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John Crabtree

JOHN CRABTREE  

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Bertha Klausner  


This former architect was born and raised in West Hartford, Connecticut. after receiving his BS in that discipline from Rhode Island School of Design and after a decade-long career as an architectural acoutics consultant, he was encouraged by several theatre professionals to launch a new career as a playwright. among those who influenced him in that decision was Katharine Hepburn. Mr. Crabtree is a member of The Dramatists' Guild, has served on the faculty of the Newton arts Center arid is scheduled to be a Visiting Lecturer at Boston's Wentworth University. He earns what he likes to call "bread and butter money" as an essayist and these pieces on the arts, on food and on politics have appeared in "The Christian Science Monitor," the Boston "Globe" magazine, "Bay Window," "On Stage," and other Boston area publications.

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 About Election Day         Autographed Copy, An         Billy Angel         Feu D'Artifice         Fourth Of July.         Getting Away From It All         Great American Bicentennial Electric Chair Salute, The         Lord Of The Harvest         Memorial Day         Michael Carlier         National Holidays         November Woods         Public Welfare, The         Ready For The Ritz         Russian Hoax, The         Stats         Still Life With Phoenix Ad         Thanksgiving Day         Uncommon Holidays

About Election Day

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Autographed Copy, An

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a deliberately old-fashioned play about Lillian Hale, the great actress whose sudden and mysterious retirement thirty years before the opening scene shocked the show business world is visited by her deceased lover's son. Why did she retire and what will it cost her to bury her past?

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Staged reading, The Whole Theatre Company, Montclair, NJ    1981

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Billy Angel

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script Available from Helen Merrill Agency, NY

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One act Theatre Company of San Franciso    1980

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Christmas play.

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Feu D'Artifice

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Fourth Of July.

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Getting Away From It All

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Great American Bicentennial Electric Chair Salute, The

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The Friday of the Bicentennial Weekend, July 2, 1976, was also the day on which the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its historic decision to reinstate capital punishment. The play explores the reactions to this event of five death-row inmates and their three guards in the Deep South.

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Lord Of The Harvest

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Memorial Day

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Michael Carlier

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The story takes place in France and Belgium. Young Michael Carlier, browbeaten by a religious fanatic of a father, is "adopted" by his loving grandmother who intends that he will inherit her estate. after successful psychoanalysis, Michael finds his soul and intends to become a Trappist monk but World War I breaks out. Michael survives only to be killed by a German straggler. "Found tears in iny eyes several times for the right reasons," said a critic.

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Staged reading, Dallas Theatre Center, 1979; John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1980.

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Staged reading, Dallas Theatre Center    1979

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National Holidays

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a modern Gothic tale of murder and madness sandwiched between a bubbly sparkling-burgundy comedy and an explosively funn firecracker of a comedy.

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trilogy of one-acts

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November Woods

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Set in Boston and in Wildbad, Germany, this is the story of ambition, power, sexual ambiguity and success in the competitive world of professional classical music.

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Public Welfare, The

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The inspiration for this play lies in the author's experience. When his mother was suffering the final stages of terminal cancer, he read a short item in the newspaper about a young man who had "confounded" his doctors with a sudden remission from that disease. The young man's spontaneous remission from the edge of the cancer abyss is at the core of this play.

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Staged reading, Nucleo Eclettico Theatre, Boston    1982

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Ready For The Ritz

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Russian Hoax, The

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a zany comedy that is funny and clever and probably, considering its size, the book for an unwritten musical.

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Stats

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This is an intense and powerful confrontation drama set in the volatile world of professional football. It deals with the concepts of winning and losing, not only on the gridiron but also in life. The play's central character, a pro-ball quarterback, finds himself, on the eve of his wedding, confronted by a sportswriter who probes for the real reasons for the quarterback's having been placed on waivers. His stats say the athlete is a "winner," yet, suddenly and inexplicably, he has lost his starting position with his team.

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Still Life With Phoenix Ad

Synopsis:
a Halloween play.

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script Available from Helen Merrill Agency, NY

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Open Gate Theatre Center    1983

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Thanksgiving Day

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Uncommon Holidays

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Unequivocally, praises the review, "the best piece of theatre dealing with gay themes since "Torch Song Trilogy," "possesses a universal appeal that transcends the interests of any particular social group."

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Actors Outlet by artists Unlimited, NY    1984

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Trilogy of one-acts

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