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PAMELA V NOLL
Nationality: USA
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Pamela V. Noll has had plays produced off-off Broadway, at The Cleveland Play House, at the Cleveland Public Theatre, at the Actors Summit and at the Roxbury Center for Arts in Boston. One of her screen plays has been produced. She was also a finalist at the British Filmmaking Institute competition in London and won the first place award from the Gloria Film Festival in Utah. Her love of writing grew out of her research and writing her dissertation in psychology. As a psychologist, her specialty is happiness. She has also written book reviews for professional journals. Her portfolio includes six films and ten plays (including two published play).
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About Tremont Champagne Ladies, The Hedda a Modern Day Version Lady Tess Little Blue Pill, The Night in the Garden of Eden, A Scent of a Rose, A Tchaikovsky's Desires (Beloved Friend) Three Graces, TheAbout Tremont
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About Tremont is set in The Silver Bush a neighborhood tavern with a small but loyal clientele. Eva is waiting tables and living above the bar, having fled to its safety when her home was broken into. Zoltan, the owner has fallen in love with her. An elderly couple, the Popovichs, are regular customers, although Marijka is trying to get her husband, Roman, to move to Parma. Tree has just lost his job and thinks he can start a new career as a gambler betting on the Cleveland Indians. Evas brother, Andre (the Polish Milton Berle) has reappeared after a long absence and is demanding his share of his parents savings. The characters, like the city and its neighborhoods, are in the midst of change. The world in which immigrants could get good jobs, buy homes, cars, and raise their families in comfortably isolated ethnic neighborhoods is falling apart. Some flee to the suburbs while others fight a rear guard action trying to hold onto the old ways.
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written by Robert Thomas Noll and Pamela Noll. An earlier version of this play was produced by Actors Summit in Hudson, Ohio.
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comedy drama
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The Champagne Ladies chronicles the last night of the sexual revolution. The entire action of the play takes place in Dante's Inferno, a sleazy stripper bar in New York City on one hot summer night. The play is about the women who work in this establishment. They are all B-Girls/Strippers/Prostitutes. Their stories are based on the lives of 40 real-life working girls that the authors have interviewed. The play is a theatrical, hard-hitting, and realistic look at the "World's Oldest Profession." This unique play requires seven "earthy" actresses and two actors (the owner and a drag queen). The play was written to show that the life of a prostitute is nothing like the life of Juliet Roberts in "Pretty Woman." It takes a no-holds bar look at the profession. To make sure of its accuracy, the national support group for prostitutes, COYOTE as well as a psychologist who works with "working girls" was consulted in the writing of this script. They all found the script true to life with something important to say. This play was written with long-time producer/writer John L. Price and award-winning writer and psychologist Pamela V. Noll. The play takes place during the last days of "The Sexual Revolution." "The Champagne Ladies," is based on real-life women and their lives. The play is about a day in the life of a group of stripper/B-girl bar taking place in their dressing room during the early 1980s when the outbreak of AIDS was first becoming known in the sex industry. Many of the ladies are too much into "the life" to quit, but a social worker is determine to at least save one lady from this dangerous world.
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written by Robert Thomas Noll, John L Price and Pamela Noll.
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one act and full length
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Top of PageHedda a Modern Day Version
Synopsis:
I've always loved "Hedda Gabler" but I've noticed in using it in the classroom that my college students have a hard time relating to the characters, especially Hedda, and to the world of the late 19th century Northern Europe. I told my wife the idea of doing a modern translation that young people could relate to yet remain faithful to Ibsen. She immediately agreed to work on the script with me. Pamela is an experienced psychologist and an award-winning dramatic writer who I knew could add insights into the psychology of Hedda and the other characters. We went back to the original 1890 first English translation of the play. We then changed the time period to the present and set it taking place in Shaker Heights, Ohio though it can be any city that has a college nearby. When we first started to adapt the play, we had hoped that we'd be able to stay completely faithful to Ibsen, but we soon realized if we were going to make our Hedda, a true modern woman today, more changes would have to be made. Through months of work and what we learned from the reading, we now have a 21st century "Hedda" that audiences and actors, especially college age students would love to perform and see. It's a Hedda that we both feel Ibsen would have approved. His story is just too great for us not to keep its great characters and situations. He truly was a master.
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Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen adapted by Robert Thomas Noll and Pamela Noll.
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adaptation
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Male: - Female: - Other: cast of 7
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A faithful adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic Victorian novel, "Tess of the d'Urbervilles," written with Pamela V. Noll, presents a compelling, exciting, and fast-moving story about Tess, of poetic beauty, proud and intelligent, that people can relate to today. Her spirit tied to the past, ironically causes her to live like a modern woman of today, whose dilEmmas, in this fast-paced story, are caused by three men in her life: John, her boozy, but loveable father; Alex, who behaves like a lord; and the handsome Angel, her beloved, who behaves like a devil. "Lady Tess" is a great story of love, betrayal, and being true to oneself. Staging is simple with set pieces and Dramatic lighting or may be an elaborate production
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from Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", written by Robert Thomas Noll and Pamela Noll.
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Theatervision/Playtime Series
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Brooklyn Publishers, LLC (2010) 1-60003-544-2
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Play/Drama
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Male: 6 Female: 10 Other: plus extras as desired
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Top of PageLittle Blue Pill, The
Synopsis:
An elderly couple at a senior citizen home decides that sex isnt just for young lovers.
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written by Robert Thomas Noll and Pamela Noll.
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10 min comedy
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Top of PageNight in the Garden of Eden, A
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written by Robert Thomas Noll and Pamela Noll.
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farce
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Top of PageScent of a Rose, A
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This sensual story is about a spoiled heiress, with a forbidding past. When Life throws her a curve, she turns to the Mexican-American chauffeur for solace. She discovers life changes only to stay the same, with tragic results. The characters in this play live in a hacienda surrounded by roses, in New Mexico, where class struggles between Latino employees (the chauffer, Miguel and the cook, Maria) and Rose (the daughter of the Anglo employer) take on a deeper and more intimate meaning when some unexpected revelations change the courses of two of their lives. Like a bolero, the relationships between the three coruscate in a downward spiral leading to unplanned directions, and even disaster. Miguel's machismo pervades each scene, while we watch him charm the women. Maria's dotes on Miguel naively as she tries to seduce him, unaware of how he uses her. It is one of his manipulations to let her think they are engaged, but never confirms or denies it. Always the opportunist, Miguel immediately senses an opportunity when Rose presents herself as a pseudo-equal the night she falls off the wagon, and gets completely drunk. It is the night her cancelled wedding is celebrated, notwithstanding. Rose loses her sobriety, and then her dignity when she succumbs to Miguel adept seduction and mind-bending games. The morning after his seduction, he shows only indifference to her rebound passion. Fired by her sudden love for Miguel, Rose desires to flee her secret shame, and is spurred on by Miguel to flee with him to Mexico. He convinces her to put up the money so they can buy a hotel for him to manage. His scheme is so successful; Rose is compelled to plunder her father's library. When she returns, she brings with her not only the money demanded by Miguel, but a pistol. Maria awakens the next morning to discover the unfaithfulness of her fiancé, but maintains her dignity when she finally recognizes Miguel's true nature. She exclaims his worthlessness, and leaves for church enraged. Now free to carry out their plan, it somehow goes pear-shaped when she discovers the truth about her family's shameful secret... Confronted with the debasing truth, Rose realizes running away to Mexico with Miguel will not solve her problem, but neither can she continue to live on in society which will rebuke her when the truth is unavoidably revealed. Rose takes the only way out she can, and Miguel goes back to another day of chauffeuring.
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Inspired by Strindberg's "Miss Julie" adapted by Robert Thomas Noll and Pamela Noll.
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Top of PageTchaikovsky's Desires (Beloved Friend)
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The true story of the tragic relationships between gay composer Peter Tchaikovsky and the two women in his life: his generous but judgmental patron Madame von Meck and his unstable wife Nina. These relationships lead to composing some of the greater music ever written and also to Tchaikovsky own mental problems.
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written by Robert Thomas Noll and Pamela Noll.
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one act play
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Top of PageThree Graces, The
Synopsis:
The Three Graces is an African-American adaptation of Chekhovs The Three Sisters, set in a segregated army base in the South during the Second World War that celebrates the three graces of every woman of color: Brilliance, Joy and Flowering.
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Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov. written by Robert Thomas Noll, Zane Coleman & Pamela Noll
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Our Place Theater Project and Roxbury Center for Arts in Boston, Massachusetts 03 Mar 2006
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2 act adaptation 110 min
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