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JAMES BRIDIE (1888 - 1951) |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Agency (London) Ltd |
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Plays by James Bridie |
Anatomist, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gateway, Edinburgh | 1956 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4685 | |||
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Genre: | Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Revival | |||||
Synopsis: | concerns the famous anatomist Dr Knox and the grave robbers Burke and Hare, set in Victorian England | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Baike Charivari, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Constable 1953 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #72521 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Colonel Wotherspoon or The Fourth Way of Greatness | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Constable & Co., Ltd, 1935 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41093 | |||
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Genre: | Three Act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Daphne Laureola | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Constable & Co., Ltd, 1949 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4686 | |||
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Genre: | Four Act Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Lady Pitts sits in a restaurant she has consumed an enormous amount of brandy. She invites the other diners to her home for tea. One, Ernest a young Pole is very enamoured of her. Later when he tries to help her he is knocked out by Lady Pitts' chauffeur/attendant, Vincent. Ernest talks to Lady Pitts' elderly husband who tells him the truth about her. Lord Pitts dies. Six months later Ernest is at the restaurant again when Lady Pitts comes in with her new husband - Vincent | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dr Angelus | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95393 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Doctor Angelus has taken on a junior partner, Doctor Johnson. Angelus asks him if he will take over the care of his mother-in-law who has a gastric complaint. Johnson is warned to beware of Angelus. The mother-in-law dies suddenly and Angelus persuades Johnson to sign the death certificate saying it was a gastric complaint. The Dr Angelus' wife becomes ill with the same complaint. Angelus plies Johnson with whisky and when he should have been looking after Mrs Angelus he falls asleep. When he wakes up she too is dead. Before he can go to the police they arrive. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Jonah And The Whale | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Constable & Co., Ltd, 1968 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4687 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 11 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of Jonah is treated mainly on the familiar lines, spliced with irreverent attitudes | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Meeting At Night | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1956 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Constable & Co., Ltd, 1956 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4688 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | edited by Archibald Batty | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mr Bolfry | ||
| 1st Produced: | Westminster, london | 03 Aug 1943 | ||||
Company: | Sherek Players | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Devil To Stage" published by Association of Scottish Literary Studies | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780948877711 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4689 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | Wearing 56.174 | |||||
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Mr Gillie | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kings, Glasgow | 13 Feb 1950 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Constable & Co., Ltd, 1962 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4690 | |||
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Genre: | Scottish Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | Wearing 50.47 | |||||
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Sleeping Clergyman | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Constable & Co., Ltd, 1961 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41094 | |||
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Genre: | Two act play Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Charles Cameron a dissolute medical student is on his death bed. He agrees to marry a young woman he has made pregnant to save her reputation. When the daughter of the marriage is a young woman she poisons a young man of inferior station to hers as he wishes to marry her. When her son is an adult he discovers a cure for a plague that is ravaging the world. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sunlight Sonata | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Devil To Stage" published by Association of Scottish Literary Studies | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780948877711 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96170 | |||
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Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Switchback | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Constable & Co., Ltd, 1931 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41095 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tedious and Brief | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Constable & Co., Ltd, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41096 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tobias and The Angel | ||
| 1st Produced: | Festival, Cambridge | 20 Nov 1930 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Constable & Co., Ltd, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41097 | |||
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Genre: | play 3 act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | In case this is of interest - since it appears to be of an earlier date than the Google reported publication of Bridie's play. In 1940 as a cadet at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, I played the part of Sara in the play Tobias and The Angel by James Bridie. I have in hand the printed piece given to the audience. Our headmaster was R. Kempson, related (if I remember aright) to Rachel Kempson and/or Vanessa Redgrave - or maybe his daughter was Vanessa who married Rupert !!! Our producers for the play were W.R.G. Eustace and J.S. Sampson of the school's faculty. Our prompter was D.H Cunliffe-Owen also faculty and who may, later, have had a name in academics or authorship. | |||||
Synopsis: | The Archangel Raphael accompanies Tobias when he goes to collect a debt owed to his old blind father. Tobias falls in love with Sara the daughter of the merchant who owes the money and marries her. Sara's father has strangled her previous seven husbands on their wedding night. With the help of the Archangel Tobias overcomes him and returns home to his father with his bride. | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 53.159 | |||||
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