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Hurt McDermott

HURT MCDERMOTT

  
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aka Jim McDermott. Hurt McDermott is a filmmaker and playwright living in Chicago. He recently wrote and directed the motion picture NIGHTINGALE IN A MUSIC BOX, which won the ExcEllence in Screenwriting Prize at the 2004 Slamdance Film Festival after premiering at the Mill Valley Film Festival. NIGHTINGALE has played numerous other festivals, including the 2005 Sci-Fi London Film Festival and the Athens International Film Festival in Greece. Hurt received a Joseph Jefferson citation for his play WarHawks & Lindberghs. Other plays of his - which have played in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago - include repeat w/Madeline, Sleepwalker and How to Be Sawed in Half.

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

         Birds         Divertimento In Flat F         Golden Watch Chain, The         How To Be Sawed In Half         Icons         Natalie's Men         repeat w/Madeline         Sleepwalker         Under the Big Blue Moon         Warhawks & Lindberghs
Birds

Synopsis:
BIRDS was presented in 414 BC. In the previous year, Athens captured an island city, Melia, after a long siege. the Athenians put all the men of military age to death and sold the women and children into slavery. Later that year, the Athenians decided to launch an expedition to Sicily after a vigorous debate. the debate ended with those who opposed the expedition becoming afraid to speak out for fear of being called unpatriotic. the outcome of the expedition in Sicily was still in doubt when Aristophanes wrote BIRDS. It had ended in disaster before he wrote his next extant play, LYSISTRATA.
A Note on the Transposition: Most versions Aristophanes plays which I have read have worked more as literature for reading than as plays for performing. For that reason, I think it's fair to say that someone who works in theater may possess certain advantages in rendering an English-language version of BIRDS which a Greek scholar does not necessarily have simply by virtue of reading Ancient Greek. My job as I see it has been to transpose a play set for an alien theatrical tradition into a new setting, that of our own tradition. Like a musician transposing a piece from one instrument to another, I hope to find a vital new sonority without losing the vigor of the original.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Aristophanes. http://www.tutato.com/tuta.php?action=birds

1st Produced:
The Utopian Theater Asylum (Tuta) In Chicago     2005

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Divertimento In Flat F

Synopsis:
A sex farce about music, monogamy and metaphotosynchosis

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1st Produced:
Unproduced    

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Golden Watch Chain, The

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Unproduced    

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How To Be Sawed In Half

Synopsis:
the magician's assistant tries to take over the show in the first performance in her hometown since she ran off as a teenager with the hapless magician

Notes:
http://www.division13.org/work/sawed.php

1st Produced:
Chicago     2000

Organisations:
Division 13

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Genre:
Magic show/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Icons

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1st Produced:
Unproduced    

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Natalie's Men

Synopsis:
An blind psychiatrist helps a couple deal with the death of the man's best friend and the wife's would be lover while tinkering with his invention that will allow blind people to drive.

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Unproduced    

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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repeat w/Madeline

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1st Produced:
Cafe Voltaire, Chicago     1995

Organisations:
Odessa Group

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Sleepwalker

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1st Produced:
Cafe Voltaire, Chicago     1995

Organisations:
Odessa Group

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Under the Big Blue Moon

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Notes:
now believed lost

1st Produced:
Unproduced    

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Warhawks & Lindberghs

Synopsis:
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Notes:
won A Joseph Jefferson Citation for Outstanding New Work for the play

1st Produced:
Chicago     1999

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