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Saul Levitt

SAUL LEVITT

  (1911 - 1977)
Nationality:    USA
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Saul Levitt's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Anderson Trial, The         Covenant With Death         Jim Thorpe, All-American         Lincoln         Sun Is Silent, The         Trial Of the Cantonsville Nine, The         True Glory, The
Anderson Trial, The

Synopsis:
Dr Wirtz is severely wounded in a battle during the American Civil War. He is put in charge of a prison stockade. Due to conditions there hundreds of men die each day. after the War he is put on trial but claims he was only following orders

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1st Produced:
Mermaid Theatre, London     1961

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

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  28            Female:  -            Other:  some are minor roles and doubling possible

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Covenant With Death

Synopsis:
A sexually promiscuous woman is found murdered in her bedroom. Her husband is put on trial and sentenced on circumstantial evidence. The presiding judge goes on holiday leaving a junior judge to oversee the execution. This judge has doubts about the man's guilt

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1st Produced:
-     1967

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Jim Thorpe, All-American

Jim Thorpe, All-American
Native American Jim Thorpe a great athlete, winner of two gold medals in the 1912 Olympics and a baseball and American football player. He had world wide fame. Then he had his medals and honours taken away

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1st Produced:
Eisenhower Theatre, Washington D C    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Plays Children Love volume Two" published by St Martin's Press 1992   

Music:
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Genre:
Childrens play

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Lincoln

Synopsis:
Life of Abraham Lincoln

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1st Produced:
Theater Four, New York     15 Dec 1976

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Historical drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Sun Is Silent, The

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
-     1951

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1st Published:
Harper & Brothers 1951   

Music:
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Trial Of the Cantonsville Nine, The

Synopsis:
In 1968 two priests - Philip and Daniel Berrigan - together with seven friends removed records from a Selective Service Office and burnt them as a protest against the Vietnam War and napalm bombing

Notes:
Text prepared for New York production by Saul Levitt

1st Produced:
Good Shepherd - Faith Church, NY     1971

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Boston: Beacon Press. Also, Ny: Bantam Books, And Samuel French. (Also Variant Typescript Of New York Production From La Salle Collection.)   

Music:
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Genre:
History

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  2            Other:  -

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True Glory, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1945

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Parts:
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