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Fisher King
[8599]

$8.95

Drama.

Don Nigro.

8 m, 4 f.

Unit set.

Arthurian legends are reborn in the Civil War era in this addition to the author's Pendragon cycle of plays. In the autumn of 1864, Major Pendragon and some of his men wander in a dark forest, unable to find their way back to the Union Army. They encounter a young man who wants to become a soldier, a tattered revival tent where a demented preacher speaks gibberish while his daughter operates a pump organ, and an old man fishing near a haunted mansion who leads them to the Holy Grail. This eerie play offers new insights into characters also seen in Armitage, Green Man and Sorceress. The author was awarded a Playwriting Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for Fisher King.

FEE:$75 per performance.

Also by Don Nigro available from Samuel French:

Full Length
An Angler in the Lake of Darkness, Anima Mundi, Ardy Fafirsin, Armitage, Blood Red Roses, Boar's Head, Chronicles, Cinderella Waltz, The Circus Animals' Desertion, City of Dreadful Night, The Count of Monte Cristo in the Chateau D’If, The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It, Dramatis Personae, Dreams of a Sinister Castle, Fisher King, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Grotesque Lovesongs, Henry and Ellen, Horrid Massacre in Boston, Iphigenia, Jules Verne Eats a Rhinoceros, Laestrygonians, A Lecture by Monsieur Artaud, Lost Generation, Loves Labours Wonne, Lucia Mad, Maddalena, Madonna, Maelstrom, Mandelstam, Mariner, Martian Gothic, Mephisto, Monkey Soup, My Sweetheart's The Man in the Moon, Nebuchadnezzar, Nightingale, November, The Ogre, Paganini, Pandemonium, Paolo and Francesca, Pelican Daughter, Pendragon, Phoenix, Punch and Judy, Pushkin, Ravenscroft, The Reeves Tale, Robin Hood, Runes, A Russian Play, Seascape with Sharks and Dancer, The Shadows, Sphinx, Sorceress, Tainted Justice, Terre Haute, Thane of Cawdor, Tombstone, Traitors, Transylvanian Clockworks, Tristan, The Winkleigh Murders

Short Plays
Crossing the Bar, God's Spies, Maupassant, Swedish Movie

About the author

Among the most frequently published and widely produced playwrights in the world, Don Nigro has continued to build a deeply inter-related but diverse body of dramatic literature over the years, work that is often mysterious and unclassifiable, employing a wide variety of dramatic conventions and styles of presentation. He has written monologues and epics, spare realistic dramas and surreal homicidal puppet farces, plays with music and verse plays. He continues to build the long cycle of Pendragon County plays, which traces the history of America through the lives of several east Ohio families from the eighteenth century to the present, and features many characters whose lives are followed from youth through middle age to old age in a number of plays designed to be presented in a variety of different combinations. Nigro has twice been a finalist for the National Repertory Theatre Foundation's National Play Award, and has won a Playwriting Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and grants from the Ohio Arts Council and the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation. He has twice been James Thurber Writer in Residence at the Thurber House in Columbus. His work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, German, Polish, Greek, Russian and Chinese. John Clancy's production of Nigro's Cincinnati, featuring Nancy Walsh, won Fringe First and Spirit of the Fringe awards at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Best of Fringe at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, and has toured Britain. Seascape with Sharks and Dancer has been in the repertory of Teatr Syrena in Warsaw, and Lucia Mad was produced at Teatr Julius Slowakie in Krakow. Teatro del Fantasma has presented a Spanish translation of The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines in Mexico City. Widdershins was produced as part of the first International Mystery Festival. Nigro's plays have also been produced in Singapore, Hong Kong and Beijing, and toured India. SpielArt, based in Munich, has translated and toured two productions of his plays in Germany. His work is produced every year in a variety of New York theatres, and has been done at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the McCarter Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Capital Repertory Company, the Hypothetical Theatre, the Berkeley Stage Company, Manhattan Class Company, the People's Light and Theatre Company, Theatre X, Shadowbox Cabaret, the Hudson Guild Theatre, the WPA Theatre, Inertia Productions, Gravity and Glass Productions, the Strain Theatre Company, the Apothecary Theatre Company, Theatre NXS, and many others, in every state.

Born in 1949 in Canton, Ohio, Nigro grew up in Ohio and Arizona. He has a BA in English from The Ohio State University and an MFA in Dramatic Arts from the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa. Nigro has taught courses in Comparative Literature, Dramatic Literature and playwriting at Ohio State, Iowa, Kent State, Indiana State, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Grotesque Lovesongs was translated and produced on Polish television, and the film The Manor, with Peter O'Toole, is based on his play Ravenscroft. One hundred thirty-five of his plays in forty-eight volumes have been published by Samuel French. The Don Nigro Collection at the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute at the Ohio State University contains a growing repository for his manuscripts and other materials.

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