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Jon Tuttle

JON TUTTLE

  (1959 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency  

Jon Tuttle is Playwright-in-Residence and Literary Manager at the Trustus Theatre in Columbia, SC, and Professor of English at Francis Marion University. His plays-which include Drift, the Hammerstone, Terminal Cafe, Sonata for Armadillos and the White Problem--have received over 100 productions and staged readings in 25 states.

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

         Drift         Fish Story, A         Hammerstone, The         Holy Ghost         Palace of the Moorish Kings, The         Sonata for Armadillos         Sweet Abyss, The         Terminal Cafe         White Problem, The

Drift

Synopsis:
Faced with proof of his infidelity, Barbara is trying to convince herself to leave Arthur, her husband of thirty years. Meanwhile, back at the bar, a pathetic loser named Lee confesses to marrying and cheating on the same woman three times, and tries to elicit similar confessions from everyone else. "Love is loss," he complains. "Family is pain. Marriage is loneliness. We've all been lied to." In Act I, we wonder who he is, why he says such awful things, and why he always seems to be around when marriages are foundering. In Act II, we find out.

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1st Produced:
Trustus Theatre (Columbia, SC, United States)    1998

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
110-125 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  4 males, 3 females

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Fish Story, A

Synopsis:
George shoots a schnauzer and brings it triumphantly back to Zee, who stuffs his pillowcase with bloody fish parts. Fighting ensues, and the flood water outside is rising. For some reason, teenager daughter Annie dreams of escape from all this. Into their mountain cabin stumbles poor Frank, the perfect replacement for the son they lost. Now if only they can keep him without killing him, too.

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1st Produced:
University of New Mexico Summerfest    1985

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Hammerstone, The

Synopsis:
At a small college with virtually no admission requirements, two aging professors deal differently, but disastrously, with the students whose S.A.T. scores are lower than their cholesterol counts-and with their own obsolescence. Victor Ransome has long since given up cajoling his classes into paying attention and now uses insults and threats of physical violence. "I can kill you if I want," he tells a student, "I've got tenure." His best-well, only-friend, Murray Stone, still loves teaching, primarily because it fosters his delusions of perpetual youth. Through their offices come a variety of aggravations in the persons of a completely bewildered baseball player, a smitten spinster, and a gorgeous business major, each of whom serve to remind them that in education come various human responsibilities which sometimes supersede actual teaching. By play's end, Murray has understood this lesson. Victor, however, has not, and is, in fact, quite dead. His death underscores the message at the bottom of the play: that

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1st Produced:
Trustus Theatre, Columbia, SC    1994

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,
in the Trustus Plays, Intellect Books, Bristol, UK   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Holy Ghost

Synopsis:
In 1944, German prisoners-of-war work in South Carolina cotton fields, overseen by black guards who enjoy few of the liberties the prisoners do. One prisoner escapes--armed only with the lines he's learned playing the lead in a camp production of Abe Lincoln in Illinois, and chased by a black private for whom the pursuit is a quest for belonging. their dash across the American South explores the ironies and hypocrisies of the American mythos.

Notes:
Winner, 2004 Sprenger/Lang Foundation's Nathan Miller History Play Award; 2005 Trustus Playwrights Festival; finalist, 2005 Next Generation Playwriting Competition

1st Produced:
Trustus Theatre, Columbia, SC    2005

Organisations:
Trustus Theatre

1st Published:
in the Trustus Plays, Intellect Books, Bristol, UK
in Two South Carolina Plays, Hub City Writers Project, USA   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  0-5

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Palace of the Moorish Kings, The

Synopsis:
Thanksgiving, 1970: The Cowboys and Packers are on TV, John Gary's on the hi-fi, and friends are gathered for their traditional American feast. Members of the Greatest Generation now settled into conventional marriages and predictable careers, they are vaguely aware of the world moving on and away from them&and that something is coming for them. An unexpected call from a world-travelling old friend suddenly makes them confront all the choices they never knew they had, and that part of themselves that has died along the way. Based on the short story by Evan S. Connell, THE PALACE OF THE MOORISH KINGS asks us which terms of surrender we must accept in order to belong, and what we must abandon to stay free.

Notes:
based on the original short story by Evan S. Connell

1st Produced:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   978-0-8222-3195-0

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Sonata for Armadillos

Synopsis:
It's a hot day for three idiots stuck on the Dallas-bound Greyhound bus. Walton wants to be a Cowboy, NElla wants a cowboy, and Stymie's on the run from Stymie -- and just might outrun him. At the end of the road comes sublimity, companionship, and forgiveness, at last.

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1st Produced:
Metropolis Players at Producer's Club (New York, NY, United States)    1990

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
40-50 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  2 males, 1 female

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Sweet Abyss, The

Synopsis:
the death of her long-time companion,  a cat named Izzy, plunges a woman into a bizarre cycle of grief and change.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Trustus Theatre, Columbia, SC    2009

Organisations:
Trustus Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Terminal Cafe

Synopsis:
In the tiny town of San Gabriel, New Mexico, is the Terminal Cafe where the locals hang out complaining about life, each other, and the food while dreaming about something better. there's the Terminal's tough owner, Ro; the town Super, McKay, from back east; Kate and Ben, the town spitfire and the town tough guy, destined to be together; Dawson, the town pup with more heart than brains; Joe, an illiterate widower, raising his teenage son, BB; the fancy and intriguing Carly, new in town and vague of means; and Floyd, half Navajo, as old or older than the town itself. these are simple people; their lives, up to now, have been untouched, almost pure, yet they have passion for life and for one another, with naivete that can be charming as well as devastating. About all San Gabriel can offer, besides the cafe, is a coal mine, which barely keeps the town alive. But after Pearl harbor is bombed, and World War Two becomes a grim reality, the town's mine becomes important both to the War effort and to the mysterious g

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1st Produced:
University of New Mexico    1997

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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White Problem, The

Synopsis:
the White Problem Dramatizes the remarkable life of Richard Greener, the first African-American to graduate from Harvard and one of the leading black intellectuals of the post-Reconstruction era. Facing a future rich with promise, he instead became a pawn in the battle for the hearts and minds of black Americans, was rejected by his wife and children, and died senile and utterly alone. Much of the text -- and the title -- is taken directly from his essays, speeches, and personal papers, and also incorporates the voices of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois and others.

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1st Produced:
Longstreet Theatre, University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC, United States)    2001

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
45-60 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  2 males

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