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CARLO ARDITO |
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Literary Agent: Laurence Fitch Ltd |
Carlo Ardito is a playwright, adaptor and translator whose work has been performed on stage and BBC Radio in Britain and throughout the English-speaking world. A recent study on his dramatisation of Italo Svevo's novel Confessions of Zeno was published in the volume of essays Writers and Performers in Italian Drama from the time of Dante to Pirandello (Edwin Mellen Press, 1992) His volume of translations: Eduardo de Filippo Three Plays (Hamish Hamilton 1976) was shortlisted for the Florio Prize. His translations of Grand Magic, Filumena Marturano, and The Local Authority are available in Four Plays by Eduardo de Filippo in the Methuen World Dramatists series. His version of Grand Magic, directed by Richard Eyre, was staged in July 1995 by the Royal National Theatre. He was recently commissioned and is currently working on new versions of six plays by Pirandello for the Calder Collected Edition of Plays by that author. He lives and works in London.
Plays by Carlo Ardito
Bed For The Knight, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Three Plays" published by Amber Lane 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1872868288 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131934 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
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| The wife of the Home Secretary wakes up one morning to find a strange man asleep in her bed | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Brief Candle | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Brief Candle" published by Amber Lane Press 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1872868233 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1042 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 1 narrator | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| When she died Marie Bashkirtseff left 103 volumes of her diaries - and she was only 24 when she died. | |||||
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Confessions Of Zeno | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Brief Candle" published by Amber Lane Press 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1872868233 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131935 | |||
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Genre: | Historical drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Pre World War One Trieste and psychoanalysis is being touted as a cure for smoking | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Da Ponte's Last Stand | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Brief Candle" published by Amber Lane Press 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1872868233 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131936 | |||
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Genre: | Historical drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| New York 1838. Da Ponte - Mozart's librettist looks back on his life | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Filumena Martrano | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio 4 | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1043 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Eduardo de Filippo (1946) | |||||
Synopsis: | Italian husband is father of one of three sons, but which? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Grand Magic | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio 3 | 1975 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1044 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Eduardo de Filippo; aka The Gift Of Illusion (La Grande Magia, 1948) | |||||
Synopsis: | the illusionist gives his best performance as husband agonises over opening a box to reveal his wife's infidelity | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Living Dangerously | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #119035 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Eduardo de Filippo | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Local Authority, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC World Service | 1979 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1045 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Eduardo de Filippo (Il Sindaco del Rione Sanita, 1960) | |||||
Synopsis: | an arbitrator in local disputes is fatally stabbed, truth will out even if it causes a generational blood feud | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Saturday, Sunday, Monday | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #119036 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Eduardo de Filippo | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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St James's Blues | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Three Plays" published by Amber Lane 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1872868288 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131937 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Stoney Bowes | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Brief Candle" published by Amber Lane Press 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1872868233 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131938 | |||
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Genre: | Historical drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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| Stoney Bowes - from whom we get the expression "stoney broke" tricked the Countess of Strathmore into marriage so that he could get his hands on her fortune. The Countess was known as "The Unhappy Countess" | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Waiting For The Barbarians | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Three Plays" published by Amber Lane 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1872868288 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131939 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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