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Howard W Casner

HOWARD W CASNER

  (1954 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Howard W Casner's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Howard W Casner's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Clo         Cold Coming We Had Of It, A         Endless Night/Sweet Delight         Ethyl Mae Potter, We Never Forgot Her         Film Noir         Forests Of the Night         Gentle Reader         It's Only Fuschias If You're A God Damn Fag         Kindness Of Strangers         Little Lear And Laundry, A         Misreading Of Camus, A         Moment I Wake Up, The         Past Remembered         Queen Christina Goes Roman         Scream, The         Snakes And Ladders         Some Enchanted Evening         Venery Of Larks         Way Of the World, The         Winter Of Discontent

Clo

Synopsis:
Clo teaches english. When she teaches "Medea" the woman who lives upstairs murders her children because her new lover does not want the bother of them. then she notices that things start happening similar to plotlines when she moves on to "Hamlet" and "Oliver Twist". then when two women are murdered just like in "Crime and Punishment" she decides to give up especially as the next book was to be "anna Karenina".

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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Cold Coming We Had Of It, A

Synopsis:
John and Dave rush onto the platform just as the train leaves. Dave is very angry and vents his anger on John. the night before Dave had arrived home to find that John had packed his bags and left. Dave went out and got very drunk. When he got back home John was back and asleep in bed.

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Genre:
One act. - - Gay, one act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  1 voice only

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Endless Night/Sweet Delight

Synopsis:
an up and coming folk singer, Oran, retreats to a remote farm to mourn the death of his lover. He hears about Shad who had previously lived there. Shad had lost his lover to the flu outbreak just after the First World War. Oran meets the ghost of Shad and his life becomes entangled with Shad's death.

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Genre:
Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ethyl Mae Potter, We Never Forgot Her

Synopsis:
ethyl Mae Potter, better known as ethyl Mertz - Lucy's sidekick on "I Love Lucy" dishes the dirt on what went on behind the scenes.

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-    1997

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One act

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Film Noir

Synopsis:
In an attempt to break out of his drab existence a young man starts an affair with a woman who has a mysterious past

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One act

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Forests Of the Night

Synopsis:
When his best friend dies Uli tells his friends that he is going away for a time to mourn

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Gentle Reader

Synopsis:
Don and Pete meet once a week for lunch and gossip about their friends. at one lunch the waiter forgets to charge them for the wine. Don points this out to the waiter. Pete is angry as they could have had the wine for nothing. the next week they ask for separate bills. the next week Pete telephones Don and cancels lunch. a month later Don and Pete accidentally meet at the restaurant. Pete now has a new lunch partner.

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-    2001

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Genre:
One act. - - Gay, one act

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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It's Only Fuschias If You're A God Damn Fag

Synopsis:
azzie and Bayard are having an affair. Bayard has an older partner, Cash and both of them are picking up other men as well, Bayard hopes that azzie will leave Cash for him. Cash, however, is willing to let azzie sow his wild oats and carry on his casual affairs.

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Genre:
One act. - - Gay, one act

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Kindness Of Strangers

Synopsis:
a group of gay Catholic friends have to come to terms with the mysterious death of one of them

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Genre:
Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Male:  9            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Little Lear And Laundry, A

Synopsis:
Larry is the owner of one of Chicago's most successful bars - so Cordell is surprised to find him at the laundromat doing his washing. Larry says that he likes to keep his hand in. When Cordell asks him about his partner, Reggie he changes the subject and tells him of a disatrous high school production of "King Lear". Reggie turns up he is very worried about Larry's disappearance from home. Larry says that despite being ill he still wants to do things for himself.

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Genre:
One act. - - AIDS, one act

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Misreading Of Camus, A

Synopsis:
Two men in a bar. One points out the photograph in a magazine of a good looking young man. He says that he met him a few weeks beforehand. the young man wanted to come back to his place but when he said that Jean Paul Sartre wrote "the Plague" he declined his offer. the other man cannot understand how someone would let a little thing like that come in the way of a night of pleasure. the article is about how the young man is wanted for murdering a man he had picked up.

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Moment I Wake Up, The

Synopsis:
Two men on a park bench. One tells the other that he has an incurable brain disease and that he has tried praying but God does not listen. He asks the other man to pray for him in the hopes that God will listen to him.

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Past Remembered

Synopsis:
Two ex lovers meet - the betrayed and the betrayer - who has the upper hand now?

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One act. - - Gay, one act

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Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Queen Christina Goes Roman

Synopsis:
Peter Tchaikovsky, Edward II, Roy Cohn are all alive and living at the same time. Galileo has renounced his theory that the earth goes around the Sun. and Queen Christina has run away with a nun

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Comedy. - - Gay, full length

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Scream, The

Synopsis:
Terry sees his former professor with his wife and son in an art gallery - he thrusts himself upon them. the professor does not trust him. Zak the son is hostile towards him. the wife welcomes him with open arms

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One act

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Snakes And Ladders

Synopsis:
an artist kidnaps a critic and reveals the secret of her success

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Some Enchanted Evening

Synopsis:
What would you do to get the person you love/lust after?

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Genre:
Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Male:  9            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Venery Of Larks

Synopsis:
Stephen and Paul are two gay seminarians who meet each morning to work out, gossip and eye up men. Stephen has just got back from visiting his parents and he asks Paul to meet him at the gym

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Way Of the World, The

Synopsis:
Two young men make trouble in an elevator

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  3 either sex

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Winter Of Discontent

Synopsis:
Half of Billie's face was paralysed when there was a fire at the school she attended. She now runs a bookshop in Chicago. an extremely attractive young man, Dick comes into the shop -just what is he after?

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  extras

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