| by McEwen, Robert |
| A boxing fantasy inspired by the legendary Latino boxer Roberto Duran, as vicious a fighter as any who ever stepped into the ring, and whose glorious rise to fame and stunning fall from grace are told against a back story of childhood abuse. |
Development and Production Status * Dialogue Sample * Specifications * Development and Production History * Review * Short Bio * Special Audience Appeal * E-mail Specs
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| Development and Production Status |
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| Dialogue Sample |
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| "There is no nautilus machine for character. You can't work the muscle of a man's soul. His capacity to endure - to withstand adversity - is fixed at birth. Like the size of his pinga. It is either large or small and there is no changing it. Don't suggest that he should try. You will only humiliate him further." |
| Specifications |
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| Biographical drama with music. 24 actors, multiple sets. |
| Development and Production History |
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| Staged reading at Harold Clurman Theater, NYC. Full production at University of Iowa Theatre, Iowa City. Not produced professionally. |
| Review |
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"As any school child can tell you, the new theater season begins on June 1. So how long did it take us to get a likely contender for Best New Play of the 1995-96 Season? About 20 hours and 20 minutes. For at 8 PM on June 1, at the Clurman Theater, Robert McEwen's 'Cholo!' received a staged reading. By 8:20 PM, it had blown us away."
-- Peter Filichia, Theatre Week, June 1995 |
| Short Bio |
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| ROBERT MCEWEN is a winner of two of the nation's top awards for dramatists: first prize in the 21st Century Playwrights Festival (for his play Cholo!) in judging chaired by Edward Albee; and second prize in the Fourth Freedom Foundation competition at The Kennedy Center (for his play Son Of A Gonne) in judging chaired by Lanford Wilson. Many of McEwen's plays were written during his fellowship in the Iowa Writers Workshop, including the short satires in his just-published anthology Tales Of The Pea Sea. Earlier in his career, McEwen wrote for The AP, covering the mass suicides of the Peoples Temple congregation; the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk; the murder trial of Black Panther Huey Newton; and Cesar Chavez's crusade to organize of farm labor. After working as a reporter, McEwen was a junior college basketball coach in Rochester, NY, where his won-lost record was 46-9. More recently, McEwen held senior management positions at three of the world's leading PR firms. He was graduated from Georgetown University with a B.A. in English. |
| Special Audience Appeal |
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| Latino/Hispanic, Boxing Fans |
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