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Gus Kaikkonen

GUS KAIKKONEN

  (1951 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Luedtke Agency  

Born in Detroit, Ml on May 7, 1951. attended Georgetown University. also an actor. Recipient: CaPS, 1977; American Theatre Critics associa-tion, 1979 (for one of the ten best plays to open outside New York); Playwriting Grant (twice) from Michigan State Arts Council.
address (in 1981) : 124 MacDougal St., New York, NY 10012
agent (in 1981) : Dale Davis and Company, 1650 Broad-way, New York, NY 10019 (212) 581-5766

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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

         Chinese Viewing Pavilion, The         Cindy Reilly         Dr Knock Or the Triumph Of Medicine         Fool Of Hearts         Gentleman Dancing Master, The         Little Women         People Like Us         Potholes         Solidarity         Time Steps         Voysey Inheritance,the         What Are Friends For?

Chinese Viewing Pavilion, The

Synopsis:
Four friends from college imagine they will be friends forever. the play takes a look at the friendship in two year intervals.

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1st Produced:
Lansing, Off Broadway At The Production Company In NYC    -

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Drama, full length

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Cindy Reilly

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music by ellen Mandel, book And lyrics by Gus Kaikkonen And Kraig Swartz. Winner of Michigan's thespie Award for Best New Play

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Genre:
Musical

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Dr Knock Or the Triumph Of Medicine

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Doctor Knock buys a small unprofitable country practice. the doctor is not very competent but he soon starts making money when he convinces the locals that they are all ill and what they are suffering with will take a long expensive course of treatment

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Original Playwright - Jules Romains

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Mint Theatre Company, New York    14 Apr 2010

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Translation

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Fool Of Hearts

Synopsis:
arthur is in love for the first time. the object of his affections is Julia, his room-mate's neglected fiancee, a girl who has loved and lost once too often. She arrives to take him to Thanksgiving dinner and arthur convinces her to stay, if only for a few hours.

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Genre:
Drama, full length

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Gentleman Dancing Master, The

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by William Wycherley

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adaptation

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Little Women

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adaptation

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People Like Us

Synopsis:
written by Gus Kaikkonen and Todd almond

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winner 2003 New Hampshire theatre Award for Best Play

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Potholes

Synopsis:
Philip and Sophie Nibs are a young couple singled out by their friends for the apparent bliss of their marriage-although they aren't convinced themselves that their union is quite as idyllic as others may think. While having coffee at a cafe they are joined by a friend, Leonard Joy, who, like the others, rhapsodizes on the Nibs' happy state, while lamenting his own inability to establish a solid, lasting relationship with a member of the opposite sex. Urged on by his friends, Leonard makes a halting approach toward a very attractive young lady, Debra Scattergood, who is enjoying her newspaper at an adjacent table. But when his overtures are positively received poor Leonard is suddenly flustered and unsure of what to do next-until Philip and Sophie, good friends to the last, come to his rescue. When Debra and Leonard go off together, Philip and Sophie, at first, share a sense of pleasant anticipation as to what might lie ahead of them, until, on second thought, they realize that they may have witnessed the creation of another relationship similar to their own-in which others will cluck over an envied felicity which, in truth, may be more hoped for than real.

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play One act

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Solidarity

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Time Steps

Synopsis:
the unplanned reunion of a particularly disparate midwestern family at the retired parents' summer home

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Playwrights Horizons, NYC    -

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Genre:
Drama, full length

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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  1c

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Voysey Inheritance,the

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by Harley Granville-Barker

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What Are Friends For?

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