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Bill Harris

BILL HARRIS  

 Nationality:    USA
email:    Click here to contact     Website:    Click here

Literary Agent:    n/a

Playwright, poet, critic and novelist, Bill Harris, is a Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit. He was formerly Production Coordinator for Jazzmobile, and the New Federal Theatre, both in New York. His plays have had more than seventy productions nationwide.

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

         Coda         Cool Blues         He Who Endures         Riffs         Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil         Stories About the Old Days

Coda

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Cool Blues

Synopsis:
It is 1955. B is a black jazz musician so renowned and innovative that he only needs a single initial to identify him. We join him as he shows up unannounced to spend a fateful weekend in the apartment of, Baroness alexandra Isabella von Templeton (Xan), one of the world's richest women. His manner and his mood shifts are as mercurial as his music. His talent at deception and self defense as agile as his ability to charm. Questions of loyalty, love, privilege, and friendship are probed as the ghosts of B's past and present demand answers. Xan vows to protect him at all costs, even if it means ignoring the advice of the doctor summoned to attend to him. Does B want to be saved? Can he be? Has he come to recuperate from recent disastrous events in order to soar into the world again, or has the burden of being a cutting edge spirt in the war against conformity and racial prejudice taken its ultimate toll?
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Henry Street Settlement
465 Grand Street, New York, NY 10002    20 Mar 2011

Organisations:
New Federal Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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He Who Endures

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Stella Adler Theatre, Hollywood    39346

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Genre:
One act

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Riffs

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Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil

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Contained in: "the National Black Drama anthology" published by Applause 1995   -

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Stories About the Old Days

Synopsis:
a former blues singer living in a decaying church in Detroit never ventures out into the world that rejected him until he strikes up a friendship with congregational chequers player

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1st Produced:
New York    -

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1990   -

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Bill Harris

BILL HARRIS  

 Nationality:    USA
email:    Click here to contact     Website:    Click here

Literary Agent:    n/a

Playwright, poet, critic and novelist, Bill Harris, is a Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit. He was formerly Production Coordinator for Jazzmobile, and the New Federal Theatre, both in New York. His plays have had more than seventy productions nationwide.

Buy Plays with Doollee

Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.
AbeBooks.co.uk   AbeBooks.com   Stageplays.com   amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template

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

         Coda         Cool Blues         He Who Endures         Riffs         Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil         Stories About the Old Days

Coda

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Cool Blues

Synopsis:
It is 1955. B is a black jazz musician so renowned and innovative that he only needs a single initial to identify him. We join him as he shows up unannounced to spend a fateful weekend in the apartment of, Baroness alexandra Isabella von Templeton (Xan), one of the world's richest women. His manner and his mood shifts are as mercurial as his music. His talent at deception and self defense as agile as his ability to charm. Questions of loyalty, love, privilege, and friendship are probed as the ghosts of B's past and present demand answers. Xan vows to protect him at all costs, even if it means ignoring the advice of the doctor summoned to attend to him. Does B want to be saved? Can he be? Has he come to recuperate from recent disastrous events in order to soar into the world again, or has the burden of being a cutting edge spirt in the war against conformity and racial prejudice taken its ultimate toll?
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Henry Street Settlement
465 Grand Street, New York, NY 10002    20 Mar 2011

Organisations:
New Federal Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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He Who Endures

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Stella Adler Theatre, Hollywood    39346

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Riffs

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1st Produced:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "the National Black Drama anthology" published by Applause 1995   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Stories About the Old Days

Synopsis:
a former blues singer living in a decaying church in Detroit never ventures out into the world that rejected him until he strikes up a friendship with congregational chequers player

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1990   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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