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Hugh Aaron

HUGH AARON  

 Nationality:    USA
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Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Hugh Aaron received a Liberal Arts degree in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He served three years in the Seabees during World War II, two of them in the Southwest Pacific. He has three children, now self-sufficient adults. He was CeO of his own plastics manufacturing business for 20 years before selling it to write full time. Several of his short stories have been published in national magazines and 18 essays on business management and one on WWII appeared in the Wall Street Journal. Thus far he has written two novels, two screenplays, twenty stageplays, two short story collections, a WWII letter collection, a travel journal, three children's stories, and a book (Business Not as Usual) on business management. Published in September 2005, his newest book is entitled QUINTeT, a collection of five novellas. He lives with his artist wife in mid-coast Maine.

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

         Ambition         Ceo         Children Should Be Neither Seen Nor Heard         Dinner With Daddy         Doctor Banner's Garden         Family Agendas         Heartstorm         Lenny         Liebestod, The         Love, Hughie         Most Beautiful Capital In the Whole Wide World, The         Outrageous Fortune         Raging Flame, The         Settling Matters         Son's Father, A Father's Son, A         Topnotch Man, A         Turned Tables         Ultimate Success, The         Visiting Chicago

Ambition

Synopsis:
a tale of racial and religious prejudice in business, and the seeking of power. a liberal minded business executive discovers his own prejudice.

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1st Produced:
Cushing, Maine    2005

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Contained in: "Quintet" published by PublishAmerica 2005   978-1413784879

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Ceo

Synopsis:
the story of a CeO's dealings with partners, employees and scheming outsiders seeking to acquire his company.

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Children Should Be Neither Seen Nor Heard

Synopsis:
a child wins over a straight laced college professor who can't abide children.

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6 min One act

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Dinner With Daddy

Synopsis:
Upon discovering that her father had been unfaithful to her mother, an 18 year old daughter, disillusioned, confronts her father.

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15 min One act

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Doctor Banner's Garden

Synopsis:
a retired elderly professor and her cohort are rejuvenated when three young college students enter their lives. the students, marveling at what these women have accomplished in their revealed pasts, come to seek their counsel. It is set in 1947 Chicago.

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Cushing, Maine    2005

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Family Agendas

Synopsis:
a serio-comedy. a Jewish son marries a Catholic girl against his mother's wishes. His father does not keep his promise to turn the family business over to him. these age-old conflicts are resolved in this play.

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1st Produced:
Cushing, Maine    2004

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Contained in: "Quintet" published by PublishAmerica 2005   978-1413784879

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Heartstorm

Synopsis:
a businessman, thinking he is having a heart attack, takes himself to the emergency ward of a hospital. He is diagnosed as having an anxiety attack due to the pressure imposed on him by the imminent failure of his business.

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12 min One act

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Lenny

Synopsis:
Set in the 1950s, a homosexual young man marries a young woman in an attempt to appear heterosexual, ending in tragedy.

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30 min One act

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Liebestod, The

Synopsis:
a business executive tries to make out with his young secretary. a play about sexual harassment, it portrays both parties sympathetically.

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15 min One act

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Love, Hughie

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Belfast, Maine    -

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Most Beautiful Capital In the Whole Wide World, The

Synopsis:
a boy visiting his state's senator with his father seeks answers about the national debt much to the Senator's chagrin

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4 min One act

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Outrageous Fortune

Synopsis:
Set in New Guinea and the Philippines during World War II, OUTRaGeOUS FORTUNe is a comedy Drama concerning the members of a Seabee battalion who refuse to follow Navy protocol in performing their jobs and confronting the enemy. Led by a conscientious rebellious commander and his demanding, crude, executive officer, the men are often outraged by the incompetence of the High Command whom they try to circumvent at every turn. Besides the commander and his assistant, the principal characters consist of a ranking petty officer who has inside information in advance on every move the battalion makes, and a naive young seaman whose morals come into frequent conflict with his mentor, the petty officer. Involving a mostly male cast, the story depicts the less brutal, often humorous, and chaotic side of war as well as the brutality of an occupying force. the play is based on one of my novels.

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Genre:
comedy Drama

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Male:  7            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Raging Flame, The

Synopsis:
the story of a businessman's experiences running a business, his conflicts and relationships, his failures and successes.

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Settling Matters

Synopsis:
a son leaves his father's business and takes a job with a competitor resulting in tragic consequences.

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Ten Min

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Son's Father, A Father's Son, A

Synopsis:
a story about the tragic consequences wrought by war on innocent participants. a celebrity father and his son find common ground in their respective shocking experiences in World War II and the war in Vietnam.

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1st Produced:
Cushing, Maine    2007

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Quintet" published by PublishAmerica 2005   978-1413784879

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Topnotch Man, A

Synopsis:
a retired college professor seeks a loan from a former student who has become a successful businessman. Revelations of their past surface, leading to a damaging confrontation.

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Columbus, Ohio    2005

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Genre:
20 min One act

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Turned Tables

Synopsis:
a salesman on a visit to a South American country to sell his wares is subjected to a severe interrogation during which he comes to realize his own emptiness.

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Contained in: "Quintet" published by PublishAmerica 2005   978-1413784879

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Genre:
12 min One act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  4 characters

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Ultimate Success, The

Synopsis:
a serio-comedy. a businessman is caught inflating the profits of his company bringing disgrace on himself and dishonor on his family. He fakes a suicide and runs off with his mistress to evade punishment and is caught.

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Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Visiting Chicago

Synopsis:
a young boy finds Chicago lacking a place that God built such as the woods behind his house.

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Genre:
3 min One act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  3 characters

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