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Robert Montgomery

ROBERT MONTGOMERY  (1946 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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RODERT MONTGOMERY (Playwright), a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Yale University School of Drama, is the author of Subject to Fits, produced in 1971 by Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival and in 1971-72 at the Royal Shakespeare Company. His other works include Lotta: or the Best Thing Evolution 's Ever Come Up With, produced by Joseph Papp and directed by David Chambers in 1971 , and Electra, produced at SL Clements Church in 1974 and directed by Joseph Chaikin . In 1975 he performed in Mel Marvin 's Marvin 's Garden at the Manhattan Theatre Club, and in 1976 in M & M's, a concert of songs written by himself and Mel Marvin and also performed at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Winner of the Drama Desk " Most Promising Playwright Award ," Montgomery was also a Guggenheim Fellow in 1972-73. He is married and has a daughter.
Agent (in 1981): Ellen Neuwald, 905 West End Ave., 94, New York, NY 10025 (212) 663-1582

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

 Case of Murder, A         Electra         Green Pond         Lotta         Rest of Oedipus, The         Subject To Fits: A Response To Dostoevski's The Idiot

Case of Murder, A

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a modernized, musical version of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment about a man who commits two atrocious murders, one planned and one spontaneous, and the detective who suspects but can t quite prove his guilt. Montgomery's play is set in New York City in modern times, and the murders take place on Avenue D on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Porfiry is a homicide detective straight out of NYPD Blue, and he has a hard-nosed female partner, Cutter, with whom he frequently disagrees. Where the book's central theme is the killer's frustration and guilt, to the point that he has to turn himself in due to the pressure of his own psyche, the play which centers on the detective Porfiry more than on the suspects explores a variety of subjects in addition to the detectives hunt for the killer. Porfiry unexpectedly finds love early in the play, while the killer's love is what in the end redeems him and forces him to confess
nytheatre.com

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words And music by Robert Montgomery

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Electra

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Green Pond

Green Pond
the story has something to do with two couples caught in a hurricane

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music by Mel Marvin. The play went Off Broadway At, I think, the Brooklyn Acadamy of Arts. Then disappeared. Most notable About the production was the Actor(ess) Christine Ebersole who has since won two Tony Awards.
- Bill Palmer [gaffer240@yahoo.com]

1st Produced:
Columbia, SC USA    Spring 1977

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Stage South State Theatre of South Carolina (USA)

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Musical

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  5 member orchestra

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Lotta

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New York Shakespeare Festival, NYC    -

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Rest of Oedipus, The

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Re-telling of Oedipus at Colonus. He killed his father and slept with his mother - something ev'ry boy dreams of. But he rose from that hell on lightning - how does that song get sung?

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Subject To Fits: A Response To Dostoevski's The Idiot

Subject To Fits: A Response To Dostoevski's The Idiot
Prince Myshkyn is discharged from the institution where he has been receiving treatment for epilepsy. He takes rooms and falls in with a bunch of ne'er do wells. A drunken retired officer and his tubercular son amongst them. Two women vie for his attentions before both dump him

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Public, NY    1971

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the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater (sic) in the February 1972 edition of their SCRIPTS series.
Samuel French, NY, (1972)   978-0573616167

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