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Royal Court Theatre, London >>>

1985

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Methuen Drama, London >>> , 1985

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Mordant Comedy

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The action begins in the London flat of Lenora (Lemon), a rather frail, introspective young woman who tells us, with a chilling calm, why she rather admires the Nazis for their "refreshing" lack of hypocrisy, and who then, in a series of flashbacks, explains how she came to hold these views. We meet her abrasive American-born father, to whom profit and business success are foremost, and her retiring mother who wishes that love and kindness were more prevalent, but is easily reconciled to their absence. But, most importantly, we meet a family friend, Danielle (known as Aunt Dan), an Oxford don obsessed with defending Henry Kissinger's policies in Vietnam. Beguiling Lemon with tales of her wild days as an Oxford student, and of the amoral escapades of her diverse and often dissolute friends (depicted in brief, disquieting vignettes), Aunt Dan becomes the central force in Lemon's life, eventually corrupting Lemon's moral views to the point where even Aunt Dan's death elicits no compassion. Instead Lemon, in a fi

Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, London >>>

1996

National Theatre, London >>>

Faber & Faber, London, 1996

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Play/Drama

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tells the story of three people: Howard, a poet, essayist and intellectual who comes from a privileged background but who nonetheless has been at odds for many decades with the right-wing regime that rules his country; Judy, his daughter, a subtle, witty and deep-feeling intellectual, who reveres her father; and Jack, Judy's husband, who at one time also revered Howard but then changed his mind. Judy was drawn to Jack in the first place because he's an amusing person who perhaps offered a refuge from the high standards inexorably imposed by her father, but his disarming light-mindedness turns out to have some unpleasant disadvantages. As the political situation becomes more tense, and the regime becomes more and more likely to crack down even on relatively quiet dissenters like Judy and Howard, the issue of what sort of books people like to read and how they choose to amuse themselves becomes both grimly personal and unexpectedly entangled with questions of survival.

New York

1978

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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New York

1991

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Farrar Straus, New York, 1991

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Play/Drama

Monologue

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The nameless narrator of this blistering monologue lies ill and alone in a dreary hotel room in a poverty-stricken country. A political execution is about to take place beneath his window. Far from the glib comforts of his own life, he struggles with memories and his own conscience, which are challenged by the misery and poverty he sees. With compassion, eloquence, and ruthless self-scrutiny, the playwright discovers that having good intentions toward the dispossessed is not enough. As the narrator reminisces and agonizes over his own responsibility for the downtrodden, he reaches the inevitable conclusion that the politically correct are guilty themselves unless they take action. At the play's conclusion, the narrator has succeeded in defining his own guilt but is uncertain whether or not he has the personal courage to join in the struggle. Aghast at his own weakness, he longs for forgiveness and the strength to earn it.

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1967

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Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, EUR >>>

2009

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Cafe La MaMa, NY, USA >>>

1981

The Cooper-Keaton Group

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1982

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Comedy

Comedy Drama

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Composer: Richard Weinstock

The setting is a hotel in the tropics where a beleaguered desk clerk tries to placate, amuse and occasionally seduce the widely varied clientele who come and go during the course of the play's quick flowing action, each acting out a brief but telling personal vignette. The guests, mostly neurotic in one way or another, represent a broad cross section of modern society and reflect the hang-ups and social shortcomings so prevalent in contemporary life. But despite its ironic approach-and characters-the play is ultimately a paean to the well-ordered and comfortably ordinary-qualities so elusive and rare, and yet so desirable, in our unsettled and unsettling times.

Lenox, Massachusetts

1976

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music by Allen shawn

New York

1977

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,

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Adaptation

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Original Playwright - Machiavelli, aka Madragola, music and lyrics by Howard Goodall

Set in sixteenth-century Florence, the play blends songs and robust action in detailing the hilarious lengths to which the smitten Callimaco goes in winning the favors of Lucrezia, the beautiful young wife of the rich and aged lawyer, Nicia. Fnlisting the aid of the artful trickster Ligurio, Callimaco is passed off as a doctor who has devised a magic potion which, he promises Nicia, will make the heretofore childless Lucrezia conceive. But the catch is that the first man who sleeps with her after she takes the potion will die. Lucrezia's gullible mother and a venal friar, Brother Timothy, are also persuaded to help overcome Lucrezia's scruples against bedding down with a man not her husband (and who needless to say, turns out to be Callimaco in disguise). The resulting twists and turns lead on to nonstop high spirits and hilarity until, in the end, everyone gets exactly what he hopes for and, quite possibly, deserves.

London

1979

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Grove Press, New York, 1980

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Comedy

Comedy Drama

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As the play begins Marie and Bruce, a young married couple, are still in bed, he sleeping soundly, she excoriating him and vowing that she will put an end to their marriage. It seems that she had thrown away his ancient typewriter, which precipitated an ugly scene, but there is more to their problem than this. However, when Bruce wakes and prepares breakfast, he seems impervious to her insults and blithely unconcerned about her threats to leave him. Later, in an hilarious party scene (where some of the guests are impersonated by mannequins) Marie and Bruce mingle with a bizarre assortment of New York "types," while she tries to muster the courage to make the final break. Then, after they have adjourned to a Chinese restaurant (with a rather coarse, but very funny group at the next table) Marie finally boils over, and attempts not only to leave Bruce but virtually to destroy him. But, again, Bruce reacts as though he has barely heard her and she, in turn, realizes that it is his weakness, his vulnerability, wh

New York

1977

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in "Wordplays 2", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York, 1982

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One Act

Short Play

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aka Three Short Plays: Summer Fvening, The Youth Hostel, Mr. Frivolous

Minetta Lane Theater, NY

2006

The New Group

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London

1980

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Grove Press, New York (screenplay)+R2163, 1981

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written with Andre Gregory

New York

1975

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Targ, New York, 1984

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about seven partygoers negotiating the minefield of dating and mating

New York

1977

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in "Wordplays 2", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York, 1982

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One Act

Short Play

4

2

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aka Three Short Plays: Summer Fvening, The Youth Hostel, Mr. Frivolous

New York

1977

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in "Wordplays 2", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York, 1982

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aka Three Short Plays: Summer Fvening, The Youth Hostel, Mr. Frivolous

New York

1977

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in "Wordplays 2", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York, 1982

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One Act

Short Play

4

2

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aka Three Short Plays: Summer Fvening, The Youth Hostel, Mr. Frivolous