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Richard Caliban

RICHARD CALIBAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Richard Caliban has worked as a director and playwright across the country and internationally. He was Artistic Director of critically acclaimed, award-winning Cucaracha Theatrewhere he wrote and directed many of his plays over fourteen seasons, including Homo Sapien Shuffle at the Public Theatre, Performance Piece #27(also at the Vineyard Theatre and the Ilkhom Theatre in Tashkent, Uzbekistan), Budd, A Vast Wreck,Famine Plays (also at the Yale Cabaret), Rodents & Radios (Best Play List 1990--Mel Gussow, New York Times). Under Mr. Caliban's directorship Cucaracha received a 1989 Obie for its achievements as an emerging company.

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

         Bolivia         Budd         Csillag         Cucaracha Chronicles         Days On Earth         Famine Plays         Girl From Ipanema, The         Gladiator         Homo Sapien Shuffle         Hood         Howling In the Night         In Search Of Hood         Internal Combustion         Keds & Tube Socks         Miracle         Mom - A Rock Concert Musical         Mulan         Oedipus In Kansas         Other Plans         Performance Piece #21         Performance Piece #27         Performance Piece #4b         Present, The         Quartet         Radio 4B         Rodents And Radios         Singapore         Sixty Eight         Smoke         Sollies Cradle         Suburban Romance         Surf City         Teatro Slovak         Tis Pity Shes A Whore         Tramway Rockers         Vast Wreck, A         Woman On Fire

Bolivia

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1st Produced:
Cucaracha Theater, NY     1985

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Budd

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She walks through the valley of death and arrives in suburbia

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Cucaracha Theater, NY     1996

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Csillag

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National Theatre Conservatory, Denver Center Theatre     2003

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Cucaracha Chronicles

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Cucaracha Theater, NY     1987

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Days On Earth

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a soldier just back from the trenches and a young poet meet.

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Famine Plays

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The New York Times: In Richard Caliban's "Famine Plays," the center of the country cannot hold. America's heartland has become a disaster area. Facing unemployment and poverty, people move from street to highway, looking for a resting zone. Some grasp a livelihood in crime. No one has enough to eat, and there is no solace on the horizon. The once-sedentary become eternal nomads, as the Okies did in the 1930's.

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Yale School Of Drama     1988

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Girl From Ipanema, The

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in Rio de Janeiro happily married police detective Jose goes with his partner to arrest Carmen a singer for murder. Jose is in love with Carmen and he knocks his partner out and escapes with Carmen. They hide out in homes of her drug dealing friends. But later Carmen finds a new love - Manalo - a famous football player. Consumed with jealousy Jose murders her

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National Theatre Conservatory, Denver Center Theatre     2008

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Gladiator

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Cucaracha Theater, NY     1986

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Homo Sapien Shuffle

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Cucaracha Theater, NY     1989

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Hood

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National Theatre Conservatory, Denver Center Theatre     2001

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Howling In the Night

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Edinburgh Fringe Festival     1979

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In Search Of Hood

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Cucaracha Theater, NY     1986

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Internal Combustion

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Cucaracha Theater, NY     1985

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Keds & Tube Socks

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National Theatre Conservatory, Denver Center Theatre     2002

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Miracle

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National Theatre Conservatory, Denver Center Theatre     2000

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Mom - A Rock Concert Musical

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Five suburban moms start a rock band just for laughs and inadvertently become a phenomenon. Man oh man do their lives change.

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Csv Cultural And Educational Center  Flamboyan, New York International Fringe Festival     2009

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5 Mothers

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2h 0m Musical Comedy

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Mulan

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A young girl takes her father's place in the army

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Based on a Chinese tale

1st Produced:
National Theatre Conservatory, Denver Center Theatre     2006

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adaptor

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Oedipus In Kansas

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Cucaracha Theater, NY     1987

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Other Plans

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a remote farming community. a boy is murdered and returns seeking revenge; a man starts breathing ice; a Chicago drug dealer takes up residence and the sheriff can fly

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Performance Piece #21

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C.W. Post College     2003

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Performance Piece #27

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Cucaracha Theater, NY     1997

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Performance Piece #4b

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Radio 4b a pirate radio station. Broadcasters include a rock singer who wants a Romeo to sing her songs to and a soldier who discovers the enemy likes the same music he does

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Cucaracha Theater, NY    

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Present, The

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Cucaracha Theater, NY     1985

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Quartet

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Cucaracha Theater, NY     1986

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Radio 4B

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Is there a song that makes you dream? Something that scratches out over the airwaves and takes you back to a place you once knew and loved, or a thing you did that was different and brave and perfect? Clear Channel will not play that song, but Radio 4B might. 4B: Underground Radio is an eclectic slice-of-life with a side of commentary play in the tradition of the Neo-Futurist's Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind and Eric Bogosians Pounding Nails into the Floor with My Forehead. But writer/director Richard Caliban takes 4B a step further, framing a collection of monologues, vignettes and musical numbers as the programming of a pirate radio station. The words are smart and funny, though not as edgy as Greg Allens or as didactically clever as Bogosians, but as the evening progresses, it becomes clear that the music is the heart of the show.

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Colonades Theatre     2004

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Rodents And Radios

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Two compulsive women. One, Klari a tennis pro has defected to the USA from Romania. She undergoes a punishing regimen to get herself through the United States Open Championship. the other, Rand, has abandoned her husband and children in California for a free-form existence living off the land in remote corners of the world. Travelling to such places as Bali and Tibet. She records her thoughts with the hopes of sending them on to her children.

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Cucaracha Theatre at the Triplex Theatre, NY     1990

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Play/Drama

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Singapore

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Yale School of Drama     1987

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Sixty Eight

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a young nurse returns from a tour of duty in Vietnam addicted to heroin

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Smoke

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Sollies Cradle

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by Randy Warshaw

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Randy Warshaw Dance Company, The Joyce Theatre     1994

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Suburban Romance

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Back Alley Theatre, Los Angeles     1984

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Surf City

Synopsis:
Dude goes to the coast to perfect his surfing skills. He falls for Barbara ann. She has a test for any surfer boy who wants her - one that has left many surfers drowned

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National Theatre Conservatory, Denver Center Theatre     2007

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Genre:
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Teatro Slovak

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a collage-like piece about American perceptions and misperceptions of Slovakian culture and Slovakians' reactions to American culture

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Collage Piece

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Tis Pity Shes A Whore

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by John Ford

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National Theatre Conservatory, Denver Center Theatre     2009

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Tramway Rockers

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National Theatre Conservatory, Denver Center Theatre     2004

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Vast Wreck, A

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"Our Town" for the 1990s. - drugs and random violence. "Writer Richard Caliban and director Dara Weinberg have crafted an affecting production with all the pleasant hallmarks of experimental theatre: starkly minimalist sets, opulently exaggerated makeup and costumes, violent and lyrical dialogue laden with symbolism, and exuberant, unexpected choreography. These elements combine to create a hybrid, poetic narrative that follows the misadventures of a hero abused by malicious elements and buffeted against his own careening passions." - flavorpill l.a.

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Cucaracha Theater, NY    

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Woman On Fire

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1st Produced:
National Theatre Conservatory, Denver Center Theatre     1999

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