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Kiran Rikhye

KIRAN RIKHYE

  
Nationality:    USA
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KIRAN RIKHYE has a B.A. in English Literature and Theater Studies from Swarthmore College and an M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.

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

         Accidental Patriot, The         Bachelors Tea Party, The         Commedia dell'Artemisia         Kill Me Like You Mean It         Kinderspiel         Man Who Laughs, The         Quantum Poetics         Sister Carrie         Stage Kiss         Stolen Chair in "Commedia dell' Artemisia"         theatre Is Dead and So Are You         Virtuosa

Accidental Patriot, The

Synopsis:
the full title of this new play by Kiran Rikhye is: the Accidental Patriot: the Lamentable Tragedy of the Pirate Desmond Connelly, Irish By Birth, English By Blood, and American By Inclination. This description is from director Jon Stancato: "the Accidental Patriot is an original 1930s-style swashbuckler (as Sophocles might have written it if he'd been under contract to Warner Brothers) set against the tumultuous backdrop of the American Revolution. This mash-up of Greek tragedy and Errol Flynn-era pirate films features both rapier duels and rapier wit as it satirizes heroism, patriotism, altruism, and all of the other flimsy -isms that move us to action. British privateer Desmond Connelly takes up the colonists' cause when a British admiral murders his best friend, a Bostonian patriot. He abandons his post to become a pirate, seeking his vengeance and sailing towards the destiny that will reveal his mysterious parentage." Live naval battles are promised.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Milagro theater    2008

Organisations:
Stolen Chair Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Bachelors Tea Party, The

Synopsis:
the Bachelors Tea Party is an absurd and absurdly intimate new comedy inspired by the relationships of Elsie de Wolfe (Lady Mendl) and Bessie Marbury, who referred to themselves as the Bachelors, after they took up joint residence sans men in the first years of the 20th century. Before she invented the profession of interior decorator, de Wolfe was a struggling Broadway performer, known more for her costumes than her acting, and her partner Bessie Marbury, legendary agent and broker, was introducing America to Oscar Wilde and discovering Cole Porter. In a playfully perverse take on a young girls imaginary tea party, de Wolfe and Marbury will delight and torment each other and entertain a coterie of special guests, performed by dolls assembled around the table, with audience members seated only inches away.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Lady Mendls Tea Salon, 56 Irving Place, NY    08 Apr 2012

Organisations:
Stolen Chair Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Commedia dell'Artemisia

Synopsis:
Based on a true story. To help free her from her miserly father, Artemisia's neighbour introduces her to Agostino Tassi. What Artemisia does not know is that he is already married and a convicted rapist.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Stampede Festival at CBs Gallery, New York City    2005

Organisations:
Stolen Chair Theater Company

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
55 min Piece

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Kill Me Like You Mean It

Kill Me Like You Mean It
A redhead is shot dead during her nightclub act. Private Eye Ben Farrell has many suspects: a playboy writer; a femme fatale and an avaricious publisher

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2007

Organisations:
Stolen Chair Theater Company

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   978-15978-30300

Music:
-

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Genre:
film noir for the stage

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Kinderspiel

Synopsis:
In the seedy and seditious demimonde of Weimar Berlin, five lost souls find each other (and sold-out audiences) when they create a scandalous club where adults play like children. . . and customers pay to watch. Kinderspiel tells the story of how a burnt-out expressionistic dancer, a jaded Jew, a trendsetting lesbian journalist, a conservative widow, and a utopian communist turn a curious fetish into a revolutionary theater movement
- press release

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Stolen Chair Theatre Company

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Man Who Laughs, The

Man Who Laughs, The
A young boy is kidnapped by the gypsies who disfigure him so that he has a permanent smile. He is made to work as a clown. As he grows up he falls in love with a young blind girl and they act together. But a debauched Duchess sees their performance and lusts after the young clown.

Notes:
Music by Emily Otto. Based on the novel "the Man Who Laughs" by Victor Hugo. Performed As A silent film.

1st Produced:
-    2005

Organisations:
Stolen Chair Theater Company

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Quantum Poetics

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
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Sister Carrie

Synopsis:
Carrie goes to live in Chicago. She meets and falls for a travelling salesman.

Notes:
Adapted from "Sister Carrie" by theodore Dreiser

1st Produced:
-    2004

Organisations:
Stolen Chair Theater Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Stage Kiss

Synopsis:
described as a gender farce in Elizabethan blank verse, freely inspired by John Lyly's Gallathea and also as an ode to the Ridiculous aesthetic of the late Charles Ludlam. This description is from the press release: "Two doting single parents independently disguise their chaste young daughters as men and send them off into a nearby forest to bide time until Neptune has had his fill at the village's annual sacrifice of young virgins. Gallathea and Phyllida, each believing the other to be a man, fall deeply in love. . .and lust. In their quests to obtain the objects of their affection, the two newly gender-questioning protagonists learn that love is blind and lust is blinder."

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
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Genre:
Farce. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Stolen Chair in "Commedia dell' Artemisia"

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Collective:Unconscious
NY, USA    2007

Organisations:
Collective:Unconscious

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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theatre Is Dead and So Are You

Synopsis:
This is a new "unholy hybrid" play by Kiran Rikhye, presented by Stolen Chair theatre Company. This description is provided by the Organisations: "theatre is Dead and So Are You is an irreverent funeral for the stage. A ragtag bunch of variety hacks are laying their sometimes beloved MC to rest, performing his funeral live, traveling from city to city, until such time as his body is too decomposed to make the proceedings pleasant. their 'eulogies' are performed a la classic variety, with slapstick, meloDrama, song & dance, and feats of illusion and mentalism, each taking its own deadly turn as they celebrate the life and death of their dearly departed dead dead dead friend. Even in their joyous performance, a spectre looms as each knows they've all been exposed to the fatal disease that killed their MC: Life. Watch these seasoned has-beens kill theatre, live before your very eyes."
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Connelly Theatre, NY    2009

Organisations:
Stolen Chair Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Virtuosa

Synopsis:
An exploration of genius and how it is shaped.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2004

Organisations:
Stolen Chair Theater Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
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Parts:
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