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Brian Drader

BRIAN DRADER

  (1960 - )
Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Playwrights Guild of Canada  

Brian Drader's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Bubba And the Peter Eater         Curtsy         Easter Eggs         Everybody's Business         Fruit Machine         Liar         Mind Of the Iguana         Norbals, The         Prok         S*IT And To Be Frank         Tucktuck
Bubba And the Peter Eater

Synopsis:
Forbidden love and brutality as told by Mab, Queen of the Fairies.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1997

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Curtsy

Curtsy
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Three On the Boards" published by Signature editions, Oct 20, 2007   

Music:
-

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  3 actors

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Easter Eggs

Synopsis:
a land ravaged by aIDS and a young man looses his prosthetic body

Notes:
Written with Stephen McIntyre

1st Produced:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act. - - AIDS, one act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Everybody's Business

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Charlton, Margo; Drader, Brian; Marcker, Monique; Mckinnon, Nancy

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Published,    

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Fruit Machine

Synopsis:
Homophobia in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the 1960s

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Buddies In Bad Times, Toronto    

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

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama One act. - - Gay, one act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Liar

Liar
Jeremy meets Mark in a gay bar. Shortly afterwards they are up on the roof of an office block. Jeremy falls to his death - was he pushed or did he jump? Sherri, Jeremy's sister befriends Mark as she thinks he was Jeremy's long term lover - she does not know they only knew each other a couple of hours. Mark insinuates himself into her household. Sherri's husband is wary of Mark at first but soon he is sharing secrets that even his wife knows nothing

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg     2004

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Scirocco Publishing,    

Music:
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Genre:
Gay drama full length

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Mind Of the Iguana

Synopsis:
a sordid love triangle: a man, a woman and a lizard.

Notes:
Written with Stephen McIntyre

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Norbals, The

Norbals, The
Mom has decided to call Christmas the Winter Solstice because Bee's lesbian lover is Jewish. Meanwhile Bee wants a sex change; Randall is narcoleptic and Randy has become a Buddhist.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Priarie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Scirocco Drama 1998   

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy. - - Lesbian, theme/character, full length

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  1 transexual

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Prok

Prok
the story of alfred Kinsey and his wife Clara McMillan

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Scirocco Drama 2004   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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S*IT And To Be Frank

S*IT And To Be Frank
Frank - computer nerd - is assistant editor on the High School newspaper. they have received a letter criticising one of the tutors and Emma - the editor - orders Frank not to print it. Somehow it does end up in the paper and Emma is in trouble with the school authorities. Frank tries to find a way to put things right

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Things That Go Bump, Volume 1: Plays for Young adults, Signature editions, 2009   

Music:
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Genre:
Youth one act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Tucktuck

Synopsis:
a woman attempts suicide and finds herself stranded on an ice-flow with Tucktuck - God's other son.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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