MARTA ABBA (1900 - 1988)
| Nationality: | Italian |
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Plays by Marta Abba
As You Desire Me |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1959 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 7 |
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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 | ||||
Diana And Tuda |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1960 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 9 |
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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 | ||||
Finding Oneself |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1959 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello (Trovarsi); aka To Find Oneself | ||||
Synopsis: a famous actress tries to discover who she is | ||||
New Colony, The |
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| 1st Published: | Crown, New York | 1958 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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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 | ||||
No One Knows How. |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1963 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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To Find Oneself |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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Tonight We Improvise |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1960 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| 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 | ||||
When One Is Somebody |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1963 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 6 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello | ||||
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Wives' Friend, The |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1959 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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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 | ||||
You Don't Know How |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1961 | ||
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Notes: Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello (Non si sa come) | ||||
Synopsis: from adultery to death "this too is only human" | ||||