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KENNETH MCLEISH (1940 - 1997) |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd |
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Plays by Kenneth McLeish |
After The Trojan War | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23498 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides; comprises three plays | |||||
Synopsis: | A powerful indictment on the effects of war by one of the greatest of all Greek tragedians. Gods and humans worked together to build the great city of Troy, then wrought its destruction; Troy has falen, thousands are dead, every male trojan slaughtered but what of those left alive? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bacchae | ||
| 1st Produced: | Athens | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781854594112 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23499 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | chorus and extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Translated by Kenneth McLeish, Frederic Raphael | |||||
| At the whim of Dionysos, a son is torn to pieces by his own mother during the famous women-only Bacchanalian ritual. The story of revenge by the half-man half-god on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Belle Vue, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23500 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | set in a seedy hotel in Central Europe i9n the 1920's where the only guest in a drunken ageing nymphomaniac | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Children Of Hercules | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Scoop, London | 2005 | ||||
Company: | The Steam Industry | |||||
| 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 | #60076 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
Synopsis: | plunges straight into the heart of the play that begins in the wake of Hercules' death | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Doll's House A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23501 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 1b 1g | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | |||||
Synopsis: | The final revolt of a wife who has been treated as a plaything by pompous husband. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Don Juan | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854593566 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124816 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright- Moliere | |||||
| Don Juan abandons his wife after their marriage. She and her brothers pursue him. Don Juan seduces two peasant girls at the same time; humiliates a beggar and invites the statue of a man he has killed to lunch. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Electra | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Sophocles, Plays: Two" Methuen, London, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23502 | |||
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Genre: | Sophocles | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | chorus | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Flea In Her Ear | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48616 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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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Great Highway, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
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 | #23503 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - August Strindberg | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hecuba | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gate, London | 1992 | ||||
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 | #63845 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hope Spring Hotel | ||
| 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 | #76726 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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King Oedipus | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
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 | #23504 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lady From The Sea, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23505 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | |||||
Synopsis: | Beyond the walls of her fjord home, where her husband Dr Wangel offers the security of family and responsibility, Ellida is constantly drawn towards the sea. It's from this element that her past love returns - promising the ecstasy of the unknown. Will she suffocate on dry land, or find freedom across the sea? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Master Builder, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Almeida Theatre, Almeida Street, Islington, London N1 1TA >>> | 12 Nov 2010 | ||||
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 | #114586 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | |||||
Synopsis: | "I came for my kingdom. Time's up, Mr Solness!" Master Builder Halvard Solness has reached the pinnacle of his career. But at a cost; his family life is in ruins and he lives in fear that the next generation will rise up and brush him aside. When Hilde Wangel, a bewitching young woman, arrives to collect a decade-old debt, she breathes new life into his professional pride. As Solness completes his architectural masterpiece, will Hilde be the Master Builder's ultimate downfall? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Medea | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23506 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 11 | ||
Parts other: | 4c | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides; Written by Frederick Raphael and Kenneth McLeish | |||||
Synopsis: | The powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children to revenge her husband's infidelity | |||||
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Miss Julie | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781854592057 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23507 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - August Strindberg | |||||
| presents, with startling clarity, the conflict between sexual passion and social position | |||||
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Oedipus | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48617 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Sophocles | |||||
Synopsis: | Complications come fast and furious as the wife of a noble lord misinterprets a note. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Oresteia, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC TV | 1979 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Serpent Sun" Cambridge University Press, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23508 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | written with Frederic Raphael | |||||
Synopsis: | a trilogy of plays concerning the bloody domestic aftermath of the Trojan War | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Orpheus | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ireland | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23509 | |||
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Genre: | Verse Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Twenty First century interpretation of the ancient myth of Orpheus. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Peer Gynt | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23510 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 21 | Female | 13 | ||
Parts other: | 1c extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | |||||
Synopsis: | Symbolic satirical in verse based on Norwegian folklore. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Philoctetes | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Sophocles, Plays: Two" Methuen, London, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23511 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | chorus | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Sophocles | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Wealth | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Aristophanes & Menander, New Comedy" Methuen, London, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23512 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 13 + Chorus | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Aristophanes | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Women In Power | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Aristophanes & Menander, New Comedy" Methuen, London, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23513 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Aristophanes | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Women Of Troy | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23514 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
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