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Alfred Preisser

ALFRED PREISSER  

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

 Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe         Black Nativity Now         Caligula Maximus         Electra         Medea         Trojan Women, The

Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe

Synopsis:
The Classical Theatre of Harlem continues its current season with Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe, an original play with music, inspired by Moliere's great comic classic and informed by the gloriously unorthodox ministries of Reverend Ike, Daddy Grace, and Rasputin. Set within a fabulously theatrical Harlem Renaissance-era 'church', the play explores the outrageously creative criminal mind of the title character through a series of songs, dances, sermons, and feats of divine inspiration
- press release

Notes:
written by Alfred Preisser And Randy Weiner

1st Produced:
Clurman Theatre, NY    2009

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Black Nativity Now

Synopsis:
Black Nativity Now is a holiday gospel pageant for our time and for all people. Set inside a fabulous show-biz church in the midst of the famed and scabrous landscape of Times Square, Black Nativity Now tells the story of the birth of Christ. This setting provides a colorful world of seekers, hustlers, and lost souls, providing the perfect jump off for an evening of exuberant music and dance that celebrates humanity's need for hope and grace. Presided over by a pastor heavily influenced by the likes of James Brown and supported by a choir of singers and dancers who perform musical sets infused with gospel, pop, funk, and soul, Black Nativity Now is the universal journey of our search for salvation and "peace on earth."
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Alfred Preisser And Tracy Jack; music And lyrics by Kelvyn Bell

1st Produced:
Theatre at St. Clement's
423 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036    03 Dec 2010

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Caligula Maximus

Synopsis:
Caligula Maximus takes place on the last night of the notorious dictator's life, in his palace where he is stage managing, directing, and starring in one of his famous "entertainments" which test the limits of human intellect and appetite. Caligula, sensing the encroachment of monotheistic religions (Christianity and Judaism), holds a phantasmagoric revival meeting in which he attempts to save the world by ushering in a new religion with himself as its principle prophet and god. Caligula's "senate" is an outrageous collection of circus performers, wrestlers, animals, show girls, and freaks who enact his spectacles and indulge his whims and fantasies. As the revival meeting reaches fever pitch, his troupe grows weary of being used as toys, gains a sense of their own power and, bedecked in the war paint and leather costumes of barbarian invaders, descend upon him and murder him in mob frenzy. Expect circus, music, dance, rhetoric, and the unexpected.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Written By Alfred Preisser And Randy Weiner. Also known As "Caligula"

1st Produced:
HSA Theatre, New York    01 Apr 2005

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Genre:
play with music. - - Gay/Lesbian, musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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Electra

Synopsis:
Sophocles's Electra, written around 409 B.C., is based on the legend of the House of Atreus, a story which contemporary Greek audiences would have known from childhood. The major themes of this story concern retribution for crimes committed within the family of Atreus, who was Electra's grandfather. Electra's duty in the play is to avenge her father's murder, but this involves killing her own mother, another crime that will have consequences down the line. The text is a completely new take on the story.
- press release

Notes:
Original Playwright - Sophocles

1st Produced:
Classical Theatre of Harlem (HSA), NY    2007

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Medea

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Euripides

1st Produced:
HAS Theatre, New York    23 Sep 2005

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Trojan Women, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Euripides

1st Produced:
Gatehouse Theatre, New York    10 Jan 2008

Organisations:
Classical Theatre of Harlem

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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