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Louis Capson

LOUIS CAPSON  

 Nationality:    Canadian
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 Everlasting Salvation Machine         Midway Priest         True North Blueprint Trilogy, The

Everlasting Salvation Machine

Synopsis:
a look at the Salvation army and its potential for good and evil

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Creation 2    1972

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  9 characters

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Midway Priest

Synopsis:
Quebec's future? a history professor writes political satires and collects an audience and the heart of a young woman journalist. The Hull City Hall is burned and Quebec's peaceful and legal separation threatened.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Creation 3    1973

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  8 characters

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True North Blueprint Trilogy, The

Synopsis:
a parable about Canada's potential role in a super technological future, focusing on the rise to power of a world dictator. Part I, TO BECOME a DRUMMER: Billy Striker's rise is depicted in a series of fast-paced, fiImic scenes. Part II, I LOVE YOU BILLY STRIKER: Dr. CIine, Striker's top propaganda man, is "banished" to a basement room in the Museum of Public Freedom. From here we see flashes of the world created by striker's reign. Part III, IN SEaRCH OF THE LaST PaRaDIDDLE: the reign has resulted in the near-universal perfection of the world. But there are snags. . .

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Creation 4    1974

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Trilogy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  8 characters

Further Reference:
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