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Jeff Sugg

JEFF SUGG

  
Nationality:    USA
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Jeff Sugg's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Accidental Nostalgia         Must Don't Whip 'Um         Success of Failure (or, The Failure of Success), The

Accidental Nostalgia

Synopsis:
Accidental Nostalgia is an operetta about the pros and cons of amnesia. the main character is one Cameron Seymour, a neurologist specializing in the memory function of the brain, who is delivering a lecture about an autobiographical book she has just published called How to Change Your Mind: A Self-Help Manual for Psychogenic Amnesiacs. She begins to tell the audience the story of the research she did to write the book, which was an investigation of her own psychogenic (emotionally driven) amnesia. the audience then follows her journey back to the house she grew up in - located in her home town of Carlson, Georgia - where she hopes to trigger missing memories of her childhood, and to find her father, from whom she has been estranged for many years. It turns out that her Father is missing and that she is wanted for his murder, though it is unknown whether he was murdered, committed suicide, or simply disappeared. . .. . . and from that point on, the show becomes a bit of a thriller. the narrative of Accidental Nostalgia is punctuated by songs, dance numbers, and interactions with peripheral characters who appear on a large film projection screen. the screen also serves to shift the atmosphere via projections of text and images, manipulated live by designers/performers Findlay and Sugg. It is a hybrid form containing hybrid content, from the outlandish to the philosophical to the deeply personal. It is a mixture of truth and fiction, song and text, movement and stillness.

Notes:
by Cynthia Hopkins with the collaboration of Jim Findlay And Jeff Sugg. Part I of the Accidental Trilogy

1st Produced:
St. Ann's Warehouse (Brooklyn, NY)    2004

Organisations:
Accinosco

1st Published:
Contained in: "Play - A Journal Of Plays" issue three   -

Music:
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Genre:
operetta

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Must Don't Whip 'Um

Synopsis:
A prequel to the events in the critically acclaimed operetta Accidental Nostalgia, Must Don't Whip 'Um is the story of one Cameron Seymour (the same Cameron Seymour whose identity was stolen by the narrator in Accidental Nostalgia): an obscure and almost totally forgotten pop star from the 1970's whose financial, artistic, personal and political failures have brought her to the verge of a nervous breakdown, resulting in her desire to quit the entertainment industry and escape from the United States, in order to join a Sufi brotherhood in Morocco. Must Don't Whip 'Um uses as its main conceit Ms. Seymour's "farewell concert" - a celebratory, ecstatic last waltz' during which she mysteriously disappears - presented by Ms. Seymour's daughter, who is attempting to create a documentary about her mother's disappearance.

Notes:
by Cynthia Hopkins with the collaboration of Jim Findlay And Jeff Sugg. Part II of the Accidental Trilogy

1st Produced:
Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis    2007

Organisations:
Accinosco

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
operetta

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Success of Failure (or, The Failure of Success), The

Synopsis:
When Min Suk Chun returns from Korea on his 60th birthday to reclaim the wife and children he abandoned in the U.S. fifteen years earlier, he is forced to take stock of his life, his dreams, and what he left behind.
- http://www.aatrevue.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
2G    2005

Organisations:
Accinosco

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
operetta

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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