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MARTIN R COLLIN
(1956 - )Nationality: USA
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Martin R Collin's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
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below is a list of Martin R Collin's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
Delia Dancer, Doughnut Girl I Love You When It's Raining, Roy G. Biv Man In Seat 24, The Or (the Uninvited Guest) Mistake, The Reindeer Games: A Christmas Pageant For Young And Old! You Don't Have To Feed A CelloDelia Dancer, Doughnut Girl
Synopsis:
Delia Dancer, Doughnut Girl is a modern meloDrama that chronicles a ridiculous day and the challenges and struggles of a young woman who makes a living manufacturing doughnuts and sweet pastries in a small town doughnut factory. Structured as a radio program complete with phony commercials, parody songs, audience participation, and listener call-in spots, Delia Dancer, Doughnut Girl stretches theatrical forms but is deeply rooted in awful puns and wrapped around an apple pie and a cup of coffee of small town life.
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1st Produced:
Oran High School, Missouri 2007
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1st Published:
Heuer Publishing LLC, 2006 -
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Genre:
Comedy/Radio theatre
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: Flexible casting 21 parts
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Top of PageI Love You When It's Raining, Roy G. Biv
Synopsis:
We have all had a favorite teacher--a life force who could turn the dull routine of just another school day into an exciting or relevant moment that forever remains a moment frozen in time. That teacher is locked away in the pleasant part of our memories. Even if you never liked school, or the subject was dull, or if you were one of those people who had a bad attitude, or who had heard it all before, that teacher still stands before you and reminds you of your better self. I Love You When It's Raining, Roy G. Biv is a memory play that pays homage to one of these great and good people who inspires us all long after we have left our school days behind.
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Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The chorus covers a school class, a choir and a funeral congregation, so very flexible numbers! The structure of the story implies a mixture of adults and children, but of course it could be performed by a youth company. Running time: 45 minutes.
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Lazy Bee Scripts (Nov 2014) -
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Genre:
one act drama
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: 14 plus extras
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Top of PageMan In Seat 24, The Or (the Uninvited Guest)
Synopsis:
an irate, rude, and combative theatre patron (in your audience!) hijacks the cast, the crew, and his fellow theatre-goers and winds up stone cold dead at center stage. the Man in Seat 24 Or (the Uninvited Guest) is a murder mystery, a play-within-a-play, where a harried and frazzled theatre director investigates a murder--during a night of theatre gone wrong--and realizes that there is more to this evening's performance than meets the eye.
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1st Produced:
Lower Moreland High School, Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. Nov 2009
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1st Published:
Brooklyn Publishers (2009) 978-1-60003-431-4
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Genre:
Mystery
Parts:
Male: 7 Female: 8 Other: flexible
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Top of PageMistake, The
Synopsis:
Finger-pointing, name-calling, and shocking revelation! Blame, guilt, and a verbal battle royale that has lasted for years, (all of their lives!), through childhood's laughter and as an adult's sad tears. the Mistake is a fast-paced character study of two friends revealed in a nostalgia-based argument of comic memories, charged bickering and banter, and an unexpected reversal. a madcap, modern, private conversation and a humorous biting look at best friends.
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1st Produced:
Saint Mary's College, Maryland 2006
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1st Published:
Heuer Publishing LLC, 2006 -
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Genre:
comedy One act
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Male: 2 Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageReindeer Games: A Christmas Pageant For Young And Old!
Synopsis:
Reindeer Games: a Christmas Pageant for Young and Old! is an evening of ragtag holiday merry-making, festivity, revelry, audience participation, happy yuletide songs, and jollification featuring: elves, Fairies, Children, Choristers, ancient Citizens, the Christmas Bear, Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, Rudolph and Clarisse, a holiday quiz show, the Giant Blunderbore, the retelling of the old mummers tale, Saint George and the Dragon, and Father Christmas himself!
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Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 57. Chorus. Could be done with A lot of doubling, but is intended As A large-cast piece.Suitable for A mixed-age group. For school groups, church groups, And community theatre. Doubling, tripling possible, gender flexibility. the more the merrier!
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Lazy Bee Scripts, Dec 2011 -
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Genre:
Christmas Pageant with Music 55-60 min
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Male: 8 (minimum) Female: 5 (minimum) Other: 57 (without doubling)
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Top of PageYou Don't Have To Feed A Cello
Synopsis:
a young man's worst nightmare: his own personal life, mistakes and failures, is brought hilariously to the stage in a succession of embarrassing moments orchestrated and revealed by a Greek chorus of six nagging mothers in his head. Vexed and hounded by finger-pointing failure, nagging guilt, missed opportunities, and a son's duties and responsibilities, the young man's trials result in a playful, comical, and paranoid theatrical presentation of a conscience riddled by a mother's overprotective love and good intentions.
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1st Produced:
Jamestown High School. Jamestown, North Dakota. Mar 2010
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1st Published:
Heuer Publishing LLC, Jan 2010 -
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Genre:
comedy One act
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: 10 Other: Some Flexible Casting
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