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David Harrower

DAVID HARROWER

  (1967 - )
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  represented by Mel Kenyon

David Harrower (born in 1966 in edinburgh) is a Scottish playwright who lives in Glasgow

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         365         54% Acrylic         Ashes Blood         Begin Again         Blackbird         Calum's Road         Cat Man's Tale         Chrysalids, The         Ciara         Dark Earth         Daylong         Deryn Du (Blackbird)         Girl On the Sofa, The         Good Soul Of Szechuan, The         Good With People         Government Inspector         Ivanov         Kill the Old Torture their Young         Knives In Hens         Lucky Box         Mary Stuart         Presence         Public Enemy         Purple         Quiet Night In         Refusal, The         Six Characters Looking For An Author         Slow Air, A         Sweet Nothings         Tales From the Vienna Woods         Woyzeck
365

Synopsis:
Charts the fragmented lives of a group of young people in today's care system as they prepare to make their way in the world on their own. there are more than 70,000 children in care in Britain today. On average they pass through 11 stages of care. In their late teens they have to make the difficult transition from childhood to adulthood, from care to indepen-dence. a Practice Flat is one of the mechanisms used to gently introduce these children to the adult world, 365 is set in the transitory and surreal world of this practice flat.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, Scotland     13 Aug 2008

Organisations:
NTS

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54% Acrylic

54% Acrylic
When a young woman shoplifts for the first time, the store detective decides to give chase, but just how far is he prepared to go. . .?

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1st Produced:
Bbc Radio 4     08 Jul 1998

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Music:
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Genre:
short play

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ashes Blood

Synopsis:
a family run coach firm has fallen on difficult times - amidst this, the handover from one generation to the next is underway.

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Begin Again

Synopsis:
1948. the shadow of war falls across the country. In an alley behind a dancehall, one man fatally wounds another man he has never met. How did their paths come to cross?

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Play/Drama

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Blackbird

Blackbird
the awkward reunion of a man and a woman, 15 years after a brief sexual affair when he was 40 and she was only 12.

Notes:
book by John Wyndham

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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 2005   

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1c

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Calum's Road

Synopsis:
Calum MacLeod, having battled the inaction of authorities on Raasay for years, sets off alone with a pick, a shovel and a wheelbarrow to build a road that will connect up the island. His daughter has been forced to board at secondary school on Skye and now Calum's not having it any more. He wants to turn the tide of neglect and indifference and keep his family - and community - together. His unpaid labour of love was to dominate the last 20 years of Calum's life and leave behind a legacy - both practical and poetic - carved into the landscape he loved.

Notes:
part of Tall Tales for Little People. Adapted from A novel by Roger Hutchinson

1st Produced:
Platform, The Bridge, Glasgow     02 Sep 2011

Organisations:
Communicado Theatre Company and National Theatre of Scotland

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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adaptation

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Cat Man's Tale

Synopsis:
Based on the short story the Great Leonardo by Erica Wagner. a young priest falls in love with a young girl but he cannot bring himself tospeak to her, or even imagine his lust. How can he be a good priets if he can't even imagine sin?

Notes:
lyrics by David Harrower, Music by Alasdair Nicolson

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Genre:
Operetta

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Chrysalids, The

Chrysalids, The
In a post-nuclear holocaust society dedicated to absolute conformity, a group of young people discover they have an unusual gift of communication. Betrayed from within, they escape into the forbidden Fringes.

Notes:
book by John Wyndham

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Organisations:
BT connections

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 2001   

Music:
-

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Genre:
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Ciara

Ciara
Mick was the kind of gangster who was proud of where he came from, who protected and looked after his own kind. But if you crossed him, well, that was a different story. A man defined by the landscape of Glasgow, that infamous no mean city, the tales of what Mick did to those people have become the stuff of legend. But Mick was also a father. Ciara's father. As she builds her own empire with her art gallery, can Ciara keep to the straight and narrow or will her father's way of doing business prove irresistible?

Notes:
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Organisations:
Traverse Theatre & Datum Point

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Music:
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Genre:
drama, new writing 1 hour 10 minutes

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dark Earth

Dark Earth
When Valerie and euan's car breaks down in remote countryside near the antonine Wall they have a problem . With their mobiles left at home and an evening out arranged in Glasgow, they have to find help fast . This comes in the form of Petey and Ida and their 20 year-old daughter, Christine, a farming family who live and breathe the history and traditions of the small area of earth they've made their home . With the rescue van taking longer than anyone could have expected, euan and Valerie are drawn into a world and a family dilEmma which is both familiar and unrecognisable at the same time .

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Traverse Theatre Company

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 2003   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy of manners Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Daylong

Synopsis:
Morna works as a cleaner for well-off families in edinburgh. She spends her time drinking mostly, attempting affairs and trying to work out the mind of her 20 year old son with whom she shares her Dalry flat. athol, her elder brother by 2 years, lives in Houston, near Glasgow airport with his wife Evelyn. the owner of a floor tiling company, with two grown up children, hes proud of his hard-won achievements since moving West years before. Like any brother and sister they have fond and not-so fond memories of their upbringing, differing views on their parents and definite opinions about each other. especially so in their case since Morna and athol havent spoken to each other in fourteen years. . .When Mornas son Joshua travels west to make contact with athol he sets off, for all of them, a remarkable and life-changing series of events.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Mayfesto

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

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Deryn Du (Blackbird)

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Translated into Welsh by Bryn Fon

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Genre:
Play / Translation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1c

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Girl On the Sofa, The

Synopsis:
a girl on the verge of adulthood is sitting on a sofa. She is unhappy: she resents her mother and older sister and longs for her absent father, a sailor. What is she going to do with her life? She considers becoming a painter -.a woman approaching middle age is painting a self-portrait. She is watching her younger self: the girl on the sofa. the Girl on the Sofa juxtaposes two stories from the life of one woman and explores the complex interweaving of the past with the present.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jon Fosse. from A literal translation by Neil Howard And Tonje Gotschalksen

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Good Soul Of Szechuan, The

Good Soul Of Szechuan, The
Three Gods are on a journey to find out if there are any good people left on earth. Only Shen Te, a good-hearted prostitute, offers them shelter. With the money they give her she opens a tobacco shop. at once everyone needs her help. Her livelihood is in danger. Worse, she is falling in love with Sun, a pilot, who is robbing her blind. Her hard hearted cousin Shui Ta arrives to protect her. Who is he and how can good people stay good in a world of poverty and cruelty?

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

1st Produced:
Young Vic Theatre, London >>>     07 May 2008

Organisations:
-

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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Good With People

Synopsis:
Evan returns to Helensburgh, West Scotland, home to the nation's nuclear defense program and once a thriving holiday resort. A place he's been trying to avoid. Haunted by his past and afraid of his future, he finds Helen working at the Seaview Hotel. GOOD WITH PEOPLE is a haunting two-hander from one of Scotland's great writers, tracing one town's path of personal and political destruction.

Notes:
part of A Play, A Pie And A Pint

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2014   

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Government Inspector

Government Inspector
the news that a government inspector is due to arrive in a small Russian town sends its bureaucrats into a panicked frenzy. a simple case of mistaken identity exposes the hypocrisy and corruption at the heart of the town in this biting moral satire.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol

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Organisations:
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Ivanov

Synopsis:
Ivanov, a driving force in local government and a visionary landowner, feels burnt out at thirty-five. Once the pioneer of scientific farming methods and of education for peasants, he now drowns in bureaucracy and debt, his large estate neglected. While his wife is dying, Sacha, a young, educated woman, falls in love with Ivanov and determines to save him. Set in a country suffering from political, ideological and spiritual stagnation, Chekhov's first full-length play anticipates the explosive revolutionary atmosphere of Russia at the turn of the century. Production at the National theatre (Cottesloe) in September 2002.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov. from A literal translation by Helen Rappaport

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  extras

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Kill the Old Torture their Young

Kill the Old Torture their Young
a documentary maker returns to the city of his birth. His task to film his impressions. People tell their stories, but who will listen?

Notes:
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Organisations:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Knives In Hens

Knives In Hens
a hard beautiful love triangle set in medieval times involving a peasant, his wife and a miller

Notes:
music by Allan Henderson

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Organisations:
-

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lucky Box

Synopsis:
the hoodie meets the suit in this duologue between a middle-aged man and a teenager on a deserted forest path. It all starts innocently enough with the man 'a' handing the teenager 'J' a glove he appears to have dropped, but their conversation soon moves on to darker territory. at first it seems a is just a lonely man looking for company as he talks to the innocent looking lad J, about laughing at disasters. So far, so 'train journey where some old guy invades your personal space', only the abstract discussion starts to give way to more specific information from both a and J. the discussion of inappropriate sniggering is fascinating in itself and it paves the way for the rest of the piece, as well as giving away a few clues about the two characters.
- Seth ewin, British theatre Guide

Notes:
part of Oran Mor's groundbreaking lunchtime theatre programme, A Play, A Pie And A Pint

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mary Stuart

Mary Stuart
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Friedrich von Schiller

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 2006   

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Presence

Presence
We've got nothing to learn from anyone. We are who we are. We do what we do. No-one else can touch us' - except the horrific past of a city where human fat once ran in the gutters, the city ablaze. Homesick, but fame-crazed, a group of Liverpudlian lads are about to become part of Hamburg's history forever.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 2001   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Public Enemy

Public Enemy
When Dr. Stockmann discovers that the waters of a new public spa are toxic, he expects gratitude and glory. Instead, his revelation makes him the most hated man in town. Henrik Ibsen's timeless story of corruption, pollution and courage.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen. New version by David harrower from a literal translation by Charlotte barslund

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  1 boy, 1 girl

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Purple

Synopsis:
entrenched in the vaults of a disused factory four members of a teenage band meet to rehearse. Deep, dark and oppressive a subtle but revealing journey of unspoken tension, hidden emotion and adolescent rivalry

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jon Fosse

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Lyceum Youth Theatre

1st Published:
Contained in: "Shell Connections 2003" published by Faber and Faber 2003   

Music:
-

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adaptation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  4 teenage rock musicians

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Quiet Night In

Synopsis:
Ostensibly it's about Michael, a photographer returning home after an assignment abroad to find a sea of unopened mail, a stream of ansaphone messages and a to-ing and fro-ing of people demanding his time past, present and future. among the mail is a video from a former lover on the verge of a crack-up, and the most interesting scenes dove-tail between the video and flashbacks of the pair falling apart. along the way, there's a comic postman with literary aspirations, Michael's dear old dad and his dead dog, a quartet of anti-road protesters, and the ever-present spectre of a dead colleague.
- Neil Cooper, Independant

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Guy Hollands and his KtC company

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-   

Music:
-

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Refusal, The

Synopsis:
Imagine that there are two half-hour shows, one played out in the Ladies toilet, the other in the Gents. Imagine that each show consists of four five-minute monologues, written and performed by some of the finest theatre artists in Scotland. and then imagine that you experience each of these snippets alone, face to face with a single actor, either in a toilet cubicle, or somewhere around the wash-basins. This is the arches 15th anniversary show Spend a Penny; and it makes an extraordinary, intense and challenging 21st-century theatre experience, sometimes as rich and intimate as a private moment with a sister or best friend, sometimes as grotesque and vivid as a trip to the underworld, in a painting by Brueghel or Bosch.
Joyce McMillam, Scotsman

Notes:
part of Spend A Penny, A series of short plays based on An idea by Andy Arnold

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Genre:
9 min monologue One act

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Six Characters Looking For An Author

Six Characters Looking For An Author
Six people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But they are not ordinary people. they are the characters of a play that has not yet been written.Trapped inside a traumatic event from which they long to escape, they desperately need a writer to complete their story and release them. Intrigued by their situation, the director and his company of actors listen as the characters begin to describe and argue over the key events of their lives. One of the most extraordinary and mysterious plays of the 20th century, Six Characters speaks directly to an age of uncertainty - where do we come from, where are we going, how do we become what we want to be?

Notes:
Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello

1st Produced:
Young Vic Theatre, London >>>     09 Feb 2001

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Penguin Books, UK
Methuen Drama; New edition edition (8 Feb 2001)   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  6            Female:  7            Other:  1b 1g

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Slow Air, A

Slow Air, A
Morna works as a cleaner for well-off families in edinburgh. She spends her time drinking mostly, attempting affairs and trying to work out the mind of her 20 year old son with whom she shares her Dalry flat. athol, her elder brother by 2 years, lives in Houston, near Glasgow airport with his wife Evelyn. the owner of a floor tiling company, with two grown up children, he's proud of his hard-won achievements since moving West years before. Like any brother and sister they have fond and not-so fond memories of their upbringing, differing views on their parents and definite opinions about each other. especially so in their case since Morna and athol haven't spoken to each other in fourteen years&. . .When Morna's son Joshua travels west to make contact with athol he sets off, for all of them, a remarkable and life-changing series of events.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Tron Theatre Company

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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sweet Nothings

Sweet Nothings
a young man has an affair with a married woman. He is terrified her husband will challenge him to a duel and kill him. at a party, he flirts with a girl who believes she is truly loved. Life seems full of joy. the doorbell rings. the husband enters the room. the power of sexual longing, the cruelty of tradition, the vulnerability of those in love.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Arthur Schnitzler

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Co-commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre

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Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Tales From the Vienna Woods

Synopsis:
Set against the sentimental backdrop of the Vienna Woods and to the distant tune of a Strauss waltz, a community steeped in bigotry concerns itself with love affairs, petty squabbles, jealousies and personal tragedy. Meanwhile society at large, haunted by inflation, goes reeling towards Fascism.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath. from A literal translation by Laura Gribble.

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 2003   

Music:
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Woyzeck

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Georg Buchner

1st Produced:

Organisations:
KTheatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  doubling

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