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Anthony Laurence Melnikoff
Allport's Revenge
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Synopsis:
Arnold Rosen has two sons, both of whom suffer from a genetic disease of the kidneys. Eight years ago Arnold donated a kidney to save his older son's life. Now the younger one also requires a transplant. Arnold makes a proposal which, while saving his son's life, would destroy his own. The focus of the play is on the moral dilemma which this poses, and on the family tensions, rivalries, and feelings of guilt which arise from this
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| First Produced |
2004 Finborough Theatre, London >>>
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offer from Oberon Books
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Serious Drama
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Male
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2
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2
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| Other
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Short listed for 2000 Verity Bargate Award
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Anthony Laurence Melnikoff
Child Of The Forest
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Synopsis:
The time, 1940. The place, Eastern Europe. Paola Simiak keeps the local shop in a tiny village situated in the midst of dense forest. Paola is a dreamer, who loves to wander in the forest and to commune with nature, and who has a deep and very personal relationship with God. She is also the butt of her neighbours' ridicule, and the despair of her drunken and unfaithful husband, Jan. But there is one overwhelming sadness in Paola's life ... she is childless. And her frequent phantom pregnancies only seem to add to that sense of grief. Then, one day, as she is wandering in the forest, she discovers a small bundle lying at the foot of a silver birch ... a baby girl abandoned by its parents. "Can this be the child I was promised?", she asks herself. "The child that God told me He was going to send?" Paola sets about the task of bringing up the child in her own image. But, as War engulfs the area, Paola has to make the decision which will lead them both to their own inevitable destinies.
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| First Produced |
2000 Finborough Theatre, London >>>
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| First Published |
offer from Oberon Books
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| Genre |
Serious Drama
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Male
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6
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6
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| Other |
doubling 3m 5f 1c
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Runner up in 2000 / 2001 Meyer-Whitworth Award
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Anthony Laurence Melnikoff
Little Squares (re-titled Room NG1681)
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Synopsis:
In the Summer of 1991 Adam Marcuse, a university lecturer from London, is on holiday in Los Angeles with his wife and their two young children, when his wife suffers a devastating brain haemorrhage. The next few months Adam spends at his wife's hospital bedside, first in Los Angeles, and later back in London, while his wife, paralysed in both mind and body, hovers on the edge of death. Throughout this traumatic period, Adam copes heroically. But it is when his wife begins to make an unexpected recovery that Adam realises how much he has come to relish both the feeling of control, and the experience of being the centre of attention, that her illness has given him. And that crisis is often so much easier to deal with than normality. This autobiographical work is an attempt by the writer to describe his own actions and emotions when faced with the above situation. And its resolution.
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| First Produced |
1999 Finborough Theatre, London >>>
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| First Published |
Unpublished
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| Genre |
Serious Drama
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Male
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3
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4
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| Other |
ensemble piece may BF re-written for single actor
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Based upon personal experience
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Anthony Laurence Melnikoff
Steinberg's Day Of Atonement
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Synopsis:
During a career that has lasted forty years, Steinberg, an Orthodox Jewish schoolmaster and Holocaust survivor, has deservedly become a legend amongst his pupils. But now he finds he can cope less and less with the generation gap between himself and his current crop, nor with the world of their parents. After the meddlesome mother of his most obnoxious pupil succeeds in forcing his compulsory retirement, occasioning also a near breakdown, she visits him, initially to salve her conscience. But soon she discovers that she has much to learn from Steinberg's spirituality. As their relationship develops, and Steinberg begins to look forward to her visits, his loneliness leads him to misunderstand her motives. And, with the Day of Atonement about to begin, he is forced to re-appraise his life, and those sacred beliefs that he has never before thought to question.
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| First Produced |
1998 Pentameters Theatre, London
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| First Published |
offer from Oberon Books
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Serious Drama
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Male
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4
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2
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includes 2 teenage male
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Runner up in 1998 / 99 Meyer-Whitworth Award
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