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Douglas M Parker

DOUGLAS M PARKER

  (1963 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Abrams Artists Agency  

Douglas M Parker's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Douglas M Parker's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         BESSIE: the Life and Music of Bessie Smith         Declarations         Life on the Mississippi         Morning After, The         Private History of a Campaign That Failed, The         Thicker Than Water

BESSIE: the Life and Music of Bessie Smith

Synopsis:
Orphaned and penniless at seven, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith ultimately rose to become a household name and the highest paid Black entertainer in America - with a private railway car, boxes of diamonds, and records that routinely sold over half a million copies each. But behind all her success was a hard-drinking, street-fighting private life, an unhappy marriage to a violent, philandering husband, and a sudden fall from grace that left her having to battle her way to the top not once, but twice.

Notes:
Incorporates many of the classic popular And blues songs that made her famous.

1st Produced:
Roxy Regional Theatre, Clarksville, Tn    

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Genre:
Musical

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Declarations

Synopsis:
Courtship and marriage of John and Abigail Adamsup to 1776

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Genre:
Historical drama

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Life on the Mississippi

Synopsis:
Based on Mark Twain's autobiographical coming-of-age classic. In Life on the Mississippi, the 22 year-old Samuel Clemens leaves home to learn steamboat piloting on a Mississippi riverboat in 1858 and unexpectedly finds himself learning about life. And death. And love. All while navigating his way from boy to man and from Sam Clemens to Mark Twain.

Notes:
Music by Denver Casado; lyrics by Douglas M Parker; book by Douglas M Parker. Based on "Life on the Mississippi" by Mark Twain.

1st Produced:
Goodspeed Opera House     2009

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Genre:
Musical

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Morning After, The

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Contained in: Best Ten Minute Plays For Two Actors 2005" published by Smith and Kraus   -

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Ten minute play

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Private History of a Campaign That Failed, The

Synopsis:
Mark Twain is a lieutenant in a Confederacy army

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Genre:
Historical drama

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Thicker Than Water

Synopsis:
Based on the true story of Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children in the bathtub.

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1st Produced:
Barter Theater In Abingdon, Va     03 Sep 2013

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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