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Ken Cameron

KEN CAMERON

  
Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Kensington Literary Representation  represented by Michael Petrasek

Ken Cameron's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Alien Love Connection         Black Tongue         Bloody Knuckles         Climate, The: A Province In Deklein         Dear Canada Council         Doppelganger         Harvest         I Think I'm A Wolf!         Making Marilyn         Might As Well Live: the Words Of Dorothy Parker         Mrs Talleyhouse         My Morocco         My One And Only         Stop Thinking!

Alien Love Connection

Synopsis:
Harley is a former child star from a long running CBC TV program; her mother has spent Harley's savings to become a new age guru. Meanwhile her reluctant partner, the owner of a new age bookstore isn't sure what he's gotten himself into; and to top it all off Harley is slowly falling for a five-time alien abductee

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Lunchbox Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Black Tongue

Synopsis:
He's had an affair with his best friend's girlfriend . . . and now Coyote's brought him back to get her. Will she go? Or is she fed up? Only Coyote knows!

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
the art Ranch

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Bloody Knuckles

Synopsis:
Lola's husband discovers he's gay, but ruins Lola's carefully structured life in the process. On the other side of town Osmo's got a new roommate who doesn't understand what its like to try to be an actor. Four lost souls in an urban setting twine around one another.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Mcgill Players' Theatre     1992

Organisations:
McGill Player's Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Climate, The: A Province In Deklein

Synopsis:
the Mayor of a western city finds himself looking for another job; the handler has a perfect idea - clean him and make him Premier! a political satire detailing the struggle to turn a normal Joe into a politician. Based on the Klein Revolution by edmonton Journal columnist Mark Lisac (adapted with permission).

Notes:
written by Ken Cameron, Doug Curtis And Laura Parken

1st Produced:
One Yellow Rabbit's High Performance Rodeo     1997

Organisations:
the art Ranch

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Dear Canada Council

Synopsis:
a young girl writes her first ever Canada Council grant; just when she begins making progress, her office is invaded by a vicious, demanding, needy gopher

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Random Acts, Theatre Junction, Calgary     2004

Organisations:
Theatre of the Living Statu

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Doppelganger

Synopsis:
a man falls to his death from a thirty story building; as he falls a variety of witnesses realize that he looks just like them . . . "Oh my God, he's my doppelganger!" But how can he be everyone's doppelganger? Written via email by eight different playwrights

Notes:
Concept by Ken Cameron, based on A script by Simon Heath (with contributions from Bonnie Bowman, Rita Bozi, Ron Chambers, Doug Curtis, elyne Quan And Eugene Stickland)

1st Produced:
New Dance Theatre     2001

Organisations:
the art Ranch

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Harvest

Harvest
A couple hire their farm to cannabis growers

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in "Harvest and Other Plays" published by NeWest Press 2010   978-1897126677

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  doubling

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I Think I'm A Wolf!

Synopsis:
a man thinks he is a werewolf - blank spots in his memory coupled with the bloodied bodies in the alley provide strong clues. He checks himself into a mental hospital for lycanthropes run by the Sadistic Dr. Pigg. Music by klezmer-rock sensations the Plaid Tongued Devils.

Notes:
by the Berserker Gang Collective (music by the Plaid Tongued Devils)

1st Produced:
Plan B, The Festival     1999

Organisations:
the Beserker Gang

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical Comedy Musical One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  band

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Making Marilyn

Synopsis:
Scout lives in a small Canadian town. His Father disappeared years ago. His mother is called a whore. then Marilyn Monroe arrives to make the film "Niagara". She and Scout become friends - and he is never the same again

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Shetler Theater 54, NY     2005

Organisations:
the Bridge Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Might As Well Live: the Words Of Dorothy Parker

Synopsis:
Twelve stories by Dorothy Parker are linked together into one seamless narrative whole, telling the witty, sharp and sad story of Dot's struggles with alcohol and men.

Notes:
written by Ken Cameron And Laura Parken

1st Produced:
Beat Niq Jazz And Social Club     2003

Organisations:
the art Ranch

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Mrs Talleyhouse

Synopsis:
a young boy tries to come to terms with the murder of his sister and with his own incarceration in a Juvenile Detention Centre. Can he get revenge? Should he?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
University Of Calgary     1993

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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My Morocco

My Morocco
A fraught holiday in Morocco

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Big Secret Theatre, Calgary     2007

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Harvest and Other Plays" published by NeWest Press 2010   978-1897126677

Music:
-

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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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My One And Only

Synopsis:
Marilyn Monroe comes to Banff in 1953 to shoot a movie and has an affair with Scout, a fifteen-year-old boy; meanwhile in 1962, Scout has been stopped by the side of the road and is clearly hiding something. Fall in love with the Rockies and Marilyn Monroe!

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Enbridge Playrites Festival     2004

Organisations:
alberta Theatre Projects

1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Stop Thinking!

Synopsis:
experimental theatre of the 1960's gone horribly awry! a demented director locks a troupe of vulnerable actors in a studio for six months to endlessly rehearse the same scenes from the Scottish Play. Told from the point of view of the actors, in which they each, one-by-one, take on the persona of their tormentor

Notes:
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1st Produced:
One Yellow Rabbit's High Performance Rodeo     1999

Organisations:
the art Ranch

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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