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Charles Tidler

CHARLES TIDLER

  (1946 - )
Nationality:    Canadian
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CharlesTidler was born in northwestern Ohio 23 April 1946 and grew up in Tipton, Indiana. He attended Purdue University to study poetry and philosophy with Barriss Mills and William Gass, founded the poetry journal Wordjock and earned a B.A. in English literature. A Vietnam War draft resister, Charles immigrated to Canada in 1968, making his home on Salt Spring Island and became a Canadian citizen in 1976. His jazz-inspired one act plays, Blind Dancers (1979) and Straight Ahead (1981), have been produced across Canada, the United States, on a tour of England and in London's West End. They won a Chalmers Outstanding Play Award and a Governor General's Award nomination. Other notable stage plays include The Butcher's Apron (1990), Fabulous Yellow Roman Candle (1993) at the Downtown Toronto Jazz Festival, and Red Mango, a blues (2000). Charles is also a prolific and Actra Award winning radio dramatist with over 40 scripts produced by CBC Radio. Publications include Straw Things: Selected Poetry and Song (2008) and two novels, Going to New Orleans (2004) and Hard Hed: The Hoosier Chapman Papers (2011). The father of two sons, he lives in Victoria, BC.

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

         Blind Dancers         Butcher's Apron         Fabulous Yellow Candle         Farewell Heart, The         Rappaccini's Daughter         Red Mango - A Blues         Sex Change Artist, The         Spit Delaney's Island         Straight Ahead         Tortoise Boy

Blind Dancers

Synopsis:
1947, the trombone player of a Big Band wakes up in a seedy hotel with a young fan. they discover that they got married the night before.

Notes:
Blind Dancers was subsequently produced with a companion one act Straight Ahead at Toronto Free Theatre in 1981; at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, summer '81; at Tricycle Theatre, London, '82.

1st Produced:
City Stage, Vancouver, Canada    Feb 1979

Organisations:
New Play Centre

1st Published:
Ekstasis Editions, 1999 - Jazz Play Trio with Straight Ahead, Fabulous Yellow Roman Candle   1-896860-49-4

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act stage play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Butcher's Apron

Butcher's Apron
Berlin, 1893. A doppelganger cuts out August Strindberg's heart and runs away with it - with Strindberg in pursuit.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Theatre Passe Muraille

1st Published:
Ekstasis Editions, 2006   978-1894800885

Music:
-

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Genre:
Two act stage play

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Fabulous Yellow Candle

Synopsis:
Jack Kerouac flees from the fame that his first novel "On the Road" has brought him

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Passe Muraille, Toronto duMaurier Jazz FestivalTheatre    Jun 1993

Organisations:
New Theatre Projects

1st Published:
Ekstasis Editions, 1999 - Jazz Play Trio with Straight Ahead, Fabulous Yellow Roman Candle and Blind Dancers   1-896860-49-4

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full length stage play in 14 scenes

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  Jazz Trio - sax, bass, drums

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Farewell Heart, The

Synopsis:
An alternative community is about to loose its leader.

Notes:
Robert Frost's poem 'A Peck of Gold' used by permission of The Estate of Robert Frost.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Tarragon Theatre

1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press, 1983   0-88754-386-3

Music:
-

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Genre:
Two act stage play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Rappaccini's Daughter

Rappaccini's Daughter
Professor Rappaccini builds a poison garden so that he can keep his daughter there. But Giovanni sees her and they fall in love. Stage adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne short story.

Notes:
Based on A story by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1st Produced:
The Roger Bishop Theatre, Victoria, BC, Canada    Mar 2003

Organisations:
University of Victoria Theatre Department

1st Published:
Ekstasis Editions, 2005   978-1894800729

Music:
-

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Genre:
Two act stage play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Red Mango - A Blues

Red Mango - A Blues
A celibate man longs for the physical contact on the dance floors of blues clubs

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Studio A, Belfry Theatre, Victoria, BC, Canada    Apr 2000

Organisations:
The Belfry Theatre

1st Published:
Anvil Press, 2001   978-1895636388

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  Blues guitarist

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Sex Change Artist, The

Synopsis:
When he is denied a job because he is a man - lecturer Goodman Fablemaker decides to have a sex change.

Notes:
Script available from the playwright.

1st Produced:
Open Space, Victoria, BC, Canada    Nov 2006

Organisations:
Intrepid Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Two act stage play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Spit Delaney's Island

Synopsis:
A railroader's singular devotion to his train ruins his marriage. Adaptation of a short story by the novelist Jack Hodgins.

Notes:
Script available from the playwright.

1st Produced:
University of Vancouver Island Theatre    Jul 1990

Organisations:
The Nanaimo Theatre Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Two act stage play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Straight Ahead

Synopsis:
A young farm girl defies her father and decides to raise the child she is pregnant with alone.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Waterfront Theatre, Vancouver, Canada    Apr 1981

Organisations:
The New Play Centre

1st Published:
Ekstasis Editions, 1999 - Jazz Play Trio with Straight Ahead, Fabulous Yellow Roman Candle and Blind Dancers   1-896860-49-4

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act stage play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Tortoise Boy

Tortoise Boy
A confrontation between four people at a hospital emergency room

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Studio A, Belfry Theatre, Victoria, BC, Canada    Mar 2004

Organisations:
Other Guys Theatre Company

1st Published:
Anvil Press, 2008   978-1895636956

Music:
-

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Genre:
A full length stage play in 15 scenes

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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