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CHRISTOPHER FRY (1907 - 2005) |
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Nationality: English Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: ACTAC (Theatrical and Cinematic) Ltd |
a full bibliography of his plays is being compiled by Sue Lloyd, Publisher, The Genge Press, Minehead suelloyd00@aol.com. Christopher Fry was born Arthur Hammond Harris on December 18th 1907 in Bristol. His father, Charles was a master builder and then a full time lay reader in the Church of England. Believing that his mother, Emma was a descendant of Elizabeth Fry the reformer he adopted the surname Fry and later like Elizabeth became a Quaker. He attended Bedford Modern School first as a pupil then as a teacher. In 1932 he gave up teaching to run the Tunbridge Wells Repertory Players - which he had founded. He had written plays whilst still a schoolboy and his career as a professional playwright took off when he was asked to write a play about Saint Cuthman. The play "The Boy With A Cart". When it was eventually put on in London in 1950 it starred Richard Burton. In 1936 he married Phyllis Hart. They had one son - Tam. As a Quaker he was a conscientious objector and spent part of the War cleaning sewers. In 1947 he was commissioned to write a play for the Arts Theatre - this was "The Lady's Not For Burning". It was a great success transferring from the Arts Theatre to a West End Theatre and then to Broadway. By the late 1950s he began to fall out of favour - he continued to write plays but never achieved the successes he had had. He died in Chichester on 30th June 2005. Phyllis had died in 1987
Plays by Christopher Fry
Bible, The: Original Screenplay | ||
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| 1st Published: | Pocket Books, New York, 1966 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60630 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | assisted by Jonathan Griffin | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Boy With A Cart, The: Cuthman, Saint of Sussex | ||
| 1st Produced: | Coleman's Hatch, Sussex | 1938 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London, 1939 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12770 | |||
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Genre: | religious drama in verse and prose One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | written for amateurs to celebrate church jubilee; revived by John Gielgud at Lyric Theatre, L'n in 1950 | |||||
| Story of St Cuthman, Sussex saint who pushed his mother around in a wheelbarrow before founding a church | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 50.7 | |||||
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Brontes Of Haworth, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | televised | 1973 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Davis Poynter, London (2 vols), 1974 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12771 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Little King; Home And Abroad; Delusions Song; Rewarding Destiny | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cinderella | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1934 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #125393 | |||
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Genre: | Pantomime | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Curtmantle | ||
| 1st Produced: | Staadsschoburg, Tilburg, Netherlands (in Dutch) | 1961 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London, 1961 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12772 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Large Cast | |||||
Notes: | produced Edinburgh & London 1962 | |||||
| The stage is William Marshal's mind as though he were remembering King Henry's life | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cyrano De Bergerac | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0192113860 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12773 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 28 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Edmond Rostand | |||||
| The swordsman poet with the large nose | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dark Is Light Enough | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1954 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London, 1954 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0192113070 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12774 | |||
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Genre: | "Winter" comedy - 3 acts in verse Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | directed by Peter Brook with Edith Evans as the Countess | |||||
| set in an Austrian country house near the border with Hungary, during the winter 1848-9. The Countess saves her friend Gettner when he becomes a deserter from the Hungarian cause. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Duel Of Angels | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne | 1958 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12775 | |||
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Genre: | 3 acts in prose - adaptation Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 22 | Female | 10 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Giraudoux (Pour Lucrece). directed by Jean-Louis Barrault and starring Claire Bloom, Vivien Leigh and other major actors | |||||
Synopsis: | modern retelling of Lucretia legend - virtuous woman is trapped into believing she has been unfaithful | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Firstborn, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival | 1948 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press 1949 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12776 | |||
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Genre: | verse drama in 3 acts | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | begun for the Tewkesbury Festival in 1938 and completed after the war. Broadcast 1947 | |||||
| set in ancient Egypt, with Moses about to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. The Firstborn is Rameses, Set 2nd's son, who sympathises with the Israelites | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Journey Into Light, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1992 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12777 | |||
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Notes: | music by Robert Walker | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Judith | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1962 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12778 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Giraudoux | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lady's Not For Burning, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arts Theatre, L'n, then Globe Theatre | 10 Mar 1948 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London, 1949 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12779 | |||
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Genre: | "Spring" comedy in 3 acts in verse Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | the most famous of Fry's plays and the one which made his name and revived verse drama in English. It has been counted one of the greatest 100 plays of the 20th century. Many revivals including television production on ITV | |||||
| Set in medieval England. Disillusioned soldier Thomas Mendip tries to save innocent, life-loving girl Jennet from being burned as a witch. Both are transformed by the meeting. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lark, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lyric Theatre, London | 11 May 1955 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12780 | |||
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Genre: | prose version of "L'Alouette" | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh | |||||
| Joan of Arc has to die for the expediency of church and state | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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One Thing More; or, Caedmon Construed | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chelmsford, Essex | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0822208549 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12781 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| about the poet Caedmon isolated and silenced for 30 years by immense personal grief | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Open Door | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1936 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Printed by the Boys at the Press of Dr Barnardo's Homes, Goldings, Herfordshire, nd | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60627 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The life of Dr Thomas Bernardo | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Paradise Lost | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chicago | 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Schott, London, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12782 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Penderecki, poem by Milton | |||||
Synopsis: | Adam and Eve are in despair after being turned out of the Garden of Eden. A committee of demons meet to discuss what now for the pair | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Peer Gynt | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1970 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12783 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Large Cast | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | |||||
Synopsis: | Symbolic satirical in verse based on Norwegian folklore. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Phoenix Too Frequent, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Mercury Theatre, London | 25 Apr 1946 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hollis & Carter, London, 1946 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12784 | |||
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Genre: | comedy in verse One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | performed as part of E.Martin Browne's verse play season. Revived by Paul Schofield at the Arts Theatre, L'n in 1946 | |||||
Synopsis: | retells Petronius's story of the widow of Ephesus, who vows to die in her husband's tomb but rediscovers life and love | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ring Round The Moon: A Charade With Music | ||
| 1st Produced: | Globe Theatre, London | 26 Jan 1950 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen, London; OUP, London, 1950 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12785 | |||
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Genre: | 3 acts in prose Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh. a charade with music a version of Anouilh's L'Invitation au chateau . | |||||
| According to Atkinson (Times), a play "of many moods. . .wistfully romantic, satirical, fantastic. . .To make his points about love (the author) has invented a fable about twin brothers-Frederic, who is shy and sensitive, and Hugo, who is heartless and aggressive. Frederic is in love with a hussy who is in love with Hugo. To save Frederic from an unhappy marriage, Hugo tries to distract him by bringing to a ball a beautiful dancer who masquerades as a mysterious personage and becomes the triumph of the occasion. She is a susceptible maiden in her own right. She not only breaks up all the cynical romances that have been going on before she arrived, but loses her own heart as well." | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 50.14 | |||||
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Ringing Of Bells, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bedford Modern School | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Ltd, London | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0573122071 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60623 | |||
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Genre: | conversational fantasy in verse | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written for Fry's former school to mark the Millennium. Revived June 2001 at the National Theatre, L'n | |||||
| In a pub at Elstow, Bedfordshire, a modern Adam and Eve talk to the bellringers about John Bunyan (who lived in Elstow) and about God, time and creation. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Seasons, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #60631 | |||
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Genre: | Poems | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | poems to accompany Julie Cooper's adaptation of Vivaldi's Four Seasons | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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She Shall Have Music | ||
| 1st Produced: | Savoy Theatre, London | 1934 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #60625 | |||
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Genre: | lyrics only | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | lyrics only with Ronald Frankau, book by Frank Eyton, music by Fry and Monte Crick | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sleep Of Prisoners, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | University Church, Oxford, later that year in London at St Thomas's church | 1951 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London, 1951 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0192113100 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12786 | |||
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Genre: | religious dram- one act in verse | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| the dreams of each of four prisoners reflect stories in the bible which are related to their own characters | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sleeping Beauty | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1935 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #125394 | |||
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Genre: | Pantomime | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Thor, With Angels | ||
| 1st Produced: | Canterbury Festival | 1948 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Goulden, Canterbury; French, London in acting edition, 1948; 1949, OUP, 1948 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12787 | |||
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Genre: | religious verse drama in one act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| the coming of Christianity to a Jutish village in AD 596 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Thursday's Child: A Pageant | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Albert Hall, London | 01 Jul 1939 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Girl's Friendly Society, London, 1939 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60629 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Martin Shaw | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tiger At the Gates | ||
| 1st Produced: | Apollo Theate, L'n | 02 Jun 1955 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12788 | |||
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Genre: | 2-act prose translation Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Giraudoux - "La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu". Barbara Jefford played Helen. TV version, c 1955. as The Trojan War Will Not Take Place produced London 1983 (Methuen, 1983) | |||||
Synopsis: | Ulysses and Hector try unsuccessfully to avoid | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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To Sea In A Sieve | ||
| 1st Produced: | Reading | 1935 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #60626 | |||
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Genre: | revue Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | as Christopher Harris | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tower, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire | 22 Jul 1939 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #60628 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Venus Observed | ||
| 1st Produced: | St James Theatre, L'n | 18 Jan 1950 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London, 1950 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12789 | |||
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Genre: | "autumn" comedy in 3 acts in verse Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written for Sir Laurence Olivier for the opening of this theatre under his mangement | |||||
| fifty year old duke attempts to settle down and marry one of his three mistresses, however a twenty five year old tempts him away | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 50.6 | |||||
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Yard Of Sun, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Playhouse, Nottingham | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12790 | |||
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Genre: | "Summer" comedy - 2 acts in verse Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A 'summer comedy' set in Sienna just after World War II. In the courtyard of the Palazzo del Traguardo ("traguardo" means goal or winning-post) in Siena, Italy, during the summer of 1946, the year of the ' first Palio race after the devastation of the War, Angelino Bruno, the caretaker, prepares to reopen the Palazzo and welcome the new owners. He tells his sons Roberto and Luigi (a third son, Edmondo, had left home intent on becoming rich by whatever means) the great news that the great jockey Cambriccio will be riding for them in the Palio: a horse race where the horses represent different wards (contzade) of Siena. A rival jockey, Alfio, comes searching for his lost father, Cesare Scapare. Giosetta Scapare, Angelino's neighbour, Cesares wife and mother of Grazia (who had found Alfio looking for the Palazzo), tells Alfio that his father had been arrested three years ago and has not returned, and that Grazia is his half sister. Though admiring Alfio's courage to show up in rival territory, the Bruno brothers advise him to leave before he gets attacked. The new Palazzo owners arrive, and turn out to be the now wealthy Edmondo and his wife, Ana-Clara. The reunion turns chaotic as Roberto's resentment of his brother becomes heated, news comes of Cesare's returning, and Cambriccio is injured in a trial run of the race. Luigi becomes the unlikely winner of the Palio, and each member of the family heads towards their individual. goals. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Youth And The Peregrines | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Pump Room, Tunbridge Wells, Kent | 01 May 1934 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #60624 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Also known as "The Peregrines" | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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