WILLIAM LUCE   


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Plays by William Luce

WILLIAM LUCE
Baptiste - The Life of Moliere
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Drama
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Male
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Female
4
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WILLIAM LUCE
Barrymore
1st Produced:
Stratford Festival, Ontario, Canada
1996
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1998
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Genre:
Drama
Biographical
Parts:
Male
1
Female
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Parts Other:
1 voice
Notes: aka One Helluva life
Synopsis: legendary actor prepares for stage come back in Richard III, covers the full spectra - the wives, the women, the drink and the glory
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WILLIAM LUCE
Belle Of Amherst, The
1st Produced:
Moore Egyptian Theatre, Seattle, Washington
1976
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1st Published:
Houghton Mifflin, New York
1976
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Genre:
drama
Biographical
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Synopsis: The Belle of Amherst delicately explores the life of America's greatest woman poet, Emily Dickinson at various stages in her experience from the age of 15, when she was full of hope and success, until she died at 56, a virtual recluse with her door closed against society. Her life is recreated with liberal excerpts from her poetry and by the method of her playing the roles of her father, teacher and friends. Julie Harris played the role on Broadway to great acclaim and won the 1977 Tony Award as Best aActress.
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WILLIAM LUCE
Bravo, Caruso!
1st Produced:
The Cleveland Play House
1991
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1992
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
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Parts Other:
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Synopsis: backstage at the Metropolitan opera, Christmas 1920, meet Caruso
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WILLIAM LUCE
Bronte
1st Produced:
Marines Memorial Theatre, San Francisco
1988
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1989
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Genre:
Drama
Biographical
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Male
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Female
1
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Synopsis: portrayal of Charlotte Bronte through her life and writings
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WILLIAM LUCE
Last Flapper, The
1st Produced:
1987
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1990
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Genre:
Drama
Biographical
Parts:
Male
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Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: the story of Scott Fitzgerald's wife Zelda set in a lunatic asylum during the last days of her life
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WILLIAM LUCE
Lillian
1st Produced:
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York
1986
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
1986
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Female
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Notes: From Lillian Hellman
Synopsis: The setting is an austere waiting room in a New York hospital, where Lillian Hellman awaits the death of her longtime companion, Dashiell Hammett. As she maintains her vigil, Miss Hellman's mind is flooded with memories: her exciting but tempestuous years with Hammett; her girlhood in New Orleans and New York; reminiscences of her beloved parents; and her days of success and failure as an artist and a public figure committed to liberal causes (some of which brought her into sharp conflict with the powers-that-be). With occasional pauses to peer into the adjoining (offstage) sick room, she recalls the people and incidents that shaped her lifeglittering figures from the worlds of Hollywood and the New York theatre, literary giants who were both friends and foes, and dearly loved personal associates like her black nanny, Sophronia, who perhaps more than any other, helped her to gain her burning social consciousness. In the end the play is both a tour de force for an accomplished actress, and also a vital, fascinating, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always compelling portrait of a remarkable womanand artistwhose contributions both to the theatre and the conscience of our nation will never be forgotten.
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WILLIAM LUCE
Lucifer's Child
1st Produced:
Music Box Theatre, New York
1991
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1991
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Genre:
Drama
Biographical
Parts:
Male
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Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes: Based on the Writings of Isak Dinsen
Synopsis: how the baroness went to Africa married a Baron and suffered his neglect and unfaithfulness as well as his syphilis
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