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Gordon Armstrong

GORDON ARMSTRONG

  
Nationality:    Canadian
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Gordon Armstrong's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Blue Dragons         Hashisch         Mona Lisa Toodle-Oo , The         Plague Of the Gorgeous         Scary Stories         Secrets Of An Usherette         Spot         Three Questions         Ultravista

Blue Dragons

Blue Dragons
Through memory and imagination, Simon searches for truth and the play explores relationships, the quality of living, and the nature of love in a world of cynicism, fear, and aIDS

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1st Produced:
Canadian Stage Company, Toronto    1993

Organisations:
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1st Published:
G. Gordon Shillingford Publishing (Scirocco Drama), 1993   9780969726104

Music:
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Genre:
Gay full length

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Hashisch

Synopsis:
a ghastly couple plot the downfall of three young women in Paris of the 1920's. a dark romp of insatiable appetites, exquisite manners and meticulous murder

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1st Produced:
Vancouver Fringe Festival    1985

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

Music:
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Genre:
Black Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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Mona Lisa Toodle-Oo , The

Synopsis:
Mistakenly arrested in connection with the theft of the Mona Lisa, Guillaume apollinaire waits in vain for his Cubist circle of friends, including rising young artist Pablo Picasso, to come forward and clear his name. a dialectic between the civilized and the primitive

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1st Produced:
New Play Centre, Vancouver    1989

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

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  doubling

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Plague Of the Gorgeous

Synopsis:
a unique approach to theatre and to the subject of aIDS. Remarkable pageantry.

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1st Produced:
Gastown Theatre, Vancouver    1995

Organisations:
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1st Published:
In Plague of the Gorgeous & Other Tales, G. Gordon Shillingford Publishing (Scirocco Drama), 1996   -

Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Scary Stories

Synopsis:
the 1954 senate committee's investigations into the effect of horror comics on juveniles, and the newly imposed Comics Code authority are a backdrop for this subtle commentary on the state of censorhip and freedom of the artist

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1st Produced:
Martha Cohen Theatre, Calgary, Alberta    1995

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Blizzard Publishing, Canada, 1996   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Secrets Of An Usherette

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1st Published:
in two plays by Gordon armstrong, Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1997   -

Music:
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Spot

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1st Published:
in two plays by Gordon armstrong, Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1997   -

Music:
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Three Questions

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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1997   -

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Ultravista

Synopsis:
at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, a young Canadian woman collapses. When she awakes in hospital, she doesn't know who she is. Her condition is diagnosed as the Stendhal syndrome, experienced when confronted with the powerful merging of spirituality and sensuality in great works of Renaissance art.

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1st Produced:
As A Map Of The Senses By Touchstone Theatre, Vancouver.    1992

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

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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