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Robert Knuckle

ROBERT KNUCKLE

  (1935 - )
Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    A J Garlatti

Robert Knuckle, born 15 Feb 1935, acted and wrote sports columns in high school and university. After graduating from the University of Windsor, he earned his M. Ed. from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He then pursued a lengthy career in education as an English and Latin teacher and high school administrator in Hamilton, Ontario. He also coached basketball and football in several high schools and at McMaster University in Hamilton. Upon retiring from education he became the general manager of the Hamilton Skyhawks of the World Basketball League. When that league folded in 1992, Knuckle began to write full-time. In 1984, while engaged as a vice-principal, he and his writing partner Gordon Carruth, a Hamilton Secondary School principal, wrote a play about the life of fabled National Football League (NFL) coach Vince Lombardi entitled I Am Not a Legend. It became very successful playing in Hamilton; Toronto; Windsor; Coventry, England; Edinburgh, Scotland; Lahr, Germany and Green Bay, Wisconsin. I Am Not a Legend was also televised and aired on ESPN in the USA. Knuckle and Carruth also adapted their Legend script for CBC Radio for which they both won ACTRA Awards for writing. In all these various productions of Legend Knuckle played the role of Vince Lombardi.

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         Are You Lonesome Tonight?         Breaking the Silence         Hemingway and his Women         I Am Not A Legend         Last Confession of Henry VIII, The         Lovenest, The         Private Eddie Slovik         Strange Gods         Trial of the 24th Infantry, The         Vaudeville         War of 1812, The - an Inquiry

Are You Lonesome Tonight?

Synopsis:
The story of an abusive husband and his wife

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Dundas Theatre, Dundas, Canada    14 Mar 2012

Organisations:
Kayson Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Stage Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Breaking the Silence

Synopsis:
The true story of Los Angeles' Roger Cardinal Mahoney's cover-up of clerical sexual abuse in the diocese of Stockton, California.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Dundas Theatre, Dundas, Canada    -

Organisations:
Kayson Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Stage Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Hemingway and his Women

Synopsis:
This is the story of Ernest Hemingway and the many women in his life.

Notes:
This play will be produced at Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre in April, 2015

1st Produced:
Dundas Theatre, Dundas, Canada    23 May 2014

Organisations:
Kayson Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Strage drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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I Am Not A Legend

Synopsis:
The life of NFL Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Hamilton Place, Hamilton, Canada    06 Jan 1984

Organisations:
Goya

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Stage Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  This play has had various size casts - from two to twenty-four

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Last Confession of Henry VIII, The

Synopsis:
This play deals with the intrigue in the court of Henry VIII, his brutal treatment of Anne Boleyn and his destruction of the Roman Catholic abbeys and monasteries in England.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Christ Church Cathedral, Hamilton, Canada    12 Jan 2008

Organisations:
Kayson Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Stage drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lovenest, The

Synopsis:
Relationships collide in a bed and breakfast run by a yenta land lady.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Centrepoint Theatre, Ottawa, Canada    12 Nov 1999

Organisations:
Kayson Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Stage comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Private Eddie Slovik

Synopsis:
This is the tragic story of the only U.S. soldier to be executed for desertion from 1865 to this very date.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Dundas Theatre, Dundas, Canada    21 May 2015

Organisations:
Kayson Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Stage drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Strange Gods

Synopsis:
The story of an R.C. priest's abuse of power as a pastor and as chairman of the the local Catholic School board.

Notes:
Also produced in Hamilton, Canada

1st Produced:
Christ Church Cathedral, Hamilton, Canada    06 Apr 2010

Organisations:
Kayson Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Stage drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Trial of the 24th Infantry, The

Synopsis:
In 1917 the all-black U.S 27th Infantry rioted in Houston Texas resulting in a massive court martial where 22 U.S. soldiers were found guilty and executed en masse.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre Aquarius, Hamilton, Canada    -

Organisations:
Goya

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Stage drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Vaudeville

Synopsis:
Two old Vaudevillians take one last shot at producing one last grand vaudeville show.

Notes:
Written by Robert Knuckle And Gordon Carruth

1st Produced:
Centrepoint Theatre, Ottawa, Canada    16 Oct 2003

Organisations:
Goya

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  Chorus, dancers

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War of 1812, The - an Inquiry

Synopsis:
This play presents an Inquiry into the causes and results of the War of 181

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Players' Guild of Hamilton    23 Nov 2012

Organisations:
Players' Guild of Hamilton

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Stage drama

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  6            Other:  -

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