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FAYNIA WILLIAMS |
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Plays by Faynia Williams |
Brothers Karamazov, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 19 Aug 1981 | |||||
Company: | Brighton Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430920 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #127681 | |||
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Genre: | Play with Music Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | From the novel by Dostoyevsky with songs by Schiller. Alan Rickman as Ivan. Bruce Alexander as Dmitry. Stephen Boxer as Alyosha. Peter Kelly as Smerdyakov. Music by Stephen Boxer. Directed and designed by Faynia Williams. 3 London Critics' Award Nominations. Productions worldwide include: National Theatre of Romania 1991; National Theatre Festival, Hungary. Best Ensemble Award 2000. Gavle, Sweden, director Peter Oscarson, 2006. From original translations by Faynia Williams | |||||
| Dostoyevsky's great novel seen through the eyes of the four brothers, each of whom takes on the role of the father by slipping into his bear-like coat. When the old man is found murdered, suspicion falls on each of the brothers in turn. Passionate love, pursuit of money, debate with the devil, the death of a saint, epilepsy and story-telling, lead to the chill dawn of freedom and a new view of the world. | |||||
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Gogol | ||
| 1st Produced: | Marlborough Theatre, Brighton | 16 Apr 1978 | ||||
Company: | Brighton Actor's Workshop | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430920 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #127682 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | From stories by Gogol. Many performances worldwide including. Edinburgh, Brighton, Belfast, Adelaide Festivals, Moscow, New York, Paris, tours of Poland, Sweden. Actor: Richard Crane. Director/designer: Faynia Williams. For BBC Radio: Actor: Freddie Jones. Director: Alfred Bradley. From original translations by Faynia Williams | |||||
| Electricity Board Final Demands clerk fills the void of his life with words; gets a new coat and rises to giddy heights; then plummets into the vortex of monomania and debt. | |||||
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Satan's Ball | ||
| 1st Produced: | Old Chaplaincy, Edinburgh Festival Fringe | 1977 | ||||
Company: | Bradford University Drama Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430920 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #127683 | |||
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Genre: | Play with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Mikhail Bulgakov. Music by Phil Wharton. Directed and designed by Faynia Williams. Edinburgh Fringe First Award 1977. From original translations by Faynia Williams | |||||
| The devil comes to Moscow and tells the atheist Chairman of the Writers' Union that he will be beheaded by a tram. It happens immediately and is witnessed by Bezdomny, who demands the devil's arrest and is sent to a mental hospital where he meets the Master who has lost his lover Margarita and has written a book about Pontius Pilate who has to condemn to death the one man who can cure his head-ache. There are three levels to the play, Moscow, Jerusalem and Limbo. Margarita, naked and singing, ascends to the top as she flies over Moscow. Jesus is crucified against the organ pipes. Satan's Ball, when all the inmates of the mental hospital start to dance, forms the climax of the show, which ends with the full company singing Blok's The Twelve. | |||||
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Vanity | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh Festival | 18 Aug 1980 | ||||
Company: | Brighton Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430920 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #127684 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | story by Pushkin. From original translations by Faynia Williams | |||||
| reclaimed Pushkins Eugene Onegin as a intimate reflection on a love mistimed and shattered by social convention. | |||||
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