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Max Bush

MAX BUSH

  
Nationality:    USA
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Max Bush's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Boy Who Left Home To Find Out About the Shivers         Chest Of Dreams, The         Crystal, The         Emerald Circle         Ezigbo:The Spirit Child         From Every Mountainside         Ghost Of the River House         Hansel And Gretel         Kara In Black         Looking Out         Puss In Boots         Rapunzel         Rockway Cafe         Sarah         Thirteen Bells Of Boglewood         Three Musketeers, The         Troll and the Elephant Prince, The         Voices From the Shore         Voyage Of the Dragonfly, The         What Remains         Wildboy
Boy Who Left Home To Find Out About the Shivers

Boy Who Left Home To Find Out About the Shivers
a boy tries to find out how to get the shivers. He meets a ghost, a corpse, wildcats and a singing bride.

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1st Published:
Anchorage Press,    

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Genre:
Childrens play

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Chest Of Dreams, The

Chest Of Dreams, The
Grandmother leaves Lily a large chest. Those with imagination can see it is full of wondrous things. Those with no imagination see it as empty

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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Company    

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Genre:
Youth one act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Crystal, The

Synopsis:
Two brothers search for a crystal

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Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Emerald Circle

Emerald Circle
Whilst with his girlfriend an older man tries to kidnap her. the young man has to deal with his actions that night.

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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Company    

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Ezigbo:The Spirit Child

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From Every Mountainside

From Every Mountainside
Two students struggling in isolation and pain get together to fight for civil rights

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1st Published:
Contained in: "What Remains And Other Plays For High School And Youth Theatre" published by Dramatic Publishing Inc   

Music:
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Genre:
Youth play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Ghost Of the River House

Synopsis:
a girl and her grandFather explore a haunted house

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Hansel And Gretel

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1st Published:
Anchorage Press   

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Genre:
Childrens play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Kara In Black

Kara In Black
DElla is a soldier and she is being sent to Kuwait to help plan the invasion of Iraq. Her sister Kara finds she is opposed to the impending war.

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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Inc   

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Genre:
Teenage Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  10            Other:  -

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Looking Out

Synopsis:
High School and all the problems that beset the pupils. Grades, drugs, crushes, under age drinking, pregnancy, bullying, snitching and homophobia

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Genre:
Youth play

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Puss In Boots

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1st Published:
New Plays Inc   

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

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Genre:
Childrens play

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  extras

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Rapunzel

Rapunzel
A childless couple strike a terrible bargain with a witch. The witch takes the child a locks her up in a tower

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1st Published:
New Plays Inc   

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Genre:
Childrens one act comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Rockway Cafe

Synopsis:
Characters from a girl's favourite television programme manage to interact with her

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1st Published:
New Plays Inc   

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Sarah

Sarah
Sarah is confused and upset about tragedies that have befallen her. Her bedroom is inhabited by two spirits - Molly and Urna who try to sort her out.

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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing,    

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Genre:
Teenage Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Thirteen Bells Of Boglewood

Synopsis:
a young man is used by a landowner to get a treasure.

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1st Published:
Anchorage Press   

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Three Musketeers, The

Three Musketeers, The
All for one and one for all

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Based on the novel "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Company    

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  25            Female:  10            Other:  -

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Troll and the Elephant Prince, The

Troll and the Elephant Prince, The
A Troll rules a village and the citizens must do as he says. One day a boy arrives with a toy elephant. The Troll appears to be afraid of the boy and orders the villagers to capture him.

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1st Published:
Anchorage Press (UK) (Feb 1986)   

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To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

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Genre:
Childrens play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Voices From the Shore

Voices From the Shore
When Joel who is eighteen starts hearing voices he is incarcerated in an asylum.

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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing,    

Music:
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Genre:
Teenage Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Voyage Of the Dragonfly, The

Synopsis:
an impending Ice age leads to a quest to find a mystic flame.

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1st Published:
Anchorage Press,    

Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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What Remains

Synopsis:
Maggie is a talented artist about to graduate from High School. Sixty-nine year old Cliona hires her to help sort through her possessions

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1st Published:
Contained in: "What Remains And Other Plays For High School And Youth Theatre" published by Dramatic Publishing Inc   

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Youth play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  9            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Wildboy

Wildboy
Jamie, fifteen, tells of a dream he has had about a wounded wildboy being hunted. Wildboy is searching for a healing spring.

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Company 2002   

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

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Genre:
Childrens one act

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  7            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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