MARTA ABBA   (1900 - 1988)


Marta Abba
   Nationality:
Italian
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Plays by Marta Abba

MARTA ABBA
As You Desire Me
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1959
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
11
Female
7
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello (Come tu mi vuoi)
Synopsis:
ten years after WW2 a German writer, his mistress and sexually ambiguous daughter sets the scene for the tone of decadence
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MARTA ABBA
Diana And Tuda
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1960
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
3
Female
9
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello (Diana e la Tuda)
Synopsis:
sculptor working on his ideal piece, a statue of Diana, decides to kill himself when he has finished as nothing in his life can compare to this work
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MARTA ABBA
Finding Oneself
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1959
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
7
Female
6
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello (Trovarsi); aka To Find Oneself
Synopsis:
a famous actress tries to discover who she is
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MARTA ABBA
New Colony, The
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1st Published:
Crown, New York
1958
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello (La nuova colonia)
Synopsis:
action in a tavern as local landowner accuses old fisherman of filling his son's head with rubbish
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MARTA ABBA
No One Knows How.
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1963
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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MARTA ABBA
To Find Oneself
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Translation
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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MARTA ABBA
Tonight We Improvise
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1960
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
50 characters
Notes:
Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello
Synopsis:
the play within the improvisation concerns the wooing of a wife by a man who finds her family quite crazy
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MARTA ABBA
When One Is Somebody
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1963
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
14
Female
6
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello
Synopsis:
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MARTA ABBA
Wives' Friend, The
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1959
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello (L'amica delle mogli)
Synopsis:
woman who is a friend of lots of people who have got married fails again
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MARTA ABBA
You Don't Know How
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1961
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello (Non si sa come)
Synopsis:
from adultery to death "this too is only human"
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