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Susan Rivers

SUSAN RIVERS

  (1954 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Born in San Francisco, CA on November 2, 1954.B.A. in Dramatic Art, University of California. Teacher and performer. Member of Eureka Theatre Playwrights Forum. Recipient: NEA Playwright-in-Residence Grant, Julian Theatre, San Francisco, CA. Address (in 1981): 577 Castro St., 302, San Francisco, CA 94114 (415) 626-2807

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

         Bloodletting         Lion and the Portugese, The         Little Sure Shot         Maude Gonne Says No to the Poet         Palm Sunday         Penelope's House         Song of a Nomad Flute         Still Life

Bloodletting

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Eureka Theatre, San Francisco, CA    -

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Lion and the Portugese, The

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Reading, Seattle Repertory Co., WA    -

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Little Sure Shot

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At 6, her father froze to death. At 7, she taught herself to shoot. At 15, she paid off her mother's mortgage with the proceeds from her hunting. At 16, she met the love of her life in a shooting match. At 21, she was the most famous female sharpshooter in the West. Meet Annie Oakley, the Little Sure Shot of the Wild West. Little Sure Shot will explore the extraordinary hardships that befell Annie at such a young age and the great sense of human endeavour associated with her childhood. This new play will be told with wit, magic, death-defying shoot-outs, live Country and Western, blues and ballads, with theatrical flair in a Wild West escapade for all the family.

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Maude Gonne Says No to the Poet

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In this fictional treatment of the relationship between Maud Gonne, Irish revolutionary and actress, and the poet W.B. Yeats, Maud and her daughter Izzie, prepare to testify at the trial of Maud's estranged husband, John MacBride - on trial for his life because of his part in the Easter Revolution of 1917. Maud must face up to the disastrous conse quences of her manipulation of MacBride, and yearns for the counsel and solace of her old lover, Yeats. Confronted with evidence of her dwindling powers, she refuses to attend the trial. Later, Yeats appears with the news of MacBride's execution. He repeats a proposal of marriage made thirty years earlier. How and why Maud tells him no frames the dilEmma of human relationships explored in the play; the desire for vulnerability subjugated by the need for control.

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Bay Area Playwrights Festival, San Francisco, CA    -

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Palm Sunday

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Penelope's House

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Julian Theatre, San Francisco, CA    -

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Song of a Nomad Flute

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Based on the legend of Lady Wen Chi, a Chinese noblewoman abducted by marauding nomads in 200 A.D. Wen Chi's resistance to change and insistence on isolation precipitates a violent struggle between herself and the nomad chieftain T'ai Han. He pits himself against her death wish and conspires with the harsh elements of the steppes to strip her layers of acquired personality and reveal, at the core, the durable consciousness of life Wen Chi always possessed. Stylistically, the play draws upon elements of Oriental theatre; it requires a great deal of movement, stresses the visual and is highly theatrical.

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full length Play/Drama

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Still Life

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A young teacher is brought face-to-face with the fragility of her aspirations in the contemporary world. With her lover breaking away in pursuit of his career and her colleagues battling to save the school from closing, Elsie finds herself turning for answers to an unlikely source: Maisie, the schizophrenic mother of her best friend. Maisie not only turns Elsie's values on end but throws the household into chaos as she careens towards a breakdown, forcing each character into an abrupt moment of self-recognition and leaving Elsie, alone by the end, with a stronger more resilient vision.

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full length Play/Drama

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