Brandy

Other Plays by Hrant Alianak

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Alianak, Hrant (Canadian playwright, 1950-____), "Brandy,"

a __-minute comedy in English, set in _____, _____,

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• in Hrant Alianak’s Brandy: A Play, 1st edition (Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Playwrights Co-op, 1973), LCCN 75-316358;

• also, in Return of the Big Five: Plays, with an interview by Urjo Kareda; edited by Connie Brissenden (Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Fineglow Plays, c1974, 1975), ISBN 0969049617, LCCN 75332662, 173 pp., containing "Brandy," "Christmas," "Mathematics," "Tantrums," "Western";

• also, in Return of the Big Five (Toronto, Ontario, Canada: NC Press, 1975), containing "Brandy," "Christmas," "Mathematics," "Tantrums," "Western";

• script available from Playwrights Union of Canada, 54 Wolseley Street, 2nd Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5T 1A5, Canada, telephone 416-703-0201, fax 416-703-0059, e-mail cdplays@interlog.com, http://www.puc.ca;

• rights available from Carl Liberman, The Characters, 150 Carlton Street, Toronto, Ontario M5A 2R1, Canada, telephones 416-964-8522, 416-964-8206.

• Cited in The Brock Bibliography of Published Canadian Plays in English 1766-1978, edited by Anton Wagner (Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Playwrights Press, 1980). ISBN 0-88754-157-7, ISBN 0-88754-155-0.

• Also, cited in Playwrights Union of Canada Catalog of Canadian Plays 1998-1999, 112 pp.

Dramatis Personae

Little Guy (m), _____; Big Guy (m), _____; Dumb Brunette (f), _____; Blonde (f), _____.

Synopsis

"Sexy, fast, funny action as the Little Guy wins the heart of the Dumb Brunette and the Blonde runs off with the Big Guy." — PUC, 18.

Comment

• "A clearing in the jungle is the backdrop for a series of comic scenes between Jeremia, the native tribal chief with ‘lots of muscles’, Hubert, ‘a spectacled, skinny nobody’, the flat-chested Blonde and the well-endowed Brunette."—Brock, 46.

• First produced in 1973 by Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto, Canada.

• "Hrant Alianak lives in Toronto. He has directed all first productions of his plays (except for his very first play), as well as most of the subsequent productions, including those in New York and London, England. He has also directed and/or produced plays by other writers. As well, he works as an actor, primarily in films and television." — Hrant Alianak, http://www.puc.ca/cgi-bin/puc/catalogue.cgi?function=detail&Authors_uid=5, accessed October 12, 2001.

Themes

body beautiful, breast,chief, jungle, native, nerd, stereotype, tribe.