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DRUE ROBINSON
Nationality: USA
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Literary Agent: Paradigm
Drue Robinson (A.k.A. Drue Robinson Hagan), graduated with an MFA from Columbia University's School of the Arts in New York City, where she was awarded a Shubert Foundation Presidential Grant. In 1989, Ms. Robinson graduated magna cum laude from Western Washington University's School of the Arts and Fairhaven College, and in 1993 she founded an award-winning intergenerational Theatre company in Bellingham, Washington. She has written, directed, and produced over 20 original plays and musicals, including Once Upon the End: A Y2K Fairytale Crisis Musical,which won the People's Choice Award at the Seattle Fringe Festival 2000. She has been awarded the Bellingham Mayor's Arts Award, and a $10,000 Whatcom Foundation Grant. Her latest play, Aristophanes' Lysistrata: A Woman's Translation, was read around the world by more than 420 of 1008 participating Theatre and private groups in conjunction with the Lysistrata Project on March 3, 2003 -- including groups in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dublin, Tokyo, London, Sydney, Scotland, and ZambiA. Ms. Robinson is currently working on two screenplays and a handful of intergenerational plays. She is a Mensa Scholar in creative writing, and a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
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How the Slug Stole Solstice Lysistrata: A Woman's TranslationHow the Slug Stole Solstice
Synopsis:
Turning a holiday classic upside-down, How the Slug Stole Solstice is alternative fare for those who may not celebrate traditional Christmas or Hanukkah. In this delightfully wacky multi-generational comedy (in Seuss-like rhyme), a giant banana slug named Sally, accompanied by three hand-picked thugs, must battle her fear of the dark to make a journey through the spookiest of forests to stop Winter Solstice, and bring back the sun earlier than scheduled. As told around a campfire by Grampa Joe to his granddaughters Cricket and Boo, the story of Sally's adventures with a scary forest witch and an intellectual bumblebee (among many others) leads Boo to her own magical understanding of conquering one's fears.
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1st Produced:
Bellingham Children's Theatre (Bellingham, WA, United States) 1996
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York -
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Genre:
50-60 min Comedy
Parts:
Male: 6 Female: 7 Other: 6 males, 7 females (12-19 actors possible: 4-10 males, 5-13 females)
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Synopsis:
Lysistrata: A Woman's Translation is the only modern adaptation of Aristophanes' classic comedy written entirely in rhyme. Lysistrata, an Athenian woman fed up with war, rallies together the women of Greece to seize the Treasury, stage a sex strike, and force the men of each warring faction to come home and sign a truce. This makes for a fast-paced and bawdy affair, including the pompous Magistrate's antics of male domination, and the celibacy-sworn Myrrhine's relentless teasing of her sex-starved, phallus-laden husband. Meanwhile, the Chorus of Old Men and Chorus of Old Women square off in a hilarious battle of wits and guts, ultimately resulting in a reunion of genders, ages, and political positions.
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Original Playwright - Aristophanes
1st Produced:
SO. . .ACT Wagga School Of Arts Community Theatre (Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia) 2004
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Playscripts, Inc - New York -
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Genre:
75-120 min Comedy
Parts:
Male: 14 Female: 14 Other: 14 males, 14 females (20-40 actors possible: 10-20 males, 10-20 females)
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