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Bernard Slade

BERNARD SLADE

  (1930 - )
Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Charles Van Nostrand, PO Box 117, Woodbourne, NY 12788 (845 985 2709)

Bernard Slade (born May 2, 1930) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter. Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Slade began his career as an actor with the Garden Center Theatre in Vineland, Ontario. In the mid-1960s, he relocated to Hollywood and began to work as a writer for television sitcoms, including Bewitched. When ABC gave him the opportunity to create a series, he devised Love on a Rooftop, similar in theme to Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park, about a young couple living in a windowless walk-up apartment with access to a rooftop with a view of San Francisco. The following year, Slade developed The Flying Nun (adapted from Tere Rios' book, "The Fifteenth Pelican"), with Sally Field as a young novice whose habit's headgear enabled her to fly. He also created The Partridge Family, based on the real-life Cowsills, and Bridget Loves Bernie, inspired by the play Abie's Irish Rose. Despite his success in television, Slade returned to the theater in 1975 with his play Same Time, Next Year, about a couple who are married to others but meet once-a-year for sex and conversation. With Charles Grodin and Ellen Burstyn in the leads, the play was a major hit and ran for 1453 performances. Slade received the Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award nomination for Best Play. In 1978, he followed with Tribute, the story of a man who learns to love his father, a successful actor who always had more time for his theatrical cohorts than his son. Even with Jack Lemmon heading the cast, it proved to be far less successful than its predecessor, closing after 212 performances. Slightly more successful was Romantic Comedy (1979), starring Anthony Perkins and Mia Farrow. Slade wrote the screenplays for the film versions of all three plays, and was Oscar-nominated for his screen adaptation of Same Time, Next Year. - Wiki

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         Act Of the Imagination, An         Fatal Attraction         Fling!         I Remember You         Moving         Return Engagements         Romantic Comedy         Same Time, Another Year         Same Time, Next Year         Simon Says Get Married         Special Occasions         Sweet William         Tribute         Very Close Family, A         You Say Tomatoes

Act Of the Imagination, An

Synopsis:
involves a successful mystery writer whose latest work has strangely turned into a vivid and adulterous romance - could it be autobiographical?

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Samuel French, NY,    -

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Genre:
Thriller

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Fatal Attraction

Synopsis:
a photo journalist is obsessed with woman but what reason does he have for murdering her estranged husband

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1st Produced:
Toronto    1984

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1986   -

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Genre:
Thriller

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Fling!

Synopsis:
infidelity as history repeats for otherwise happily married couple, but its too late to change

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1st Produced:
Unproduced    -

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1979   -

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Genre:
full-length Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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I Remember You

Synopsis:
laughter, tears and a sprinkling of nostalgic songs to weave a valentine to romantic plays of the past

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at the Madach theatre, Budapest

1st Produced:
Budapest    -

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1994   -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Moving

Synopsis:
endearing family tale full of hope and humor. Studies have concluded that moving is one of the most traumatic events in life.the play covers the journey that eleven characters, drawn together by the life changing experiences, go through in one day that alters all their lives. Touching, insightful and filled with wonderful humor, it provides a full evening of high entertainment.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Return Engagements

Synopsis:
three vignettes showing three separate couples then their positions and intermingling 30 years on

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1st Produced:
Westport, Connecticut    1988

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1989   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Romantic Comedy

Synopsis:
A light-hearted confection about love, friendship and theatrical trauma.

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1st Produced:
Fthel Barrymore Theater, New York    1979

Organisations:
produced by Morton Gottlieb

1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1980   -

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Genre:
full-length Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Same Time, Another Year

Synopsis:
story of extramarital affair conducted one weekend a year at a seaside cottage in California through 1976 to 1933

Notes:
Sequel to "Same Time, Next Year"

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1996   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Same Time, Next Year

Synopsis:
An adulterous couple have an affair one day a year for years.

Notes:
subsequently published by Delacorte Press in 1975

1st Produced:
Brooks Atkinson Theater, New York    1975

Organisations:
produced by Morton Gottlieb

1st Published:
Dell, New York, 1975   -

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Genre:
full-length Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Simon Says Get Married

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1st Produced:
Crest Theatre, Toronto    1960

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Genre:
full-length Comedy

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Special Occasions

Synopsis:
a series of flashbacks, over fifteen years, show the various occasions which make up marriages, weddings, funerals, play openings and other catastrophes

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1st Produced:
New York    1982

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1982   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sweet William

Synopsis:
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Notes:
aka An Act of the Imagination

1st Produced:
Guildford, Surrey    1987

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1988   -

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Tribute

Synopsis:
man has lived for fifty years without taking anything seriously including love, marriage and fatherhood, then he finds he's fatally ill and wants to be reconciled to his son

Notes:
subsequently published by Samuel French in 1979

1st Produced:
Brooks Atkinson Theater, New York    1978

Organisations:
produced by Morton Gottlieb

1st Published:
Doubleday, New York (Fireside theatre), 1978   -

Music:
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Genre:
full-length comedy-Drama Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Very Close Family, A

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Genre:
full-length Drama Play/Drama

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You Say Tomatoes

Synopsis:
explores differences in British and American attitudes and manners that surface during an unlikely romantic liaison

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1994   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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