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Vaughn McBride

VAUGHN MCBRIDE

  (1935 - 2001)
Nationality:    USA
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Vaughn McBride's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Digging In         Echoes         Elba         Go Back To Your Precious Wife And Son         Good Old Boy         Let's Us         Lie, The         My Days As A Youngling: John Jacob Niles The Early Years         New Girl, The         Pass My Imperfections Lighly By         Restless Graves

Digging In

Synopsis:
This docu-Drama, which examines the plight of rural America, is a compendium of Kentucky farmers' stories taken from actual interviews and juxtaposed with bankers' and politicians' views. Together they form a frightening and understandable picture of the farm crisis

Notes:
written with Julie Crutcher

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1st Published:
By Southern Playwrights: Plays From Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Michele Volansky, the University Press of Kentucky, 1996   -

Music:
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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Echoes

Synopsis:
Teens talk about their lives

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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Inc    -

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Genre:
Drama

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Elba

Synopsis:
Don and Flo escape from the nursing home where they have been placed by their middle aged children to die. They make their way back to their farmhouse in Elba Idaho. One of their daughters pursues them and tries to convince them to go back to the home

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Genre:
Drama

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Go Back To Your Precious Wife And Son

Go Back To Your Precious Wife And Son
A writer hits the big time and is lured to Hollywood leaving behind his wife and teenage son. He marries a Hollywood sex goddess and leads a glittering life. He realises that he must regain his integrity

Notes:
Based on the short story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr

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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Inc    -

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  1 boy

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Good Old Boy

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Let's Us

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Lie, The

Lie, The
Eli has applied to a college that his family sponsor. He fails his entry exam but keeps this from his father. His father takes him to be enrolled and finds out the truth. His father tries to use his position to get his son admitted

Notes:
Based on the short story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr

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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Inc    -

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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My Days As A Youngling: John Jacob Niles The Early Years

My Days As A Youngling: John Jacob Niles The Early Years
John Jacob Niles collected and wrote songs in the Appalachians. A pioneer of American folk music

Notes:
Written by Martha Harrison Jones; Nancy Niles Sexton and Vaughn McBride

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Dramatic Publishing Inc    -

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Genre:
Play with music

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  doubling, extras and chorus

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New Girl, The

Synopsis:
Two women in a nursing home accomplish the impossible and create a new dignity as they confront their limitations

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Samuel French, NY,    -

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Pass My Imperfections Lighly By

Pass My Imperfections Lighly By
Mary Todd Lincoln the wife of Abraham. She was emancipated and into politics. She went into a decline after her husband's assassination and ended up in a mental institution

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Dramatic Publishing Inc    -

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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Restless Graves

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
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