BRYAN WADE (1950 - )
| Nationality: | Canadian |
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Plays by Bryan Wade
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| 1st Produced: | the University of Guelph | 1975 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1974 | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
| Genre: | comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with the Lone Ranger and Tonto | |||||
| Synopsis: | While on his way to the Wasteland for a fresh supply of silver bullets, the Lone Ranger suffers an identity crisis but still manages to rescue a woman in distress | |||||
Aliens |
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 1974 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
| Genre: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A back alley and fire escape are transformed into a mysterious zone of shifting time and realities - the scene of a sexual power struggle | |||||
Anti-Gravitational Menopause |
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1974 | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Blitzkrieg |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The setting is the Berghof, Hitler's chalet in the Bavarian Alps. An unique look at the personal lives of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, in whose dreams and desires the full impact and brutality of the war is felt | |||||
Breakthrough |
| 1st Produced: | produced in a closed workshop at the Stratford Festival | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
| Genre: | fictional romance | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A fictionalized account in the life of painter Tom Thomson. During a wilderness trip Tom rescues and falls in love with Frances Warren, but the harmony dissolves when Frances decides to become a front line nurse in World War I. | |||||
Dinosaurs |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A young married couple tries to deal with the pressures of unemployment in the traditional roles that they have assumed for themselves | |||||
Electric Gunfighters |
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 1973 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in an anthology along with Nightsh~ft and Lifeguard, Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
| Genre: | Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Pete and Bob enact Western movie cliches with a TV set's white noise in the background. High camp comedy about the effect of media on our lives | |||||
Land of the Lotus Eaters |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Life In The Day Of |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Written by Bryan Wade and Joey Miller | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Lifeguard |
| 1st Produced: | New Play Centre at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver | 1973 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in an anthology along with Nightsh~ft and Lifeguard, Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
| Genre: | Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A surrealistic encounter between a middle-aged couple and a lifeguard on the beach | |||||
Nightshift |
| 1st Produced: | Space Tool Company, Ottawa | 1973 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in an anthology along with Nightsh~ft and Lifeguard, Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Polderland |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A patrol of Canadian soldiers takes refuge for one night in a Dutch farmhouse behind enemy lines in World War II. The youngest discovers the price of war when he is forced to deal with a young German soldier | |||||
Right One, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Talking deer heads and naked women sleeping in bathtubs are only part of what goes wrong for a young couple on their wedding day | |||||
Soaring |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Tanned |
| 1st Produced: | Factory Theatre Lab, Toronto | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1976 | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
| Genre: | Comedy Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Three women at a summer cottage attempt to deal with themselves and the men in their troubled lives | |||||
This Side of the Rockies |
| 1st Produced: | Factory Theatre Lab, Toronto | 1977 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1977 | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
| Genre: | Two Acts Drama | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Three young men are changed by their weekend camping expedition following encounters with two psychopathic hunters, a corpse and an unearthly woman | |||||
Tourists |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | full-length stage play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | suspense thriller set in Toronto. | |||||
Underground |
| 1st Produced: | Factory Theatre Lab, Toronto | 1975 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
| Genre: | Three Act Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A triangle of two men and a woman takes us through many levels of eroticism and ends in a ritualistic suicide | |||||