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Robert William Sherwood

ROBERT WILLIAM SHERWOOD

  
Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Dramatists Play Service  

Robert William Sherwood is an Canadian/Australian playwright

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

         Absolution         B-Play (Broads, Bourbon, Bullets, and Betrayal)         Drinking in Circles         Last True Believer         Spin         Thugs         Unrequited         Zeno's Arrow
Absolution

Synopsis:
A story about a dead girl no one remembers, and none can forget, this is both a murder mystery, as well as a meditation on the meaning of repentance, society, and the truth of memory and words.

Notes:
Nominated for Best Fringe Play of 1997 by the Writers Guild of Great Britain, the play has been produced by Steppenwolf in Chicago And American Repertory theatre At Harvard.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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B-Play (Broads, Bourbon, Bullets, and Betrayal)

Synopsis:
A subversive film noir nightmare, a tale about role-playng, identity, and betrayal, this play tells the story of a cop undercover, lost in a criminal underworld in which everyone is in disguise.

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Organisations:
Shot & Chaser Theatre Company

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Drinking in Circles

Synopsis:
A series of bar conversations, this play tells the story of a disgruntled, average family man who signs over his life insurance policy to a contract killer in return for six months of the sort of life he can only dream of.

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Last True Believer

Synopsis:
A post Cold War tale about a British spy haunted by his last act of treachery, committed against his wife's lover, the play examines idealogical belief in an age when no one believes in anything anymore.

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Spin

Synopsis:
A story of politics, this play concerns a ruthless American primary campaign, a vicious rumour involving the candidate's wife, and a deranged campaign manager who has a single afternoon to determine what the story is, whether it is true, and what he is going to do about it.

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Organisations:
the Independent New York Theatre Company

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Thugs

Synopsis:
A film noir farce, this play concerns a down and out private detective who specialises in cases of male infidelity. Ex-wives, male escort agencies, and middle-aged male encounter groups figure prominently.

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Unrequited

Synopsis:
A Drama of regret, as well as a parable of foreign war, this is the story of an American photojournalist who in order to find meaning in his life abandons the London woman he loves only to encounter tragedy in the killing fields of Kosovo.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Zeno's Arrow

Synopsis:
A social portrait of America, set against a background of cultural doubt, corporate fraud, and career anxiety, this is the story of a birthday party for a sister in which the moral costs of ambition and the meaning of progress become gradually questioned.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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