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Doric Wilson

DORIC WILSON

  (1939 - 2011)
Nationality:    USA
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Barry Child at TOSOS II acts as agent: tosos2@nyc.rr.com. "A quintessentially urban Dramatist. . . Doric Wilson specializes in stylish farce, ironic comedy of wit, and urban satire. . . his combination of fantasy and whimsy and his intellectual dialectic suggests the touch of a Giraudoux or a Shaw. . . yet underlying his often caustic comedy is surprisingly romantic sensibility"
Tish Dace, Contemporary Dramatists (St. James Press, London)

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         Ad Hoc Committee         And He Made a Her         Babel, Babel, Little Tower         Body Count         Forever After: A Vivisection of Gaymate Love, Without Intermission         In Absence         It Was a Very Good Year         Night Salome Danced, The         Night We Buried Judy Garland, The         Now She Dances!         Perfect Relationship, A         Pretty People         Saints On a Secret Mission         Send Off, The         Street theater: the Twenty-Seventh of June, 1969         Surprise         Turnabout         West Street Gang, The
Ad Hoc Committee

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1st Produced:
New York     1978

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And He Made a Her

And He Made a Her
a satirical look at Adam and Eve.

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This special edition Doric Wilson's And He Made A Her includes the full text of Mr. Wilson's "Cino play" plus A live 1961 Caffe Cino recording of the original production. This miraculous text And CD combo takes you back to the birthplace of Off-Off Broadway through the Ambient sounds of Caffe Cino itself And the voices of the original cast: Larry Neil Clayton, Paxton Whitehead, Karl Schenzer, Gary Filsinger And Jane Lowry. the recording Also captures Joe Cino in one of his legendary passing-the-hat speeches.

1st Produced:
Caffe Cino, New York     18 Mar 1961

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1st Published:
United Stages, www.unitedstages.com (2006)   

Music:
For archival purposes, a CD of a 1961 Cino performance of And He Made A Her with Jane Lowry and Paxton Whitehead is available from Doric Wilson - doricw@nyc.rr.com

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Comedy. - - Gay, full length

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Babel, Babel, Little Tower

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Caffe Cino, New York     1961

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Body Count

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1st Produced:
New York     1971

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Forever After: A Vivisection of Gaymate Love, Without Intermission

Forever After: A Vivisection of Gaymate Love, Without Intermission
Two Muses intervene in a gay play. David "Actually, we're straight". Thalia "Straight?". Tom "All actors are".

Notes:
written for the First Gay American Arts Festival

1st Produced:
28th Street Theatre,NYC     22 May 1980

Organisations:
Bill Blackwell for the glines

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Gay, full length

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Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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In Absence

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1st Produced:
New York     1968

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It Was a Very Good Year

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New York     1970

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Night Salome Danced, The

Synopsis:
a critique-cum- celebration of Oscar Wilde

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1st Produced:
Gilmorehill G12, Glasgow     2000

Organisations:
Flexible Deadlock

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Night We Buried Judy Garland, The

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This is the UK title of "Street theatre the Twenty-Seventh Of June 1969"

1st Produced:
Shaw, London     1994

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Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Now She Dances!

Now She Dances!
a comic re-imagination of Oscar Wilde's Salome that mixes past and present, fact and fiction, to explore the cultural attitudes that foster human intolerance. All about the play >>>

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1st Produced:
Caffe Cino, New York     1961

Organisations:
TOSOS

1st Published:
United Stages, www.unitedstages.com (2004)   

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Genre:
comedy/satire. - - Gay, full length

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Perfect Relationship, A

Perfect Relationship, A
"Barry's bisexual - he's into men and himself, & not in that order". All about the play >>>

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1st Produced:
45th Street Theatre, NYC     22 Mar 1979

Organisations:
the Glines (John Glines and Larry lane)

1st Published:
in "Two Plays", Sea Horse Press, New York, 1979; TnTClassic Books >>>   

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Genre:
a domestic comedy in two acts. - - Gay, full length

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Pretty People

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1st Produced:
Caffe Cino, New York     1961

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Saints On a Secret Mission

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1st Produced:
Seattle     1986

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Send Off, The

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one Act version of TRICK OR TREAT written by Doric Wilson And Michael Devereaux

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Street theater: the Twenty-Seventh of June, 1969

Street theater: the Twenty-Seventh of June, 1969
This historic play is a satirical depiction of Christopher Street in the hours leading up to the Stonewall RiotsAll about the play >>>

Notes:
United Stages - www.UnitedStages.com (2005) 978-1-59783-016-4. Updated Actor's edition, this is the only version Authorized by the Author for performance.

1st Produced:
New York     1981

Organisations:
TOSOS

1st Published:
JH Press, New York, 1983; TnTClassic Books >>>   

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Genre:
comedy/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Male:  11            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Surprise

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New York     1978

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Turnabout

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as Howard Aldon

1st Produced:
Richland, Washington     1979

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West Street Gang, The

Synopsis:
subtitled "a polemical satire in two acts," takes place entirely in a gay bar (and was first produced in a gay bar). Although its ensemble cast of urban characters resembles those in Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead, the West Street Gang focuses exclusively on gay concerns. In addition to representing the milieu of a gay bar of the era, the play explores the ramifications of a gaybashing and includes a character named Bnita Aryant, a reference to 1970s anti-gay activist Anita Bryant (a revised version of the play, updated for the new millennium, allows for the substitution of anti-gay radio personality, Dr. Laura Schlessinger). All about the play >>>

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1st Produced:
New York     1977

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1st Published:
in "Two Plays", Sea Horse Press, New York, 1979; TnTClassic Books >>>   

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Genre:
Gay, full length

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