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C E Wilkinson

C E WILKINSON  (1948 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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Studied playwriting and theater at Sarah Lawrence College with Wilford Leach. Co-founded KukuRyku Theater Lab at the Cloud Chamber, New York City. Performed, directed, wrote, taught, toured experimental theater festivals in US and Europe: La MaMa ETC, Baltimore Theater Festival, Munich Theater Festival, Teatre Laboratorium, Wroclaw, Poland, others. Wrote and produced in NYC "Sacco and Vanzetti Meet Julius and Ethel Rosenberg!! (or, Patrick Henry in Hell)" and "Mr. Cripple Kicks the Bucket." Moved to Kathmandu Nepal, founded the Extreme Off-Off Broadway Alliance, which produced many plays and staged reading of "You Only Hurt the One You Love;" also workshopped at Cape Rep in New England 1998.

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below is a list of C E Wilkinson's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Mr Cripple Kicks the Bucket         Sacco and Vanzetti Meet Julius and Ethel Rosenberg!!! (or, Patrick Henry in Hell)         She Just Beats Her Dog to Death Because She is Unhappy         You Only Hurt the One You Love -- a play about lethal romances

Mr Cripple Kicks the Bucket

Synopsis:
In this odd expressionist play, an unbelievably old gentleman on his death-bed, a retired hunter of swans, struggles to make his whole life's work understood and appreciated by his two nursing-home nun nurses, the callous Mother Organza and her sidekick, sweet but sniveling Sister Swallow. Finding it's all for naught, he expires.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Cloud Chamber, NYC    1977

Organisations:
Kuku Ryku Theatre Lab

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Sacco and Vanzetti Meet Julius and Ethel Rosenberg!!! (or, Patrick Henry in Hell)

Synopsis:
A vaudeville view of guilt-edged modern history, in which the wit, wisdom and bodies of numerous political, literary and cultural heroes and villains are artfully juxtaposed without undue reverence for "March of Time" theories of linear development. Screams "J'Accuse at everyone from Leon Trotsky to Jonathan Livingston Seagull and William Randolph Hearst's Mistress.

Notes:
some parts can be doubled, some can be played by males or females (Mao Tse-Tung, Jonathan Livingston Seagull). Main parts: Patrick Henry, Marilyn Monroe, Ethel Rosenberg, Julius Rosenberg

1st Produced:
The Cloud Chamber, NYC    1978

Organisations:
Kuku Ryku Theatre Lab

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Full length black comedy (with music) Comedy

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  6            Other:  -

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She Just Beats Her Dog to Death Because She is Unhappy

Synopsis:
Writer Peter Porter has a lodger, the beautiful Miss Emma, a young girl of a delicate disposition. When Amanda Opal comes to check on Miss Emma's progress, Peter suddenly learns the awful truth about everything, and then suddenly learns that even the awful truth is other than it seems. But it's too late.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Kuku Ryku Theatre Lab

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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You Only Hurt the One You Love -- a play about lethal romances

Synopsis:
Reality and illusion become indissociably united as two young male brutal murderers and their female murderees are mysteriously re-united on a local access cable television show in deepest darkest Ohio. Not that there's anything wrong with that?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
British Council, Kathmandu    1993

Organisations:
The Extreme Off-Off Broadway Alliance, Kathmandu, Nepal

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Two act black comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  voices

Further Reference:
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