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ANTHONY SHAFFER (1926 - 2001) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: PFD |
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Plays by Anthony Shaffer |
Case of the Oily Levantine, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Guildford, Surrey | 1977 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31406 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Thriller Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | aka Whodunnit | |||||
Synopsis: | satire of Agatha Christie play of the 1930's, six strangers but whodunit? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Murderer | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brighton | 1975 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Boyars, London, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0714525457 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31407 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Norman apparently murders his girlfriend, Millie, and is in the process of disposing of the body when he is interrupted by the police, but is Millie dead? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sleuth | ||
| 1st Produced: | St Martin's, London | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dodd Mead, New York, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0714507637 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31409 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Study of sexual conflict between an elder and younger man. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Thing In The Wheelchair, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Karnak Playhouse, North Queensland, Australia | 18 May 2001 | ||||
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 | #106402 | |||
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Genre: | Melodrama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Shaffer: "It's a rather cold-hearted melodrama, written in the style of Patrick Hamilton, who wrote Gaslight. It's called The Thing in the Wheelchair. That gives you an idea of how cold-hearted it is." | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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This Savage Parade | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1963 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1988 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0906399873 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31408 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | aka This Savage Parade | |||||
| 1962 a kangaroo court in Tel Aviv shortly after the Fichmann trial, did the accused commit the crimes and do his accusers have the right to try him? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Whodunnit | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nov 1977 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106401 | |||
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Genre: | Mystery/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Six strangers and a butler have gathered for a black tie dinner in a wealthy lawyer's mansion during a thunderstorm. The guests include an aged rear admiral, a bitchy aristocrat, a doddering old archeologist, a dashing young cad and other Christie types. One of the guests is an oily Levantine who tells the others (each in private) that he has the goods to blackmail them. He is ripe for murder and so it happens | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Widow's Weeds, Or, for Years I Couldn't Wear My Black | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brisbane, Queensland | 1977 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31411 | |||
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Genre: | Comic thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | when nice Mrs Collier and her two horrendous children are chosen to star in a shampoo commercial, its not just the dandruff that has to go | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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