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Lyle Kessler

LYLE KESSLER

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

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

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

         Burning Bright         Collision         Engagement, The         Family Circle, The         Orphans         Possessions         Robbers         Watering Place, The

Burning Bright

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Collision

Synopsis:
Chance encounters prove calculated when three students, a professor, and a stranger come together in this incendiary black comedy. Set in a college dormitory somewhere in the heart of America, this band of incongruous intellectuals with hidden scars embarks on a dangerous course to create order out of chaos. their united moral compass will guide them to the edge of the cliff. . . and beyond. What happens when all the wrong people meet at exactly the right time?

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1st Produced:
Rattlestick theatre
224 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10014    10 Jan 2013

Organisations:
the Amoralists

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    978-0822231615

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Genre:
black comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Engagement, The

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Family Circle, The

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Orphans

Synopsis:
an older brother supports his apparently retarded younger brother by petty thievery, but one night he goes too far.

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1st Produced:
-    1985

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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York, 1983   -

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Possessions

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-    1978

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Robbers

Synopsis:
an allegorical Drama of being where the territory of self is staked out. a repressed young man with a domineering Father is recruited to infiltrate a canning factory

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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York, 1987   -

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Genre:
Dark Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Watering Place, The

Synopsis:
Vietnam Veteran rapes dead friend's wife, then ingratiates himself with neurotic mother to become head of family.

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1st Produced:
-    1969

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1st Published:
Vintage, New York, 1969   -

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Genre:
Tragicomedy Tragedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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

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