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GLADDEN SCHROCK
Nationality: USA
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Gladden Schrock is a playwright, novelist, essayist, actor, director, and teacher from IndianA. He wrote the plays "MAdam Popov," "Taps," and "Glutt"-the latter two produced together on a double bill as "Two for the Silence." He also wrote the novel "Letters from Alf," which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1973, and the short story "Fragments of a Killdeer," which was originally published in the Massachusetts Review. Schrock was a founding member of the Acting Company and Playwrights Unit at the Long Wharf Theatre and was the first playwright-in-residence at the Yale School of Drama, where received his MFA in Playwriting. He founded the Theatre department at Hampshire College and taught for several years at the prestigious liberal Arts institution Bennington College. He made his film debut in Debra Eisenstadt's award-winning film "Daydream Believer." He has spent a great deal of his career writing award-winning op-ed pieces on the subject of contemporary hysteriA. He lives in Maine.
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Glutt Madam Popov TapsGlutt
Synopsis:
For unspecified crimes against a futuristic collective state, Glutt, a onetime poet, revolutionary, woodsman and loner, has been imprisoned. Using an elaborate sound console for sense stimuli, he is obliged to work with memory "through his web of guilt," settling upon a personal peace before his extermination.
Notes:
Originally produced in tandem with "Taps" under the title "Two for the Silence."
1st Produced:
Organisations:
the Guthrie Theatre
1st Published:
Grove Press: "Guthrie New theater, Vol. 1", 1976 -
Music:
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Play/Drama One Act
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Synopsis:
A slyly disguised tracking of the freedom movement of the 20th Century. A woman relives a moment she's made up in her mind with the help of her servants.
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1st Produced:
the Other Place theatre; Minneapolis, MN 1970
Organisations:
the Guthrie Theatre
1st Published:
University of Minnesota Press: "Playwrights for Tomorrow, Vol. 9", 1972 -
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Male: 4 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageTaps
Synopsis:
A short-form history of man recounted by Sir Ralph and Lady Margaret, as a Moderator keeps the rhythm with a constant tapping.
Notes:
Originally produced in tandem with "Glutt" under the title "Two for the Silence."
1st Produced:
Organisations:
the Guthrie Theatre
1st Published:
Grove Press: "Guthrie New theater, Vol. 1", 1976 -
Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama One Act
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: -
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