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Kenneth Robbins

KENNETH ROBBINS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Ann Elmo Agency, Inc  

Kenneth Robbins's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Atomic Field         Audition, The         Bar None         Creeping Charley         Good and Dandy World, A         Hunger Feast, The         In Silence         Matchless         Molly's Rock         One Man's Hero         One Stop Cafe         Piecemeal         Pride Goeth         Shane         Sisters All         Warwoman Of Wauhatchee Creek, The

Atomic Field

Synopsis:
In 1985 as Howie Long dies of lung cancer, it is discovered by his family that he had been a participant not only in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki but was part of the nuclear testing program following the end of WWII.

Notes:
winner of the Charles Getchell New Play Award. part of A semester-long project related to the end of WWII

1st Produced:
University Of South Dakota    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Southern Theatre (Available on-line: www.singlelane.com/proplay), 1996   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Audition, The

Synopsis:
Amy arrives at a theatre for an audition but the place is deserted. Then she discovers she has been locked in. To pass time she does some of her audition pieces. She discovers a loaded gun in a prop bag

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
proplay.ws   -

Music:
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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Bar None

Synopsis:
the contemporary issues (rape of a twelve year old Japanese girl) and the bombing of Nagasaki 50 years earlier collide in this unusual comedy of character.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Unproduced    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
author manuscript,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Black Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  3 Asian

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Creeping Charley

Synopsis:
Lambert's tennis partner is dying of cancer; his wife is struggling with the works of John Steinbeck as they relate to political correctness and his lawn has been attcked by a killer creeper

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Good and Dandy World, A

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
www.mindminded.com/public_library/plays/kenneth_robbins_a_good_and_dandy_world   -

Music:
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Genre:
-

Parts:
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Hunger Feast, The

Synopsis:
Missy in accomplishing her 10th grade sociology assignment of studying world hunger assumes the life style of a Somalian teenage girl

Notes:
winner of the Humbolt State University New Play Award

1st Produced:
Humbolt State University    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
author manuscript,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

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In Silence

Synopsis:
The Warsaw Ghetto 1942. Five women are arrested and have to plead their cases to the Nazi. They all refuse apart from one

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
proplay.ws   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Matchless

Synopsis:
Celestine invites General Sherman to her home for Christmas diner. He accepts. Celestine has cornered the market in matches in the hope of saving her town

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
proplay.ws   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  12            Other:  doubling

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Molly's Rock

Synopsis:
Molly is dead; three men return to her "rock" to pay homage and the truth of her mysterious death comes to light

Notes:
winner of the Western Illinois University New Play Award

1st Produced:
Western Illinois University    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Palmetto Publishing (out of print),    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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One Man's Hero

Synopsis:
the heroics of General John Hunt Morgan provide the epic story of heroism gone amok during the American Civil War

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Humbolt State University    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
author manuscript,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Historical Drama

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  4            Other:  doubling

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One Stop Cafe

Synopsis:
In 1964, Leon Spurgeon responds to the nightly attacks of a group of punks who refuse to leave his out-of-doors Coca Cola machine alone with drastic measures.

Notes:
Winner of the Festival of Southern theatre Award

1st Produced:
Ole Miss    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
author manuscript,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Piecemeal

Synopsis:
Dean and Maggie meet to disperse their joint belongings as they prepare for their impending divorce

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Unproduced    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
author manuscript,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Pride Goeth

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Baseball Monologues, Heineman Educational (ed Lavonne Mueller), 1997   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
monologue One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Shane

Synopsis:
the mythical hero, Shane, rides into the life of a 10 year old boy living on a homestead in Wyoming, 1889, and saves him and his family from the evil of the local ranchers.

Notes:
Stage Adaptation of SHANE by Jack Schaefer, starred Bruce Campbell in the First Frontier, Inc. production

1st Produced:
First Frontier Inc., Xenia, Oh    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
author manuscript,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  16            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Sisters All

Synopsis:
the classic American west is revisited in this mythical story of the mysterious stranger and his efforts to assist a struggling family of farmers

Notes:
adapted from the play, Cry Havoc by Allan Kenward

1st Produced:
Ruston Community Theatre    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
author manuscript,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  12            Other:  Asian Man

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Warwoman Of Wauhatchee Creek, The

Synopsis:
A fun treatment of the Nancy Hart Legend, the woman who singlehandedly captured five British soldiers during the Revolutionary War

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Minot State University    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Encore Play Publishing,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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