TONY HARRISON   (1937 - )


Tony Harrison
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Plays by Tony Harrison

TONY HARRISON
Aiken Mata
1st Produced:
Zaria, Nigeria
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oxford University Press, Ibadan
1966
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: Original Playwright - Aristophanes (Lysistrata); Written in collaboration with James Simmons
Synopsis:
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TONY HARRISON
Bartered Bride, The
1st Produced:
Metropolitan Opera, New York
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Schirmer, New York
1978
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: opera by Sabina, music by Smetana
Synopsis: Wives and husbands side by side, make their peace and toast the bride, the bartered bride
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TONY HARRISON
Black Daisies For The Bride
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1993
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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TONY HARRISON
Bow Down
1st Produced:
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
Rex Collings, London
1977
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Genre:
Dramatic Verse
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
Large Cast
Notes: music Harrison Birtwistle
Synopsis: from the ancient and traditional ballad of The Two Sisters which exists in numerous versions throughout Northern Britain, Scandinavia and America
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TONY HARRISON
Common Chorus, The
1st Produced:
Not Performed
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Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1992
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
Large Cast
Notes: Original Playwright - Aristophanes (Lysistrata)
Synopsis: set in Greenham in the days when the Woman's Peace Camp was at its most active
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TONY HARRISON
Doomsday
1st Produced:
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Mysteries", Faber, London
1985
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
17
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: from the York Mystery Plays
Synopsis: traces the final part of the Bible from the Resurrection to the Last Judgement
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TONY HARRISON
Fram
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
8
Female
4
Parts Other:
stowaways
Notes: -
Synopsis: This epic sweep of a play takes us from a contemporary Westminster Abbey to the Arctic ship Fram - or Forward - specially built by the famous Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen who, with his suicidal companion, Johansen, makes a bid on foot for the North Pole in the 1890s. Though incompatible, they share a bear fur sleeping-bag through the long winter. Nansen, still haunted by Johansen's ghost, is appointed to the League of Nations. As a figurehead of Russian famine relief in 1922, he conducts the first celebrity campaign, searching for means, however shocking, to make people care. Reliance on devices like the photograph and slide will lead, I rather fear, to linguistic suicide. We must keep on challenging language to engage with all we suffer from in this new modern age.
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TONY HARRISON
Hecuba
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
2005
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
large cast
Notes: Original Playwright - Euripides
Synopsis: Hecuba is a prisoner of the Greeks who have sacked her home town of Troy and killed most of her family. Now the Greek warlord Odysseus wants to sacrifice her daughter Polyxena to appease the ghost of Achilles. And then she discovers that her son Polydorus, whom she thought to be alive, is dead, too
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TONY HARRISON
Kaisers Of Karnuntum, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in "Plays 3" Faber, London
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Parts:
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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TONY HARRISON
Labourers Of Herakles, The
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
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1st Published:
in "Plays 3" Faber, London
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Parts:
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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TONY HARRISON
Marcus Aurelius (The Kaisers Of Carnuntum)
1st Produced:
Salt Mill, Saltaire
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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TONY HARRISON
Medea: Sex War
1st Produced:
Metropolitan Opera, New York
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Dramatic Verse 1973-1985", Bloodaxe, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1985
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: Original Playwright - Euripides
Synopsis: classic tale of Medea and her love for Jason
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TONY HARRISON
Misanthrope, The
1st Produced:
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Rex Collings, London
1973
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
8
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Moliere
Synopsis: transposition of action to the 'reign' of Charles de Gaulle, Period 1966
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TONY HARRISON
Mysteries, The
1st Produced:
1999
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: The collection of short scenes begin with Lucifer being thrown from heaven and ends with the birth of Christ. Audience members can interact with the ensemble whilst being surrounded by sheep, horses and the stars.
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TONY HARRISON
Nativity, The
1st Produced:
London
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Mysteries", Faber, London
1985
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
17
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: from the York Mystery Plays
Synopsis: begins with the Creation and ends with the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem
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TONY HARRISON
Oresteia, The
1st Produced:
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
Rex Collings, London
1981
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
8
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Aeschylus. Music by Harrison Birtwhistle. Trilogy comprises : Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides
Synopsis: a trilogy of plays concerning the bloody domestic aftermath of the Trojan War
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TONY HARRISON
Passion, The
1st Produced:
National, London
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
Rex Collings, London
1977
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
17
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: from the York Mystery Plays
Synopsis: takes the story from the baptism of Jesus to the Crucifixion
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TONY HARRISON
Phaedra Britannica
1st Produced:
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Rex Collings, London
1975
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
4
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine
Synopsis: ingenious transposition to 19th century Raj India, with the ancient and vengeful Gods of India taking over
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TONY HARRISON
Poetry Or Bust
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays 3" Faber, London
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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TONY HARRISON
Prince's Play, The
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1996
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Genre:
Verse Drama
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Parts:
Male
17
Female
7
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: from Victor Hugo, Le Roi S'amuse / The Prince's Play Tony Harrison. 1996
Synopsis: Tony Harrison's radical reassessment of French Classical drama continues with Victor Hugo's Le Roi s'amuse. The play was banned after only one performance in 1832 and became better known later as the basis for Rigoletto.
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TONY HARRISON
Square Rounds
1st Produced:
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1992
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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TONY HARRISON
Trackers Of Oxyrhynchus, The
1st Produced:
Quarry, West Yorks
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1990
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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TONY HARRISON
Yan Tan Tethera
1st Produced:
BBC TV
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Dramatic Verse 1973-1985", Bloodaxe, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1985
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Genre:
screenplay
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Parts:
Male
7
Female
1
Parts Other:
chorus
Notes: music Harrison Birtwistle
Synopsis: this is the sound folk hear in the valley when the church has its bell and the Bad'un that plagued them been packed back to hell'
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