RONALD HARWOOD   (1934 - )


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Plays by Ronald Harwood

RONALD HARWOOD
After The Lions
1st Produced:
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford
1983
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Genre:
Historical Play
-
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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RONALD HARWOOD
Another Time
1st Produced:
Bath
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford
1989
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: In early 1950s Sea Point Town, Ike and Belle live with their son, Leonard, already a brilliantly gifted pianist who needs to study in Europe. When Ike dies, Belle is determined to further Leonard's studies whatever the cost. In Act II it is thirty-five years later in London where Leonard is a famous concert pianist. Belle and her brother and sister have travelled to London to see him, but Leonard has some shattering news for Belle.
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RONALD HARWOOD
Collaboration
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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RONALD HARWOOD
Country Matters
1st Produced:
Manchester
1969
Company:
69 Theatre Co
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: A committee of do-gooders view a country house in the hope of turning it into an institution for refugees. A refugee girl accompanies them and personal conflicts corrupt all charitable ideals
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RONALD HARWOOD
Deliberate Death Of A Polish Priest, The
1st Produced:
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford
1985
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: based on the transcripts of a trial and other material arising out of the murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko
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RONALD HARWOOD
Dresser, The
1st Produced:
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Ambergate, Derbyshire
1980
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Period 1942, Sir, the last of the great, but dying breed of English actor managers struggles through Lear with the aid of his dresser
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RONALD HARWOOD
English Tragedy, An
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: a gripping tale of conflicting loyalties and wartime treason, based on the true story of British Anti-Semite John Amery. Amery was arrested in 1945 and charged with high treason after making propaganda broadcasts for Nazi Germany.
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RONALD HARWOOD
Equally Divided
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1999
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Equally Divided begins shortly after the funeral of Edith and Renata's mother. Edith, severe, embattled, unmarried, has sacrificed her life to nurse the bedridden old woman. Renata, glamorous and married several times, has spent her life doing what she pleases. When the contents of the will are made known, childhood rivalries re-emerge and the result is a moral tale both powerful and comic.
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RONALD HARWOOD
Family, A
1st Produced:
Manchester
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Heinemann, London
1978
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Individual freedom, apparently much prized, threatens to destroy the power of a family.
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RONALD HARWOOD
Good Companions, The
1st Produced:
Her Majesty's, London
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
Chappell, London
1974
Music:
Original cast recording: DRG (15020)
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Genre:
-
Musical
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: wrote libretto
Synopsis:
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RONALD HARWOOD
Goodbye Kiss
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Short Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Set in Cape Town, Harwood's birth place, an evidently autobiographical account of a famous artist's return after 30 years overseas to track down the Cape Coloured nanny who brought him up.
Jeremy Kingston, The Times
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RONALD HARWOOD
Guests, The
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays 2" Faber, London
1995
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Genre:
Short Monologue
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: The dinner table is laid for five but significantly only one of the places is provided with a wine glass, and only one character is named in the cast list, insofar as Woman can be considered a name, we are in some realm of fantasy, though the precise nature of Woman's fantasy takes some time to emerge. She knows she is to be the only diner. She scampers up the stairs to let the first two in, and chatters to them in a bright hostessy manner, sipping from an invisible glass (not the one on the table). But then the hand forgets it is meant to be holding a glass and clutches her arm, and it becomes certain that the guests, like the glass, are figments of her imagination. She is alone, and the interest of the play becomes one of deciding what sort of loneliness she is in.
Jeremy Kingston, The Times
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RONALD HARWOOD
Handyman, The
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1996
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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RONALD HARWOOD
Interpreters
1st Produced:
Queen's, London
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford
1985
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: moving and comic complications in a tale of love across the Iron Curtain
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RONALD HARWOOD
Ivanov
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford
1989
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
12
Female
5
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov
Synopsis: disillusioned Russian estate owner has fallen out of love with his wife, his land and his friends
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RONALD HARWOOD
J.J. Farr
1st Produced:
Bath
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Collected Plays" Faber, London
1983
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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RONALD HARWOOD
Mahler's Conversion
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
2001
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: I belong nowhere.' Obsessed with power and fame, Gustav Mahler rejects his Jewish background and his friends with devastating consequences. Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), a composer and conductor of passion and genius, was born in Bohemia and faced a lifetime of prejudice - 'I'm homeless. Not once but three times. First, a native of Bohemia in Austria. Second, an Austrian among Germans. And third, a Jew in the rest of the world'. But in 1897, in order to be granted the prestigious position of Director of the Vienna Court Opera, Mahler decided to convert to Catholicism. In time, however, as his world collapsed, he came to believe he was being made to pay a dreadful price for his ruthless ambition.
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RONALD HARWOOD
March Hares
1st Produced:
Liverpool
1964
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
9
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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RONALD HARWOOD
Night Of The Day Of The Imprisoned Writer, A
1st Produced:
London
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written with Hampton
Synopsis:
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RONALD HARWOOD
Ordeal Of Gilbert Pinfold, The
1st Produced:
Manchester
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford
1983
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
17
Female
8
Parts Other:
-
Notes: novel by Evelyn Waugh
Synopsis: Middle aged write embarks on sea voyage and is victim to hallucinations which he believes to be real.
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RONALD HARWOOD
Poison Pen
1st Produced:
1993
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays 2" Faber, London
1995
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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RONALD HARWOOD
Quartet
1st Produced:
Albery, London
1999
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1999
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred are in a home for retired opera singers. Each year, on 10 October, there is a concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday. Jean, who used to be married to Reggie, arrives at the home and disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva and refuses to sing. But the show must go on .
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RONALD HARWOOD
Reflected Glory
1st Produced:
Darlington, Durham
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1992
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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RONALD HARWOOD
See You Next Tuesday
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
Gate theatre
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Wealthy Parisian publisher Pierre has the career, the wife, the friends and the mistress - and an unusual pastime. Once a week, his friends meet for dinner and invite the most idiotic person they can find. By chance, Pierre comes across the finest nincompoop ever. When the paths of these two unlikely dinner companions cross, it results in choas.
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RONALD HARWOOD
Taking Sides
1st Produced:
Minerva, Chichester
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays 2" Faber, London
1995
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: story of Wilhelm Furtwängler, one of the great conductors of the twentieth century, who was at the height of his career when the National Socialists came to power in Germany. He remained there and was accused of being a Nazi collaborator.
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RONALD HARWOOD
Tramway Road
1st Produced:
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford
1984
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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