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Warren Graves

WARREN GRAVES

  (1938 - 2008)
Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Susan Schulman Literary Agency  

Warren Graves's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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         Alice: the Tea Party         Amazing Gracie         Beauty And the Beast         Chief Shaking Spear Rides Again         Death Of Dracula, The         Goodbye Cruel World         Hand That Cradles the Rock, The         Last Real Summer, The         Love In A Greenhouse         Madame Chairman         Mors Draculae         Mumberley Inheritance, The         Prisoner Of Zenda , The         Proper Perspective, The         Scrooge         Who's Looking After the Atlantic         Would You Like A Cup Of Tea?         Yes, Dear

Alice: the Tea Party

Synopsis:
the wonderful worlds of Lewis Carroll

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre 3, Edmonton, Alberta    1980

Organisations:
-

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

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Amazing Gracie

Synopsis:
adam and eve help a couple with their relationship

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Huron County Playhouse    1991

Organisations:
-

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

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Beauty And the Beast

Synopsis:
While closely following the traditional fable so beloved by all, this imaginative adaptation cleverly compresses the salient points of the story to make them more theatrically effective and easily staged. the main line of the action deals with the merchant, Blotti, who wanders into the castle of the Beast. Having lost his fortune he is reluctant to return home to his hopeful daughters - until the Beast promises him riches if he will send his youngest (and purest) daughter, Beauty, to the castle. there are scenes of humour and daring as Beauty's haughty sisters argue over who will take them to the ball, and the valiant Manello challenges the Beast to a sword fight. But, above all, there is the magic of Beauty's innocence and goodness, which sees beyond the ugliness of the Beast to the handsome young prince whom the purity of her love will restore to his rightful form.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre 3, Edmonton, Alberta    1979

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1980   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Chief Shaking Spear Rides Again

Synopsis:
set in the old-time West. Set In "Nellie's House of easy Virtue" at the turn of the century, the plot revolves around Chief Shaking Spear, a playwright of the Plains, whose Dramas have a' remarkable resemblance to the Bard's. But Will Shakespeare was never like this!

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta    1974

Organisations:
Waterdale Playhouse

1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1975   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Good Time meloDrama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Death Of Dracula, The

Synopsis:
Lucy and Count Dracula are in a gloomy castle in Suffolk. Van Helsing is on their trail

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

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

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Goodbye Cruel World

Synopsis:
an author cannot face getting old. He hires a young man to write his autobiography and a lawyer to draw up a will. then he plans to end it all

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta    1978

Organisations:
-

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

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Hand That Cradles the Rock, The

Synopsis:
as the wife has a much better job, the husband remains at home to look after the baby

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bac Kdoor Theatre, Toronto    1972

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1972   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Last Real Summer, The

Synopsis:
an older Lizzie looks back on her youth

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre 3, Edmonton    -

Organisations:
-

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

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Love In A Greenhouse

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Waterdale Playhouse, Edmonton    1967

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Madame Chairman

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playwrights Guild Canada   978-1551559025

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Mors Draculae

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Stage West, Edmonton    1979

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1980   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Mumberley Inheritance, The

Synopsis:
Subtitled "His Substance Frittered," a good-time meloDrama. at Mumberley Manor, Suffolk, at the turn of the century, pale Daphne is nursing her father, try i.ng to get Rodney Stout,heart to the altar, and awaiting the return of her brother Jack from "the Canad,as." enter the villain, Marmaduke Mayhem, and a good time is had by all!

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta    1971

Organisations:
Waterdale Playhouse

1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1971   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Prisoner Of Zenda , The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

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

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
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Proper Perspective, The

Synopsis:
a play within the play examines reality

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Carleton University, Ottawa    1974

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Contemporary Canadian DramaBorealis Press, Ottawa, 1974   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Bibliographies/VN_drama_bib.php

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Scrooge

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
based on story by Charles Dickens

1st Produced:
Theatre 3, Edmonton, Alberta    1978

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1979   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Who's Looking After the Atlantic

Synopsis:
a psychiatrist and a mad millionaire

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Itv, Edmonton    1978

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1978   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Would You Like A Cup Of Tea?

Synopsis:
an english gentleman down on his luck has lived in a small flat with his man servant. they decide that they would like some female company

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1987   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Yes, Dear

Synopsis:
As they prepare for their daughter's twenty-first birthday a couple realise they are getting old and try to recapture their youth

Notes:
won edmonton Journal Literary Award in 1968

1st Produced:
Waterdale Playhouse, Edmonton    1967

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
French, Canada, 1967   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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