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Mark Brown

MARK BROWN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    eighth Square entertainment

Mark Brown's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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

         Around the World In 80 Days         China - the Whole Enchilada         Deep Into That Darkness Peering         For Ed         Little Prince, The         Quest For Don Quixote, The         Tom Jones - The Musical         Trial Of Ebenezer Scrooge, The

Around the World In 80 Days

Synopsis:
there's a sound you hear on a roller coaster -- that semi-hystErical sound of people screaming and laughing at the same time. You'll hear it again at the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival's home in Loch Haven Park, where 'around the World in eighty Days' moves at about the speed of a roller coaster -- and covers a whole lot more territory. Writer Mark Brown has taken Jules Verne's century-old comic novel and made it gallop across the stage. If this show doesn't make you laugh, you'll have to look hard for something that will
Orlando Sentinel

Notes:
adapted From "around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne

1st Produced:
Shakespearean Festival, Utah    2001

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing, 2007   -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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China - the Whole Enchilada

China - the Whole Enchilada
an irreverent slapstick race through 4000 years of Chinese history in 90 minutes. Three guys speed from Chairman Mao to infected fowl, the greatest wall to the largest mall, Genghis Khan to Fu Manchu-han. It's a musical of Olympic proportions. www.chinathewholeenchilada.com 2h 15m, Musical, Comedy
- http://www.fringenyc.org/

Notes:
Music And Lyrics by Mark Brown, Arrangements And Additional music by Paul Mirkovich

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Big Boy Strut

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Music:
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Genre:
2h 15m, Musical, Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Deep Into That Darkness Peering

Synopsis:
Edgar Allen Poe is trying to discover who is trying to murder him

Notes:
Written by Mark Brown and Mark Rector

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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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For Ed

Synopsis:
ed was handsome, charming, successful and popular. everyone says so. and now he is dead. and the girlfriend and brother he left behind find out that a funeral can bring out the best and worst in people. even the deceased.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Bedford In Balham    2007

Organisations:
First Draft (now blank pages)

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Funeral

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Little Prince, The

Synopsis:
A pilot crashes in the desert and finds a Prince

Notes:
Based on the book "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Expury

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Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Quest For Don Quixote, The

Synopsis:
Playwright Ben Eisenberg is asked to adapt "Adventures of Don Quixote" for the stage. He finds the book impossible to adapt - so writes his own version where Do Quixote has become a superhero

Notes:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Tom Jones - The Musical

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music and lyrics by Mark Brown; Paul Mirkovitch; book by Mark Brown. Based on the novel by Henry Fielding

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Trial Of Ebenezer Scrooge, The

Synopsis:
Like any good sequel, "the Trial of ebenezer Scrooge" offers a fresh spin on beloved characters, revealing new facets of their personalities while honoring familiar source material. as an inspired continuation of Charles Dickens' 1843 classic "a Christmas Carol," Mark Brown's holiday comedy is a welcomed companion to aCT's annual performance of the Dickens original: It's a sequel worthy of Dickens' approval.
the Seattle Times

Notes:
from book by Charles Dickens

1st Produced:
Orlando-Ucf Shakespeare Festival    2004

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing, 2007   -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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