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Robert S Ross

ROBERT S ROSS  (1938 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  


Born in Winthrop, MA, January 21, 1938. Educated at Boston University, BA., Cum laude; San Francisco State University, M.A.; currently concluding Ph.D. program at the University of Southern California. In addition to his doctoral studies and writing for the stage, he is currently teaching classes in Theatre at the University of Southern California. Recipient: Story College Creative Award for Death of the Colonel; (Fellowship for Doctoral Program in Theater History, USC. Shubert Fellowship in Playwriting at San Francisco State University.

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below is a list of Robert S Ross's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Ishtar         Promise Of the Raining Aged         Queen Can Lay Eggs, A

Ishtar

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Ishtar: A tenuous family relationship is disrupted when the son brings home a young girl of questionable repute. During her Stay She inadvertently brings to the forefront the dissatis-factions, frustrations, illusions, and disappointments that exist in the family relationships. They discover that they have chosen their hell by pretending that they are victims of circumstance who cannot change their nature. This allows each a sense of previously unexperienced freedom and points them toward a more healthy and constructive future as a family unit.

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Promise Of the Raining Aged

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Promise of the Raining Aged: The play tells the story of a middle-class black youth torn between the demands and needs of his white buddies, his father, the white girl he grows to love, and an old black man who attempts to help him. It treats in a sensitive and human way the growth of a heterosexual relationship between a black and a white without overt racial overtones or sexual sensationalism. The story is told through the eyes of an aging black who has found a kind of peace that by 1960 seemed no longer possible for a much newer generation, whether it was white or black. It concentrates on the development and collapse of relationships among young people for whom the future is uncertain and the past unclear. Their struggle is a positive affirmation of human values and the dreams of youth

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Queen Can Lay Eggs, A

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A Queen Can Lay Eggs: An aging professor, Baratnal, disillusioned, disgruntled, and lost, is torn between the sociological norm of accepted moralities, and the new consciousness of the 1960's. Baratnal has been involved for many years in a mutually-destructive homosexual relationship with a colleague. A new graduate student enters the picture, creating a triangle of conflict leading to an explosive rift among all three parties; but the experience enables Baratnal to gain inner peace and an objective perspective on his life.

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formerly "the Ghost Violets"

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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