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Joseph Keckler

JOSEPH KECKLER

  
Nationality:    USA
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Joseph Keckler's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Ballad Of Junk And Malfunction, The         Cat Lady         Human Jukebox         Looking For Limbo         Tnt: Dynamics And Featured Selections At Save-A-Lot

Ballad Of Junk And Malfunction, The

Synopsis:
a pair of New York karaoke chanteurs chase their imagined glory days, trekking across a chaotic future America to carve their "comeback" into the face of American history

Notes:
written And composed by Joseph Keckler And Melaena Cadiz

1st Produced:

Organisations:
American Living Room Festival

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
absurdist musical odyssey absurd

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Cat Lady

Synopsis:
a theatrical short story, a domestic Drama in which the storyteller narrates a particular afternoon in the home of his mother, who has created a theater of sorts in which cats are the actors. Past lives are recalled, songs are sung, and finally, a trip to the vet's is made. the narrator explores his mother's relationship to her felines, while implicitly investigating his relationship to her.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Dixon Place    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
solo performance/ storytelling Piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Human Jukebox

Synopsis:
In this solo play with songs, New York writer/singer/performance artist Joseph Keckler moves in and out of myriad characters, using his soaring, operatic voice and rich storytelling to spin a meditation-at turns comic & dark-on memory, death & fantasy
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Looking For Limbo

Synopsis:
Looking for Limbo is a dark, humorous, absurdity-laced bluesical/ poperetta; a meditation on desire, displacement, isolation, and fantasy. the show follows Baby, who arrives in Limbo at the time of the Vatican 's decision to eliminate it from their popular belief system. Limbo is located on the earth's moon and is the receptacle for the souls of unbaptized infants, worthy pagans, and other moral misfits. these diapered, dusty characters occupy a bar called "the Lurch", where they spend their eternal night guzzling cocktails of mortal waste-vain desire, wasted talent, squandered youth, etc. Something like the faeries of Neverland, the citizens of Limbo believe their existence to be dependent on the beliefs of mortals. already long-time occupants of the void, they now find themselves further disenfranchised, stripped of their citizenship from the realm of belief. they must reckon with what this means, while Baby embarks on a mission to rescue their underworld.

Notes:
the Authors' construction And fantasy of Limbo derives from themes, images, And devices they discovered in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Dante's Inferno, Pope's Rape of the Lock, And Orpheus And eurydice.

1st Produced:
3LD Art & Technology Center , HeRe's American Living Room Festival, NYC    2006

Organisations:
Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
experimental Musical theater Play with Music

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Tnt: Dynamics And Featured Selections At Save-A-Lot

Synopsis:
Keckler, as Save-a-Lot cashier, chronicles his interactions and identifications with an excessively quirky pair of perennial shoppers who transform the discount food store into their performance venue

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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