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Leslie Anne Dressler

LESLIE ANNE DRESSLER  (1952 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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Her Theatre experience began before she was three years old and she received formal training with a Ba in Theatre from Virginia Commonwealth University and further Drama education from Virginia Museum Theatre Conservatory, Magic Mime Theatre of America, Barter Theatre and Wedgewood Theatre. Since then Ms. Dressier has been involved in acting, directing, technical design and writing. She has taught Theatre, Drama and mime. Born in 1952, she has been writing plays since 1968 and tells us that she is a firm believer in play-testing.

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below is a list of Leslie Anne Dressler's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Britanjous Rex         Children         Eve Of St. John, The         Honorable Intentions         Image         Julian         Magic Jewel, The         Peter Of the Round Table         Phoenix         Silver Thistle, The         Thorns         Xander

Britanjous Rex

Synopsis:
Based on the pre-Malory arthurian legends, the Brethonic earth mother clashes with Christianity as arthur tries to draw the country together in this play with music based on Celtic forms. Mordred, coming to manhood under his ruthless mother, is almost a sympathetic character while the fatal passion of a horribly scarred Lancelot and Gwenevere is held agonizingly in check by sacred oath. Merlinous, last memory of the Romans in Britain, struggles to hold the old magic away from his King until he is consumed by it himself. It ends with arthur's grandchildren bearing excalibur softly out of Britain to the land beyond the sunset.

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Genre:
three-act musical Drama, 180 minutes

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Male:  3            Female:  6            Other:  2c extras

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Children

Synopsis:
Psychological study of trauma involving a brother and sister who have turned innocently to each other for defense against their abusive parents without realizing the relationship is incestuous, a thing the boy comes to see while the girl does not. Flashbacks and introspection.

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1st Produced:
Play-tested John Rolfe Players actor's Workshop, Chester, Va    1984

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Genre:
two-act Drama, 150 minutes

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Eve Of St. John, The

Synopsis:
This is based upon Yect's treatment of the Gaelic Fairies, one band of which abducts a mortal bride for their King. Most of the conflict centers around the struggle between the distraught groom and the Fairie King for the heroine's body and soul. there is a surprise ending.

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Screen-tested, College of William and Mary, Va    1973

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Genre:
film script, fantasy, 150 minutes

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  8            Other:  12 dancing extras

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Honorable Intentions

Synopsis:
WWI field hospital Drama in which a British officer addicted to morphine falls for a British nurse. the story revolves around her exploration of his mysterious past and clues come finally after he is badly disfigured.

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Genre:
two-act TV Drama, Part I of a series

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  extras optional

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Image

Synopsis:
Humphrey Bogart tells his own story his own way, among other things talking casually about Bogie's impact since his death.

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Play-tested John Rolfe Players actor's Workshop, Chester, Va    1985

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Genre:
two acts

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Julian

Synopsis:
a girl spends the day before her seventeenth birthday with a mysterious boy and does not realize that he is the ghost of her name-sake who was born on the same day and drowned on the same birthday she is about to celebrate who has come to save her from the same fate.

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Genre:
film script, 30 minutes

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Magic Jewel, The

Synopsis:
From a concept by Lorraine Ramsdell, each episode teaches a more difficult acting lesson. all properties and costumes designed to be made by the children themselves] This series is designed to teach children to act while letting them get the feel of jumping right in. the story is that of the quest of a prince for his brothers and sisters, each of whom hides one shard of the Magic Jewel, with the object of restoring the jewel and freeing the kingdom from the evil Ice King.

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the episodes Are As follows: the Gremlin's Sword, the Ice King's Palace, the Mermaid, the Queen of the Sea, the Sorceress, the Giant, the Sunstone, the Sun King.

1st Produced:
Pine Camp Community Center    1969

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Genre:
8-part children's play series for stage or TV

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Peter Of the Round Table

Synopsis:
Young Peter learns a hard lesson about chronic lying when a wish sends him back to Camelot and a lie gets him mistaken for Galahad who is due to be murdered.

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Barter Theatre, abbington, Va    1968

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Genre:
Three-act children's, 120 minutes

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  6c, extras optional

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Phoenix

Synopsis:
It is over, but not for a nurse who has returned from the front to become a doctor. Having lost the man she loved, she is driven to help those she can. She is interrupted by two visitors, people she met only once--on the occasion when she heard that her lover was dead. One of these is an old adversary with whom she shared a strange reaction to her soldier's death, a reaction as yet unresolved. Such resolution is complicated by a third visitor who asks questions about the past and who turns out to be the "dead," disfigured soldier. H~ refuses to stay with her, however, and the story continues.

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Genre:
one-act TV Drama, 50 minutes, Part III of series

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Silver Thistle, The

Synopsis:
the product of 13 years of research oand writing, this story of an aging Queen who has never married after the death of her intended takes place in Scotland in the legendary days of aiba. the absence of an heir troubles the clans, but the Queen was secretly married to her fiance on the eve of his death and she has a son conceived after her husband's death with the help of the fairies. the Queen is frightened of the boy because he is part fairy and part human. the boy knows nothing of his noble lineage or the unearthly qualities he possesses nor of the tests he will soon have to face. all this is complicated by the Queen's foster daughter falling in love with him and the only key to his mysterious past is murdered, putting all their fates, and alba's, in jeopardy.

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Play-tested, Pine Camp Community Center, Richmond, Va    1978

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Genre:
three-act classic play with incidental songs, 180 minutes

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Male:  13            Female:  6            Other:  3c, extras as desired

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Thorns

Synopsis:
In Britain, an actress is more concerned with waiting up for reviews of her new show. She and her curious circle are disturbed by a midnight visitor, the nurse who has returned home to pursue the clues to her lover's past. an understanding developed out of conflict between the two women who both love the soldier is upset by the news of his death in France.

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Play-tested, the John Rolfe Players actor's Workshop, Chester, Va    1983

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Genre:
one-act, 55-minute TV Drama, Part II

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  1c

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Xander

Synopsis:
the life of alexander the Great used as a pattern for future America where the leather-armored, gun-toting Prince of Wash-eng-tonne first succeeds his father, then leads his army across the remains of a post-holocaust USA, fighting the strange monarchs who have sprung up there until he has knit the country under his rule. He searches for knowledge of what happened to the world and unwillingly learns something that turns a teen-age tough into a king.

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Genre:
film script, science fiction-fantasy, 160 minutes

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Male:  15            Female:  6            Other:  many extras

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