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LARRY KETRON
(1947 - )Nationality: USA
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Literary Agent: Agency for the Performing Arts
Born in Kingsport, TN on July 27, 1947. educated, University of Tennessee; east Tennessee University. Two years U.S. army, one year VietNam. Writes for Theatre, television. Member, theDramatists Guild.
address (in 1981) : 21 West 76th St., New York, NY 10023
agent (in 1981) : Gilbert Parker, c/o William Morris agency, 1350 avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019 (212) 586-5100
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Asian Shade Augusta Character Lines Cowboy Pictures Eudora Welty's the Hitch Hikers Fresh Horses Ghosts Of the Loyal Oaks No Time Flat Patrick Henry Lake Liquors Quail Southwest Rachel's Fate Rib Cage Stormbound Tinker's Damn Trading Post, TheAsian Shade
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Home on leave before shipping off to Vietnam, two young recruits have been given the use of a lakeside cabin by a prosperous local farmer. Disturbed by the mixed reception given them by some of the townspeople (for whom the U.S. involvement in Vietnam is very much a debatable issue) they hole up in the cottage with two local girls, friends from high school days, as constant companions. their intention is to spend their time partying and "making out," but the spectre of what awaits them is never out of mind, and when their benefactor announces that he has "connections" which will make it possible to have them reassigned to duty in California they are cautiously hopeful. But the inevitable, in the end, cannot be avoided: their girlfriends are hesitant to become seriously involved with young men in their unpredictable situation, and their patron's influence proves to be less than he claimed. When their leave is over they ship out, one to die in combat, the other to return home sobered and saddened by his experie
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Comedy Drama Comedy
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Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageAugusta
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When she was a teenager Betty seduced the older Champion. Now having graduated she turns up at Champion's home with her boyfriend Boyd. She is intent on making trouble for Champion and his wife. But Boyd and Champion gang up on her and stop her scheme
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Top of PageCharacter Lines
Synopsis:
Many years before the action of the play begins, Kit and Linda had shared a life together as they struggled for recognition as writers. Now, seven years later, Linda, who has become a successful novelist, is on a book promotion tour, and visits Kit in the small Tennessee town to which he has retreated. their meeting is awkward at first-she radiates the savvy and energy of success in a high-powered world, while he has adjusted to the unchallenging routine of small-town life. But, as they begin to confide in each other, it becomes apparent that Linda, for all her acclaim and financial success, has not found the fulfillment she seeks, while Kit, who is still writing and carrying on a satisfying affair with his landlady's daughter, has come to terms with his hopes and dreams. In the end the two part again, sobered by the memories their brief reunion has revived, but enriched by the deeper self-knowledge it has also brought them.
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romantic comedy Comedy
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Top of PageCowboy Pictures
Synopsis:
What happens when you stop being the Marlborough Man
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Top of PageEudora Welty's the Hitch Hikers
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Concerns a personable young traveling salesman, Tom, who picks up two drifters and drives them to Dulcie, Mississippi. While he is calling on a customer the men fight, resulting in a serious injury which brings on an arrest, and the need for Tom to stay in town until the authorities dispose of the case. as it happens, Sobby, the tramp who struck his companion, was trying to prevent his theft of Tom's car, but no one believes him, and he is chained to a bed in the local hotel, facing a murder charge if the other man dies. In counterpoint to Sobby's story, the action then focuses on Tom's activities; his touching concern for the ailing old man who runs the hotel; his reacquaintance with a former flame, Ruth, who invites him to a party; and his encounter with Carol, a young carhop who surprises Tom by telling him that she has loved him from afar for years. these relationships seem delicate and tenuous at first but, as the fate of Sobby's victim is awaited, they begin to interact and strengthen. In the end, as typified in the best of Miss Welty's writing, all these seemingly insignificant strands come together, forming a subtle yet eloquent whole which illuminates the way in which separate lives, while ostensibly independent, are really connected in ways not readily apparent even to those involved.
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eudora Welty, Adapted to the stage by Larry Ketron
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Top of PageFresh Horses
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the setting is an abandoned railroad maintenance station in the rural South, which Larkin, a temporary college drop-out, has moved into both in order to think over his future and to spend more time with his nubile young girlfriend, Jewel. Larkin believes Jewel to be nineteen and a virgin but, as subsequent events reveal, she is actually sixteen, and married, and on the run from her lecherous stepfather. as Larkin dreams up toys and board games (which he sends off to Parker Brothers in the hope of making his fortune) he is visited by his college pals Tipton and Sproles, who try to lure him away from Jewel with promises of wild parties and compliant coeds. Tipton is a font of miscellaneous (and often hilarious) information; while Sproles, a "fifth year senior," is a sardonic schemer and incipient troublemaker. In the second act a party does take place with the arrival of three high-spirited college girls who, after deftly putting down every boy of their acquaintance, draw their hosts into a wildly comic marshmallow fight-during which Jewel unexpectedly returns, confronting the now uncertain Larkin with an ultimatum which both dampens the festive mood of the others and impels the play toward its affecting, bittersweet conclusion.
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Top of PageGhosts Of the Loyal Oaks
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the scene is the backyard terrace at the up-to-date home of Wylan, a once-adventurous young man who has settled down to the small town affluence provided by his family's auto parts stores. Wylan has also lost his wife, esta, to the easygoing, beer-guzzling Cooper, who once worked for him and whom he has hired to paint his house. esta also turns up to ask whether she can use Wylan's shower, and shortly thereafter they are joined by Davis, once Cooper's best friend and now the manager of one of Wylan's stores. as it happens, the reason why Cooper lost his own job was because he "covered" for his erstwhile friend when Davis stole time off to visit a bordello-and the resulting feud between the two forms the very funny heart of the play. add in esta's announcement that she plans to move away for good and the declaration by Davis' wife, Roxy, that she is departing for Paris and three years at cooking school; and you have the ingredients for some hilarious complications-in which friendship and forbearance are sorely tested but, somehow, prevail.
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Comedy
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Top of PageNo Time Flat
Synopsis:
Clater a screenwriter returns to his home town. He meets an old flame but believes that her daughter is the woman he romanced all those years ago. He receives a message from a friend who fought with him in the Vietnam War and leaves with the girl to track him down in New York
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Wpa Theatre, New York 1988
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Top of PagePatrick Henry Lake Liquors
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the setting is the local liquor store in Patrick Henry Lake, Tennessee, a sleepy mountain town suddenly jarred awake by the return of Leif, an ex-Marine whose Father was once the most powerful man in the area. He was also killed by lightning while having a tryst with the mother of Leif's girlfriend, and the effect of that tragic event is still felt. the mother and her husband are now hopeless alcoholics, and their daughter is committed to their care. But it is the arrival of an outsider, a mysterious prophet-like stranger named Mickey, which brings the action to focus, and illuminates the shared experiences which tie together all the various, and disparate, characters who people the play. and, in the end, it is also Mickey, through his unsuspected involvement in Leif's own past, who impels matters to their inevitable, and Dramatically moving, conclusion.
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Male: 5 Female: 4 Other: 2m bit parts
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Top of PageQuail Southwest
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the setting is a boarding house in the mountains of New Mexico, where a group of varied characters have been thrown together by the vicissitudes of fate. they are dominated by Virginia, a strong and passionate woman, whose past is clouded in mystery. Her affair with another boarder, a bearded painter named Caldren, holds promise of happiness for them both but is suddenly disturbed by the arrival of her former lover. Brigan, a man who once commanded her as she now commands others, but who is now ill and weak. However, the memories they share are still powerful, and their effect is soon felt by all the others: Caldren; his young sidekick, Werth; Brigan's estranged wife; and the landlady's young daughter, with whom Werth has formed an attachment. In the end there are hard decisions which must be made-decisions in which illusions may be shattered, but through which must come whatever happiness these lonely people can hope to know.
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Top of PageRachel's Fate
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Denver Theatre Center 1987
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Contained in: "PrimaFacie 1987 - a Collection of New American Plays" published by Denver Center Theatre Co 1987 978-0936947525
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Top of PageRib Cage
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the scene is a small town in South Carolina, where Hodge, a Vietnam veteran, shares his house with Vernie, his childlike girlfriend, and Sheryl, the widow of a talented but obscure novelist and a close friend of his late mother. Nervous and unsettled, Hodge continually castigates Vernie, no matter how hard she tries to please him, and also derides Sheryl, although she is old and wise enough to try to turn a deaf ear to his rantings. the arrival of his army buddy Richard, who now manages a bookstore in New York City, further aggravates Hodge's unruliness, as though to somehow make him even more aware of the fact that the "good life" has passed him by. Richard is accompanied by his mentor and lover, Carolyn, a sleek and sexy lady whose bantering rapport with Richard, and evident concern for Vernie and Sheryl, also point up Hodge's own lack of grace and learning. eventually Vernie, finding her own voice through the help of the others, threatens to leave Hodge, whereupon his defiant facade finally begins to crumble-giving promise that he will try, at last, to temper his inability to relate meaningfully to the world and to curb his compulsion to strike out at those who seek to offer him the only solace that he is destined to know.
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Top of PageStormbound
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Top of PageTinker's Damn
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Hershel Zohnn Theatre, New Mexico State University 1981
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Top of PageTrading Post, The
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the place is a secondhand shop in rural Tennessee, the time the recent past. Wallace, the middle-aged owner of the shop, is about to bid a reluctant farewell to his long-time lady friend, Claudia, who is going off to Canada to care for her ailing sister. Both Wallace and Claudia have been previously married and while everyone in town (including their own children) is aware that they are a perfect match, Wallace, particularly, seems unable to articulate his true feelings. Counterpointing the relationship of these reluctant lovers is the affair between Wallace's son and Claudia's daughter-a much lustier arrangement, but, in its own way, marked with equal indecisiveness. the interplay of these four very believable and endearing people, abetted by the hilarious woes of a recently widowed friend, leads on to the cleverly devised resolution of the play-where things are set right in a most unexpected and theatrically inventive manner.
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Comedy
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