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Bryan Wade

BRYAN WADE  (1950 - )

 Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Playwrights Guild of Canada  


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

 Alias     Aliens     Anti-Gravitational Menopause     Blitzkrieg     Breakthrough     Dinosaurs     Electric Gunfighters     Land of the Lotus Eaters     Life In The Day Of     Lifeguard     Nightshift     Polderland     Right One, The     Soaring     Tanned     This Side of the Rockies     Tourists     Underground

Alias

Synopsis:
While on his way to the Wasteland for a fresh supply of silver bullets, the Lone Ranger suffers an identity crisis but still manages to rescue a woman in distress

Notes:
written with the Lone Ranger And Tonto

1st Produced:
the University of Guelph    1975

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1974   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  -    Female:  -    Other:  -

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Aliens

Synopsis:
A back alley and fire escape are transformed into a mysterious zone of shifting time and realities - the scene of a sexual power struggle

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Tarragon Theatre, Toronto    1974

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1975   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  1    Female:  2    Other:  -

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Anti-Gravitational Menopause

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Unproduced    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1974   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  -    Female:  -    Other:  -

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Blitzkrieg

Synopsis:
The setting is the Berghof, Hitler's chalet in the Bavarian Alps. An unique look at the personal lives of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, in whose dreams and desires the full impact and brutality of the war is felt

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
-

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Breakthrough

Synopsis:
A fictionalized account in the life of painter Tom Thomson. During a wilderness trip Tom rescues and falls in love with Frances Warren, but the harmony dissolves when Frances decides to become a front line nurse in World War I.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
produced in a closed workshop at the Stratford Festival    1976

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
fictional romance

Parts:
Male:  5    Female:  3    Other:  -

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Dinosaurs

Synopsis:
A young married couple tries to deal with the pressures of unemployment in the traditional roles that they have assumed for themselves

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2    Female:  2    Other:  -

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Electric Gunfighters

Synopsis:
Pete and Bob enact Western movie cliches with a TV set's white noise in the background. High camp comedy about the effect of media on our lives

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Tarragon Theatre, Toronto    1973

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in an anthology along with Nightsh~ft and Lifeguard, Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1975   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  2    Female:  -    Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Land of the Lotus Eaters

Synopsis:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  5    Female:  2    Other:  -

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Life In The Day Of

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Written by Bryan Wade And Joey Miller

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Lifeguard

Synopsis:
A surrealistic encounter between a middle-aged couple and a lifeguard on the beach

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Play Centre at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver    1973

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in an anthology along with Nightsh~ft and Lifeguard, Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1975   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  3    Female:  2    Other:  -

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Nightshift

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Space Tool Company, Ottawa    1973

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in an anthology along with Nightsh~ft and Lifeguard, Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1975   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  -    Female:  -    Other:  -

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Polderland

Synopsis:
A patrol of Canadian soldiers takes refuge for one night in a Dutch farmhouse behind enemy lines in World War II. The youngest discovers the price of war when he is forced to deal with a young German soldier

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4    Female:  2    Other:  -

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Right One, The

Synopsis:
Talking deer heads and naked women sleeping in bathtubs are only part of what goes wrong for a young couple on their wedding day

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4    Female:  3    Other:  -

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Soaring

Synopsis:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  1    Female:  1    Other:  -

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Tanned

Synopsis:
Three women at a summer cottage attempt to deal with themselves and the men in their troubled lives

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Factory Theatre Lab, Toronto    1976

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1976   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  3    Female:  3    Other:  -

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This Side of the Rockies

Synopsis:
Three young men are changed by their weekend camping expedition following encounters with two psychopathic hunters, a corpse and an unearthly woman

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Factory Theatre Lab, Toronto    1977

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1977   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Two Acts Drama Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5    Female:  1    Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Tourists

Synopsis:
suspense thriller set in Toronto.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
full-length stage play

Parts:
Male:  -    Female:  -    Other:  -

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Underground

Synopsis:
A triangle of two men and a woman takes us through many levels of eroticism and ends in a ritualistic suicide

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Factory Theatre Lab, Toronto    1975

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1975   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Three Act Drama

Parts:
Male:  2    Female:  1    Other:  -

Further Reference:
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