ROBERT ANDERSON   (1917 - )


Robert Anderson
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Plays by Robert Anderson

ROBERT ANDERSON
All Summer Long
1st Produced:
Arena Stage, Washington, D.C.
1952
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1955
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: from novel Wreath and a Curse by Donald Wetzel
Synopsis:
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ROBERT ANDERSON
Come Marching Home
1st Produced:
Iowa City
1945
Company:
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1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ROBERT ANDERSON
Dance Me A Song
1st Produced:
New York
1950
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Sketches in
Sketch
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ROBERT ANDERSON
Days Between, The
1st Produced:
Theatre Center, Dallas, TX
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1965
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Wife's entertainment of successful writer causes problems for writing lecturer who cannot write.
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ROBERT ANDERSON
Double Solitaire
1st Produced:
New Haven, Connecticut
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1972
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Genre:
Short Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: set in the present, concerns an older couple about to celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary and their son and daughter-in-law, whose marriage is pulling apart. The action is a series of sharp, short confrontations, which lay bare the lives of all concerned-their failures, their loneliness, and their quiet and desperate search for something to bring them alive again. Subtle and compassionate, yet unfailingly honest, the play shows its people both as they are and as they want to be, and illuminates the interior truths in which must lie the deeper meaning of human existence.
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ROBERT ANDERSON
Eden Rose, The
1st Produced:
Ridgefield Community Theatre, Connecticut
1949
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ROBERT ANDERSON
Footsteps Of Doves, The
1st Produced:
New York
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water Is Running", Random House, New York
1967
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: One of the four plays comprising You Know I Can't Hear you When The Water Is Running, one of the most successful comedies in Broadway history. You Know I Can't Hear you When The Water Is Running is a warm-hearted quartet of hilarious short plays which sta
Synopsis: Balsam and Eileen Heckart, who have been wed 25 years, come to a store to pick out a new bed or beds. Should they buy twin beds or a double? They don't get much sales effort from the salesman, Grizzard, for the salesman is a pansy. Into the discussion, uninvited, comes a blonde young thing, Miss Dillon, who wants a big bed because she is all alone
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ROBERT ANDERSON
Free And Clear
1st Produced:
New Haven, Connecticut
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ROBERT ANDERSON
Hour Town
1st Produced:
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1938
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Musical
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: book, music and lyrics by Anderson
Synopsis:
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ROBERT ANDERSON
I Never Sang For My Father
1st Produced:
Philadelphia
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1968
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
7
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Screenplay published New American Library, New York, 1970
Synopsis: This is the story of Gene, a widower, with an elderly mother whom he loves and an eighty-year-old father, whom he has never loved, hard as he tried. The father has been mayor of a small town in Westchester County, self-made and highly respected. Beneath these trappings, however, he is a mean, unloving and ungenerous man, who has driven his daughter away because of her marriage to a Jew and has alienated his son through his possessiveness, his selfishness and his endless reminiscences. Suddenly the mother dies, and Gene is faced with the responsibility of having the father on his hands just at a time when he wants to remarry and move to California. There are a series of dramatic confrontations when Alice, the sister, who has defied her father, pleads with Gene not to take on the burden of the old man and ruin his life; when the penurious father and son have to pick out a coffin for the mother; and the final episode in which Gene tries once again to rouse in himself affection for his father and succeeds, but on
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ROBERT ANDERSON
I'll Be Home For Christmas
1st Produced:
New York
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water Is Running", Random House, New York
1967
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: One of the four plays comprising You Know I Can't Hear you When The Water Is Running, one of the most successful comedies in Broadway history. You Know I Can't Hear you When The Water Is Running is a warm-hearted quartet of hilarious short plays which sta
Synopsis: is light and humorous, but at base it is serious and touching as it shows Miss Heckart and Balsam discussing sex education of their almost-adult children, a girl and boy. Balsam is quite moving when he learns in a letter that his son is cutting adrift from the parental harbor.
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ROBERT ANDERSON
I'm Herbert
1st Produced:
New York
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water Is Running", Random House, New York
1967
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: One of the four plays comprising You Know I Can't Hear you When The Water Is Running, one of the most successful comedies in Broadway history. You Know I Can't Hear you When The Water Is Running is a warm-hearted quartet of hilarious short plays which sta
Synopsis: - . . .off-off-Broadway is most renowned as the arena of the new playwright. Learn about [Mary Humphrey Baldridge's] skills with dialogue and plot. . .in GENESIS. . .mounted with style and skill at the famed Neighborhood Playhouse. . . Theater Week, Peter Filichia
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ROBERT ANDERSON
Last Act Is A Solo, The
1st Produced:
Televised
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1991
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ROBERT ANDERSON
Love Revisited
1st Produced:
County Playhouse, Westport, Connecticut
1951
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ROBERT ANDERSON
Shock Of Recognition, The
1st Produced:
New York
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water Is Running", Random House, New York
1967
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: One of the four plays comprising You Know I Can't Hear you When The Water Is Running, one of the most successful comedies in Broadway history. You Know I Can't Hear you When The Water Is Running is a warm-hearted quartet of hilarious short plays which sta
Synopsis: breaks in on a difference of opinion between George Grizzard, an earnest young dramatist, and Joe Silver, his matter-of-fact producer. Silver doesn't like the opening moment of Grizzard's play. A wife is having breakfast in bed and she says something to her husband, who is in the bathroom. So he comes out, jaybird naked, and yells to her. 'You know I can't hear you when the water's running.' Producer Silver doesn't think this confrontation is quite nice or necessary. Author Grizzard insists that the scene is quite important-and, after all, it lasts only an instant. So a quarrel over taste develops, and a job-hunting actor, Martin Balsam, becomes involved. He eagerly begins to strip, demonstrating how he would handle the role. Also involved is Melinda Dillon, the producer's secretary, who is described as 'a Bennington girl' and acts it. This is fine, light comedy.
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ROBERT ANDERSON
Silent Night, Lonely Night
1st Produced:
New Haven, Connecticut
1959
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1960
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Christmas Eve in a New England Hotel and a chance meeting between two lonely people
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ROBERT ANDERSON
Solitaire
1st Produced:
New Haven, Connecticut
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1972
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Genre:
Short Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: set in a chilling, computerized future, where marriage has been abolished, life is lived in mechanized motel rooms, and voluntary self-destruction is a citizen's ultimate service to the state. Yearning for the simple, forgotten warmth of family life, Sam Bradley seeks out an illicit, underground operation which provides for a surrogate domesticity-wife, children, dinner on the table. For a precious moment he is transported back into a way of life now lost but fondly remembered. But then his time is up and he must return to his electronic cell, to breathe the last of his allotted air and to cherish what memories remain before oblivion consumes him.
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ROBERT ANDERSON
Tea And Sympathy
1st Produced:
New Haven, Connecticut
1953
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1953
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
9
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Everyone but Tom thinks he is gay
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ROBERT ANDERSON
You Know I Can't Hear You When The Water's Running
1st Produced:
Broadway, New York
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1967
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Genre:
Four 1 Act Comedies
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: As the New York Daily News briefly outlines: THE SHOCK OF RECOGNITION breaks in on a difference of opinion between&an earnest young dramatist and&his matter-of-fact producer who doesn't like the opening moment of the play. A wife is having breakfast in be
Synopsis: This was one of the most successful comedies in Broadway history. The topic is sex, in all its mysterious and fascinating manifestations, and the treatment of this is so skillful, tasteful and explosively funny that the plays are not only captivating and touching but universal in appeal
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