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JONATHAN HOLLOWAY (1955 - ) |
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Nationality: English Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Tennyson Agency |
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Plays by Jonathan Holloway |
Angels Among The Trees | ||
| 1st Produced: | 05 Jun 2004 | |||||
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 | #41815 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | the saga of 87 settlers who battled forth from Missouri in 1846 with high hopes of prosperous future out West. Misled by bad advice, they hit the mountains at the worst time, becoming trapped in snowstorms. Half die. Several who survived resorted to cannibalism | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Aspem Papers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
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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 | #16890 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | From H James | |||||
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Bartleby | ||
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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 | #43728 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from story by Herman Melville | |||||
Synopsis: | Bartlby refuses to work - "I would prefer not to". Finally lets himself waste away in prison. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Because It's There | ||
| 1st Produced: | 03 Nov 2000 | |||||
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 | #16891 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Icy stage work about Mallory and Irvin's doomed 1924 Everest expedition | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Caravan | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2008 | ||||
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 | #117084 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Changing Rooms | ||
| 1st Produced: | Frinton-on-Sea: Summer Theatre, The McGrigor Hall, Fourth Avenue, Frinton-on-Sea >>> | 10 Aug 2010 | ||||
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 | #126401 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Marc Camoletti | |||||
Synopsis: | Bernard, recently appointed as a high flying government official, is desperately trying to get some time alone with his mistress, Brigitte. Jacqueline, his wife, is desperately trying (in between crashing the car and buying antiques) to get some time alone with her lover Robert. Nana, their housekeeper, is desperately trying to get a quiet weekend in her employers apartment - without her employers! When each of them think they have managed to get rid of the others, they all set about fulfilling their hearts desire - with predictably hilarious results. Set in the stylish world of 70s Parisian society, this fast-moving farce will leave audiences breathlessly delighted! | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Christmas Carol, A | ||
| 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 | #117085 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based on the book by Charles Dickens | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Crime and Punishment | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1994 | ||||
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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 | #117086 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dark, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Watford: Palace Theatre, 20 Clarendon Road, Watford, Hertfordshire WD17 1JZ >>> | 29 Jan 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978057310002-4 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16892 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of Darkness Falls | |||||
| The perils of ambition lie at the heart of this supernatural tale. A successful novelist who has committed himself wholeheartedly to furthering his career meets his Mephistopheles and is dispatched to an uncertain and sinister fate. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Darkness Falls | ||
| 1st Produced: | Watford: Palace Theatre, 20 Clarendon Road, Watford, Hertfordshire WD17 1JZ >>> | 29 Jan 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978057310002-4 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126406 | |||
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Genre: | 2 One Acts | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | varies | |||||
Notes: | comprises of The dark and Monkey's Paw | |||||
| Mesmerising double-bill of stories from the beyond. Hugely entertaining the genuinely scary, you'll be transfixed. The wind howls outside a lonely cottage as an old friend tells of his travels in the East. Why is he so uneasy - does the strange charm he carries really hold magical powers? Adapted from W W Jacobs' 'The Monkey's Paw', this classic ghost story is followed by a real teaser - 'The Dark' - A retired Cambridge Don gathers his former students on a stormy New Year's Eve. But sinister purpose lurks behind the smiling façade | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Death in Venice | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
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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 | #16893 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | From Thomas Mann | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Double, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bridge Lane, London | 1986 | ||||
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 | #16894 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | From Dostoevsky | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Eclipsed | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #117087 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fall Of Man, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 22 Jun 2010 | |||||
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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 | #117088 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Using the words of John Milton's "Paradise Lost" this is the exploration of an extra-marital affair between an au-pair and her employer | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fated | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | East End Theatre Group | |||||
| 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 | #117089 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Get Carter | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
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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 | #56068 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | From novel by Ted Lewis (represented by Toby Eady Associates, 9 orme Court, London W2 4RL) | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hammer, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
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 | #16895 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In The Image Of The Beast | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
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 | #16896 | |||
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Genre: | Sci-Fi Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Invisible Show, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | fifth Latitude Festival , Henham Park Estate in Suffolk | 15 Jul 2010 | ||||
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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 | #112449 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Invisible Show is a live theatre event embedded in the crowd, almost invisible, but audible via wireless headphones | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Legend of King Arthur, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Millfield Arts Centre, Silver Street, Edmonton, London N18 1PJ >>> | 04 Oct 2003 | ||||
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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 | #117090 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | music byJon Nicholls | |||||
Synopsis: | Do not expect a cosy rendition of a tale made familiar through repetition. This Camelot is a sleek world of a modern-day corporation and battle scenes will be enacted through the martial art-form Capoeira to an eclectic original soundtrack. Embracing the legend's passion, spirituality and violence, exploring themes of sin, redemption and betrayal. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Les Miserables | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arts Centre, Eastbourne, East Sussex | 12 May 1997 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978057301880-0 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16898 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | or M4 F3 with doubling | |||||
Notes: | book by Victor Hugo | |||||
Synopsis: | Hugo's passionate, epic tale of social injustice, class conflict, love and revolt is brought to exciting theatrical life in this intense adaptation. Using conventions of "Poor Theatre" - small cast; simple, flexible settings; clear, uncluttered storytelling; strong political sensibility - the play follows its many vividly-drawn characters through a story spanning several years with pace and economy. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Man Who Was Thursday, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 08 Feb 2001 | |||||
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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 | #16897 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | novel by G K Chesterton | |||||
Synopsis: | A surreal thriller set in London at the turn of the century. The story, moving from action adventure to high-octane farce with a touch of nightmare terror just under the surface, is considered by many to be Chesterton's masterpiece. Our hero, Gabriel Syme, an undercover detective, infiltrates a secret council of revolutionaries, named after the days of the week. The group, led by the grotesque Sunday is dedicated to the destruction of society. Syme, posing as an anarchist, is voted in as the new Thursday and sets out to foil their plans and single handedly save his world. | |||||
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Monkey's Paw, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Watford: Palace Theatre, 20 Clarendon Road, Watford, Hertfordshire WD17 1JZ >>> | 29 Jan 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978057310002-4 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16899 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | or M3 F1 with doubling | |||||
Notes: | from short story by W W Jacobs. Part of Darkness Falls | |||||
| The perils of ambition lie at the heart of this supernatural tale. In The Monkey's Paw a working-class family in the 1940s is granted three wishes, all of which come true, but in a macabre and unexpected way. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Much Ado About Nothing | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pleasance Theatre, Carpenters Mews, North Road, London, N7 9EF >>> | 04 Oct 2001 | ||||
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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 | #126407 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Shakespeare | |||||
Synopsis: | After civil war Messina seems to have returned to peace with few casualties and a courtship holds the promise of reconciling the battle of the sexes in a well matched wedding. But the reconciliation's have been too hurried and soldiers can't return to the civilian world overnight. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Nicholas Nickleby | ||
| 1st Produced: | 04 Oct 2001 | |||||
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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 | #117091 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based on the novel by Charles Dickens. Music - Jon Nicholls | |||||
Synopsis: | Red Shift's production of Nicholas Nickleby breathes fresh life into Dickens' classic story. Retaining the wit and wisdom of the novel, the production is by turns hilarious and deeply moving. It relocates Nicholas's adventures to Britain in the 1950s; the story-tellers are a spectral ensemble - ghosts of Ralph and Squeers' past victims. This framing gives the story a dramatic drive and a sharp contemporary resonance and rediscovers the punch that made Dickens famous in his time as a serious social commentator as well as a master storyteller. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Nosferatu: The Visitor | ||
| 1st Produced: | 28 Sep 2000 | |||||
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 | #117092 | |||
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Genre: | thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Also known as "Nosferatur The Visitor". Based on "Dracula" by Bram Stoker | |||||
Synopsis: | A vampire stalks the bomb damaged ruins of 1940s London | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Third Man, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 07 Oct 2004 | |||||
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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 | #41390 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from the novel by Graham Greene | |||||
Synopsis: | 1948, Vienna - once the jewel of the European crown - reels from invasion, reduced to a hellish dreamscape of ruins. The city is divided into sectors, each controlled by an Allied power - England, America, France and Russia - and there isn't a Nazi to be found. The war may be over but what follows doesn't feel like peace. In the chaos of liberation, black-marketeers run rings around the occupying forces. Disappearances and murders are commonplace as refugees and members of the old order jockey for position, reinventing themselves with false identities. Naive pulp novelist Rollo Martins arrives in Vienna to meet up with his old school-friend Dr Harry Lime, only to learn that he has been killed in a car accident. As he tries to unravel events around his friend's death, Martins is sucked into a world of corruption where racketeers play god as they traffic in essential drugs and medical supplies. Martins follows a macabre trail of intrigue, violence, and murder relentlessly pursuing the shadowy presence of 'the third man'. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Vertigo | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pleasance Theatre, Carpenters Mews, North Road, London, N7 9EF >>> | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Red Shift Picture House III | |||||
| 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 | #63850 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | from novel D'Entre les Morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac | |||||
Synopsis: | For the final instalment in its trilogy of shows based on the original sources that inspired landmark films (the previous two being 'The Third Man' and 'Get Carter') Red Shift has turned to the classic French crime novel behind Hitchcock's iconic psychological thriller. Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac's 'D'entre les Morts' (1954) juxtaposes the occupation of France by the Nazis with the story of the possession of a man's mind by the idea that the woman he loved has been reincarnated. In Jonathan Holloway's elegant stage adaptation, the tale unfolds as part of a lecture given by French psychiatrist Dr Jacques Ballard. Ballard introduces this case study of 'personal psychosis' before whisking us off in imagination to the sanatorium where his patient Roger Flavières has taken refuge. There he gradually begins to re-enact with Flavières the events that have caused his mental dissolution. As they talk, the source of his madness, the appropriately named Madeleine, rises spectrally from a closed. coffinlike bath. It's a splendid coup de theatre, evocatively accompanied by Jon Nicholls' haunting widescreen music. | |||||
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