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Clyde James Aragon

CLYDE JAMES ARAGON  (1953 - )

Nationality:    USA
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Clyde James aragon is from albuquerque, New Mexico U.S.A. Much of his work is prose humor and he has published the following books: "Tales of Delight and Shame", humorous stories; "The PC affair - a comic mystery of murder, mayhem, and data processing", comic detective novel; and "abandon all Hope! - cheerful humor for impossible days", humorous stories. His play "The Translated Works of Stephen Watts Kearny and His army Of The West" premiered at the Fourth annual Hispanic Playwrights Festival in Fort Worth Theatre, Texas.; his radio play, "Blackbeard's Tuna", was recorded on November 2005; his one-act play, "Shakespeare's Wife", was performed in Colorado at the Boulder acting Group's play festival; and his ten-minute play "Pirate Bitches of the Caribbean" was chosen for the Paw Paw Village Players' Short Play Contest in Paw Paw, Michigan. His radio plays have been produced by albuquerque Radio Theater, a part of KUNM-FM (University of New Mexico radio station). He is the Publisher of Cliff Zone Books located in albuquerque, New Mexico U.S.A.

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Blackbeard's Tuna         Coroner,The         Death - An Open Phone Booth         Dr Plant, Come Quick!         Entrepreneurs, The         Great Two-Week Play Festival, The         Hangman's Daughter, The         Hotel De Fools         In Love With The Thought Police         La Llorona And The Kid         Macbeth, Pi - Detective To The Middle Ages         Night Of The Living Dead Zombies         Philosophers' Club, The         Pill School, The         Pirate Bitches Of The Caribbean         Really Hot Island Of Dr Moreau, The         Shakespeare's Wife         Shopping At Bo's         Sleepless In Seattle         Song, The         Sweet Life, The         This Is Your Life, Ebenezer Mcdogg!         Translated Works Of Stephen Watts Kearny And His Army Of The West, The         Well-Known Unknown, A         When Liberals Ruled The Wild West



Blackbeard's Tuna

Synopsis:
In 1718, Blackbeard the Pirate and crew are busy capturing shipping vessel after shipping vessel for their precious cargo of fish. Virginia's Governor Spotswood has had enough of this situation and sends Lieutenant Maynard of the British Navy after him. More or less historically correct.

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Comedy One act

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Male:  14            Female:  1            Other:  1 woman, 14 men (2 who have one spoken line) Extra seamen needed for fight scene

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Coroner,The

Synopsis:
The play asks the question: What if the medical examiner of Los Angeles was a graduate of archaeology school?

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Death - An Open Phone Booth

Synopsis:
at bookkeeper Ted's funeral, cell-phone wearing office mourners break the solemn occassion in typical cell-phone answering rudeness.

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dr Plant, Come Quick!

Synopsis:
Houseplant hospital emergency room is beset by dying and injured plants being brought in by worried owners.

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Entrepreneurs, The

Synopsis:
In 1915, Ruben Dario, Jose Marti, Gabriela Mistral, Miguel de Unamuno, alfonsina Storni, Federico Garcia Lorca, and antonio Pelear de Vezencuando gather in El Paso to start the kind of artistic endeavor most artists only dream of - yes - a greeting card company!

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Great Two-Week Play Festival, The

Synopsis:
an unfortunate theater director, beset by money woes, tries to save his marathon play festival by substituting shortened versions of the 12 plays.

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Comedy One act

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  actors will play 14 characters

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Hangman's Daughter, The

Synopsis:
Set in 1680, on orders of their Superior, three Franciscan monks leave the monastery in Passau, Germany for the one in Berchtesgaden. The monks will first meet Benedicta, the Hangman's daughter at the opening as she is chasing vultures away from a corpse. The youngest monk, ambrosius, will come to defend the shunned and friendless Benedicta. But the growing internal conflicts between his vows and his burgeoning love for Benedicta will lead to tragedy as he warns her of the wild youth Rochus who is pursuing her.

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Drama/adaptation Play/Drama

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Male:  12            Female:  7            Other:  4

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Hotel De Fools

Synopsis:
The action takes place in the lobby of the Hotel de Foels and revolves around the unseen corpse of a Mr. Thompson who is found dead in the hall. The hotel happens to be the site of the first annual Detectives United for Humanity convention (DUH) and its three members (ascot, Payday, and Wormwhistle) try to figure out who killed the man. There are three guests in the hotel: the beautiful Marta and her younger, homely sister, Esmeralda; and the awning salesman, Wally Bing. along with the hotel owner, Maxwell Foels, there is his bellhop, Anthony; cook, Mrs. Vargas; and janitor, Hector.

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There is Also A second version (Version 2) which is the same but has 5 men And 5 women - the bellhop is A high-school-age girl And Detective Payday is A woman. *There is Also An Hispanic version titled Hotel de Tontos. (67 pages)

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

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In Love With The Thought Police

Synopsis:
a satire of George Orwell's book 1984 with Big Brother being replaced by Big Mother.

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  5

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La Llorona And The Kid

Synopsis:
On the night of Billy the Kid's death in 1881, he is visited by the Spanish legend figure La Llorona who wants to take him to the land of the dead.

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Comedy One act

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Male:  15            Female:  3            Other:  1 young boy, 1 young girl

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Macbeth, Pi - Detective To The Middle Ages

Synopsis:
Take-off on Shakespeare. ("My kingdom for a hearse!"). Its action takes place in ancient England circa 1050 a.D. and begins with the protagonist, a private eye named Macbeth who is visited by the murdered king of England asking that Macbeth find his killer.

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Comedy

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Male:  35            Female:  17            Other:  doubling

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Night Of The Living Dead Zombies

Synopsis:
Mr. Smith is being kept awake by the sound of wailing zombies.

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Genre:
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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 either

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Philosophers' Club, The

Synopsis:
Ladies in a laundromat are discussing washing in textbook philosophical terms when a robber enters.

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Pill School, The

Synopsis:
Play about the greatest detective to practice ophthalmology at 221-B Baker Street - Dr. Sherlock Holmes!

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Pirate Bitches Of The Caribbean

Synopsis:
Captain Jill and her crew reflect on the pirate life aboard the Sea Star while waiting for a plunder opportunity to sail by.

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Paw Paw, Michigan    2007

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Paw Paw Village Players

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Really Hot Island Of Dr Moreau, The

Synopsis:
On the mad island of Dr. Moreau, he is busy playing God with nature and the world of chile in this culinary take-off on H.G. Wells' 'The Island of Dr. Moreau'.

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  3 either

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Shakespeare's Wife

Synopsis:
as anne Shakespeare, true author of the Shakespearean plays, is mopping the floor in her kitchen. her husband enters with news that Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlowe are coming over to plot burning down the Globe Theater for the insurance money.

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Boulder, Colorado    2006

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Shopping At Bo's

Synopsis:
a grocery shopper is confronted by a smart-alecky self-check-out machine

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 either

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Sleepless In Seattle

Synopsis:
an unfortunate theater director, beset by company money woes, tries to save his production by substituting a shortened versions of the play.

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Song, The

Synopsis:
Don and his trippy friend, Jerry, are talking about a song that Don thoroughly hates. Don has decided to rid the world of this song and its composer/singer by traveling back in time to kill him.

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Sweet Life, The

Synopsis:
Private eyes' rendezvous is a donut shop. a beautiful, but mysterious, woman sits down next to Deke, one of the detectives.

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This Is Your Life, Ebenezer Mcdogg!

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This is a take-off on Charles Dickens' "a Christmas Carol" with actors dressed as cats and dogs.

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Male:  17            Female:  10            Other:  -

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Translated Works Of Stephen Watts Kearny And His Army Of The West, The

Synopsis:
This play deals with the peaceful conquest of New Mexico in 1846 by the U.S. army led by General Stephen Watts Kearny.

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There is some Spanish in this play using one character's English for the translation. This play was first performed on July 20, 2002 in Fort Worth At the Fourth Annual Hispanic Playwrights Festival

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Fort Worth Theatre; Fort Worth, Texas    2002

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Fourth annual Hispanic Playwrights Festival

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Genre:
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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  1

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Well-Known Unknown, A

Synopsis:
Due to a pouring rain and a funeral home foul-up, a group of mourners and a preacher who all don't know the dead person in the coffin decide to hold services for this unknown man.

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When Liberals Ruled The Wild West

Synopsis:
after a recent election, the mayor, in his office, speaks with a few townspeople.

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Time: circa 1880s American West

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