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Ronnie Burkett

RONNIE BURKETT

  (1957 - )
Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    John Lambert and Associates  

internationally renowned puppeteer who has even had lunch with the Queen. . .that's gotta say something

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

         10 Days On Earth         Awful Manors         Billy Twinkle: Requiem For A Golden Boy         Happy         Penny Plain         Provenance         Street Of Blood         Tinka's New Dress

10 Days On Earth

10 Days On Earth
Middle aged and intellectually challenged Darrell lives with his mother. She dies in her sleep but he does not realise what has happened. He creates fantasies about his favourite story book characters - a duck and a dog who search for a new home

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Playwrights Canada Press (2008)   978-0887547379

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Awful Manors

Synopsis:
A high-camp tour de force, a gothic romance-thriller murder-mystery musical with 17 characters and 43 marionettes, including romance novelist Beatrix Poppers, the interior decorator Nicky Nacque, and Phyllis Stein of the Canada Council.

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Theatre Network, Edmonton, Alberta    1990

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Genre:
Marionette

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Billy Twinkle: Requiem For A Golden Boy

Billy Twinkle: Requiem For A Golden Boy
Billy Twinkle (breathlessly played by Burkett) is a suicidal cruise-ship puppeteer. Once the golden boy on the Saskatchewan puppet circuit, Billy has fallen into a compromised, commercial cul-de-sac. His spark gone, his marionettes tired and crude (showgirl Rusty Knockers bursts out of her corset), and his career at sea, Billy is tempted by the oblivion beyond the ship's edge. enter Sid, Billy's deceased mentor and boyhood hero. Revitalised as a hand-puppet apparition, Sid attempts to galvanise his wilting protege by replaying (puppet style) Billy's life before him. the ensuing biopic is a bedlam of the comic, the endearing and the absurd, as the extent of Burkett's dexterity and imagination unfurl. We meet Benji, a twisted ginger modernist about as cool as credit based economies; Brian, Billy's one time boyfriend who cradles a poodle called Mr Hamlet and endorses horizontal stripes for the podgy; Doreen Gray, a bum-bagged fundamentalist whose own hand-puppet (imagine Kermit and Christ fused) espouses dogma in the medium of rap ('His crib is really famous&'); and a mental, slippered pensioner with inflatable pink genitals. the list, quite wonderfully, goes on.
- Ben aitken, British theatre Guide

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Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes

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Playwrights Canada Press   978-0887548857

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Genre:
Puppets Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Happy

Synopsis:
Happy a war vet and now pensioner and the sorrows of others

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Coteau Books (2003)   978-1895836882

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Penny Plain

Penny Plain
Penny Plain is blind, but she hears plenty about the state of things and the fate of mankind. And so she decides to sit in her overstuffed chair, nevermore to venture outside, waiting for the world to end. When her companion dog Geoffrey leaves to live as a man, Penny's end-of-days vigil is interrupted by survivalists, a serial killer, a cross-dressing banker, talking dogs and mysterious strangers seeking sanctuary. Part gothic thriller, part apocalyptic drawing room comedy, Penny Plainshows the funny and chilling consequences as mother earth cleans house and reclaims her ground.

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1st Produced:
Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta    22 Sep 2011

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Playwirghts Canada Press 2012   978-1770910478

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Marionette

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Provenance

Provenance
an art historian travels to europe to see and research a painting of a beautiful young man known as "Tender". It now hangs in a brothel presided over by a Madam who is verging on madness.

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Playwrights Canada Press (2005)   978-0887547881

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Street Of Blood

Street Of Blood
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Coteau Books (2003)   978-1895836875

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Tinka's New Dress

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Coteau Books (2003)   978-1895836868

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