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Bruce Goodman

BRUCE GOODMAN

  
Nationality:    New Zealander
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Bruce Goodman's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Ancestral Fling         Cafe Play         Chimney, The         Cloud Mother         Deep End         Fishbone In the Blancmange         Here Legends Lie         Pearl Of York, The         River Songs         Secundus         Sheer Silence         Um         Voyage In A Boat         Zachustra
Ancestral Fling

Synopsis:
Set in an old english tavern, the ghoulish characters gather to watch hangings

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1st Produced:
Hastings, Nz     1990

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Cafe Play

Synopsis:
Two women and two men "accidentally" meet up in a coffee bar

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1st Produced:
Unperformed     2004

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1st Published:
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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Chimney, The

Synopsis:
Belinda is distraught. the chimney sweep is stuck up the chimney. the arrival home of husband, Timothy, does not help matters. Nor does the arrival of guests for dinner

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1st Produced:
Christchurch, Nz     1996

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Cloud Mother

Synopsis:
Irish and english settlers come to New Zealand on a sailing ship in the 19th century.

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1st Produced:
Christchurch, Nz     1993

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  8 dancers

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Deep End

Synopsis:
Five women meet for a synchronized swimming rehearsal. Gradually Doris increases her control over Claudia.

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1st Produced:
Christchurch, Nz     1992

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Fishbone In the Blancmange

Synopsis:
the bitchy lives of Caitlan, Briar and Holly are cluttered with money, men and New age crystals

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1st Produced:
Christchurch, Nz     1997

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Genre:
soap for the stage

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Here Legends Lie

Synopsis:
the story of Captain William Jackson Barry: New Zealand's "Champion Spinner of Yarns".

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1st Produced:
Christchurch, Nz     1994

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  extras

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Pearl Of York, The

Synopsis:
the trial and death of english Reformation woman, Margaret Clitherow.

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1st Produced:
Christchurch, Nz     1994

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  extras

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River Songs

Synopsis:
Three animal trappers live with their partners in the mountains. events that occurred in the same place in 1904 mingle and interact with the events of now.

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1st Produced:
Christchurch, Nz     1995

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Secundus

Synopsis:
Secundus' contempt for women reaches its depth when he attempts to seduce his own mother

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1st Produced:
Christchurch, Nz     1992

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Sheer Silence

Synopsis:
the Lightoller family of New Zealand discover their brother when he's saved off the Titanic

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1st Produced:
Auckland, Nz     2002

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Um

Synopsis:
an interlude designed to be played to an unsuspecting audience (in house lights) between two one-act plays

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1st Produced:
New York     2002

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Genre:
interlude

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Voyage In A Boat

Synopsis:
Bert and Millicent are overwhelmed with the ordinariness of their lives.

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1st Produced:
Christchurch, Nz     1992

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Zachustra

Synopsis:
Zachustra cannot bear to excel. He escapes into a world of fantasy

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1st Produced:
Christchurch, Nz     1994

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

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
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