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Michael (1) Cook

MICHAEL (1) COOK

  (1933 - 1994)
Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Kensington Literary Representation  estate represented by Michael Petrasek

Michael (1) Cook's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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         All the Funny People Are Dead         Apocalypse Sonata, The         Colour the Flesh the Colour Of Dust         Deserts Of Bohemia, The         End Of the Road , The         Fisherman's Revenge, The         Gayden Chronicles, The         Great Harvest Festival         Head, Guts And Soundbone Dance, The         J Arthur Prufrock Hour, The         Jacob's Wake         Not As A Dream         On the Rim Of the Curve         Quiller         Special Providence         Split         therese's Creed         Tiln

All the Funny People Are Dead

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1st Produced:
Workshopped At The Banff School Of Fine Arts     1977

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
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Apocalypse Sonata, The

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1st Produced:
Regina, Saskatchewan     1980

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Colour the Flesh the Colour Of Dust

Synopsis:
set in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1762. the ebb and flow of life, first under British rule, then under French, with its effect on this isolated outpost

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1st Produced:
St. John's, Newfoundland     1971

Organisations:
the Open Group

1st Published:
Simon and Pierre, Toronto, 1972   -

Music:
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Genre:
Historical Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  extras

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Deserts Of Bohemia, The

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1st Produced:
San Francisco     1980

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End Of the Road , The

Synopsis:
A couple from a small Maritime village move to Toronto

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

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  1 either sex

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Fisherman's Revenge, The

Fisherman's Revenge, The
a fisherman is in debt to the town merchant. He cannot pay. the merchant says he will get his money by fair means or foul

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1st Produced:
Trinity Bay, Newfoundland     1976

Organisations:
Newfoundland Traveling Theatre Company

1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1976   978-0887543852

Music:
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Genre:
Childrens 1 act Farce Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Gayden Chronicles, The

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1st Produced:
Lennoxville, Quebec     1977

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Canadian Theatre Review (CTR 13), 1977   -

Music:
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Genre:
historical Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Great Harvest Festival

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1st Produced:
Stratford, Ontario     1986

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Head, Guts And Soundbone Dance, The

Synopsis:
a Drama of the changing times in a small Newfoundland outport. the people must adapt to a new lifestyle but Skipper Pete refuses to face the truth; his resistance to the present destroys all around him

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1st Produced:
Arts And Cultural Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland     1973

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Canadian Theatre Review (CTR 1), 1974   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  3c

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J Arthur Prufrock Hour, The

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1st Produced:
St. John's, Newfoundland     1968

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Revue Show

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Jacob's Wake

Jacob's Wake
a Newfoundland family gathers for easter but there is nothing holy in their reunion. the home - the ship - is running aground, wrecking itself on the ice, sinking with a roar. Nevertheless, there is a ribald, often wry humour, which constantly challenges the grimness of their lives

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1st Produced:
St. John's, Newfoundland     1974

Organisations:
the Open Group

1st Published:
Talonbooks, Vancouver, 1975   978-0889220973

Music:
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Genre:
Drama of the near future

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Not As A Dream

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1st Produced:
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia     1976

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1976   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama One act

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On the Rim Of the Curve

Synopsis:
about the last of the Beothuks

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Gander, Newfoundland     1977

Organisations:
avion Players

1st Published:
in "Three Plays", Breakwater, Portugal Cove, Newfoundland, 1977   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama One act

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Quiller

Synopsis:
one man struggles against the tide of memories which engulf him, his monologue revealing the direction of his life in a Newfoundland outport. Quiller finally canes to a blessed realisation: that man cannot really be conquered by time

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1st Produced:
St. John's, Newfoundland     1975

Organisations:
Breakwater Theatre Company

1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1975   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Special Providence

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1st Produced:
Unproduced     1976

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

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Split

Synopsis:
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Notes:
only copy sent to theatre Toronto, "where it disappeared without trace".

1st Produced:
Unproduced    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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therese's Creed

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Centaur Theatre, Montreal     1977

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Tiln and Other Plays, Talonbooks, Vancouver, 1976   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Tiln

Synopsis:
the sea and death continue to obsess the central character, but Tiln's realisations, unlike Quiller's, end in despair

Notes:
broadcast 1971

1st Produced:
Toronto     1972

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1975   -

Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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