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MICHAEL FRAYN (1933 - ) |
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Nationality: English Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents |
Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and read Russian, French and Moral Sciences (Philosophy) at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He began his career as a journalist on the Manchester Guardian and the Observer. His award-winning plays include Alphabetical Order, Make and Break and Noises off all of which received Best Comedy of the Year awards, while Benefactors was named Best Play of the Year. Other recent works include Democracy, the fourteenth of his plays, and Copenhagen, both winners of numerous awards including the Evening Standard Best Play award and (for Copenhagen in New York) a Tony award. He has translated Chekhov's last four plays, dramatised a selection of his one-act plays and short stories under the title The Sneeze, and adapted his first, untitled play, as Wild Honey. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning (in the USA, Against Entropy), The Trick of It, A Landing on the Sun, Headlong and Spies. Methuen has published two selections of his columns, The Original Michael Frayn and The Additional Michael Frayn. He is married to the biographer and critic Claire Tomalin.
Plays by Michael Frayn
Afterlife | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408128626 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83542 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Max Reinhardt, one the greatest impresarios of theatrical history, had a lifelong ambition - to dissolve the boundary between theatre and the world it portrays. Each year at the Salzburg Festival he directed a famous morality play, Everyman, about God sending Death to summon a representative of mankind for judgment. The victim he chooses is a man who, like Reinhardt, rejoices in his wealth and all the pleasures that money can buy. Then in 1938 Hitler declares his own day of reckoning and sends Death into Austria - whereupon Reinhardt, a Jew, is left as naked and vulnerable as Everyman himself. Afterlife is the story of how Reinhardt achieves his great ambition; though in a way he can scarcely have foreseen. | |||||
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Alarms And Excursions | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gielgud, London | 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12530 | |||
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Genre: | eight short playlets | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 14 | ||
Parts other: | can be 2m 2f | |||||
Notes: | Alarms; Doubles; Leavings; Look Away Now; Heart to Heart; Glasnost; Toasters; Immobiles | |||||
Synopsis: | Alarms. Two couples embark on a dinner party which is doomed to failure as labour-saving devices and furniture become hostile. Doubles. Two couples in adjacent hotel rooms have similar problems to those in Alarms. Leavings. The dinner-party is revisited. Look Away Now. Passengers ignore their airliner's safety lecture. Heart to Heart. Deals with the impossibility of communication at a noisy drinks party. Glassnost. Presents us with a political speech sabotaged by a harassed autocue operator. Toasters. Shows the problems of trying to eat and work standing up at a function. Immobiles. This is acted out entirely over the phone, as a couple try to decide where they should be meeting their German guest. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Alphabetical Order | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781408122600 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12531 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| The library office of a provincial newspaper is a scene of utter confusion - the cluttered chaos of the room matching the lives of its staff. It is also a scene of warmth and light-heartedness. In comes Leslie, a new young assistant with a passion for organisation who transforms the office and the lives of its inhabitants into something orderly and neat - and also arid and colourless. An announcement that the paper is to close leads to a struggle between chaos and order. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Audience | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lyric Theatre, London | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London [Oberon, London 2007], 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12532 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Audience was first performed in Colin Blakely, a Celebration at the Lyric on 4th October 1987. With a second act added it was presented under the title Look Look at the Aldwych on 17th April 1990 | |||||
Synopsis: | the theory that the audience may be more interesting than what its watching | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Balmoral | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1978 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12533 | |||
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Genre: | Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | aka Liberty Hall | |||||
Synopsis: | It is 1937. Twenty years earlier the Revolution took place in Britain instead of Russia and the Soviet Republic of Great Britain is at the height of the purges. The royal residence of Balmoral is now a State Writer's Home with Godfrey Winn, Warwick Deeping, Enid Blyton and Hugh Walpole among its current inmates. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bear, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12534 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | |||||
Synopsis: | No I'm not interested in the beginning of a love affair and I'm not interested in the en, haven't you noticed they are the same. Let's go back to the middle | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Benefactors | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vaudeville Theatre, London | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12535 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | won the Standard, Plays and Players and Laurence Olivier awards for the Best Play of 1984. Spanning fifteen years this complex, well-structured play traces the story of the destruction of David's architectural dream by the embittered Colin and Colin's marriage to the inept Sheila, contrasting those who help and those who are helped; those who create and those who destroy. '. . . a beautifully crafted play, economically written.' Time Out | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Birthday | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC 1 | 1969 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12536 | |||
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Genre: | TV Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Modern | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Black And Silver | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Fontana, London, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12537 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | in "The Two Of Us" | |||||
Synopsis: | New baby interferes with romance when returning to honeymoon tryst | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cherry Orchard, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, London | 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12538 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | |||||
Synopsis: | the story of mortgage with the grounds of the proud house being sold to pay off debts | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Chinamen | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Fontana, London, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12539 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | in "The Two Of Us" | |||||
Synopsis: | Personal problems revealed at dinner party | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Clockwise | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12540 | |||
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Genre: | Screenplay | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Clouds | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1977 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12541 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | two journalist on a fact finding mission to Cuba with the title as a metaphor for the characters themselves | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Copenhagen | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408128626 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12542 | |||
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Genre: | Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| two physicists who together had revolutionised atomic science in the 1920's are now on opposite sides in WW2 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Crimson Hotel, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66953 | |||
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Genre: | absurdist comrdy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Absudia | |||||
Synopsis: | In this absurdist comedy two lovers escape to a discreet and charming Parisian hotel ,conjured from a desert landscape. As the walls, door and crimson curtains of Room 322 materialise around the playwright and his lead actress,a fumbling of fastenings ensues. But they're not the only couple intent on escaping from reality. . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Democracy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408128626 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12543 | |||
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Genre: | Historical Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 10 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Michael Frayn's complex and richly rewarding new play&is wonderfully alert to the piquant paradoxes and ironic twists of this intensely tricky period in Germany's conversation with itself.' - Independant | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Donkey's Years | ||
| 1st Produced: | Globe Th, London | 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12544 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Twenty years after graduation, six former students return to their university college for a reunion dinner. Whilst their lives may have had varying degrees of success, all are connected by a common past. Once locked in college for the night, the graduates begin to relive their youth, and old friendships, feuds - and the much-desired but absurdly proper Master's wife - come tumbling back into the present . . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Evils Of Tobacco, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12545 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | |||||
Synopsis: | very short talk by husband on wife's views of tobacco | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Exchange | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12546 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Yuri Trifonov; Guildhall 1986 with student actors | |||||
Synopsis: | attempt to exchange a cramped flat in Moscow highlights the tensions between two families and their clash of opposing values | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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First & Last | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC 1 | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12547 | |||
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Genre: | TV Play Screen Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 27 | Female | 20 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | This is a screenplay about a recently retired insurance manager who is ill. He decides to combat his illness by walking from Land''s End to John O''Groats and in doing so becomes a healthier and more aware human being. It is a gentle comedy with serious overtones by the author of 'Clockwise' | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fruits Of Enlightenment, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, London | 1979 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12548 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Leo Tolstoy | |||||
Synopsis: | a changed translation from the norm | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Headlong | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12549 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Here | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413681300 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12550 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| a steady drip of monosyllabic questions and fudged answers create a hell of indecision as the duelling protagonist endlessly circle | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Jamie On A Flying Visit | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC 1 | 1968 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12551 | |||
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Genre: | TV Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Modern | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Liberty Hall | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1980 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58806 | |||
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Genre: | Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | revised version of Balmoral | |||||
Synopsis: | It is 1937. Twenty years earlier the Revolution took place in Britain instead of Russia and the Soviet Republic of Great Britain is at the height of the purges. The royal residence of Balmoral is now a State Writer's Home with Godfrey Winn, Warwick Deeping, Enid Blyton and Hugh Walpole among its current inmates. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Listen To This | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12552 | |||
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Genre: | Sketches and Monologues Sketch | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Listen To This; Confession; At The Sign Of The Rupture Belt; A Little Peace And Quiet; Blots; Through The Wilderness; Never Mind The Weather; Black And Silver; The New Quixote; Mr Foot; Chinamen; | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Look Look | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12553 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | aka Spettori (Rome 1989) | |||||
Synopsis: | the theory that the audience may be more interesting than what its watching | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Make And Break | ||
| 1st Produced: | 18 Mar 1980 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1980 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12554 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a compulsive businessman whose self absorption is complete even during the climatic events of a trade fair in Germany | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mr Foot | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Fontana, London, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12555 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | in The Two Of Us | |||||
Synopsis: | Discussion by couple on how to handle a job investigator | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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New Quixote, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Fontana, London, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12556 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | in "The Two Of Us" | |||||
Synopsis: | Older professional woman eventually accepts young man's presence. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Noises Off | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12557 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A farce about a farce | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 11 Page 601 | |||||
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Now You Know | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12558 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from his novel | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Number One | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12559 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh | |||||
Synopsis: | elderly playwright struggles to write new play against the demands of his selfish egotistical family | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Proposal, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12560 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | |||||
Synopsis: | I'm lying in a dry river bed in western Australia&.this is no place for a white man& tomorrow I'm heading north - up to the old gold fields&I'm nineteen years old and I'm getting cold | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sandboy, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich Theatre, London | 1971 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | , script withdrawn, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12561 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | pin pricks all too familiar aspects of family life | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Seagull, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Palace Theatre, Watford, Hertfordshire | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780413771001 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12562 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | |||||
| Can the young people's dreams be realised or will their desires turn sour when confronted by the cruelties of the adult world? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sneeze, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12563 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | |||||
Synopsis: | four comic vaudevilles by Chekhov plus adaptations of four of Chekhov's short stories. The following description is from the show's press release: "The Sneeze is constructed as a tour de force for the actors, who get to play a series of different roles, one after the other, allowing the audience to relish their charm and versatility. The characters are a mostly hilarious collection of Chekhovian nebbishes: the anxious and undertalented lady writer who tries to read her five-act play out loud to a famous playwright; the minor government official who sneezes on a prominent government official; the burly Russian who subjects his delicate French visitor to rough country philosophy and gobs of hot mustard; the old actor on an empty stage; and the gentle man, scared of his wife, who fails to give a speech on the evils of tobacco." | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Swan Song | ||
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12564 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | |||||
Synopsis: | the short action takes place on the empty stage of a second rate provincial theatre, at night, after the performance is over | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Three Sisters, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12565 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | |||||
Synopsis: | the death of Tusenbach in a meaningless quarrel is one more of the losses which empty the sisters' future of meaning | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Two Of Us, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Garrick Theatre, London | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Fontana, London, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12566 | |||
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Genre: | Four 1 Act Plays | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Black And Silver; The New Quixote; Mr. Foot; China Men | |||||
Synopsis: | see individual | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Uncle Vanya | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vaudeville Theatre, London | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12567 | |||
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Genre: | 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 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Wild Honey | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
Company: | National Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12568 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov (Play Without A Name) | |||||
Synopsis: | complex but hapless schoolmaster lurches from one amorous chaos to the next until he dies, tormented under a train | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Zounds! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cambridge | 1957 | ||||
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 | #12569 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with John Edwards, music Keith Statham | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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