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Rick Burkhardt

RICK BURKHARDT

  
Nationality:    USA
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Rick Burkhardt's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Conversation Storm         Great Hymn Of Thanksgiving         Storm Still         Three Pianos         You, My Mother

Conversation Storm

Conversation Storm
In Conversation Storm, three friends from three sides of the political spectrum argue their way through a ticking time bomb scenario, brutalizing their own positions, destroying the lines between real and hypothetical, past and future, day and night

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1st Produced:
FRIGID New York Festival    2008

Organisations:
the Nonsense Company

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
One act

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Great Hymn Of Thanksgiving

Synopsis:
Great Hymn of Thanksgiving, a brutal deconstruction of War-on-Terror-speak
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
FRIGID New York Festival    2008

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Storm Still

Synopsis:
an extended meditation on act Three, Scene Six of King Lear, Storm Still takes place inside an abandoned school where three children are trapped and taking refuge from the raging war outside. Years pass, and these children become grown men who have spent their lives performing King Lear, unsupervised, over and over again. after so many performances, the mad King has developed a theory about the purpose of theatre, which he debates with his Fool/psychologist. In Storm Still, the Nonsense Company use their musical sensibilities to manipulate sound and Shakespeare's classic text to consider madness, childhood, war, and the vast history of and various treatments for insanity.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Written And Performed By: Ryan Higgins, Andy Gricevich, Rick Burkhardt

1st Produced:
P.S. 122
150 1st avenue, New York, NY 10003    40593

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Three Pianos

Synopsis:
Three Pianos is a theatrical explosion of Franz Schubert's Winterreise song cycle by three major artists of the indie theater community-Dave Malloy of Banana Bag & Bodice, playwright/director alec Duffy of Hoi Polloi, and composer/playwright Rick Burkhardt of the Nonsense Company. the piece takes the form of a musical lecture/demo gone astray, with the three creators each at their own piano, leading the audience through their respective passions for Schubert's famous song cycle on winter heartbreak. Compositional mischief, shifting rivalries, whimsical dances, and some unfortunate butchery of the German language ensue. Ultimately, the three separate understandings of Schubert's mastery and impact collide, and what starts as a reasoned exploration of the music ends in mayhem. Filled with fantastical touches and inventive orchestrations of Schubert's music, Three Pianos is a colorful and imaginative piece of chaos that brings these three talents together onstage for the first time.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
created And performed by Dave Molloy, Alec Duffy, Rick Burkhardt

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Hoi Polloi and Ontological-Hysteric Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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You, My Mother

Synopsis:
You, My Mother, a chamber opera project in two parts, is an elusive investigation into the ever-shifting relationships between mothers and their adult children.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Created By: Brendan Connelly, Karinne Keithley Syers, Rick Burkhardt, Kristen Kosmas

1st Produced:
ellen StewArt Theater, La MaMa
74a East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003    09 Feb 2012

Organisations:
Two-Headed Calf

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
opera 70 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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