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Brian Shein

BRIAN SHEIN

  (1947 - 1988)
Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Playwrights Guild of Canada  

a former writer for National Lampoon

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

         Boss Ubu         Cowboy Island         Entertainment At the Cafe Terminus, An         Exhibitions         Glossolalia         Ground Zero         Hand         Kafka         Rex Morgan, MD         Steady-State Doomsday         Taking Steam         Trickster

Boss Ubu

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Alfred Jarry. Written with Richard Payne

1st Produced:
University of Ottawa.    1977

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
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Cowboy Island

Synopsis:
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid - the hunter and the hunted

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Factory Theatre Lab in Toronto    1972

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1972   -

Music:
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Genre:
Kabuki-style version of the Billy the Kid story; One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Entertainment At the Cafe Terminus, An

Synopsis:
It centers around Emile Henry, a French anarchist who threw a bomb into a crowded cafe. Shein, at the time, thought it was his best play to date. With the sort of amazing coincidence that sometimes shows up in writers' lives, it was first done on CBC the night of the gala publication party for the Pulp Press book "Class Warfare, Selected Fiction" by his close friend D.M. Fraser.

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1st Produced:
CBC    1974

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "theatrical Exhibitions" published by Pulp Press 1975   -

Music:
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Genre:
radio Drama

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Exhibitions

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
the Vancouver Art Gallery    1973

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Glossolalia

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1st Produced:
the Vancouver Art Gallery    1972

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Music:
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Genre:
Drama One Act

Parts:
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Ground Zero

Synopsis:
dealing with an atomic holocaust

Notes:
aka Steady-State Doomsday

1st Produced:
Steady-State Productions, Vancouver    1972

Organisations:
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1st Published:
published under the title Ground Zero by Pulp Press in theatrical Fxhibitions, 1975   -

Music:
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Genre:
two-act science fiction

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Hand

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "theatrical Exhibitions" published by Pulp Press 1975   -

Music:
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Kafka

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1st Produced:
University of British Columbia in Vancouve    1967

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Prism International, 1968   -

Music:
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Genre:
ritual Drama with a science fiction flavour One Act

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Rex Morgan, MD

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Vancouver Art Gallery    1972

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in theatrical Fxhibitions by Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, 1975   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Steady-State Doomsday

Synopsis:
dealing with an atomic holocaust

Notes:
aka Ground Zero

1st Produced:
Steady-State Productions, Vancouver    1972

Organisations:
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1st Published:
published under the title Ground Zero by Pulp Press in theatrical Fxhibitions, 1975   -

Music:
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Genre:
two-act science fiction

Parts:
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Taking Steam

Synopsis:
A comic play about encroaching death amongst the older members of a Jewish health club. A member dies, causing a crisis amongst those left behind.

Notes:
Written by Brian Shein and Kenneth Klonsky

1st Produced:
Jewish Repertory theatre    1983

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Guild Canada    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Trickster

Synopsis:
reworking of North American/African trickster myths

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Unproduced    1976

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Two Act Play/Drama

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