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Russell Lees

RUSSELL LEES

  
Nationality:    USA
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Russell Lees studied playwriting under the tutelage of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. His play Nixon's Nixon has enjoyed two off-Broadway productions as well as a world-wide tour and a production in London's West End. Russell works writing interactive narrative and was the creative director of The Dark Eye, an interactive adventure based on the Tales of Poe featuring the voice of William S. Burroughs. His play Monticel', about the complicated relationships of Thomas Jefferson and the Hemings family, is currently being re-conceived as an opera composed by Julius P. Williams.

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

         Monticel'         Nixon's Nixon         Shepherds Play, The         Snow White X         Van Gogh Gives a TED Talk

Monticel'

Synopsis:
Whilst waiting for the results of the presidential election andrew Jackson goes to his daughters home where he lives. also there is the slave Sally Hemmings. Jackson had a son with Sally

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Theatre, Boston    Dec 2003

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Genre:
Drama

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Nixon's Nixon

Synopsis:
Historical Fact: the night before President Richard M. Nixon announced his resignation, he summoned Secretary of State Henry a. Kissinger to the White House. Nixon's Nixon, a two-character political satire, imagines the conversation of a secret meeting between Nixon and Kissinger in the Lincoln Sitting Room that very night (August 7, 1974 at 10pm). Performed without an intermission, these two larger-than-life characters spend the evening wrestling with history as they try to manipulate each other, re-enact scenes of their political triumphs and ultimately, devise a dizzying and doomed plot to keep Nixon in office.
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1st Produced:
Edinburgh Fringe    1999

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Shepherds Play, The

Synopsis:
In England they've enjoyed this Christmas comedy for over Five Hundred Years. This is my version. The Shepherds Play is a translation and adaptation from Middle English of the famous Second Shepherds Play by an unknown playwright usually refered to as The Wakefield Master. Part of the comedy of the original is the anachronism of putting medieval English shepherds in a biblical setting. My version updates the anachronisms but keeps the intense Dr. Seuss-like rhyme scheme.

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The Shepherds Play is available to amateur and school productions without royalty. I only ask to be informed of the dates and place of any upcoming production.

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Genre:
Christmas comedy

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Snow White X

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Organisations:
ZeroPoint Productions

1st Published:
in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume I, Bakers Plays,    -

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play Ten Min

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Van Gogh Gives a TED Talk

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Organisations:
Articulate Theatre Company

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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