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Bruce Peyton

BRUCE PEYTON

  
Nationality:    African American
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Bruce Peyton's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Feathertop         Hazard County Wonder         Live Wire         On Borrowed Time         Pulp's Big Favor         Street King
Feathertop

Synopsis:
A scarecrow comes to life and points out hypocrisy in Puritan New England

Notes:
Music by Skip Kennon; lyrics and book by Bruce Peyton. Based on the short story "Feathertop: A Moralised Fable" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1st Produced:
WPA, New York     1984

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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Hazard County Wonder

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1st Produced:
New Theatre, New York     1985

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Live Wire

Synopsis:
Teenagers and AIDS

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Genre:
AIDS youth play

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On Borrowed Time

Synopsis:
An old man traps the Grim Reaper in a tree

Notes:
Music and lyrics by John Clifton; book by William F Brown; Bruce Peyton

1st Produced:
Rehearsed reading at John Houseman Theatre, New York     13 Sep 1998

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Genre:
Musical

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Pulp's Big Favor

Synopsis:
A big insurance fraud and a rookie detective uncovers more than she thinks

Notes:
Music and lyrics David Spencer; lyrics and book Bruce Peyton

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Genre:
Ten minute musical

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Street King

Synopsis:
Exploration of the various kinds of slavery endured by black people through the ages, from their royal beginnings in Africa to the present

Notes:
written with Renee Roache

1st Produced:
Project Of The Work Release Program, Theatre For The Forgotten, Riker's Island Prison, New York     1973

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Music:
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Genre:
Historical One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 BM, 2 BF

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