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Peter Anderson

PETER ANDERSON  (1950 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, USA, playwright-actor. anderson moved to Canada in 1977 and has since written and performed for theatres across that country. Four of his plays have been produced by North america's only horse-drawn outdoor theatre, the Caravan Stage Company. In 1984, Mr. anderson received both a Canada Council Grant for playwriting and a Jessie award nomination for best children's play.
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below is a list of Peter Anderson's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Audition Piece     Ballad Of Weedy Peetstraw , The     Blue Horse, The     Bull By The Horns     Coyotes , The     Coyote's Christmas , The     El Crocodor     Emperor's New Threads, The     Horseplay     Law Of The Land     Lysistrata     Mystery Cycle, Part I: Creation , The     Mystery Cycle, Part Ii: Nativity , The     Mystery Cycle, Part Iii: Passion , The     Only Birds And Fools Fly     Rattle In The Dash     Sleigh-Ride Christmas Carol , A

Audition Piece

Synopsis:
In a bar, a woman talks to a man about the losers she has dated

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
PLCN Chapbook, 1988   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1    Female:  1    Other:  -

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Ballad Of Weedy Peetstraw , The

Synopsis:
Enticed by the Devil's agents, Mister Fleas and Hellhound, a simple country boy named Weedy Peetstraw sells his soul in exchange for supernatural prowess on the banjo in this bluegrass opera. With music by John Millard

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Caravan Farm Theatre, armstrong    1999

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  5    Female:  3    Other:  musicians

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Blue Horse, The

Synopsis:
a sixteen year old girl suddenly finds her musings and jottings from her diary come to life.

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada   978-1554350933

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4    Female:  3    Other:  musicians

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Bull By The Horns

Synopsis:
a poor stranger gets mistaken for a legendary gunfighter in a town at war with itself as the myths of the Old West are turned inside-out.

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1st Produced:
Caravan Farm Theatre, armstrong    1987

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Musical Comedy Musical

Parts:
Male:  10    Female:  7    Other:  fiddlers

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Coyotes , The

Synopsis:
a tale of Moonshadow, Muzzleguts and Slobberjaw - three intrepid coyotes in search of chickens and love who get caught between a frenzied family of farmers and a couple of unscrupulous land developers

Notes:
part of The Farm Trilogy (commedia-style)

1st Produced:
Caravan Farm Theatre, armstrong    1978

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  7    Female:  5    Other:  masls and music

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Coyote's Christmas , The

Synopsis:
When three hungry coyotes disguised as shepherds (in a futile effort to catch sheep) are told by an angel that "unto you is born this day the lamb of god", they set out to steal the lamb, not realizing it is baby Jesus

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Caravan Farm Theatre, armstrong    2001

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 2002   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5    Female:  1    Other:  -

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El Crocodor

Synopsis:
a group of fifth-rate vaudevillians are exiled from their native El Crocodor and continue their subversive nightclub act in Canada

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Touchstone Theatre, Vancouver    1986

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical Comedy Musical

Parts:
Male:  4    Female:  4    Other:  -

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Emperor's New Threads, The

Synopsis:
The Emperor is a fashion victim

Notes:
Written by Peter And Melody Anderson

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Genre:
Childrens play

Parts:
Male:  -    Female:  -    Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Horseplay

Synopsis:
When Grandma Mulvaney hitches up her four workhorses-- Chevy, Dodge, Lincoln and Ford--the ensuing runaway sets off a chain of wild events that turns her, much to her dismay, into a modern folk hero pitted against governments and corporations

Notes:
part of The Farm Trilogy (commedia-style). Written by Peter Anderson And Phil Savath

1st Produced:
Caravan Farm Theatre, armstrong, B.C    1981

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  10    Female:  7    Other:  musicians

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Law Of The Land

Synopsis:
When the owner of the soon-to-be-opened Black Creek Power Plant and the three international industrialists take a hunting trip on land slated for strip-mining, they soon find themselves hopelessly entangled with the local inhabitants--animal, human and inbetween--in this comic political fable about the ownership and use of the land.

Notes:
part of The Farm Trilogy (commedia-style)

1st Produced:
Caravan Farm Theatre, armstrong, B.C    1982

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical Comedy Musical

Parts:
Male:  7    Female:  3    Other:  musicians

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Lysistrata

Synopsis:
a boistrous, contemporary version of aristophanes' classic anti-war comedy that flip-flops from 411 B.C. to the present. Lysistrata and the women of Greece meet a narrow-minded patriarchy head-on when they refuse to have sex with their husbands until war between athens and Sparta is stopped.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Aristophanes

1st Produced:
Malaspina University-College Theatre, B.C.    1995

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press 1995   -

Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  7    Female:  7    Other:  doubling

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Mystery Cycle, Part I: Creation , The

Synopsis:
a three-part cycle inspired by the English medieval mystery plays. Including adam and Eve, Cain and abel, The Flood and The Exodus, this is a lively retelling of Old Testament stories in contemporary verse and song.

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1st Produced:
Caravan Farm Theatre, armstrong, B.C    1991

Organisations:
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1st Published:
PaN,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Mystery

Parts:
Male:  7    Female:  6    Other:  -

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Mystery Cycle, Part Ii: Nativity , The

Synopsis:
a three-part cycle inspired by the English medieval mystery plays. a fresh, sometimes irreverant look at the birth of Jesus and the death of King Herod

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Western Canada Theatre Company, Kamloops, B.C.    1991

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Mystery

Parts:
Male:  6    Female:  4    Other:  -

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Mystery Cycle, Part Iii: Passion , The

Synopsis:
a three-part cycle inspired by the English medieval mystery plays. a gritty, moving and thought-provoking contemporary reenactment of the life and death of Jesus

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Caravan Farm Theatre, armstrong    1993

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Mystery

Parts:
Male:  8    Female:  5    Other:  -

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Only Birds And Fools Fly

Synopsis:
In this unusual look at the history of flight, two clowns--Professor Ingenious C. Flight and his bird-watching assistant, Dodo--attempt to show the audience how to fly. Their hilarious efforts closely parallel man's first quest for the skies

Notes:
written by Peter Anderson, Kim Selody And Peter hall

1st Produced:
axis Mime Theatre, school tour    1983

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedic Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  -    Female:  -    Other:  3 m/w, 1 bird puppet

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Rattle In The Dash

Synopsis:
Two guys driving from Detroit to Vancouver talk about love, cars and their fathers until they meet a strange hitch-hiker and find themselves lost in the Badlands

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Play Centre, Vancouver    1982

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
PLCN Chapbook, 1988   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedic Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  3    Female:  -    Other:  -

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Sleigh-Ride Christmas Carol , A

Synopsis:
Ebeneezer Scrooge is haunted by three spirits who take him on a journey to Christmas Past, Present and Future, where he learns that the common welfare of humanity is his true business in this site-specific adaptation of Dickens' classic tale

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Caravan Farm Theatre, armstrong, B.C    2000

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 2002   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3    Female:  3    Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
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