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John Colton

JOHN COLTON

  (1887 - 1946)
Nationality:    USA
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John Colton was a member of Dramatist Guild of America

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

         Drifting         Nine Pine Street         Rain         Saint Wench         Shanghai Gesture         Shanghai Gesture, The

Drifting

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1st Produced:
Playhouse Theatre, New York    02 Jan 1922

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MeloDrama

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Nine Pine Street

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1st Produced:
Longacre Theatre, New York    27 Apr 1933

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Rain

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Period 1925, torrential rains have trapped a party of europeans in a small hotel in the south seas, missionary meets prostitute

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written with Clemence Randolph, from story Miss Thompson by W Somerset Maugham

1st Produced:
Maxine Eliot's Theatre, New York    07 Nov 1922

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Samuel French, London,    -

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  extras

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Saint Wench

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1st Produced:
Lyceum Theatre, New York    02 Jan 1933

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Genre:
Comedy

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Shanghai Gesture

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1st Produced:
Martin Beck Theatre, New York    9529

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Boni and Liveright, New York 1926   -

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Shanghai Gesture, The

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the Shanghai Gesture takes place in China in the roaring twenties when Shanghai was a truly cosmopolitan city filled with Russian refugees, its people exploited by opium traders and adventurers from all over europe and Great Britain, and visited by American entrepreneurs. Mother Goddam is a Manchu princess shamed and discarded by an aristocratic english merchant and sold into sex slavery who can never return to her home. a survivor, she has risen to great power and reputation within a complex society where she runs an elegant brothel frequented by governors, mandarins, and princes who choose amongst women who are beautiful and tastefully dressed. Tonight there is great excitement, for she is having a dinner party-and society folk, the British and other european aristocrats and their wives are coming to dinner. What transpires during the dinner is hypnotic, humorous, erotic, terrifying, shocking, surprising, sad, and utterly fascinating. Many secrets-those of each guest-are revealed, and the ultimate secrets-those of Sir Guy Charteris-literally change lives. even Mother Goddam must face an unanticipated revelation of a secret of her own.
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Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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