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RUTH WOLFF |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Lantz Office |
Ruth Wolff's play THE ABDICATION premiered at the Bristol Old Vic starring Gemma Jones. The Eureka Theater of San Francisco presented its American premiere. Produced in almost every one of the United States, it has been performed worldwide in many languages with notable productions in Canada (in French), in Italy (in Italian) and in The Hague and Belgium (in Dutch). It was produced in London in 2005. Its acting edition is published by Dramatic Publishing. With screenplay by Ms. Wolff, the Warner Bros. film of THE ABDICATION starred Liv Ullmann and Peter Finch. The Kennedy Center produced her play SARAH IN AMERICA starring Lilli Palmer as Sarah Bernhardt, directed by Sir Robert Helpmann. The play was also produced at the Pasadena Playhouse featuring Katherine Helmond and at Hofstra University featuring Tovah Feldshuh. Ms Wolff's film about the early life of Sarah Bernhardt, THE INCREDIBLE SARAH, starred Glenda Jackson and Daniel Massey. A native of Massachusetts who now lives in New York, Ms. Wolff was educated at Smith College and Yale University. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times and other publications. She is a recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship and a Kennedy Center Bicentennial Commission, is a fellow of the McDowell Colony and a member of the Dramatists Guild, the League of Professional Theater Women and the Writers Guild of America, West.
Plays by Ruth Wolff
Abdication, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "The New Woman's Theatre", Vintage Books, New York, 1977 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37907 | |||
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Synopsis: | Why, having become Queen in childhood, would Christina of Sweden give up the throne? Confused about her sexual identity and religious beliefs, and thwarted in love, she decides to abdicate, convert to Catholicism, and throw herself, for life, on the hospitality of the Vatican. Once there, this proud but troubled woman is stunned to discover that, before she can be received by the Pope, she must submit to intense questioning by Cardinal Azzolino. At first she sees him as an adversary. But then, against all rules and expectations, Christina finds herself falling in love with her inquisitor. A probing exploration of the Nature of Woman, whether Queen or commoner, is the subject of this highly original play. | |||||
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Arabic Two | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #87883 | |||
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Aviators | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Jersey Repertory Theatre | 2005 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishers | ISBN/ASIN: | 088-1454249 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87884 | |||
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Buffaloes | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #87885 | |||
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Eleanor of Aquitaine | ||
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| 1st Published: | in Notable Women; And a Few Equally Notable Men, Broadway Play Publishing, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0881454499 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87886 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | extras (some roles may be doubled) | |||||
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| The sweep of Eleanor's entire life--from her early marriage to Louis VII, King of France, through her marriage to Henry II of England, to her imprisonment, reign and death--is encompassed in this drama. Through every challenge, Eleanor, with her grace and independence--in a world which expected women to stay in their place--triumphs, as wife, soldier, mother, queen and patron of the Courts of Love. | |||||
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Empress Of China | ||
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Company: | Pan Asian Repertory Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, New York, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37908 | |||
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Genre: | Historical Epic | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | As the 19th century moves into the 20th century, the Dowager Empress Tzu-Hsi struggles to hold together the proud ancient Chinese empire, which is being assaulted by foreign nations and the technological advances of the age. Following the arrest of a Young Actor who is playing her in the streets, she finds herself, powerless at the pinnacle of power, trying to preserve traditional Chinese civilization against overwhelming forces for change. | |||||
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Fall of Athens, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #87887 | |||
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Folly Cove | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1967 | |||||
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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 | #37909 | |||
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George and Frederick | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of Utah | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in Notable Women; And a Few Equally Notable Men, Broadway Play Publishing, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0881454499 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87888 | |||
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Genre: | play with music | |||||
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| George Sand had many lovers--but the one to whom she was most attached, and who almost ruined her life, was Frederic Chopin. His illness and dependency, the rivalries of two artists living under the same roof, the conflicting demands of two careers, all these batter the relationship. But most damaging is what the affair does to her family. Sand is hailed as an icon of female liberation. In GEORGE AND FREDERIC we see what can be the consequences of that liberation. Her rebellious daughter Solange embraces the tenets of feminism as an excuse for wild behavior, eventually causing the final rift between her mother and her mother's lover. To assert his own creativity in this maelstrom, Maurice, George's doting and doted-upon son, creates puppets of each member of this explosive menage, puppets who, throughout the play, comment wryly on all the heated goings-on with humor, irony and wit. | |||||
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Golem, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37910 | |||
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Hallie | ||
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| 1st Published: | in Notable Women; And a Few Equally Notable Men, Broadway Play Publishing, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0881454499 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87889 | |||
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| Hallie Flanagan Davis headed the Federal Theater in the 1930s and 40s--until the anti-art element in Congress decided that federal support of what they saw as lazy left-wing artists must end. This play, based on the tumultuous hearings before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, pits artists against philistines and demonstrates that then, as now, politics and art don't mix. | |||||
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Joshua Slocum Sailing Alone Around the World | ||
| 1st Produced: | Newport, Rhode Island | 16 Jul 1992 | ||||
Company: | The Rhode Island Shakespeare Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Notable Women; And a Few Equally Notable Men, Broadway Play Publishing, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0881454499 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87890 | |||
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| As he is making preparations to set out on what will become his final sea journey, Joshua Slocum (hounded by an unsympathetic off-stage second wife), tells us about his previous Great Adventure when, in 1895, he set out on a three-year journey in his 34-foot sloop the Spray to prove that a man could sail around the world alone. In vivid anecdotes, he shares the tale of his unprecedented 46,000 mile journey, when (years before radio or G P S systems), he sailed through sun and storm, blazing heat and relentless cold, through hunger and delirium, across the world's great oceans and seas, battled wind and waves to traverse the world's two great capes, fought pirates and savages, and put into port in some of the wildest, weirdest and most inhospitable lands around the world. Slocum takes us with him on his epic adventure, told with humor and originality through the eyes of a weather-beaten sea salt who, against all expectation, did what no one had ever done before | |||||
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Perfect Marriage, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | in Notable Women; And a Few Equally Notable Men, Broadway Play Publishing, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0881454499 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #114898 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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| In this comedy about the nature of marriage, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley battle out their relationship at the gates of Heaven and Hell. Predeceasing Mary by several decades, Shelley can hardly wait for her to come to him in Limbo--but when she does, he is astonished to find that the woman who seemed for all her life to worship him now wants an independent existence. The Archangel/Devil must adjudicate between them and decide whether, in this afterlife, they will enter Heaven or Hell. | |||||
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Sarah in America | ||
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| 1st Published: | in Notable Women; And a Few Equally Notable Men, Broadway Play Publishing, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0881454499 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87891 | |||
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| Sarah Bernhardt made her lasting fame in America. This tour de force for one actress takes Bernhardt from her first American tour, in her thirties, to her last, when, with leg amputated, she toured the country at age seventy-two. Her indomitable spirit, summarized by her motto "Quand Meme", is abundantly displayed as she travels from coast-to-coast experiencing triumphs and tragedies. | |||||
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Second Mrs Wilson, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Barter Theater, the State Theater of Virginia | 2001 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in Notable Women; And a Few Equally Notable Men, Broadway Play Publishing, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0881454499 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87892 | |||
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| This play depicts the dramatic final year of the Woodrow Wilson White House when, on her husband's urging, his new second wife Edith (sometimes criticized as being "America's First Female President") hides the gravity of his illness from his Cabinet and the entire country, hoping to keep him in office long enough to achieve his goal: US entry into the League of Nations--in his view the only possible guarantor of future world peace. A pivotal moment in the play is the Woodrow Wilson/Henry Cabot Lodge confrontation over isolationism vs. internationalism--a topic as fraught with conflict then as it is today. | |||||
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Shakespeare Road | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
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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 | #87893 | |||
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Synopsis: | Two elderly down and out actors grapple with the Bard | |||||
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Sky Pool | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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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 | #87894 | |||
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Still Life With Apples | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #87895 | |||
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