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Anthony Black

ANTHONY BLACK

  
Nationality:    Canadian
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Anthony Black's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Clowning Around Eden Or the Folly Of Man         Etiquette (A clown show)         Invisible Atom         Manners Of Dying         Our Boy Ben Or Breathing Problems         Soul Alone         When it Rains
Clowning Around Eden Or the Folly Of Man

Synopsis:
Three clowns try to enact the Book of Genesis

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Playground Festival, York University     1999

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Etiquette (A clown show)

Synopsis:
Winston and Sophie are two clowns who arrive late to a show about etiquette. They find themselves on stage, having to replace the two actors who have not shown up. As the two clowns, aided by the shows exasperated director, try to instruct the audience on the rules of social etiquette, the instructive purpose of the show collapses in on itself, resulting in chaotic hilarity. Etiquette (A Clown Show) is a production filled with buffoonery, clowning and physical comedy.

Notes:
Written with Bunnies In the Headlights

1st Produced:
Atlantic Fringe Festival     36404

Organisations:
2b Theatre company, Canada

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Invisible Atom

Synopsis:
at the moment atom leaps off a cliff time freezes and the gods give him the opportunity to look back over his life and the decision to commit suicide. atom has everything. He's a bright, up-and-coming stockbroker with a gorgeous girlfriend and a beautiful new child - a real success story. But when he falls victim to a catastrophic reversal of his destiny, he finds himself suspended in a very precise moment in space and time. This is where atom tells his story.

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1st Produced:
-     2004

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Genre:
One act Black comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Manners Of Dying

Synopsis:
Nine variations on the hour leading up to an execution of a man

Notes:
Based on A short story by Yann Martell

1st Produced:
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Our Boy Ben Or Breathing Problems

Synopsis:
ur Boy Ben or Breathing Problems is a one man play about idealized youth. Ben has coasted through life on his intelligence and charm, yet he deeply feels his own inadequacies. As he searches for meaning in the world around him, Ben contemplates faith, disillusionment and his own shortcomings.

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1st Produced:
Atlantic Fringe Festival     01 Sep 1999

Organisations:
2b Theatre company, Canada

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Soul Alone

Synopsis:
Identical twins Samantha and angie - but with different interests and talents. angie is the musician. Samantha the scientist. Samantha collapses and goes into a coma - she has a brain aneurism. angie takes on her sister's persona - dresses in her clothes sleeps in her bedroom

Notes:
Written by Anthony Black And Connor Green. Songs by Andrew Cull

1st Produced:
-     2003

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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When it Rains

Synopsis:
A play in the form of a live-action existential graphic novel. When the improbable happens, two couples are beset with misfortune, communication fractures, relationships crumble, behavior becomes absurd. People sing, get naked, give up, lose control, have sex with strangers. Some kind of God intervenes. Or observes. Or something. Or nothing.

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1st Produced:
ellen StewArt Theater, La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003     01 Nov 2013

Organisations:
2b Theatre company, Canada

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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