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Ronald Tavel

RONALD TAVEL

  (1936 - 2009)
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc  represented by Ira Silverberg

Ronald Tavel (May 17, 1936 - March 23, 2009) was an American writer, director and actor, best known for his work with Andy Warhol and the Factory. Co-Founder Theater Of The Ridiculous.

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

         Arenas of Lutetia         Ark of God, The         Arse Long - Life Short         Bigfoot         Boy On the Straight-Back Chair         Canticle Of the Nightingale         Christina's World         Cleobis and Bito         Clown's Tail, The         Gazelle Boy         Gorilla Queen         Hanoi Hannah, Radio Star         Harlot         Indira Gandhi's Daring Device         Kitchenette         Last Days of British Honduras, The         Life of Juanita Castro, The         Life of Lady Godiva, The         My Foetus Lived On Amboy Street         Notorious Harik Will Kill the Pope         Nutcracker in the Land of Nuts, The         Ovens of Anita Orangejuice, The         Playbirth         Queen of Greece         Screen Test         Secrets of the Citizens Correction Committee         Shower         Success and Succession         Tarzan of the Flicks         Thick Duck         Understudy, The         Vinyl         Vinyl Visits an FM Station         Words For Bryan To Sing and Dance
Arenas of Lutetia

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1st Produced:
New York     1968

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1st Published:
in "Experiments in Prose", Swallow Press, Chicago, 1969   

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Ark of God, The

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Washington, D.C.     1978

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Arse Long - Life Short

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New York     1972

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Bigfoot

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music by Jeff Labes

1st Produced:
New York     1970

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1st Published:
in "Bigfoot and Other Plays", Winter House, New York, 1973   

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Boy On the Straight-Back Chair

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music by Orville Stoeber

1st Produced:
New York     1969

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1st Published:
in "Bigfoot and Other Plays", Winter House, New York, 1973   

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Canticle Of the Nightingale

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Stockholm     1968

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Christina's World

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in "Chicago Review", Winter-Spring, 1963   

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Cleobis and Bito

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New York     1968

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Genre:
Oratorio

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Clown's Tail, The

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New York     1977

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Gazelle Boy

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Waterford, Connecticut     1977

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Gorilla Queen

Gorilla Queen
A pack of apes; an animal trainer; a chimney sweep who dies and comes back to life; a white waitress who is really a black guy in drag and a Gorilla Queen

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1st Produced:
Judson Poet's Theatre, New York     10 Mar 1967

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1st Published:
in "the Best of Off-Off-Broadway", Dutton, New York, 1969   

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Gay surreal

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Hanoi Hannah, Radio Star

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deals with the Viet Nam War

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http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Bibliographies/VN_drama_bib.php

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Harlot

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in "Film Culture", New York, Spring, 1966   

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scenario

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Indira Gandhi's Daring Device

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1st Produced:
New York     1966

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1st Published:
in "Bigfoot and Other Plays", Winter House, New York, 1973   

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Kitchenette

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1st Produced:
New York     1967

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1st Published:
in "Bigfoot and Other Plays", Winter House, New York, 1973   

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Last Days of British Honduras, The

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New York     1974

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Life of Juanita Castro, The

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1st Produced:
New York     1965

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1st Published:
in "Bigfoot and Other Plays", Winter House, New York, 1973   

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Life of Lady Godiva, The

Life of Lady Godiva, The
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1st Produced:
New York     1966

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1st Published:
in "the New Underground theatre", Bantam, New York, 1968   

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My Foetus Lived On Amboy Street

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broadcast 1979

1st Produced:
New York     1985

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Notorious Harik Will Kill the Pope

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New York     1986

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Nutcracker in the Land of Nuts, The

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music by Simeon Westbrooke

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Ovens of Anita Orangejuice, The

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Playbirth

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New York     1976

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Queen of Greece

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Jackee former First Lady coverts the crown of Greece. Greece is populated with people from all times. There is Aristotle and Onasis. Socrates who is a rampant pederast. Plato is a drag queen and the ghost of Byron flits about

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1st Produced:
New York     1973

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Surreal

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Screen Test

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1st Produced:
New York     1966

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Secrets of the Citizens Correction Committee

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1st Produced:
New York     1972

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1st Published:
in "Scripts 3", New York, January, 1972   

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Shower

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1st Produced:
New York     1965

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1st Published:
in "Bigfoot and Other Plays", Winter House, New York, 1973   

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Success and Succession

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New York     1983

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Tarzan of the Flicks

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1st Produced:
Plainfield, Vermont     1965

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in "Blacklist 6", Maplewood, New Jersey, 1965   

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Thick Duck

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New York     1988

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Understudy, The

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Ithaca, New York     1981

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Vinyl

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1st Produced:
New York     1967

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1st Published:
in "Clyde, vol2, no 2", New York, 1966   

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Vinyl Visits an FM Station

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1st Produced:
New York     1970

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in "Drama Review", New York, September, 1970   

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Words For Bryan To Sing and Dance

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1st Produced:
New York     1971

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