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Marvin Cheiten

MARVIN CHEITEN

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

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Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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

         Chowder, She Wrote         Emily's Gift         Golden Spy, The         Miss Connections         Oh Deer!!         Queen Jane         Star, The         Touching A Goddess         Whizzer's Island         World At War, A         Zenobia

Chowder, She Wrote

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1st Produced:
Hamilton Murray Theater, Princeton University    1996

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Parody

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Emily's Gift

Synopsis:
emily, a young girl from Cornwall, has the gift of being able to read people's minds, and she is tortured by her gift through the five stages of her life.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Hamilton Murray Theatre, Princeton, Nj    14 Dec 2012

Organisations:
Cara M. Tucker Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Tragedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Golden Spy, The

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1st Produced:
Hamilton Murray Theater, Princeton University    1996

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Genre:
Mystery

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Miss Connections

Synopsis:
Tom Brown walked out on his family many years ago. He could not stand his wife's stuffy upper crust family and ideals. His wife has now become engaged to the smarmy Rex but daughter Thalia wants her parents to get back together.

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1st Produced:
Hamilton Murray Theater, Princeton University    2006

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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Oh Deer!!

Synopsis:
Tom and Thalia Brown find it almost impossible to prove that Thalia's friend Courtney is not the murderer

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1st Produced:
Hamilton Murray Theater, Princeton University    2010

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Music:
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Genre:
Comic Mystery

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Queen Jane

Synopsis:
1553 15 year old Lady Jane Grey is forced by her uncle the Duke of Northumberland but when it looks like that she has has a mind of her own and is determined to have her own way they change their minds and turn to Mary, Henry VIII's eldest daughter

Notes:
written by Marvin Harold Cheiten And William J. Lord

1st Produced:
Forbes College Theatre    1976

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Genre:
Tragedy

Parts:
Male:  14            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Star, The

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Notes:
Four male characters Are written so As to be played by one Actor.

1st Produced:
Hamilton Murray Theater, Princeton University    2008

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Tragicomedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Touching A Goddess

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1st Produced:
Hamilton Murray Theater, Princeton University    2009

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Tragedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Whizzer's Island

Synopsis:
Tom and Thalia Brown find themselves trapped on Whizzer's Island and there is a murderer about

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1st Produced:
Hamilton Murray Theater, Princeton University    2007

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comic Mystery

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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World At War, A

Synopsis:
Holmes and Watson struggle to save the life of the Countess

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1st Produced:
Off-Broadstreet Theatre, Hopewell, Nj, Usa    13 May 2011

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
mystery

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Zenobia

Synopsis:
This play, like "Queen Jane" was written in blank verse.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Hamilton Murray Theater, Princeton University    2005

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Tragedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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