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FREDERIC HUNTER
Nationality: USA
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Literary Agent: Eric Houston
Frederic Hunter was formerly a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor and a foreign service officer of the U.S. Information Service, Fred now writes full time for films, television and the Theater.
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Concertina Disposable Woman, The Dramatic Instincts Hemingway Play, The Marriage Of Convenience, A Panzram's Revenge SubwayConcertina
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a short play about marriage that takes place at a symphony concert in a series of concerts long attended by three couples. ROGeR VOGeL, a executive with a presentation to give the next day, is married to JeaN, a professional woman and mother. PeTeR DOUGLaS, an attorney bored by law, is married to CINTHY, who nutures artistic dreams. SCOTT KeLLY and wife Marsha have recently split. Scott brings a much younger graduate student date KaReN PROKOSH, who is prepping for the Foreign Service exam. they arrive late, having spent the early evening in bed. During the concert we hear what these friends say to each other and what they think about as the music plays. Roger rehearses his presentation; Jean worries about the sitter they've left with their kids. Peter fantasizes about seducing Karen; Cinthy begins a play. Scott argues with Marsha; Karen worries about her exam. It's an all-Russian night at the concert and at the end the six characters all dance to Swan Lake selections and then go home as if they had been placidly sitting listening to music throughout the concert. One act, one evening. Set is only six theater seats surrounded by blackness. Time: the present.
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Grace Players In Los Angeles
2002
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Top of PageDisposable Woman, The
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NICOLa THOMPSON, an upper-middle class widow, 50, is not adjusting easily to the death of the lawyer husband PeTeR, 55. When alone, she talks to her memory of him. She grates against her over-protective son MICHaeL, 28, and the disorderliness of his living simultaneously with two different women. and she is discombobulated by the upcoming visit from Africa of JIM, the anthropologist husband of Peter's late sister DOROTHY. Since Nicola originally trained as an anthropologist, there's always been an attraction between her and Jim and, in fact, they spent a desperate night together after Dorothy's death, possibly a suicide. the play's living characters, Nicola, Jim and Michael, think about and speak in memory to its departed characters, Peter, Dorothy and Nicola's eccentric MOtheR. By the end of a long afternoon and evening Michael has straightened out his domestic arrangements while Nicola has complicated hers by deciding to join Jim doing anthropology in Africa, a decision that may - or may not - involve a romance. the action of the play occurs during a single afternoon and evening. Time: late 1970s
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Dallas Theater Center
1977
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Top of PageDramatic Instincts
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Top of PageHemingway Play, The
a biographical play about the life of the famous American novelist ernest Hemingway, the HeMINGWaY PLaY presents four depictions of the author; each character living his separate life. WeMeDGe, 19, is returning home after service in a war; HeM, 28, is a promising young novelist living in Paris; ernest, 55, is a world-personality author, and PaPa, 60, is the world's best known man of letters, living in Cuba. they meet in a bullfighters hangout in Madrid and test themselves against one another. HeM puts moves on Papa's secretary GLYNIS, 28, and eRNeST's society friend DaNa, 23. VaS, 32, is a writer friend of Hem, CHaRLIe, 50s, an expat friend of ernest. LUISa owns the restaurant and Julio is a waiter. In their evening together the four men tear the masks off one another and afford the audience an opportunity to see them as they are. One set with several playing areas. the action of the play occurs over the course of a single evening.
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Given A staged reading At the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference, 1973; produced by Harvard University's Loeb Drama Center, 1975; produced by Public Broadcasting Service's Hollywood Television theater, 1976.
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Harvard University's Loeb Drama Center
1975
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Nebbadoon Press
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Top of PageMarriage Of Convenience, A
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University Of California At Los Angeles
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Top of PagePanzram's Revenge
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Fifth Street Studio Theater, Los Angeles, Ca
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