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ANTHONY CURTIS |
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Plays by Anthony Curtis |
Golden Opportunities | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
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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 | #57882 | |||
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Genre: | Translation/Adaption | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Eugene Scribe | |||||
Synopsis: | Poligni is an ex-Napoleonic officer on his uppers. His friend. Dorbeval, has a talent for making mone), while his painter chum, Olivier, is the darling of the salon. But Poligni finds himself in a pickle. Should he marry the impecunious, widowed Mme de Brienne, to whom he has long been devoted, or Dorbeval's vacuous ward, who comes with a hefty dowry? Like Noel Coward, Scribe hides a message under gift-wrapped froth. He implies that marrying for money leads only to a life of comfortable desolation. And any well-trained Marxist could find in the play a withering portrait of the Bourbon bourgeoisie who profited hugely from the new law of indemnity, allowing people to make inflated compensation claims for property lost during the revolution. | |||||
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Mr Maugham at Home | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 Apr 2010 | |||||
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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 | #114446 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Somerset Maugham considers his past and his present options as world war two approaches. He hosts us on an unforgettable journey from 1930s Cap-Ferrat back to Victorian London, from the Ritz to the Ashram, from revolutionary St Petersburg to the Tahiti of Gauguin. He remembers his student days in Canterbury and Heidleberg and his time in Shaftesbury Avenue, Broadway and Hollywood as a famous playwright. He speaks of his failed marriage and his passion for an American ambulance driver he met while working as a stretcher-bearer in the first world war. Here is a compelling blend of wit, wisdom, frank confession and sheer drama. The great writer takes the audience wholly into his confidence. It would be unwise (as Maugham would say) to miss this tour de force. A solo performance that illuminates the many faces of Maugham. | |||||
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