WILLIAM ALFRED (1922 - 1999)
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by William Alfred
Agamemnon |
| 1st Produced: | Cambridge, Massachusetts | 1953 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Knopf, NY, 1954 | ISDN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Aeschylus | |||||
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Annunciation Rosary, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1948 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Sower Press, New Jersey, 1948 | ISDN | - | |||
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Cry For Us All |
| 1st Produced: | Broadhurst Theater, New York | 1970 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Music by Mitch Leigh; Book by William Alfred and Albert Marre; Lyrics by Phyllis Robinson and William Alfred; Based on the play "Hogan's Goat" by William Alfred | |||||
| Synopsis: | Setting: Matt Stanton's Cafe on the corner of Court Street and Fifth Place, Brooklyn; the street outside the bar and back room; and the Haggerty's parlor which adjoins it. A five-day period around the first day of May, 1890. | |||||
Curse Of An Aching Heart, The |
| 1st Produced: | Chicago | 1979 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1983 | ISDN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 |
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| Notes: | music by Claibe Richardson | |||||
| Synopsis: | Brooklyn 1923 to 1942 portrait of a lower class Irish Catholic woman as a survivor | |||||
Hogan's Goat |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1965 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Farrar Straus, New York, 1966 | ISDN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Drama in verse | - | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | revised version, as Cry for Us All, with Albert Marre, music by Mitch Leigh (produced 1970). | |||||
| Synopsis: | 19 C American Irish-Catholic politician kills wife of his secret marriage to ruin political ambitions. | |||||
Holy Saturday |
| 1st Produced: | Boston | 1980 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Canto vol3 no1, 1979 | ISDN | - | |||
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Nothing Doing |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1982 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Who To Love |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Musical version of "Hogan's Goat" | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||