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SIDNEY KINGSLEY (1906 - 1995) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Samuel French Inc |
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Plays by Sidney Kingsley |
Dead End | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19342 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 22 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Against a brilliant setting, we are introduced to the street urchins, who only too readily turn to the devious methods of their elders in making their hard way in life; against a background of tenements and a magnificent East River apartment, standing side by side, we see unfold before us a story of gangsters and police, simple pleasures and vice, and of wealth flaunted in the face of poverty. A stirring story of young love is skillfully combined with the last efforts of a gangster to see his mother, and the young man's ultimate capture | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Detective Story | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hudson, NY | 23 Mar 1949 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19343 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 24 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | several non-speaking extras and several of the males can be doubled): 20 total | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The scene is the squad room and office in a New York police station. The playwright presents a fascinatingly realistic picture of routine cases brought into a metropolitan police station in the course of a day. Out of the welter of human misery, vice and stupidity there emerges the tragic and moving case of a decent young fellow who has stolen money from his employer. Though a woman who is in love with him comes to his help and the employer is offered everything that has been taken from him, the case has fallen into the hands of McLeod, a hardworking detective whose experience in police work has developed in him a mania for punishing all law breakers, whom he regards as incorrigibles. Nothing will satisfy him but brutal punishment. He is at work at the same time on a case involving an abortionist whose attorney, failing to move him by other means, forces McLeod's wife to confess to her husband that she had herself some years before made use of the services of the abortionist in question. Since McLeod worships his wife and finds in her the only happiness of his existence, his world collapses about him. The climax comes when McLeod gets involved with another prisoner who attempts to escape from the squad room with the aid of a revolver taken from one of the detectives. McLeod is shot and killed. This climax is a fitting end to McLeod's career. To the last, he had been bent upon doing what he considered his duty-in seeing that criminals obeyed the letter of the law at no matter what cost. | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 50.54 | |||||
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Lunatics and Lovers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Broadhurst Theatre, New York | 1954 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Theatre 55" published by Random House 1955 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94467 | |||
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Genre: | Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Men In White | ||
| 1st Produced: | Group Theatre | 1933 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Covici Friede, New York 1933 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #46459 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | won the Pulitzer Prize | |||||
| Moral issues surrounding abortion | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Night Life | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19344 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 17 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | extras: 20 total | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A wide assortment of characters gather in the play's setting: a gangster-run New York nightclub. They include a brutal and power-mad labor leader; a female singer who thinks she loves him; an idealistic young attorney haunted by memories of the man he had bayoneted in Korea; a foreign movie sex symbol with strong Lesbian leanings; and a weary old liberal, once a poet, now in the furniture business, who has drinking problems. While the sinister labor boss, who waits for news that his men have killed an honest union leader whom he had once worshipped, is the central figure in the action, the ex-poet is the focal point. Years ago, his son drowned while trying to save some strangers and his wife has never forgiven him. Aware of his futility and the fact that he is looked upon as an old fool, he must give his own life to save the embittered young attorney from the labor man's knife. In the end, there is a moment of truth and revelation which probes deeply into the char-acters themselves and into the meaning of the play as a comment on modern society and its ills. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Patriots, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19345 | |||
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Genre: | Historical Drama, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 18 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | 20 total | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | This beautiful tribute to the American spirit is a chronicle history of the important years in Jefferson's life. Winner of the Critics Circle Award. The play requires a large cast of characters, most of them men, and a number of sets | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ten Million Ghosts | ||
| 1st Produced: | St James Theatre, New York | 1936 | ||||
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 | #94468 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 28 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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World We Make, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19346 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on Brand's "The Outward Room." The play skillfully dramatizes the struggles of a sensitive girl to discover happiness by finding her proper place in life. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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