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LILLIAN HELLMAN (1907 - 1984) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Born in New Orleans, LA on June 20, 1907. At-tended New York University; Columbia Universi-ty and Tufts, M.A. She has written book reviews, magazine articles, screenplays (Dead End, The Little Foxes, The Chase). Editor of The Letters of Anton Chekhov and Hammett's The Big Knockover. Author of An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time. Member: American Academy of Arts & Sciences; National Academy of Arts and Letters. Recipient: New York Drama Critics Circle Award; Brandeis University Creative Arts Award; National Institute of Arts & Letters Gold Medal.
Address (in 1981) : 630 Park Ave., New York, NY 10021.
Agent (in 1981) : Don Congdon, c/o Harold Matson Com-pany, 22 East 40th St., New York, NY 10017; (212) 679-4490
Plays by Lillian Hellman
Another Part Of The Forest | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fulton Theatre | 1946 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16214 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | The play takes place in the 1880s. Marcus Hubbard, rich, despotic and despised, made a fortune during the Civil War by running the blockade - and worse. In his family life he is equally injurious: one son he bulldozes while the other he holds in contempt for his frailty. By Marcus's side stands his mentally deranged wife and, finally, Regina, the adored daughter - amoral, conniving, and beautiful as an evil flower. Marcus, it would seem, has been on the top of the heap long enough and someone must depose him. Turning the tables on a tyrant has always made for high drama, and when Hellman puts her brilliant talents to work on such a theme the result is a play of great theatrical intensity. | |||||
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Autumn Garden, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Coronet Theatre, New York | 1951 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Little Brown, Boston, 1951 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16215 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 7 | ||
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Synopsis: | The premise of the play is contemplating the meaning of middle age to an assorted group of people gathered together in a summer home. All of them are, in one way or another, frustrated and unhappy. Most of them are under the illusion that some day the things from which they suffer will be removed and they will be once more at peace. But when they come to see themselves, they realise that man is the sum of his past life, that they are incapable of any real revolt against their past and that what they have made of themselves in earlier years is what they are when age approaches. And yet they are not tragic figures. All of them are troubled average people, human, commonplace: but they are studied with great understanding and a touch of intelligently unsentimental compassion. | |||||
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Candide | ||
| 1st Produced: | Martin Beck Theatre, NY | 01 Dec 1956 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Collected Plays, Little Brown; Broadway, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Columbia (38732) 1956 | doollee no | #44080 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music by Leonard Bernstein; Book by Lillian Hellman; Lyrics by Richard Wilbur, John La Touche and Dorothy Parker; Based on the novel "Candide" by Voltaire | |||||
| In Westphalia Candide is about to marry Cunegonde. They are both pupils of Dr Pangloss. The country is invaded and Candide believing that both Cunegonde and Pangloss are dead flees to Lisbon. The Inquisition arrives and Candide is sentenced to death - he discovers that Pangloss has survived come to Lisbon too - but he also has fallen foul of the Inquisition. Before they can be executed Lisbon suffers a terrible earthquake and everyone but Candide dies. Candide goes to Paris where having also escaped Cunegonde is living as a companion to a sheik and a count. An elaborate party is thrown by Cunegonde. Candide arrives at the party - he cannot believe his beloved is alive. He kills the count and the sheik and escapes with Cunegonde | |||||
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Children's Hour, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Maxine Elliott's Theatre, New York | 1934 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16216 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 12 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The bigger the lie the more it will be believed | |||||
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Days To Come | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vanderbilt Theatre, New York | 1936 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Collected Plays, Little Brown; Broadway, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #44078 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The result of a strike on a small mid-Western town. | |||||
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Lark, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Longacre Theatre, NY | 1955 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Hellman, Lillian, Collected Plays" Macmillan, London, 1972 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #64193 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh; Incidental music by Leonard Bernstein | |||||
Synopsis: | Chapman, writing in the New York News called The Lark: "a beautiful, beautiful play. . .It is always the story of a simple girl who became an inspired warrior and then was tried by the church-but there have been several ways of telling it. Anouilh's way, and Miss Hellman's, is to try to tell the story from two viewpoints. One of them is how we look at the tale now as a piece of history, with our knowledge of how the girl's blundering captors unwittingly created a martyr who became forever a symbol of courage and faith. The other viewpoint has been to try to imagine what it must have been like to be Joan herself. Both approaches to this legend of the Martyr of Rouen have been splendidly realized by the technique of divorcing the drama from the confinements of time, sequence and space. Until the last moment-a thrilling and uplifting one of Joan's greatest earthly triumph, the coronation of the worthless Dauphin for whom she fought-there is no scenery in the usual sense, merely a few levels of steps and platforms. | |||||
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Little Foxes, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, New York | 1939 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Barlow, Judith E. (Ed.), Plays By American Women, 1930-1960" Applause Books, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16218 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Regina had married husband Horace for financial support when her father left all the family money to her brothers Benjamin and Oscar. Benjamin and Oscar want extra finance to open a cotton mill and they turn to their sister - she cannot help them. It is suggested that Oscar's son marries Regina's daughter - but neither Regina or her daughter want that. Regina asks Horace for the money - he refuses. So Benjamin who works in the bank steals Horace's bonds. | |||||
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Montserrat | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fulton Theatre | 1949 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Hellman, Lillian, Collected Plays" Macmillan, London, 1972 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16219 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based on a play by Emmanuel Robles | |||||
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My Mother, My Father And Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1963 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1963 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16220 | |||
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Genre: | Satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 14 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from Burt Blechman's novel How Much? | |||||
Synopsis: | Three generations clash in Manhattan apartment and aged mother is put in nursing home. | |||||
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Regina | ||
| 1st Produced: | 46th Street Theatre, New York | 1949 | ||||
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 | #44079 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Marc Blitzstein; lyrics by Marc Blitzstein; book by Marc Blitzstein and Lillian Hellman. Based on the play "Little Foxes" by Lillian Hellman | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Searching Wind, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fulton Theatre | 1944 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16221 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | As in no other play the author here dramatizes most effectively the spirit of compromise and bewilderment, both in politics and human relations, that brought about the present world catastrophe | |||||
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Toys In The Attic | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1960 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1960 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16222 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Two sisters are almost disappointed when over indulged brother becomes rich and independent | |||||
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Watch On The Rhine | ||
| 1st Produced: | Martin Beck Theatre, New York | 1941 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16223 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | 2b | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Concerns an idealistic German who, with his American wife and two children, flees Hitler's Germany and finds sanctuary with his wife's family in the United States. He hopes for a respite from the dangerous work in which he has been involved, but his desire for personal safety soon comes into conflict with the deeply held beliefs that have made him an active anti-Nazi. In the end his conscience cannot be compromised, and he returns to Germany and the resistance movement-and to what will be, most certainly, his ultimate destruction. Told in compelling, human terms, the play is an eloquent and stirring tribute to the brave men and women who, despite all odds, struggled early on to stem the tide of fascism which was soon to spread throughout Europe and the world. | |||||
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