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Charlotte Fielden

CHARLOTTE FIELDEN  (1934 - )

 Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Playwrights Guild of Canada  

Charlotte Fielden began her theatrical training at the Toronto Conservatory school of dramatic arts when she was seven years old. Her first acting experience was playing Peas Blossom in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. During her years at the University of Toronto, she played leading roles under the direction of Robert Gill, and the title role in MISS JULIE under the direction of Leon Major. at her graduation in '55 she received the U of T gold medal, and her ARCT (associate of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto) in theatre arts. She played Jessica in The MERCHANT OF VENICE at the Canadian Stratford Festival under the direction of Tyrone Guthrie and studied with Marcel Marceau in Paris, and performed and taught mime. She has written for radio, film and theatre. Her first published novel CRYING AS SHE RAN - Macmillan of Canada (1970) was followed by her first play ONE CROWDED HOUR -published by Playwrights' Co-op (1976), produced in both French and English, PALATINE HILL - (2004), MESSAGES LIKE MEMORIES (2005), sequel to CRYING AS SHE RAN, A THIN PLACE, first short story collection, (2006), SAVING ANGEL, a play, (2007), AN AGE WITHOUT A NAME (2007), sequel to MESSAGES LIKE MEMORIES, completing the Weil trilogy, and FRAGRANCE OF THYME (2008) her first poetry collection, followed by BEADS ON A FRAGIILE STRING, (2011) her second collection. A series of mystery novels was started with THE WOLVES OF POSITANO (2010), followed by the sequels THE STORY OF MARLY MANSION (2012), and THE SOMERSET STRANGLER (2014). In TRAVELLING TOGETHER, (2013) a contemporary fable about a man and a special tree, and a woman on a healing journey, Fielden declares that we cannot live without trees. We are definitely travelling together. She has written the book and lyrics for her first musical STORYVILLE with composer Ian McAndrew, and is a founding member of both the Playwrights' Guild of Canada and The Writers' Union of Canada.

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         Honeymoon, The         Morning Needs Me, The         Nowhere Girl, The         Old Friends         One Crowded Hour         Saving Angel         Storyville         Summer Holidays         Three Men In A Pub         Will the Real Punch And Judy Please Stand Up

Honeymoon, The

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Melanie Theatre, Montreal    1976

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Morning Needs Me, The

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workshopped at the Meisner Neighbourhood Playhouse, New York City    2003

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2-act stage play Play/Drama

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Nowhere Girl, The

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Unproduced    1973

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Old Friends

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Radio Adaptation Of One Crowded Hour

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CBC radio    1980

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radio adaptation

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One Crowded Hour

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a 67 year old widow ruminates on the past and evaluates the environment and fellow inhabitants of a pleasure lodge in arizona. as she relates past to present, a new being emerges and she is able to move in a new direction

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Melanie Theatre, Montreal    1975

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in Women write for the theatre, Vol 2, Playwrights Cooperative, 1977   -

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Saving Angel

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a play in two acts; comedy; poet William Butler Yeats, poet,metaphysician Denis Saurat, and theosophist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky gather in a surreal setting for a serious purpose. the first act takes place in a suburb of London in the spring of 1891, at the home of a leader in the spiritualism movement at that time. the second act takes place in a padded cell in a private clinic for the mentally abberant where angel is being assessed for a possible release. the evaluation sets out to prove whether she is possessed by mediumship or divinely inspired.

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reading Actors Centre, London    2006

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CFM Books, 2007   -

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2 act Comedy

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Storyville

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Storyville was an actual place, a red-light district within New Orleans, and its story is part of American history. all activity therein was legalized to contain sin in one tidy spot. Councilman Story had the dubious honour of having the sporting area named after him. If Storyville was a place it was also people, - musicians, barmen, croupiers, hookers, madams and the men who frequented the establishments. Storyville was born in 1887 and in 1917, when America declared war on Germany it died with the mass exodus of 20,000 people employed in the area, - the biggest mass exodus in American history. This is the climactic moment at the end of our show and the beginning of the journey of Jazz throughout America. Jazz goes north to Chicago in a tidal wave of music where it combines the black and white brothers like the keys on an old upright.

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libretto & lyrics. Music by Ian Mcandrew

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2-act folk opera Opera

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Summer Holidays

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Original Playwright - Serge Sirois

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Melanie Theatre, Montreal    1976

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Three Men In A Pub

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1-hour radio play One act

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Will the Real Punch And Judy Please Stand Up

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