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ALICE DE SOUSA |
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Alice de Sousa, is a prolific London based theatre producer, actress and internationally acclaimed writer of stage scripts
Plays by Alice de Sousa
Aristides - The Outcast Hero | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich Playhouse, London | Jan 2009 | ||||
Company: | Galleon Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #95668 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The tale of Portugal's Schindler-like hero, Aristes de Sousa Mendes | |||||
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Cousin Basilio | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich Playhouse, London | Aug 2001 | ||||
Company: | Galleon Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #9156 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | novel by Eco De Queiros | |||||
Synopsis: | Cousin Basilio, written in England in 1878, remains one of Eça's most popular and sexually charged of novels. Its characters challenge confinement to their own time and reveal contemporary concerns and psychological complexities. Luisa, Eça's female heroine, is a modern woman who seeks to alleviate the tedium of her empty days with a little passion and excitement. Basilio, her cousin and childhood sweetheart, has arrived in Lisbon for the summer. He loathes the place and is amused by the idea of seducing his cousin. The fact that she's a relative adds a special frisson to what is essentially an affair of convenience. Eça's portrayal of Basilio is more than a mere caricature and his villainy is humanised with a mixture of vanity, boredom and moral vacuity. Like Flaubert, Eça was concerned with revealing the detailed psychological motives behind his character's behaviour. And his extraordinary honesty and directness about the importance of sexual desire is one of this novel's many modern features. Eça's wonderfully contrived gallery of characters creates a humorous social backgroun to a serious study of nineteenth century sexual politics. Cousin Basilio with its unforgettable characters, compelling plot and elegant prose stands easily alongside the works of Henry James or Proust. | |||||
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Crime Of The Old Village, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich Playhouse, London | Nov2005 | ||||
Company: | Galleon Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #46474 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 7 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Bernardo Santareno | |||||
Synopsis: | Tale of religious hysteria based on a true case of a girl who was burned as a witch by the women of her village in 1930's Portugal. - Lucy Powell, Time Out London | |||||
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Heiress Of The Cane Fields, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich Playhouse, London | Apr 2005 | ||||
Company: | Galleon Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #49564 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | adapted from book by Julio Dinis | |||||
Synopsis: | paints a rich portrait of Portugese culture set alongside pertinent political commentary. The story traces the effects of 19th century industrial progress on a small, close-knit community in the heart of Portugal's idyllic countryside. | |||||
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Ines De Castro | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich Playhouse, London | May 2003 | ||||
Company: | Galleon Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #9157 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Set in Portugal and in the 14th century, de Sousa's play dramatises an extraordinary and true love story, which has for centuries gripped the imagination of artists throughout the world. 'Inês de Castro', is a heart rending, epic tale of love, death and revenge. 'Inês de Castro' is an unforgettable and inimitable Portuguese legend, which has transcended six hundreds years and been immortalized in every art form throughout the world. | |||||
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Maias, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich Playhouse, London | Sep 2002 | ||||
Company: | Galleon Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #9158 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | adapted from Eca De Queiros | |||||
Synopsis: | The Maias, was written over a period of eight years and is set against a backdrop of a fast changing 19th century Portuguese society. Published in 1888, it traces the decline in a wealthy, land owning family and the incestuous romance between a brother and sister, who are unaware of their blood relationship. In The Maias, Eça creates a strong sense of human decay which is cultural, political and moral. Eça is forceful in his satire and piercing in his social criticism but is always tempered by a lightness of tone and a warm sympathy for human frailty. Eça's work is boundless in its enjoyment of daily life, rich in characterisation and fantastic in its social comedy. | |||||
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Thankfully There Is Moonlight! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich Playhouse, London | Feb 2007 | ||||
Company: | Galleon Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #63317 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Sttau Monteiro. Written in 1961, it wasn't produced until 1978, and this is its translation world premiere | |||||
Synopsis: | Like Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible', this uses a historical setting to attack the political evils of the day. Here, it's war-torn 19th-century Portugal - a place 'of petty conspiracies and betrayals, where you will only find an ally when you have found a common enemy'. With the threat of revolution growing, the authorities decide to arrest and execute the far-too-popular General Gomes Freire de Andrade. It's a powerful play, written out of anger and despair, but its power is largely rhetorical. The peasants eloquently bemoan their fate, the leaders of church and state denounce the rebels, and, in the second half the General's wife -a heartfelt Alice De Sousa -shows the personal side of the tragedy. | |||||
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