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GRAHAM ANDERSON |
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Plays by Graham Anderson |
Barber of Seville, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow: Arches, 253 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G2 8DL, Scotland >>> | Feb 1995 | ||||
Company: | The Arches, Glasgow | |||||
| 1st Published: | Absolute Classics, in 3-play volume: The Figaro Plays (1993) | ISBN/ASIN: | 0-948230-54-1 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124241 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | officers of the law, servants | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Beaumarchais | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Boubouroche | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #124244 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | cafe customers | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Georges Courteline | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Farce of Peter Pathelin, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #125503 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | New translation of the anonymous La Farce de Maistre Pierre Pathelin (c1465), the celebrated original of the genre. | |||||
Synopsis: | Pathelin, self-styled lawyer, cons the Draper out of a bale of cloth, feigns madness to keep him at bay when he calls for payment. In the second part, the first-ever courtroom drama as Pathelin defends the Draper's shepherd against a sheep-rustling charge, only to find himself out-conned at the last by the shepherd's low cunning. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Flea In Her Ear, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jun 1993 | |||||
Company: | West Yorkshire Playhouse/Theatr Clwyd | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | 1-870259-32-7 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #694 | |||
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Genre: | farce Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau | |||||
Synopsis: | Complications come fast and furious as the wife of a noble lord misinterprets a note. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Football, and other considerations | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jun 1995 | |||||
Company: | Gate Theatre, Notting Hill | |||||
| 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 | #125504 | |||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4-5 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original playwright: Christian Rullier. rehearsed reading with Toby Jones, adapted and directed by Simon Reade (7 m and 1 f voice over in Reade's adaptation | |||||
Synopsis: | Football is the theatre in which modern civilisation plays out its roles: a group of players, dazzled by their own skills, by the mystery of the game, by the tyranny of the owners, faces up to the intensity and pointlessness of their lives. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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French As She Is Spoke | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #124245 | |||
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Genre: | ne-act farce Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Tristan Bernard adaptation of L'anglais tel que l'on parle, 1895 | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Golden Joe | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #125505 | |||
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Genre: | Tragi-comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | clerks, maids, tramps. Translation of Golden Joe, by original playwright Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. | |||||
Synopsis: | A contemporary Hamlet story set in London, where Golden Joe is a city trader. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Guilty Mother, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
Company: | Gate Theatre, Notting Hill | |||||
| 1st Published: | Absolute Classics, in 3-play volume: The Figaro Plays (1993) | ISBN/ASIN: | 0-948230-54-1 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124243 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Beaumarchais | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Heat | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #125506 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Translation (2003) of Les combustibles(1994), by Amelie Nothomb. | |||||
Synopsis: | A European city in the grip of winter and war. The Professor, his assistant and the assistant's student girlfriend, having burned all the professor's furniture to keep warm, begin to burn his books. A bitter version of Desert Island Books. What will be the last volume to go in the flames? What will survive at the end, the humans or their literature? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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King's Pleasure, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #125507 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Translation of Le Roi s'amuse, by Victor Hugo. commissioned by Gate Theatre, Notting Hill; used as reading copy by NT. | |||||
Synopsis: | Triboulet, jester at the court of Francois 1st, tries to protect his daughter Blanche from the king's lust, with tragic consequences. The source play for Rigoletto. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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La dame aux camelias | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #125502 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Alexandre Dumas fils. translation commissioned for P.W. Productions | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Letter, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #125508 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Translation of La lettre, by Jean-Luc Jeneer. | |||||
Synopsis: | A father and mother receive a letter from their son, a resistance fighter captured by the Nazis and shortly to be executed. An affirmation of life in a situation of national and personal tragedy. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Love Surprises | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #133693 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy in 3 acts | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Marivaux. Commissioned by Ustinov, Theatre Royal Bath, 2011 | |||||
Synopsis: | translation of La Surprise de l'amour by Marivaux. This is the first (1722) of two Marivaux plays bearing the same title.Renouncing women for ever, Lelio has retreated to the solitude of his country house, accompanied by his loyal but less self-denying servant Arlequin. When the neighbouring house is visited by its new owner, the Countess, and her spirited servant Colombine, dismay is felt on both sides. But the servants are soon conspiring to melt the frosty relations between the nobles. Written for the Comediens-Italiens, this piece was Marivaux's first major success with a full-length play.For the second Surprise de l'amour (1727) see under Mike Alfreds: The Surprise of Love. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Marriage of Figaro, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of Southern California | 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Absolute Classics, in 3-play volume: The Figaro Plays (1993) | ISBN/ASIN: | 0-948230-54-1 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124242 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | servants, etc - some doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Beaumarchais | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ode to Cantona | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #125509 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Translation of Ode a Canto, by Gerard Gelas (Avignon Festival 1996). | |||||
Synopsis: | A football star not unlike Eric Cantona is serving his community punishment for asaulting a spectator. As he trains with a ball-boy, practising headers and trading philosophy, Cantona's journey of self-discovery takes flight. | |||||
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Topaze | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #125510 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original playwright: Marcel Pagnol (1928). | |||||
Synopsis: | Principled but naive schoolmaster Topaze is unjustly sacked. He becomes clerk to a corrupt city councillor and learns a bitter lesson about how life really works. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Woman of Paris, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #124246 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Henri Becque. translation of La Parisienne, 1885 | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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