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Robert Potter

ROBERT POTTER

  (1934 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Anna-Marie McKay  

Bob Potter was born in New York City in the depths of the Depression (definitely a demographic advantage) and raised in Hollywood, where his father, the director H.C. Potter made twenty feature films. After graduating from Pomona College in 1956 he served in Army Intelligence (his favorite oxymoron). Poems in Transit: 1957-2004, with accompanying photos and comments, follows his trail thereafter-from Beat Generation San Francisco to the present. Bob is the author of 27 plays produced at various university and professional Theatres in the United States, Canada and England. From 1972 to 2001 he directed the playwriting program at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he was a Professor of Dramatic Art.

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         Amusia         Ayo's Journey         Bedtime Story         Bird Of Paradise         Brechtian Variations         Celestina, La         Cockroach Solution, The         Faust: An Entertainment         Fifteen Signs Of the Apocalypse         Fine & Private Place, A         Fiorenza         In A Pig's Eye         Just Across the Border         Lady In the Labyrinth, The         Last Liberal, The         Life Is A Dream         Man's Desire And Fleeting Beauty         Miser, The         Mother Courage         Mutt's Monologue         Persians, The         Queen Margaret Of England         Saint Barbara In the Flesh         Sea Lion, The         Space Between the Stars, The         Vision Of Children, Yhe         Volpone         Where Is Sicily         William Shakespeare's Queen Margaret         Wind Dancers, The
Amusia

Synopsis:
a fantasy based on the life and music of Maurice Ravel

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Hatlen Theatre, Uc Santa Barbara     2001

Organisations:
Theatre UCSB

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Ayo's Journey

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Notes:
written by Robert Potter And Sojourner Kincaid Rolle

1st Produced:
Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara     2002

Organisations:
Dramatic Women

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Bedtime Story

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1st Produced:
Reading At Actors And Playwrights Unit, London     1991

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Bird Of Paradise

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1st Produced:
Center Stage Theatre, Santa Barbara     1996

Organisations:
Dramatic Women

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Brechtian Variations

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Notes:
four Additional sketches for Bertolt: Brecht's Private Life of the Master Race: Peach Cobbler"; "January Dreams"; "the Geneticists on their Lunch Break" And "Full Employment II".

1st Produced:
Penthouse Theatre. Seattle, Washington     1994

Organisations:
University of Washington

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Celestina, La

Synopsis:
Late 15th century Spain was the time of Columbus's discovery of the New World, the victory over the Moors - and the expulsion and forced conversion of the Jews. It's also when the tragicomedy La Celestina was written. It is a story of a rich shipping merchant whose daughter is in love with a young aristocrat. Still the most popular classic play in the Spanish repertoire, La Celestina follows three days in the lives of the two lovers.

Notes:
English stage version of Fernando de Rojas' play. Written by Robert Potter And Pamela Howard

1st Produced:
Dartmouth College,     2002

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1st Published:
Oberon, London,    

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Cockroach Solution, The

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1st Produced:
Reading At Ucsb Studio Theatre, Santa Barbara     2002

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Faust: An Entertainment

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Goethe, Adapted by Robert Potter, in A new translation by Stuart Atkins

1st Produced:
Goethe Centenary Festival, Ucsb, Santa Barbara     1979

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Fifteen Signs Of the Apocalypse

Synopsis:
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Notes:
music by Marc Ream

1st Produced:
Lotte Lehman Hall, Ucsb Santa Barbara     1978

Organisations:
Contemporary Music Festival, UCSB

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Genre:
Music Drama

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Fine & Private Place, A

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Robert Potter And Ellen K. Anderson

1st Produced:
Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara     1991

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Fiorenza

Synopsis:
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Notes:
adapted from Thomas Mann's play by Robert Potter And Richard Exner

1st Produced:
Lotte Lehman Hall, Ucsb, Santa Barbara     1975

Organisations:
Thomas Mann Centenary Symposium

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In A Pig's Eye

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1st Produced:
Theatre Three, Philadelphia     1975

Organisations:
Temple University

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Just Across the Border

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1st Produced:
Virginia Museum Theatre, Richmond     1982

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Lady In the Labyrinth, The

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1st Produced:
Main Theatre, Ucsb Santa Barbara     1989

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Last Liberal, The

Synopsis:
It's 2042. America is a corporation run by a gang of inept fanatics and a cloned figurehead, and liberals are an endangered species. the play begins as the last remnants are being hunted down, Who turns out to be the last liberal? What tribulations and raptures lie ahead? Does he/she escape to lead a surprising and successful New American Revolution? In your dreams! And in our play!

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara, California Usa     2007

Organisations:
Dramatic Women

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Life Is A Dream

Synopsis:
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Notes:
adaptation of Calderon de la Barca's La vida es sueno

1st Produced:
Performing Arts Theatre, Uc Santa Barbara     1997

Organisations:
Theatre UCSB

1st Published:
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Man's Desire And Fleeting Beauty

Synopsis:
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Notes:
a sixteenth century comedy translated from the Dutch. Adapted by Robert Potter And Elsa Strietman

1st Produced:
Homerton College, Cambridge University, England     1984

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Miser, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
adapted from Moliere's play

1st Produced:
Garrison Theatre, Claremont     1965

Organisations:
Pomona College Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Mother Courage

Synopsis:
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Notes:
new American version of Bertolt Brecht's play

1st Produced:
Virginia Museum Theatre, Richmond     1979

Organisations:
Commissioned by the Virginia Museum Theatre

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Music:
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Mutt's Monologue

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1st Produced:
West Coast Ensemble, Los Angeles     1993

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Persians, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Aeschylus

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://classics.mit.edu/Aeschylus/persians.php,    

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Queen Margaret Of England

Synopsis:
the Three Parts of Henry the Sixth.

Notes:
adapted from Shakespeare's

1st Produced:
Tomlinson Theatre, Philadelphia     1977

Organisations:
Temple University

1st Published:
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Music:
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Saint Barbara In the Flesh

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Center Stage Theatre, Santa Barbara     1995

Organisations:
Dramatic Women

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Music:
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Sea Lion, The

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1st Produced:
Reading At South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, California     1983

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Space Between the Stars, The

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara     2004

Organisations:
Dramatic Women

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Vision Of Children, Yhe

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Main Theatre, Ucsb Santa Barbara     1980

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Volpone

Synopsis:
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Notes:
adapted from Ben Jonson's play by Robert Potter And Tom Markus

1st Produced:
Virginia Museum Theatre, Richmond     1978

Organisations:
Commissioned by the Virginia Museum Theatre

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Where Is Sicily

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Robert Potter And Paul Winfield

1st Produced:
Main Theatre, Ucsb, Santa Barbara     1969

Organisations:
Department of Dramatic Art, UCSB

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William Shakespeare's Queen Margaret

Synopsis:
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Notes:
adapted from the Three Parts of Henry the Sixth; revised version of Queen Margaret of England (1977)

1st Produced:
Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Boulder, Colorado     2001

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Wind Dancers, The

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1st Produced:
Rudder Forum, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas.     1987

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