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John Murrell

JOHN MURRELL

  (1945 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Catalyst TCM Inc  

John Murrell's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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         Arena         Bajazet         Before the War At l'Anse a Gilles         Cyrano de Bergerac         Death In New Orleans         Democracy         Earthbound         Elisa's Skin         Faraway Nearby, The         Farther West         Four Lives of Marie, The         Great Noise, A Great Light, A         Haydn's Head         Helen's Necklace         John & Beatrice         John & Beatrice         Mandragola         Memoir         Metamorphosis         New World         October         One Yellow Rabbit         Power In the Blood         Seagull, The         Seven Days In The Life Of Simon Labrosse         Small Room at the Top of the Stairs         Teaser         Thinking Of You         Thinking Of Yu         Uncle Vanya         Waiting For the Parade: Faces Of Women In War

Arena

Synopsis:
about group psychotherapy

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Pleiades Theatre, Calgary    1975

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Genre:
Comedy

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Bajazet

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Racine

1st Produced:
Tarragon Theatre, Toronto    1979

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Translation

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Before the War At l'Anse a Gilles

Synopsis:
Realising the mediocrity of her life a young widow sells her home and moves to Quebec

Notes:
Original Playwright - Marie Laberge

1st Produced:
Free Theatre, Toronto    1986

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Cyrano de Bergerac

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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

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Death In New Orleans

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1st Produced:
Edinburgh    1998

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One Act

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Democracy

Synopsis:
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman sitting by a pond in July 1863

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1st Produced:
-    1991

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1st Published:
Talon Books, Vancouver, BC,    -

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Earthbound

Earthbound
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Notes:
Original Playwight - Carole Frechette

1st Produced:
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1st Published:
Contained in "Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation volume Three" published by Playwrights Canada Press    978-0887547850

Music:
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Translation

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Elisa's Skin

Elisa's Skin
a play about loneliness.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Carole Frechette.

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1st Published:
Contained in: Three Plays" published by Playwrights Canada Press    978-0887546297

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Translation

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Faraway Nearby, The

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1st Published:
Talon Books, Vancouver, BC,    -

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Farther West

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1st Produced:
Calgary    1982

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1st Published:
Coach House Press, Toronto, 1985   -

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Four Lives of Marie, The

Four Lives of Marie, The
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Carole Frechette.

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: Three Plays" published by Playwrights Canada Press    978-0887546297

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Great Noise, A Great Light, A

Synopsis:
about William 'Bible Bill' Aberhart and the 'Dirty Thirties' in Alberta

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Haydn's Head

Synopsis:
about the bizarre but factual adventures of the composer Haydn's skull after his death

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1st Produced:
an amatEur production in Edmonton    1973

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Helen's Necklace

Helen's Necklace
Reality and time slip through Helen's fingers

Notes:
Original Playwright - Carole Frechette. Origingal Title - "Le Collier d'Helen"

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Two Plays" published by Playwrights Canada Press 2005   978-0887545016

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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John & Beatrice

Synopsis:
Beatrice waits for the right man in a nearly empty room in her 33rd-floor apartment. She has posted an ad declaring that a well-to-do heiress is seeking a man who will interest, move and seduce her. She offers a substantial reward which lures in John, a self described bounty hunter. When John climbs the stairs to deliver his proposal in person, the rules are drawn and the games begin. Frechettes play is a masterful play about the difficulty of connection and the meaning of love

Notes:
Original playwright - Carol Frechette

1st Produced:
-    13 Apr 2012

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Genre:
translation

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John & Beatrice

John & Beatrice
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Carole Frechette

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Two Plays" published by Playwrights Canada Press 2005   978-0887545016

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Mandragola

Synopsis:
When Nicia hears that his wife is to take a lover he insists on checking out his body. He then hides in the bedroom and watches them making love

Notes:
Original Playwright - Machiavelli

1st Produced:
Theatre Calgary    1978

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Translation Gay of interest

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Memoir

Memoir
about the last days of actress Sarah Bernhardt

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Guelph Spring Festival, Ontario    1977

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Avon, New York, 1978   978-0380385218

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Metamorphosis

Synopsis:
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1st Published:
Alberta Department of Culture, Edmonton, 1970   -

Music:
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New World

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1984

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Coach House Press, Toronto, 1985   -

Music:
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October

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1988

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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One Yellow Rabbit

Synopsis:
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Genre:
One Act

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Power In the Blood

Synopsis:
about a crisis in the life of a female evAngelist

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Edmonton    1975

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Seagull, The

Synopsis:
Can the young people's dreams be realised or will their desires turn sour when confronted by the cruelties of the adult world?

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
Stratford, Ontario    1980

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Seven Days In The Life Of Simon Labrosse

Seven Days In The Life Of Simon Labrosse
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Carole Frechette.

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: Three Plays" published by Playwrights Canada Press    978-0887546297

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

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Small Room at the Top of the Stairs

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Carole Plechette

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in "Small Room at the Top of the Stairs and Thinking of You" published by Playwrights Canada Press   978-1770910560

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Teaser

Synopsis:
about porno-graphic movie-making

Notes:
written with Kenneth Dyba

1st Produced:
Pleiades Theatre, Calgary    1975

Organisations:
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-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Farce

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Thinking Of You

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Carole Frechette

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in "Small Room at the Top of the Stairs and Thinking of You" published by Playwrights Canada Press   978-1770910560

Music:
-

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Thinking Of Yu

Synopsis:
A woman tries to find out why three Chinese students threw a pot of paint over a portrait of Mao in Tiananmen Square

Notes:
Original Playwright - Carol Frechette

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press 2012   -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Uncle Vanya

Synopsis:
story of an uncle in love with a young lady who is married to an old and ill man, she is attracted to the doctor who attends her husband

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
Stratford, Ontario    1978

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
theatrebooks, Toronto, 1978   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Waiting For the Parade: Faces Of Women In War

Synopsis:
World War II from the point of view of five women left behind to wait and work for their men

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1st Published:
Talonbooks, Vancouver, 1980   -

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Genre:
Dramatic Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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