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Johanna Adams

JOHANNA ADAMS

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Bret Adams Ltd  

Johanna Adams's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         8 Little Antichrists         Angel Eaters         Cockfight         Gidion's Knot         Godsbreath         In The Absence Of Angels         Lickspittles, Buttonholers and Damned Pernicious Go-Betweeners         Miracle of Mary Mack's Baby, The         Oneida: Servants Of Motion         Rattlers         Sacred Geometry Of S&M Porn         San Merci         Tumblewings
8 Little Antichrists

Synopsis:
Los Angeles 2048. A private eye searches for the killer of her clone sister. Inmates roam prison built under a Disneyland theme park. Eight Little antichrists can't wait to destroy the World

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Part of "The Angel Eaters Trilogy"

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Genre:
Horror

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  2 either sex

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Angel Eaters

Synopsis:
Angel Eaters eat all the goodness out of dead people bringing them back to life as an evil being. Oklahoma in the 1930s. A woman hires two conmen to bring her husband back to life. A heavily pregnant woman falls in love with a carnival barker

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Part of "The Angel Eaters Trilogy"

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Genre:
Horror

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  1 either sex

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Cockfight

Synopsis:
The cock fights that Dwight Fowler organised have just ended. The sheriff arrives and tells him not to take revenge for the death of his daughter. One son - CD - is planning torture. The other son Clarence is ranting about dead monsters

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Gidion's Knot

Synopsis:
Quest Theaterworks presents the inaugural UK performance of Gidion's Knot by Johnna Adams to the Fringe. This intense epic drama details a parent teacher conference after the unthinkable happens. What is the line between free expression and appropriate social behaviour? This show will make you think, and want to hold your children a little closer. Featuring Lois Ewing and Trish Adair. Gidion's Knot was produced in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York for the first time in 2013.

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1st Produced:
Thespace @ Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival     01 Aug 2014

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Quest Theaterworks

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Genre:
Drama, New writing, 50 minutes

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Godsbreath

Synopsis:
CD finds that his nephew Coy Jacob can raise the dead - so he starts hiring him out. A taxidermist wants his wife raised. Coy knows that raising the dead will lead to a war with God. Ever since he could remember Coy knew that one day he would lead an army of angels against God

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Genre:
Horror

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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In The Absence Of Angels

Synopsis:
Movie star Grace Rivers tried to kill herself on the set of her latest film. She has gone to stay with two of her aunts. She is persuade by press photographers and tv cameras. Aunt Edith sees angels. Aunt Josephine is grieving after the death of her other sister - Grace's mother. Will Grace's guardian angel be able to save her before she tries to kill herself again

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Lickspittles, Buttonholers and Damned Pernicious Go-Betweeners

Synopsis:
Three courtiers are thrown out of the Danish court. They travel to Paris to meet their counterparts at Napoleon's court - a lickspittle, buttonholer and go-between who are women. In a struggle to save Copenhagen from the British - Marie Antoinette's head is discovered

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Genre:
Verse play

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Miracle of Mary Mack's Baby, The

Synopsis:
A silver pod crashes in Mary Mack's yard. She thinks it contains an angel sent by God to give back to her son who went missing. In fact it contains a green skinned fanged alien. The invasion has just begun

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Genre:
Science fiction

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Oneida: Servants Of Motion

Synopsis:
Oneida Community in Upstate New York in the 1800s embraced free love, incest and paedophilia. John Humphrey Noyes founder of the Community is wanting to hand on to his son Theodore. Noyes' youngest son - still a boy is about to be initiated into the sexual side of marriage by his aunt.

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Rattlers

Synopsis:
A snake wrangler kidnaps a preacher and suspends a cage full of rattlers over his head

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Part of "The Angel Eaters Trilogy"

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Sacred Geometry Of S&M Porn

Synopsis:
Tobey invents a new religion using porn magazines. He converts Scooter a simple minded boy and Scooter's stepfather's whore. Tobey's mother Judith Christ is kidnapped at gunpoint to perform a resurrection

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  1 either sex

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San Merci

Synopsis:
A young woman is left crippled after a murder attempt by South American revolutionaries - her companion is killed. Three years later she is visited by the mother of her dead companion who is looking for answers

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Tumblewings

Synopsis:
Coy and his brother Buck hide Birdie an abused young woman in an abandoned church. An angel searching for her crash lands in the churchyard. Buck's ex-wife turns up and says that God has told her that he wants Birdie's baby. Coy was not aware that she was pregnant

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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