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Jack Canfora

JACK CANFORA

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

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

         Dogs Playing Poker         Indelible         Jericho         Object Permanence         Place Setting         Poetic License         Viking Funeral

Dogs Playing Poker

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Indelible

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New Year's Eve 1999. Six people are having a meal together. Two brothers a married couple and two sisters. Intrigue follows intrigue

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1st Produced:
American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019    2001

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Jericho

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there are pivotal moments in all our lives, even the most humble ones, when things threaten to careen and spin out of control. Sometimes the event takes the form of what we call a tragedy and cuts to the bone, thrumming every fiber of our being and the rudely struck discordant chords may reverberate within us for the rest of our upended days. JEricho deals with such a moment, one that intrudes unexpectedly into the lives of the play's characters, four years before the start of the play. Despite the intervening years, the resultant wounds are still as fresh as on that fateful day. Beth lost her husband who now haunts her as a ghost as she tries unsuccessfully to rebuild her life. Despite years of therapy she is unable to move on, stuck like an insect in a hermetically sealed display case suffocating for lack of air. When she meets Ethan, he seems to be the ideal one to gently shepherd her back to the fold and rejoin the human race, but it seems that his very kindness intensifies her fears of reconnecting and being vulnerable once again to another person.
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1st Produced:
Curious Theatre, Denver    40516

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Object Permanence

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Place Setting

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a dinner party. andrea is happily married to Greg. Greg's brother Len proposes to Charlotte who is really in love with Gregg. Laura's date Richard is a film-maker about to make a movie proving Ulysses S Grant was gay

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1st Produced:
New Jersey Repertory Company, NY    2007

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New Jersey Repertory Company and adam Weinstock

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Poetic License

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Poetic License is a comic Drama about greed, ambition, and madness that grapples with the consequences of a long-forgotten and repressed incident that comes back to haunt a family in an unexpected way. John Grier is an acclaimed poet, comfortably ensconced as a professor of literature in a hallowed university, and owes much of his success to his wife, Diane, who has been aggressively shepherding his career. Diane is the one practical individual in the family and knows that there is little cache associated with being a poet in American society. She has made it her mission to market her husband while at the same time fortifying herself with booze and a caustic facade to survive the challenges of being the wife of a high-profile academic. On the weekend when the next Poet Laureate of the United States is about to be announced, their daughter, Katharine, returns from college and surprises Diane and John with her new boyfriend, edmund. Both are aspiring young writers in awe of John and his literary accomplishments. Katharine has worshipped her Father since childhood, seeking his approval for her fledgling attempts at writing, and edmund is a graduate student who has studied John's works providing veiled compliments when he is first introduced. Hidden secrets are revealed in the course of the play that threaten to disrupt the carefully crafted equilibrium of the family so painstakingly created by Diane over the years.
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1st Produced:
New Jersey Repertory Company, NY    2008

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Viking Funeral

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