n/a

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in "Plays 1" Methuen, London >>>

1991

Adapatation/translation

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8

4

-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime and the play's characters mirrored the predicament of the French people of the time. Based on Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy, Antigone, which was first performed in Athens in the 5th century BC, its theme was nevertheless topical. For in Antigone's faithfulness to her dead brother and his proper burial and her reiterated "No!" to the dictator Creon, the French audience saw its own resistance to the German occupation. The Germans allowed the play to be performed presumably because they found Creon's arguments for dictatorship so convincing. The play is regularly performed and studied around the world.

Etcetera Theatre, London >>>

1999

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Translation

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:

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Samuel French, NY

-

Adapatation/translation

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8

4

-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
theme is resistance to oppression, bury your brother and die

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-

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Samuel French, NY

-

Adapatation/translation

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8

4

-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
theme is resistance to oppression, bury your brother and die

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in "Anouilh Five Plays Vol 2" French, New York

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Translation

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4

4

-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:

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Samuel French, London

1978

Translation

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7

5

extras

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
In a seedy, decadent kind of Grand hotel are gathered a number of has beens, but then time turns inside out and suddenly the young married woman becomes a grandmother revelations abound as a result

Theatre Royal Haymarket, London

2004

Stanhope Productions

Methuen, London

2004

Adapatation/translation

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-

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large cast

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh. Adapted by Frederic and Stephen Raphael

Synopsis:
A charismatic leader is locked into a love-hate relationship with his fiscally prudent chancellor; but, having rashly promoted him, he encourages his loyal entourage to destroy him. Not for nothing does the mind turn to diverting thoughts of Blair and Brown while watching Jean Anouilh's intellectually vacuous piece of boulevard history. Anouilh's play is based on one, endlessly repeated idea: that Henry II was plagued by a homoerotic, stonily unrequited passion for his old hawking, horsing and whoring chum, Thomas Becket. Having pinched his mistress and rashly elevated him first to the chancellorship and then to Canterbury, Henry is confronted by the awkward fact that Becket puts the honour of God before that of his king. So, in a rage born of thwarted love, Henry licenses his barons to kill the unyielding Becket. -Michael Billington, Guardian

Theatre Royal Haymarket, London

2004

Stanhope Productions

Methuen, London

2004

Adapatation/translation

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large cast

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh. Adapted by Frederic and Stephen Raphael

Synopsis:
A charismatic leader is locked into a love-hate relationship with his fiscally prudent chancellor; but, having rashly promoted him, he encourages his loyal entourage to destroy him. Not for nothing does the mind turn to diverting thoughts of Blair and Brown while watching Jean Anouilh's intellectually vacuous piece of boulevard history. Anouilh's play is based on one, endlessly repeated idea: that Henry II was plagued by a homoerotic, stonily unrequited passion for his old hawking, horsing and whoring chum, Thomas Becket. Having pinched his mistress and rashly elevated him first to the chancellorship and then to Canterbury, Henry is confronted by the awkward fact that Becket puts the honour of God before that of his king. So, in a rage born of thwarted love, Henry licenses his barons to kill the unyielding Becket. -Michael Billington, Guardian

The Royal, London

1991

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in "Plays 2" Methuen, London

1997

Adapatation/translation

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33

5

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
Martyr to his faith and purity.

New York

1960

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Methuen, London

1961

Adapatation/translation

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33

5

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
As he waits to be scourged for his part in Becket's murder, King Henry 11 retraces his entire relationship with the saint, once his dearest friend and mentor. His catastrophic mistake was to create Becket Archbishop out of political expediency for Becket found a fulfilment lacking in his hitherto luxurious life and therefore guarded the honour of God as once he had, as Henry's Chancellor, once guarded the honour of his King. Period 12th century

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Samuel French, NY

-

Adapatation/translation

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11

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:

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Samuel French, NY

-

Adapatation/translation

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11

6

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:

New, London

1951

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Translation

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:

Festival Theatre, Chichester, UK >>>

1971

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Samuel French, NY

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Translation

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8

7

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:

Oxford Playhouse, Oxford

1957

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Methuen, London

1958

Adapatation/translation

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6

6

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
the attempt to remove reality for a dream, a villa is staffed to pretend to a girl by her lover that he is entertaining her in his old family home

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in "Collected Plays 1" Methuen, London

1966

Adapatation/translation

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8

7

-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:

Festival Theatre, Chichester, UK >>>

1990

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in "Plays 2" Methuen, London

1997

Adapatation/translation

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8

4

-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh; broadcast BBC 14/07/85

Synopsis:
My journey into journalism was an unhappy one - an affectionate excursion which went sour. About the life and work in the offices of a big Sunday newspaper during one week.

Festival Theatre, Chichester, UK >>>

1966

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Methuen, London

1967

Adapatation/translation

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10

4

-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
French career General whose brief hour of glory in 1945 was swiftly followed by a spell in prison and an early retirement

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1964

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Originally published as Humulus le Muet copyright Editions de la Table Ronde

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh and Jean Aurenche

Synopsis:
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Medicine Show, USA >>>

1989

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Translation

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-

-

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
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Samuel French, London

-

Adapatation/translation

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7

5

-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
charming and highly commercial poet comes under attack from woman who adores him

Lyric Theatre, London

1955

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Methuen, London

1956

prose version of "L'Alouette"

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16

5

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
Joan of Arc has to die for the expediency of church and state

Longacre Theatre, NY

1955

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in "Hellman, Lillian, Collected Plays" Macmillan, London

1972

Adapatation/translation

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15

4

extras

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
Chapman, writing in the New York News called The Lark: "a beautiful, beautiful play...It is always the story of a simple girl who became an inspired warrior and then was tried by the church-but there have been several ways of telling it. Anouilh's way, and Miss Hellman's, is to try to tell the story from two viewpoints. One of them is how we look at the tale now as a piece of history, with our knowledge of how the girl's blundering captors unwittingly created a martyr who became forever a symbol of courage and faith. The other viewpoint has been to try to imagine what it must have been like to be Joan herself. Both approaches to this legend of the Martyr of Rouen have been splendidly realized by the technique of divorcing the drama from the confinements of time, sequence and space. Until the last moment-a thrilling and uplifting one of Joan's greatest earthly triumph, the coronation of the worthless Dauphin for whom she fought-there is no scenery in the usual sense, merely a few levels of steps and platforms,

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in "Five Plays, Anouilh", Methuen, London

1987

Adapatation/translation

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8

3

extras

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh, broadcast 1985

Synopsis:
opera singer dies after three blissful days of love with Prince Albert who has mourned her ever since

London

1959

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French, London & in "The London Magazine", London, May

1959

Adapatation/translation

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:

Bridewell, London

2000

London Stage Company

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Translation

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7

3

1b

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
The play is set behind the scenes of a Parisian theatre. The eponymous heroine is a sweet, unsophisticated flower-girl, who loves her husband, Julien, until left in the care of her mother in law, Madame Alexandra, a famous, seven times married actress of no fixed morality or maternal feelings.

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Methuen, London

1957

Adapatation/translation

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2

2

1b extras

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
classic tale of Medea and her love for Jason

Theatre Royal Windsor, UK >>>

1984

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Samuel French, London

1985

Adapatation/translation

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5

5

-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
elderly playwright struggles to write new play against the demands of his selfish egotistical family

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Samuel French, London

1975

Adapatation/translation

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-

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
play with a concert constructed from a knowledge of the lives of working musicians

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in "Plays 2" Methuen, London

1997

Adapatation/translation

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2

6

extras

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
play with a concert constructed from a knowledge of the lives of working musicians

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1950

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Methuen, London

1966

Adapatation/translation

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13

3

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh; aka Eurydice, Legend of Loves

Synopsis:

New Arts Theatre, London

1963

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Methuen, London

1964

Adapatation/translation

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11

3

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
Humiliation of a smug communist deputy by revolutionary guests at a party.

Globe Theatre, London

1961

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Methuen, London

1961

Adapatation/translation

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5

3

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh; Written in collaboration with Pamela Hansford Johnson

Synopsis:
stage romance suddenly becomes the drama of life as a hedonistic Count and his friends rehearse Marivaux's 'The Double Inconstancy'

Globe Theatre, London

1961

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Methuen, London

1961

Adapatation/translation

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5

3

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh; Written in collaboration with Kitty Black

Synopsis:
stage romance suddenly becomes the drama of life as a hedonistic Count and his friends rehearse Marivaux's 'The Double Inconstancy'

Almeida Theatre, London >>>

1990

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Methuen, London

1991

Adapatation/translation

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5

3

-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
stage romance suddenly becomes the drama of life as a hedonistic Count and his friends rehearse Marivaux's 'The Double Inconstancy'

St James Theatre, London

1957

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Methuen, London

1958

Adapatation/translation

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6

9

extras

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
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Globe Theatre, London

1950

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Methuen, London; OUP, London, 1950

1950

3 acts in prose

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8

6

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh. a charade with music  a version of Anouilhs LInvitation au chateau.

Synopsis:
According to Atkinson (Times), a play "of many moods...wistfully romantic, satirical, fantastic...To make his points about love (the author) has invented a fable about twin brothers-Frederic, who is shy and sensitive, and Hugo, who is heartless and aggressive. Frederic is in love with a hussy who is in love with Hugo. To save Frederic from an unhappy marriage, Hugo tries to distract him by bringing to a ball a beautiful dancer who masquerades as a mysterious personage and becomes the triumph of the occasion. She is a susceptible maiden in her own right. She not only breaks up all the cynical romances that have been going on before she arrived, but loses her own heart as well."

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Methuen, London

1958

Adapatation/translation

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4

3

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:

Bellingham, Northumberland

1976

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Unpublished

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Adapatation/translation

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:

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1952

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in "Collected Plays 1" Methuen, London

1966

Adapatation/translation

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9

5

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
two beautiful young heiresses provide bait for thieves and adventurers, but things become serious when one girl falls in love with a young thief

Opera house Manchester

1955

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Samuel French, London

1956

Translation

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13

2

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:

Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN, USA >>>

2000

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

-

Adapatation/translation

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7

2

optional 4-piece M/F Gypsy band

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh. adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher, translated by Stephanie L. Debner

Synopsis:
In this new adaptation of Jean Anouilh's 1940 romantic comedy, Amanda, a poor hat maker from Paris, is invited to a chateau by an eccentric duchess to spend a weekend trying to make her suicidal nephew, Albert, forget about the death of his great love, the divine Leocadia. Amanda, it turns out, is a dead ringer for the dead woman, and if she can convince Albert that she is his lost love for just three days, then Albert just might not kill himself. A gossamer tale of love and trickery, in which a fake can give more pleasure than the real thing.

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Samuel French, NY

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Translation

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8

5

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
a man who has lost his memory faces problems with presumed relatives

Arts Theatre Club, London

1959

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Methuen, London

1959

Adapatation/translation

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7

5

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
a man who has lost his memory faces problems with presumed relatives

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1951

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Adapatation/translation

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:

Arts Theatre Club, London

1956

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Samuel French, London

1953

Adapatation/translation

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4

7

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

Synopsis:
a retired General tries to keep old age at bay by dallying with every available pretty woman, much to his wife's disgust