CHRISTOPHER FRY (1907 - 2005)
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Christopher Fry
Bible, The: Original Screenplay |
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| 1st Published: | Pocket Books, New York | 1966 | ||
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Notes: assisted by Jonathan Griffin | ||||
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Boy With A Cart, The: Cuthman, Saint of Sussex |
| 1st Produced: | Coleman's Hatch, Sussex | 1938 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London | 1939 | ||
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| Genre: | religious drama in verse and prose | One Act | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: written for amateurs to celebrate church jubilee; revived by John Gielgud at Lyric Theatre, L'n in 1950 | ||||
Synopsis: Story of St Cuthman, Sussex saint who pushed his mother around in a wheelbarrow before founding a church | ||||
Brontes Of Haworth, The |
| 1st Produced: | televised | 1973 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Davis Poynter, London (2 vols) | 1974 | ||
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Notes: Little King; Home And Abroad; Delusions Song; Rewarding Destiny | ||||
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Curtmantle |
| 1st Produced: | Staadsschoburg, Tilburg, Netherlands (in Dutch) | 1961 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London | 1961 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||
Notes: produced Edinburgh & London 1962 | ||||
Synopsis: The stage is William Marshal's mind as though he were remembering King Henry's life | ||||
Cyrano De Bergerac |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London | 1975 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 28 | Female | 7 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Edmond Rostand | ||||
Synopsis: The swordsman poet with the large nose | ||||
Dark Is Light Enough |
| 1st Produced: | 1954 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London | 1954 | ||
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| Genre: | "Winter" comedy - 3 acts in verse | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: directed by Peter Brook with Edith Evans as the Countess | ||||
Synopsis: set in an Austrian country house near the border with Hungary, during the winter 1848-9. The Countess saves her friend Gettner when he becomes a deserter from the Hungarian cause. | ||||
Duel Of Angels |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne | 1958 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1958 | |||
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| Genre: | 3 acts in prose - adaptation | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 22 | Female | 10 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Giraudoux (Pour Lucrece). directed by Jean-Louis Barrault and starring Claire Bloom, Vivien Leigh and other major actors | ||||
Synopsis: modern retelling of Lucretia legend - virtuous woman is trapped into believing she has been unfaithful | ||||
Firstborn, The |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival | 1948 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Cambridge University Press. Many revisions up to 1958 | 1946 | ||
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| Genre: | verse drama in 3 acts | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: begun for the Tewkesbury Festival in 1938 and completed after the war. Broadcast 1947 | ||||
Synopsis: set in ancient Egypt, with Moses about to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. The Firstborn is Rameses, Set 2nd's son, who sympathises with the Israelites | ||||
Journey Into Light, A |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1992 | ||
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Notes: music by Robert Walker | ||||
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Judith |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1962 | ||
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| 1st Published: | 1962 | |||
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Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Giraudoux | ||||
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Ladys Not For Burning, The |
| 1st Produced: | Arts Theatre, L'n, then Globe Theatre | 1948 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London | 1949 | ||
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| Genre: | "Spring" comedy in 3 acts in verse | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: the most famous of Fry's plays and the one which made his name and revived verse drama in English. It has been counted one of the greatest 100 plays of the 20th century. Many revivals including television production on ITV | ||||
Synopsis: Set in medieval England. Disillusioned soldier Thomas Mendip tries to save innocent, life-loving girl Jennet from being burned as a witch. Both are transformed by the meeting. | ||||
Lark, The |
| 1st Produced: | Lyric Theatre, London | 1955 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1956 | |||
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| Genre: | prose version of "L'Alouette" | - | Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh | ||||
Synopsis: Joan of Arc has to die for the expediency of church and state | ||||
One Thing More; or, Caedmon Construed |
| 1st Produced: | Chelmsford, Essex | 1986 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1987 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: about the poet Caedmon isolated and silenced for 30 years by immense personal grief | ||||
Open Door |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1936 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Printed by the Boys at the Press of Dr Barnardo's Homes, Goldings, Herfordshire | nd | ||
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Paradise Lost |
| 1st Produced: | Chicago | 1978 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Schott, London | 1978 | ||
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Notes: music by Penderecki, poem by Milton | ||||
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Peer Gynt |
| 1st Produced: | 1970 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London | 1970 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | ||||
Synopsis: Symbolic satirical in verse based on Norwegian folklore. | ||||
Phoenix Too Frequent, A |
| 1st Produced: | The Mercury Theatre, London | 1946 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hollis & Carter, London | 1946 | ||
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| Genre: | comedy in verse | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: performed as part of E.Martin Browne's verse play season. Revived by Paul Schofield at the Arts Theatre, L'n in 1946 | ||||
Synopsis: retells Petronius's story of the widow of Ephesus, who vows to die in her husband's tomb but rediscovers life and love | ||||
Ring Round The Moon: A Charade With Music |
| 1st Produced: | Globe Theatre, London | 1950 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Methuen, London; OUP, London, 1950 | 1950 | ||
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| Genre: | 3 acts in prose | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh. a charade with music a version of Anouilhs LInvitation au chateau . | ||||
Synopsis: According to Atkinson (Times), a play "of many moods. . .wistfully romantic, satirical, fantastic. . .To make his points about love (the author) has invented a fable about twin brothers-Frederic, who is shy and sensitive, and Hugo, who is heartless and aggressive. Frederic is in love with a hussy who is in love with Hugo. To save Frederic from an unhappy marriage, Hugo tries to distract him by bringing to a ball a beautiful dancer who masquerades as a mysterious personage and becomes the triumph of the occasion. She is a susceptible maiden in her own right. She not only breaks up all the cynical romances that have been going on before she arrived, but loses her own heart as well." | ||||
Ringing Of Bells, A |
| 1st Produced: | Bedford Modern School | 2000 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London | 2000 | ||
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| Genre: | conversational fantasy in verse | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written for Fry's former school to mark the Millennium. Revived June 2001 at the National Theatre, L'n | ||||
Synopsis: In a pub at Elstow, Bedfordshire, a modern Adam and Eve talk to the bellringers about John Bunyan (who lived in Elstow) and about God, time and creation. | ||||
Seasons, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1990 | ||
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| Genre: | Poems | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: poems to accompany Julie Cooper's adaptation of Vivaldi's Four Seasons | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
She Shall Have Music |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1934 | ||
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| Genre: | lyrics only | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: lyrics only with Ronald Frankau, book by Frank Eyton, music by Fry and Monte Crick | ||||
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Sleep Of Prisoners, A |
| 1st Produced: | University Church, Oxford, later that year in London at St Thomas's church | 1951 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London | 1951 | ||
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| Genre: | religious dram- one act in verse | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: the dreams of each of four prisoners reflect stories in the bible which are related to their own characters | ||||
Thor, With Angels |
| 1st Produced: | Canterbury Festival | 1948 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Goulden, Canterbury; French, London in acting edition, 1948; 1949, OUP | 1948 | ||
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| Genre: | religious verse drama in one act | - | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: the coming of Christianity to a Jutish village in AD 596 | ||||
Thursday's Child: A Pageant |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1939 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Girl's Friendly Society, London | 1939 | ||
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Notes: music by Martin Shaw | ||||
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Tiger At the Gates |
| 1st Produced: | Apollo Theate, L'n | 1955 | ||
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| 1st Published: | 1955 | |||
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| Genre: | 2-act prose translation | Translation | Parts: | Male | 15+ | Female | 8+ |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: from Giraudoux's "La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu". Barbara Jefford played Helen. TV version, c 1955. as The Trojan War Will Not Take Place produced London 1983 (Methuen, 1983) | ||||
Synopsis: Ulysses and Hector try unsuccessfully to avoid | ||||
To Sea In A Sieve |
| 1st Produced: | Reading | 1935 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
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| Genre: | revue | Show | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: as Christopher Harris | ||||
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Tower, The |
| 1st Produced: | Tewksbury, Gloucestershire | 1939 | ||
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Venus Observed |
| 1st Produced: | St James Theatre, L'n | 1950 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London | 1950 | ||
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| Genre: | "autumn" comedy in 3 acts in verse | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written for Sir Laurence Olivier for the opening of this theatre under his mangement | ||||
Synopsis: fifty year old duke attempts to settle down and marry one of his three mistresses, however a twenty five year old tempts him away | ||||
Yard Of Sun, A |
| 1st Produced: | Nottingham | 1970 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London | 1970 | ||
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