a variety of characters of their journey, all the while being tracked by a suspicious detective, set on unearthing the truth behind the pair's twisted tale | |||||
Girl in the Goldfish Bowl |
| 1st Produced: | Canada Stage in Vancouver | 2002 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | Ten Year old Iris has a bad feeling about things. The Cuban missile crisis is at its height, her parent's marriage is floundering and her goldfish has just died. So when she finds a mysterious man on the beach, she regards him as a godsend- a creature sent through time and space from some distent dimension to set all things to rights. | |||||
Last Call |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 0 |
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Lawrence & Holloman |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Published, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | Envy. Hatred. Revenge . . . just your average best friends How is it that some people can have so much going for them and other people not have anything going for them at all? That is the question the pathologically pessimistic Holloman has for his perennially optimistic colleague Lawrence, in this deliciously dark comedy by acclaimed Canadian playwright, Morris Panych. Lawrence and Holloman, two salesmen in a large department store, strike up an unlikely friendship. The men are polar opposites: Lawrence is confident, happy-go-lucky and extroverted; Holloman is timid and uptight. As the friendship grows, Lawrence's luck begins to turn. Strange accidents plague him. Why is this happening now? And just how much bad luck can one man survive? Funnier than Friends, blacker than The Office, Lawrence & Holloman is a wicked comedy about unlikely friendships and the hazards of wreaking revenge that will have you asking: is that what friends are for!? | |||||
Life Science |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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Necessary Steps, The |
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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 | |||||
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Other Schools of Thought |
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| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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Overcoat, The |
| 1st Produced: | Canada Stage in Vancouver | 2004 | ||||
| Company: | BITE: 04 | |||||
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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: | non verbal musical drama | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 21 others | |||||
| Notes: | created by Morris Panych & Wendy Gorling | |||||
| Synopsis: | merges two Gogol stories about oppressed clerks, The Overcaot and Diary of a Madman. The threadbare anti hero at last posesses a fine new coat. When it's stolen he spirals into madness. The production is about the society that reduces him to a cipher. - Parry, Observer. | |||||
Seven Stories |
| 1st Produced: | Mermaid Studio, London | 1995 | ||||
| Company: | Anecdote Theatre Company | |||||
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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 | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Story Of A Sinking Man, The |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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Vigil |
| 1st Produced: | DR2, NY | 20 Sep 2009 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Vigil is a new play that tells the wickedly funny story of a selfish bank drudge who is tending to the wealthy dying aunt he hasn't seen in 30 years. She, however, isn't going anywhere anytime soon | |||||