ERIC BENTLEY   (1916 - )


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Plays by Eric Bentley

ERIC BENTLEY
1913
1st Produced:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
8
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Carl Sternheim
Synopsis:
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ERIC BENTLEY
Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been: The Investigation Of Show-Business By The Un-American Activities Committee 1947-1958
1st Produced:
New Haven, Connecticut
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
Harper, New York
1972
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Genre:
docu-drama
Documentary
Parts:
Male
25
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: McCarthy hearings of the 1950's in which show business stars were subpoenaed to testify as to their loyalty as Americans
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ERIC BENTLEY
Baal
1st Produced:
Looking Glass Theatre, NY
2007
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
9 actors
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht
Synopsis: Baal, a poet and singer, drunk, lazy, selfish and ruthless, seduces (among others) a disciple's seventeen year-old mistress, who drowns herself. He mixes with tramps and drivers and sings in a cheap night-club. With his friend the composer Ekart he wanders through the country, drinking and fighting. Sophie, pregnant by him, follows them and likewise drowns herself. Baal seduces Ekart's mistress, then kills him. Hunted by the police and deserted by the woodcutters, he dies alone in a forest hut.
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ERIC BENTLEY
Brute, The
1st Produced:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1956
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ERIC BENTLEY
Caucasian Chalk Circle, The
1st Produced:
Unity Theatre, London
1964
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Brecht, Bertolt, Parables For The Theatre" Penguin, London
1966
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
28
Female
11
Parts Other:
3b 1g
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht
Synopsis: the survival qualities of goodness and evil and the definition of justice by the needs of life
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ERIC BENTLEY
Celestina
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
8
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Fernando de Rojas, translated by J Mabbe
Synopsis:
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ERIC BENTLEY
Concord
1st Produced:
Buffalo
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Kleist Variations: Three Plays", Oracle Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1982
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ERIC BENTLEY
Days Of Cavafy
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
1990
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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ERIC BENTLEY
Diary of a Madman
1st Produced:
1999
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Revival
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ERIC BENTLEY
DMZ Revue
1st Produced:
New York
1968
Company:
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-
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Genre:
Sketches in
Sketch
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ERIC BENTLEY
Edward II
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
16
Female
1
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht
Synopsis:
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ERIC BENTLEY
Emperor, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in "The Genius of the Italian Theatre" Mentor, New York
1964
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
11
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello (Enrico IV)
Synopsis: a young aristocrat is convinced he is the Emperor Henry IV, despite best efforts he realises he is trapped in the role for the rest of his life
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ERIC BENTLEY
Exception And The Rule
1st Produced:
Unity Theatre, London
1956
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; Lyrics adapted by Bill Norton; Music by Frank Wagland
Synopsis:
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ERIC BENTLEY
Expletive Deleted
1st Produced:
New York
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Win", New York
1974
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ERIC BENTLEY
Fall Of The Amazons, The
1st Produced:
Buffalo
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Kleist Variations: Three Plays", Oracle Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1982
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ERIC BENTLEY
From The Memories Of Pontius Pilate
1st Produced:
Buffalo
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Rallying Cries", New Republican Books, Washington D.C.
1977
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
10
Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ERIC BENTLEY
German Requiem
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in "Monstrous Martydoms: Three Plays", Prometheus, Buffalo
1985
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-
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ERIC BENTLEY
Good Woman Of Setzuan, The
1st Produced:
1956
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Brecht, Bertolt, Parables For The Theatre" Penguin, London
1966
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
17
Female
9
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; Music by Dessau
Synopsis: three gods appear on a mission - to find one really 'good' person. A kindly prostitute
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ERIC BENTLEY
H For Hamlet
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in "Monstrous Martydoms: Three Plays", Prometheus, Buffalo
1985
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-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ERIC BENTLEY
In The Jungle Of The Cities
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
12
Female
5
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht
Synopsis: Shlink has an interest in George Garga  but is it love?. A Chicago Chinese timber dealer and his underworld friends turn his lover and sister into prostitute before the inevitable denouement
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ERIC BENTLEY
Inspector
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in "Inspector and Other Plays" French, New York
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
15
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol
Synopsis: a penniless nobody from Moscow is mistaken for a government inspector by the corrupt officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia
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ERIC BENTLEY
Jewish Wife, The
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London
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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 - Bertolt Brecht
Synopsis:
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ERIC BENTLEY
La Ronde
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1978
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Arthur Schnitzler; comprises of 10 dialogues
Synopsis: popular roundelay of love as practised in Old Vienna, each scene is interlinked
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ERIC BENTLEY
Larry Parks' Day In Court
1st Produced:
New York
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
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-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ERIC BENTLEY
Leonce And Lena
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Before Brecht: Four German Plays" French, New York
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
9
Female
3
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: by Georg Buchner
Synopsis: a prince well practised in sloth and his busy tutor have problems with the bride to be
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ERIC BENTLEY
Liola
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in "Naked Masks" French, New York
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
3
Female
9
Parts Other:
3c extras
Notes: Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello (Liola); Written in collaboration with Gerardo Guerrien
Synopsis: Liola is a peasant who loves women, whenever his lovers give birth he takes them under his protection and gives them to his mother to bring up
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ERIC BENTLEY
Lord Alfred's Lover
1st Produced:
Gainesville, Florida
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Monstrous Martydoms: Three Plays", Prometheus, Buffalo
1985
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
29
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Bosie acts as the narrator to the legacy of Oscar Wilde weaving the facts of his life and the scandal that destroyed him
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ERIC BENTLEY
Mandrake, The
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written with Frederick May
Synopsis:
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ERIC BENTLEY
Man's A Man, A
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
Musical
Translation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht. Book and Lyrics by Eric Bentley with Music by Arnold Black
Synopsis: 1920's India an attack against the militarised man and that organisation which controls his thinking and so holds the balance of fate in his dumb hands
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ERIC BENTLEY
Marriage, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: comedy by Nikolai Gogol
Synopsis: lady has six suitors from matchmakers until new entrant joins the fray
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ERIC BENTLEY
Mary Stuart
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
13
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Friedrich von Schiller; Written in collaboration with Joseph Mellison
Synopsis:
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ERIC BENTLEY
Mother Courage And Her Children
1st Produced:
revived by Unity Theare, London
1958
Company:
-
1st Published:
1962
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
19
Female
6
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; Music by Dessau
Synopsis: Period 1630's, Mother Courage follows the Swedish armies through the terrible Thirty Years War with her mobile canteen and three children, each by a different man
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ERIC BENTLEY
Recantation Of Galileo Galilei, The: Scenes From History Perhaps
1st Produced:
Detroit
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Harper, New York
1972
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Genre:
-
Historical
Parts:
Male
7
Female
1
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: -
Synopsis: Galileo is questioned about his Copernican viewpoint by the Church and its Inquisition.
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ERIC BENTLEY
Red White And Black, The
1st Produced:
New York (at LaMama Theater, produced by Ellen Stewart)
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Liberation", New York
1971
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Genre:
Satirical musical revue
Satire
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: music by Brad Burg (25 songs)
Synopsis: A satirical view of Establishment figures and values, in the era of Vietnam and civil-rights struggles.
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ERIC BENTLEY
Round Two
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
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1st Published:
in "Gay Plays: Four", Methuen, London
1990
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
10
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: transpos