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Jim Leonard Jr

JIM LEONARD JR  

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Literary Agent:    Creative Artists Agency CA  


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below is a list of Jim Leonard Jr's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 And They Dance Real Slow In Jackson         Crow & Weasel         Diviners, The         One Family         V & V Only

And They Dance Real Slow In Jackson

Synopsis:
In Jackson, a small town in rural Indiana, Elizabeth ann Willow lives with her father and mother. Crippled at birth with polio, Elizabeth ann is confined to a wheelchair and must wear leg braces, which cuts her off from the other children and prevents her regular attendance at school. although she tries to reach out and make friends, Elizabeth ann is increasingly isolated from and then taunted by the others, whose small-town prejudices are reinforced by a polio scare, of which Elizabeth ann is a chilling embodiment. Comprised of a brilliantly conceived mosaic of interlocking scenes which move back and forth in time, with four performers portraying a varied assortment of children and townspeople, the play captures not only the moving story of Elizabeth ann's inexorable descent into madness, but also the small-mindedness and unfeeling callousness of her fellow townspeople-whose fear of the unknown or abnormal makes them the unintentional agents of her destruction. Culminating in a chilling scene in which Elizabeth ann's leg braces are torn from her by a frenzied mob, the play becomes in the final essence a moving and poetically evocative plea for understanding and compassion in a world where prejudice and casual cruelty are too often the norm.

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Crow & Weasel

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From A Story by Barry Lopez Music by John Luther Adams Based on the Book by Barry Lopez with Illustrations by Tom Pohrt

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Samuel French, London, 1996   -

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Genre:
adaptation

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Diviners, The

Synopsis:
Disillusioned, out-of-work preacher C.C. Showers strikes up friendship with Buddy Layman, a poor, disabled boy in 1930s Indiana dust bowl. Showers is pushed to brink of disillusionment when boy drowns in a freak incident involving the preacher and several God-fearing ladies from town

Notes:
winner Annual American College Theatre festival; written by Jim Leonard and Jim Leonard Jr

1st Produced:
Man In The Moon Theatre, London    1990

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1981   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

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One Family

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1st Produced:
New American Playwrights Project    1993

Organisations:
Utah Shakespeare Festival

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V & V Only

Synopsis:
coffee shop in New York's Little Italy is more than a place to grab an expresso it's a place to pass the time with the proprietor and share his problems

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1989   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  -

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