CHRISTOPHER CONSANI (1944 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Christopher Consani
Razumov |
| 1st Produced: | Nico Malan Theatre, Cape Town | 1984 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | 5 players must double for important dramatic function, set minimal, projected visuals for opening/closing sequence] Razumov is unwittingly made an accomplice in Victor Haldin's assassination of the despotic Tsarist Minister for State. In his desperation, he secretly informs on Haldin who is executed. His prestige with revolutionaries is high and is further enhanced by the heads of security who send him to spy on a Geneva revolutionary group. There, Razumov meets Haldin's sister and his betrayal is made more insupportable when he falls in love with her. The climax is shattering | |||||
Vincent - The Lark and the Crow |
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 2-3 character adaptation possible | |||||
| Notes: | Produced Edinburgh Festival, 1979; for six seasons in S.A.; British tour, 1980; NYC, 1981; play has developed over six years and nearly 500 performances with constant research and reevaluation. | |||||
| Synopsis: | This work is a dramatization of the artist's last hours with flashbacks to major crises. The action moves forward relentlessly to the suicide. There is much new material, revealing van Gogh as a more charged and complex person than previously depicted. | |||||