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J Peter Bergman

J PETER BERGMAN

  (1946 - )
Nationality:    USA
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J Peter Bergman's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of J Peter Bergman's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Ghostly Voices: A Concert Of Old Songs         Handsome Is                                              Madame                                            Sullivan And Clappertino's (And Gilbert's) thespis; Or Gods Grown Bold

Ghostly Voices: A Concert Of Old Songs

Synopsis:
During a song recital, and inspired by the music she sings, a soprano is overwhelmed by the spirits of long dead, world-famous American authors who read in the same room during the period just following the American Civil War. Characters include Louisa May alcott (Little Women), Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin), Oliver Wendell Holmes, Herman Melville and James Russell Lowell (publisher of the Atlantic Magazine).

Notes:
Well received, with sections revived for A regional celebration of the work of Herman Melville; Also televised regionally

1st Produced:
Colt Mansion, Pittsfield, Massachusetts    2003

Organisations:
Berkshire Concert artists

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Historical/environmental Play with music

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  1 soprano/1 accompanist

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Handsome Is                                     

Synopsis:
a world famous actor encounters a notorious killer in a steambath in Kansas City

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Unproduced to date    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
the Berkshire Review, 2001   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Madame                                   

Synopsis:
a no-longer-young woman avenges her mother's mistreatment and her own long history of abuse

Notes:
Premiered At A reading in 2000 As part of A book release celebration for A collection of short fiction by J. Peter Bergman, entitled COUNTeRPOINTS Unproduced to date

1st Produced:
Unproduced to date    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
the Berkshire Review, 1999   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Mono-Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sullivan And Clappertino's (And Gilbert's) thespis; Or Gods Grown Bold

Synopsis:
Wealthy industrialist and his socialite neighbors attempt a production of G&S's first collaboration, thespis, despite the internal obstacles presented by their own slippery relationships.

Notes:
second in A series of three semi-historical plays About the Clapp family of Pittsfield in the 1870s.Reviewed by conductor/librettist, Charles Kondek in the Independent, Hillsdale, NY, March 5, 2004

1st Produced:
Thaddeus Clapp House, Pittsfield, Massachusetts    2004

Organisations:
Berkshire Concert artists

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Historical/musical/enviornmental play with music

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  accompanist

Further Reference:
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