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Dennis Richard

DENNIS RICHARD

  
Nationality:    USA
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Dennis Richard'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 Dennis Richard's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Game Against Bobby Fischer, The         Oswald         Radio Mystery 1949         Wreck
Game Against Bobby Fischer, The

Synopsis:
In what could very well be the last day of Bobby Fischer's life, he is in a chess club in Iceland. What he doesn't know is that as the night unfolds - - he is about to play his last and most deadly game of chess - - a challenge from within - - the New Game of the Century - - the game against himself.

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1st Produced:
Two Roads Theatre In Studio City, Ca     02 Jan 2015

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Music:
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Genre:
biographical play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.facebook.com/BobbyFischer.ThePlay

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Oswald

Synopsis:
When Friday, November 22, 1963, comes to an end, John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, and Police Officer J.D. Tippit both lie dead in Dallas. Amidst the chaos that ensues, an evasive Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested and becomes the number one suspect. It is the job of Captain William Fritz to extract a confession. As evidence mounts, defiance is Oswald's only defense. Based on the bristling and explosive actual interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald by Dallas Chief of Homicide Captain William J. Fritz, what unfolds in Oswald is one of the most engrossing battles ever brought to the stage, as a defiant 24 year-old, tight-lipped young man goes up against the best homicide detective the Dallas Police Department has to offer. there was no stenographer and no film or audio tapes of those interrogations, just handwritten notes by Fritz. Forty eight hours and seven minutes after the President of the United States was shot and killed, there was another shot in Dallas. That shot was for Lee Harvey Oswald.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Richmond Shepard theatre
309 East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010     01 Jun 2011

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Radio Mystery 1949

Synopsis:
The year is 1949 and a group of actors are in New York reading a live radio mystery program. An actor arrives late and has with him a duffle bag that appears to contain something that is ticking. With this unanticipated and bizarre act, a deeper and more urgent mystery unfolds - - all played out on live radio.

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1st Produced:
Clarion Theater in New York City     15 Sep 2015

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Genre:
mystery

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Wreck

Synopsis:
Playwright Dennis Richard says he was hit by the idea of turning the 1987 Maryland train collision between Amtrak train 94, (the Colonial from Washington, D.C. en route to Boston) and a set of Conrail locomotives in his sleep. Wreck's story is set in motion by the worst train disaster in American history at the time, a crash that left fourteen people dead and cast a shadow over one of the train's crews. Investigation and conviction resulted in the Conrail engineer, who tested positive for marijuana, serving four years in jail. A Dramatic comedy full of intrigue, Wreck's story revolves around two key players - the engineer, Dalton, who has just been released from prison, and Uncle Max.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Richmond Shepard theatre
309 East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010     05 Dec 2010

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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