MARIA IRENE FORNES   (1930 - )


Maria Irene Fornes
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Plays by Maria Irene Fornes

MARIA IRENE FORNES
Abingdon Square
1st Produced:
Seattle
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
American Theatre Magazine, NY - February, 1988
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
And What Of The Night?
1st Produced:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1989
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Female
0
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Annunciation, The
1st Produced:
New York
1967
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0
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Art
1st Produced:
New York
1986
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Female
0
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Notes:
in Box Plays
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Aurora
1st Produced:
New York
1974
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
music John FitzGibbon
Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Blood Wedding
1st Produced:
New York
1980
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
9
Female
11
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca
Synopsis:
A young couple from rival clans plans to marry, much to the distress of the bridegroom's mother whose husband and other son have previously been murdered through clan rivalry. As the wedding day draws nearer the tension mounts and after the bride meets and elopes with former lover Leonardo, who is also married, the bridegroom's mother is caught in a dilemma of conscience, wondering whether she should cry for vengeance and bloodshed or protect the life of her remaining son. In a violent ambush Leonardo and the bridegroom are killed leaving the bridegroom's mother, the bride and Leonardo's wife united in their grief.
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Cap-A-Pie
1st Produced:
New York
1975
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1st Published:
-
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
music Jos Raul Bernardo
Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Cold Air
1st Produced:
New York
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1985
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Virgilio Pinera
Synopsis:
Amidst the political and emotional turmoil of pre-Revolutionary Cuba, a seamstress struggles to support her family.
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Conduct Of Life, The
1st Produced:
New York
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York, 1986
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Psychological brutality is the principal, inexhaustible subject
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Curse Of The Langston House, The
1st Produced:
Cincinnati
1972
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0
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Notes:
in Baboon!!!
Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Dance
1st Produced:
London
1972
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0
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Notes:
written with Remy Charlip
Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Danube, The
1st Produced:
Padua Hills, California
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York, 1986
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Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Dr. Kheal
1st Produced:
New York
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Promenade and Other Plays", Winter House, New York, 1971
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Genre:
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Satire
Parts:
Male
1
Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Foolish professor makes a mockery of knowledge by giving lessons on truth, beauty, hope and cooking.
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Drowning
1st Produced:
Urbana, Illinois
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Knopf, New York, 1986
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov; in Orchards
Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Enter the Night
1st Produced:
1993-1994 Season
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Evelyn Brown, A Diary
1st Produced:
New York
1980
Company:
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1st Published:
-
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Parts:
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Female
0
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Eyes On The Harem
1st Produced:
New York
1979
Company:
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1st Published:
-
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Parts:
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Fefu And Her Friends
1st Produced:
New York
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Wordplays 1", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York, 1980
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
8
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Follows the lives of eight women in five different environments.
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Hunger
1st Produced:
New York
1988
Company:
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1st Published:
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Female
0
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
In Service
1st Produced:
Padua Hills, California
1978
Company:
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0
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Life Is A Dream
1st Produced:
New York
1981
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
9
Female
2
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
Original Playwright - Pedro Calderon De La Barca; music George Quincy
Synopsis:
set in Poland it tells the story of Segismundo, imprisoned in a tower from birth by his father, Jking Basilo, on account of omens predicting disaster
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Lines Of Vision
1st Produced:
New York
1976
Company:
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1st Published:
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Female
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Notes:
lyrics only, book Richard Foreman, music George Quincy
Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Lolita In The Garden
1st Produced:
New York
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
music Richard Weinstock
Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Lovers And Keepers
1st Produced:
New York
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1987
ISBN
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Genre:
Three Vignettes
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music Tito Puente and Ferrando Rivas
Synopsis:
Examines love and commitment in the lives of three couples.
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Lust
1st Produced:
1995
Company:
Colour Clinic
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Matter Of Faith, A
1st Produced:
New York
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Parts:
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Molly's Dream
1st Produced:
Lenox, Massachusetts
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Promenade and Other Plays", Winter House, New York, 1971
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Genre:
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Satire
Parts:
Male
4
Female
7
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music Cosmos Savage
Synopsis:
Unrequited love is the recurring dream of a saloon bar waitress.
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Mothers, The
1st Produced:
Padua Hills, California
1986
Company:
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1st Published:
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Mud
1st Produced:
Padua Hills, California
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York, 1986
ISBN
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Genre:
Dramatic Realism
-
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A stark drama set amid the groping lives of the rural poor
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Office, The
1st Produced:
New York
1966
Company:
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Oscar And Bertha
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Parts:
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Promenade
1st Produced:
New York
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Promenade and Other Plays", Winter House, New York, 1971
ISBN
-
Music:
Original cast recording: RCA (63333)
1969
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Genre:
Musical revue
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Parts:
Male
9
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music Al Carmines
Synopsis:
Intermingling of the lives of an escaped prisoner, jailer and others.
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Red Burning Light, The; Or, Mission Xqñ
1st Produced:
Zurich
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Promenade and Other Plays", Winter House, New York, 1971
ISBN
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Genre:
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Satire
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Inefficient and totally inadequate soldiers and their generals conduct a senseless war.
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Sarita
1st Produced:
New York
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York, 1986
ISBN
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Genre:
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Play with Music
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music Leon Odenz
Synopsis:
A young Cuban woman in 1940s New York torn between the gentle man she wants to love and a jerk she can't stay away from.
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Springtime
1st Produced:
-
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Company:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Facing Forward" published by Broadway Publishing, 1995
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Male
1
Female
2
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Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Successful Life Of Three, The
1st Produced:
Minneapolis
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Playwrights For Tomorrow Vol.2" University of Minnisota, 1966
ISBN
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Genre:
Skit for Vaudeville
Sketch
Parts:
Male
5
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Relationships in the drifting lives of two men and the women they share.
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Tango Place
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Playwrights For Tomorrow Vol.2" University of Minnisota, 1966
ISBN
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Genre:
Modern Tragedy
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Terra Incognito
1st Produced:
INTAR theater
1997
Company:
Women's Project
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Music by Roberto Sierra
Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
There! You Died
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1963
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Promenade and Other Plays", Winter House, New York, 1971
ISBN
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Genre:
Avant-garde
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
aka Tango Palace
Synopsis:
The relationship between a sadist and a masochist symbolises corruption in the ambivalent human being.
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Trial Of Joan Of Arc On A Matter Of Faith, The
1st Produced:
New York
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Uncle Vanya
1st Produced:
New York
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov
Synopsis:
story of an uncle in love with a young lady who is married to an old and ill man, she is attracted to the doctor who attends her husband
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Vietnamese Wedding, A
1st Produced:
New York
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Promenade and Other Plays", Winter House, New York, 1971
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Dramatic reading
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Parts:
Male
1
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Constructed in the form of Vietnamese betrothal and wedding.
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Visit, A
1st Produced:
Padua Hills, California
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music George Quincy
Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Washing
1st Produced:
New York
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
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Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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MARIA IRENE FORNES
Widow, The
1st Produced:
New York
1961
Company:
-
1st Published:
as "La Viuda, in Teatro Cubano", Casa de las Americas, Havana, 1961
ISBN
-
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0
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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