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Kevin Heelan

KEVIN HEELAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of Kevin Heelan's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Distant Fires         Heartland         Hope Zone, The         On House         Right Behind the Flag         Split Decision

Distant Fires

Synopsis:
Thomas, a black construction worker, has just been asked to fill in for the injured foreman of his crew. He takes the responsibility seriously because he hopes it will help him earn a rare union job for which he's the only black crewman eligible. Meanwhile, Beauty, a white coworker, confides to his friends that he's also up for the union job that Thomas wants but that he didn't do as well as Thomas in the bricklaying competition. Resenting the way Thomas wields his new authority, his black crew members accuse him of selling out. Foos, a disillusioned alcoholic who's about to lose his job for constantly bucking the management, is his most embittered adversary. In an impassioned monologue he describes a run-in with the police during a race riot the night before; mistaking him for another man, the police humiliated and harassed Foos who had only gone out to get some ice cream. When the construction site manager tells Beauty he gets the union job instead of Thomas, Foos' predictions of white favoritism come true. the final confrontation between Beauty and Thomas remains unresolved as both men feel diminished by the implacable, entrenched system of racism that neither of them can continue to abide but must if they are to work.

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1st Produced:
Linda Gross Theater, New York    1991

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Heartland

Synopsis:
psychopath on the loose in small mid-western town, macho fool tries to resolve the situation

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Hope Zone, The

Synopsis:
A young woman comes home and asks her mother, the Countess, to take in her young son. This stirs memories for the Countess whose one son drown when he was a boy

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1st Produced:
Circle Repertory Theatre, New York    1995

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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On House

Synopsis:
An incompetent hospital worker

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1st Produced:
Wpa Theater, New York    1997

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Right Behind the Flag

Synopsis:
To Bernie, a tendentious, chauvinistic air-conditioning salesman, who has lived on New York's Upper West Side for most of his life, the city-and the country-are headed for big trouble. He laments the growing incivility and violence of urban life, and looks back fondly on the virtues and self-effacing heroism personified by his hero, General Robert e. Lee. His theories are put to the test when his friend Frankie, the third generation owner of Sammy's Barber Shop, on Columbus avenue, is told he can name his price if he will sell out to a computer-fed pharmaceutical supply consortium, who claim that they want to be near the many fashionable bars and restaurants frequented by the neighborhood's resident yuppies. actually, as Bernie suspects, the eager would-be buyers are drug dealers, and Bernie makes it his crUSAde to save Frankie from becoming a pawn of the forces of evil-which leads to a series of quirky, arresting and often antically funny scenes. But, while Bernie ultimately persuades Frankie to fight back by remodeling his barber shop into a trendy "Old-Time Barber Shoppe-Cafe," his "victory" is hardly complete, as the very people he seeks to discourage come pouring in anyway, unleashing a high-tech drug operation so sophisticated that, ironically, it becomes virtually unstoppable.

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Horizons, New York    1988

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
black comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  1            Other:  -

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

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Split Decision

Synopsis:
once great Black boxer has to face four more bouts to achieve post retirement security

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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