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Michael Glenny

MICHAEL GLENNY

  (1927 - 1990)
Nationality:    English
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Michael Glenny's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Michael Glenny's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Adam And Eve         Bedbug, The         Black Snow         Bolsheviks, The         Flight         Forget Herostratus!         Heart Of A Dog         Last Days, The         Madame Zoyka         Master And Margarita, The         Moliere         Peace Of Brest-Litovsk, The         Phaedra         Sarcophagus         Stars In the Morning Sky         White Guard, The

Adam And Eve

Synopsis:
one of the first plays to envisage the potential end of the world through chemical and biological armaments

Notes:
Original Playwright - Mikhail Bulgakov

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Lowe, Stephen, Peace Plays: Two" Methuen, London, 1990   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Bedbug, The

Bedbug, The
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky

1st Produced:
Mermaid Theatre, London     14 Feb 1962

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   978-0140184075

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Black Snow

Synopsis:
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Notes:
ad Brian Wright. From novel by Bulgakov

1st Produced:
Upstream, London     1984

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Melville House Publishing 2013   978-1612192147

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Bolsheviks, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Mikhail Shatrov

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1990   -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Flight

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Mikhail Bulgakov

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Bulgakov, Mikhail, Six Plays" Methuen, London, 1991   -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  31 + Fxtras

Further Reference:
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Forget Herostratus!

Synopsis:
burning down a temple in ancient ephesus is intended to contrast with Hitler's rise to power

Notes:
Original Playwright - Grigory Gorin

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Heart Of A Dog

Synopsis:
satirical and allegorical attack upon Marxism, Leninism and the Bolshevik Revolution

Notes:
Original Playwright - Alexander Chervinsky; Novel by Mikhail Bulgakov

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London,    -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  18            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Last Days, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Mikhail Bulgakov

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Bulgakov, Mikhail, Six Plays" Methuen, London, 1991   -

Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  39 + Fxtras

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Madame Zoyka

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Mikhail Bulgakov

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Bulgakov, Mikhail, Six Plays" Methuen, London, 1991   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  21 characters

Further Reference:
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Master And Margarita, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Mikhail Bulgakov

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Moliere

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Mikhail Bulgakov

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Bulgakov, Mikhail, Six Plays" Methuen, London, 1991   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  19 + Fxtras

Further Reference:
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Peace Of Brest-Litovsk, The

Synopsis:
about the backstage pwer struggle by which Lenin bought time by seeming to sell out to the Germans in the 1917 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Notes:
Original Playwright - Mikhail Shatrov

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Vakhtangov Theatre, Moscow presented by Vanessa Redgrave enterprises

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Phaedra

Synopsis:
story is told by a narrator who is trapped in a compulsive re-telling of Phaedra's love for her step-son Hippolytus

Notes:
Original Playwright - Marina Tsvetayeva; Adapted in collaboration with Richard Crane

1st Produced:
Lyric Hammersmith And Tour     1990

Organisations:
actors' Touring Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Sarcophagus

Synopsis:
a powerful condemnation of the bureaucratic muddle and official cover up surrounding the nuclear explosion at Chernobyl

Notes:
Original Playwright - Vladimir Gubaryev

1st Produced:

Organisations:

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1987   -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Stars In the Morning Sky

Synopsis:
1980 Moscow Olympics and prostitutes herded out of sight, play centres on the lives of four of them

Notes:
Original Playwright - Alexander Galin; Written in collaboration with Cathy Porter

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  -

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White Guard, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Mikhail Bulgakov

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Bulgakov, Mikhail, Six Plays" Methuen, London, 1991   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  25            Female:  1            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
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