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Paul K Smith

PAUL K SMITH

  
Nationality:    USA
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Paul K Smith's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Paul K Smith's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Arms Of Desire         Bringing Back the Chair         City Hawks         City Suite, A         Countdown!         Lie / Life, Woman / Wife ("THE MOON FARMERS," a full-length drama)         Man In The Land Of Pure Delight, A ("Sweetmeat & Rotgut")         Mata Hari Turns Forty         Mermaid Island         Othella the Woman, in the 21st Century         Port Desire         Till the Last Dog's Hung         White Widow (also presented as "The Woman who Braided the Rings of Saturn," a full-length drama)         Wild Bess

Arms Of Desire

Synopsis:
The love story of Ivan the Terrible and Queen Elizabeth I. A play about the differing expectations two people in a romance can have of each other, and how it colors their worlds forever. And a powerful woman blacksmith who forges the magical Excaliburs of her age. Excerpts presented at Huckleberry Theatre, Vancouver. A sequel to Wild Bess. Based on true events.

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1st Produced:
Huckleberry, Vancouver    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Adventure, romance, biography

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Bringing Back the Chair

Synopsis:
A play about Old Sparky. A vaudeville about the death penalty. The interesting thing is, in performance, those in the audience who support the death penalty felt the play opposes the death penalty. Those who oppose the death penalty felt that this play supports it. (It doesn't). 26 executions (and distinct personality responses), 1 paternalistic warden. Although farcical (Not sardonic) -- it is based on true events at Sing Sing.

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1st Produced:
Vaudeville, dark comedy, farce    

Organisations:
S.E.P.P.

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  3-27            Female:  -            Other:  -

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City Hawks

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Well-reviewed. Full houses throughout the run. A Russian Camelot. Set in a time when politics were wonderful, business was ennobling and exciting, and love was magical and fulfilling. Had to search history pretty hard to find a time like that.

1st Produced:
7 Stages, Atlanta    

Organisations:
7 Stages, Atlanta

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Full-length Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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City Suite, A

Synopsis:
For the many who do not live life in hotel suites, but on the streets: a city suite. From Noon to Midnight, 12 Hours in the life of the city. Opens with God and Ms. God in their hotel room checkout time Closes in a convenience store with a double race-against-time.

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Genre:
dark comedy, drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  4

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Countdown!

Synopsis:
On Trust and Compulsions, Taboos and Obsessions. Late at night in the City. . . a deadly encounter with a twist

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1st Produced:
-     2017

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
comedy of menace

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Lie / Life, Woman / Wife ("THE MOON FARMERS," a full-length drama)

Synopsis:
A man of ideals comes to another man's home to execute him. The wife welcomes him, convinced it is her old lover from many years ago come to see her, romance her, and woo her away. Written so the same actor could portray both the target and the assassin: both the husband - and her first love, that so haunts her.

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Genre:
A full-length ceremony for the stage

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  4            Other:  For cast of 6 with doubling

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Man In The Land Of Pure Delight, A ("Sweetmeat & Rotgut")

Synopsis:
Set in the Hill Country. The time is 1959, a turning point in America: as the nation became more urban than rural. Like that Buddhist tale of the death of the last saint at the hands of the world's first philosopher- here the battle between the two main characters - Betty and Karen - parallels the beginning of the death of the Country at the hands of the City. "When a man needs a woman to make him feel young, it is hard on a woman to grow older," Betty says when we first meet her. Then after her Two Act, 15-round prizefight with Karen, she says, "My heart's like land that's all played out. Nothing new is going to grow in it, now." And between those poles, there is Preston. (" I don't plant my seed, and then just walk away.") This play is their story.

Notes:
A "sweeping, magical tale" of the New Old West -Williamstown Festival).

1st Produced:
Atlanta    

Organisations:
Piedmont Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama and love story

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Mata Hari Turns Forty

Synopsis:
Mata Hari turns forty: The title says it all. A play celebrating the most fascinating creature in the world: a woman of forty.

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1st Produced:
Southesten Playwrights Project    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adventure, biography

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Mermaid Island

Synopsis:
Dramatizes the Buddhist tale of the death of the world's last saint at the hands of the world's first philosopher.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Green's, Emory Villafe, Atlanta    

Organisations:
S.E.P.P.

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
experimental, fable/folktale

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Othella the Woman, in the 21st Century

Synopsis:
Othella confesses to the Police.

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1st Produced:
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Music:
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Genre:
ten min play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Port Desire

Synopsis:
Set in a Racinian palace on Triton, the moon that orbits Neptune. A spacecraft is seen in the sky, coming towards them, fro the third planet (= Earth) . One faction at court says they are coming to attack them. The other faction says they are coming to liberate them from this frozen Hell. {The spacecraft features 3 singing astronauts and a beer-swilling pit bull.} The language is drawn from 14th-century Persian love poetry -- and yet - the play feels naturalistic to audiencesworks.

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Genre:
adventure, comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Till the Last Dog's Hung

Synopsis:
Set in a lumber camp in the American Colony of the Philippines (1930's). Over the top. Audience favorite was "Slanting Anny," the stalking sister of the gun-toting Lovely Lydia.

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Genre:
full-length, an angry comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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White Widow (also presented as "The Woman who Braided the Rings of Saturn," a full-length drama)

Synopsis:
An astrologer and an astronomer find each other, in a love story that transcends time. And where puzzles may have answes - but not mysteries. Richieliu and the French King mirrror the events in the present, thanks to a no-nosense Shaman healer.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Alliance Theatre, Atlanta    

Organisations:
Piedmont Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
A drama about the corporate family.

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Wild Bess

Synopsis:
Produced like a Brechtian epic, at a cabaret venue, Café Picasso. One reviewer described it as "a fairy tale princess being thrust into history." Elizabeth I as the Moses of her people. The sound palette incorporates poly-rhythmic music, including the music off Tibet as the Armada approaches; the music mirrors the woman at three ages. Dramatizes the birth of core geopolitical ideas (500 years later) our conceptual constructs like "balance of power."

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Caffe Picasso, Decatur    

Organisations:
Café Picasso

1st Published:
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Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Fantasy, adventure, biography

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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