RALPH MANHEIM
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Plays by Ralph Manheim
Baal |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; 'Written in collaboration with William E Smith | ||||
Synopsis: Baal, a poet and singer, drunk, lazy, selfish and ruthless, seduces (among others) a disciple's seventeen year-old mistress, who drowns herself. He mixes with tramps and drivers and sings in a cheap nightclub. With his friend the composer Ekart he wanders through the country, drinking and fighting. Sophie, pregnant by him, follows them and likewise drowns herself. Baal seduces Ekart's mistress, then kills him. Hunted by the police and deserted by the woodcutters, he dies alone in a forest hut. | ||||
Caucasian Chalk Circle |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 39 | Female | 14 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | ||||
Synopsis: the survival qualities of goodness and evil and the definition of justice by the needs of life | ||||
Coriolanus |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 5 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | ||||
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Don Juan |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 8 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | ||||
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Exception And The Rule, The |
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| 1st Published: | in "Brecht, Bertolt, The Measures Taken And Other Lehrstucke" Methuen, London | 1977 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | ||||
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Flood |
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| 1st Published: | Four Plays by Gunther Grass, Penguin | - | ||
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Notes: Original Playwright - Gunter Grass | ||||
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Good Person Of Setzuan, The |
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 18 | Female | 11 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | ||||
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Life Of Edward II Of England |
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 18 | Female | 11 |
| Parts Other: | King Edward II, Piers Gaveston (called Daniel in this) | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; Written in collaboration with Smith | ||||
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Life Of Galileo, The |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 35 | Female | 11 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | ||||
Synopsis: charts the progress of Galileo's life from his first demonstration to his imprisonment by the Spanish Inquisition | ||||
Max |
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| 1st Published: | Harcourt Brace | 1972 | ||
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Notes: Original Playwright - Gunter Grass. Translated by A Leslie Willson and Ralph Manheim | ||||
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Mother Courage And Her Children |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 19 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; Music by Dessau | ||||
Synopsis: Period 1630's, Mother Courage follows the Swedish armies through the terrible Thirty Years War with her mobile canteen and three children, each by a different man | ||||
Oncle, Oncle |
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| 1st Published: | Four Plays by Gunther Grass, Penguin | - | ||
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Only Ten Minutes to Buffalo |
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| 1st Published: | Four Plays by Gunther Grass, Penguin | - | ||
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Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising |
| 1st Produced: | 1970 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Gunter Grass | ||||
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Prophets, The |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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Notes: Original Playwright - Slawomir Mrozek; Written in collaboration with Teresa Dzieduscycka | ||||
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Puntila And Matti, His Hired Man |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | ||||
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Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, The |
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| 1st Published: | 1976 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 28 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | ||||
Synopsis: Hitler's rise to power is illustrated in the story of a small-time gangster's take-over of the greengrocery trade in Chicago | ||||
Season In The Congo |
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| 1st Published: | in "Playscript 21" Calder & Boyars, London | - | ||
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Notes: by Aime Cesaire | ||||
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Tango |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1964 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Nine Plays of the Modern Theatre" French, New York | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Slawomir Mrozek; Written in collaboration with Teresa Dzieduscycka | ||||
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Trial Of Joan Of Arc At Rouen, 1431, The |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 25 | Female | 9 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | ||||
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Tutor, the |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | - | ||
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Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | ||||
Synopsis: Period 1930's Germany, about the miseries and humiliations suffered by a young private tutor who castrates himself to become accepted | ||||
Visions Of Simone Machard, The |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | - | ||
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Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | ||||
Synopsis: the Germans are advancing towards a French town in 1940 when a young girl imagines herself as Joan of Arc with predictable results | ||||