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in "Charles, Potboilers" Marion Boyars, London

1986

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Black Comedy

Comedy

2

3

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Synopsis:
rueful comedy of love and divorce

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Samuel French, NY

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Translation

4

4

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Fernando Arrabal; aka The Car Cemetery

Synopsis:
a handful of men in a cell re-enact their suppressions, their dreams and their desires for love and freedom until on losses his appeal and is subjected to an ugly death

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1975

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1983

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in "Charles, Potboilers" Marion Boyars, London

1986

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Mystery/Farce

Mystery

6

3

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Synopsis:
The action begins at a stately home in rural England, where Colonel Calvarley, the lord of the manor, suddenly expires (or seems to) after sipping a glass of (apparently poisoned) Sauterne. His body is discovered by Hannah, the housekeeper, and Harold, the houseboy, which leads to the arrival of Inspector Farcus of Scotland Yard and his assistant, Potts, two working-class types who have little sympathy for the decadent life styles of the landed gentry. After putting the Colonel in the freezer for safekeeping, the Inspector sets about investigating the circumstances of his death, which brings into suspicion all the others at the manor. There is Alan Hobbiss, the Colonel's business partner (who stands to inherit their equestrian outfitting business); his wife, Berenice (played by a male actor, and smitten with Harold, the houseboy); Charles Appley, the Colonel's legal advisor (who is carrying on with Lady Calvarley); and Lady Calvarley herself (who is hardly dismayed by the Colonel's apparent demise). As their

Open Space, London

1971

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Adaptation

2

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from essay by Oscar Wilde

Synopsis:
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Smith & Kraus

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Adaptation

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Original Playwright - Edmond Rostand

Synopsis:
romantic classic in a streamlined, highly playable, new English blank verse adaptation

American Repertory Theatre, Boston, USA >>>

1987

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Play/Drama

9

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doubling possible

Notes:
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Synopsis:
Begins in the mid-1950s at the institute in Rangeley, Maine, which the famed scientific innovator Wilhelm Reich has established after fleeing from Hitler's Germany. He is visited by a Dr. Andre, from the Sigmund Freud Archives, who wants to interview him about his early association-and later falling out-with the master. As their conversation progresses it becomes apparent that Dr. Andre has also begun to harbor doubts about many of Freud's theories but his request to stay on at Rangeley and work with Reich is less than enthusiastically received-for reasons which become apparent as the action of the play, through flashbacks, explores the development, and disintegration, of Reich's singular career. We learn of his early apprenticeship under Freud, and of his gradual disagreement with many of the older man's concepts; and of his years in Vienna and Berlin, when his radical theories about primal energy and the liberating force of the human orgasm first brought him into conflict with the medical/scientific establi

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Edition Gallimard, Paris

1972

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Translation

6

3

extras

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

Synopsis:
partly a parody of Shakespeare, it is like and yet quite unlike Macbeth, the roles are ironically devised so that one woman plays the parts of Lady Macbeth, Lady Duncan and the first witch

Citizens Theatre Circle, Glasgow, UK >>>

1993

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Allen Lane

1968

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8

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Unity Theatre, London

1958

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Adaptation

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comedy by Nikolai Gogol

Synopsis:

Access Theatre, NY, USA >>>

2005

In Actu Productions

Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Play/Drama

7

2

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Synopsis:
William Shakespeare, in his mid-twenties, an aspiring playwright without a foothold in London, is desperate to make his mark. The greatest obstacle to his achieving the success he believes he richly deserves is the prominence of Christopher Marlowe, the superstar of the Elizabethan theatre. So formidable is his envy against this charismatic playwright that he persuades himself the only way to achieve his goal is to remove Marlowe from the scene. To this end, he musters the support of Robert Poley, a man who detests the atheistic, homosexual young Marlowe. Poley and his cohort Ingram Frizer proceed to devise the plan which will dispatch the detested anti-Christ. Wills wife, Anne Hathaway, constantly rails against her feckless husband, who can provide no support for the family and who is wasting his time and measly talents in playmaking. To elude the abuse of his embittered Stratford wife, Will finds solace in his mistress, Emilia, without realizing that she is Marlowes mistress as well. The fateful day of the murder arrives: the site, Eleanor Bulls Tavern where Poley, Frizer and another accomplice zero in on the hapless Marlowe. Sodden with drink, woozy and unsuspecting, the Cambridge poet is brutally murdered. After the fatal blows have been struck, Will reveals himself to Marlowe as the arch conspirator who has masterminded his downfall. With his last gasps, Marlowe condemns the paltriness of his dramatic rival, proclaiming his artistic superiority to Shakespeare. Marlowes supremacy in the Elizabethan theatre has been successfully eclipsed by the conniving Shakespeare. His posters are torn from their hoardings and Shakespeares star rapidly begins to rise.

Open Space, London

1972

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in "Marowitz, Charles, Open Space Plays" Penguin, London

1974

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Play/Drama

6

1

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in Boulevard Comedies, Smith & Kraus

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Adaptation

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Original Playwright - Henry Becque

Synopsis:
classical triangular comedy of jealousy and infidelity

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Play with Music

6

3

2 extras

Notes:
A Vaudevillized Musical Version of Moliere's The Doctor in Spite of Himself. Music by Michael Valenti

Synopsis:
Orville, an impecunious woodchopper, and his wife, Marti, have a lovingly belligerent relationship. But after a particularly violent row, Marti decides to wreak a revenge on her wayward husband. When Valmoth and Lucien, two upper-class gentleman out on a grouseshoot, tell her they are trying to cure a well-born young lady of a rare disease which, for some mysterious reason, prevents her from speaking, she concocts a fabulous lie about her hubby, telling them that he is a miraculous doctor who has cured innumerable cases originally thought to be hopeless. Enthralled by Marti's description of her "miraculous doctor," they coerce him over to the home of the speechless young lady and, believing he might be in for a bountiful reward, Orville pretends to be the Great Healer they take him to be. While in residence, he realizes the young lady's speech problem is simply a ruse to avoid being married to an insufferable suitor and that she is really in love with another. After several farcical scrapes with the young lad

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1983

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1978

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Olympic Arts Festival, Los Angeles

1987

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in "Charles, Potboilers" Marion Boyars, London

1986

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Thriller

5

2

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winner of the Louis B. Mayer Playwriting Award

Synopsis:
Picking up where the famous stories ended, the play centers on a death threat against Sherlock Holmes by the supposed son of his late nemesis, Professor Moriarty. Oddly enough, however, Holmes is warned of the plot by Moriarty's daughter, to whom Holmes (who turns out to be quite a ladies' man) is strongly attracted. The plot then twists and turns until Holmes finds himself imprisoned in a dank cellar, trapped not by young Moriarty but, to his shocked surprise, by the good Dr. Watson-who, it turns out, has long been bitterly resentful of his second-class status as Holmes' lackey. After Holmes' demise Watson comes into his own, or seems to, until a number of imposters turn up claiming to be the real Sherlock Holmes. In sorting all this out the play mixes humor and suspense in equal amounts, leading to a stunning final twist that will surely catch audiences by complete and breath-stopping surprise

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Calder & Boyers, London

1975

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Play/Drama

2

1

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Synopsis:
A leading metropolitan drama critic is led by an attractive production assistant into a recently discovered nineteenth-century theatre. There, the critic will film a television interview for a documentary on the actor John Wilkes Booth, who once acted on those very boards. The critic, F.F. Charnick, notorious for his venomous reviews, visibly warms to the classy elegance of the British P.A. But no sooner has he downed a glass of wine than he falls drugged and unconscious. When he awakens, he is firmly tied to a Shakespearean throne on the stage of the old theatre with an ominous woman intoning Lady Macbeth beside him. The attractive P.A. has turned into Mitzi Crenshaw, an actress of the "old school" whom Charnick has savaged in dozens of reviews. The critically maligned actress has shanghaied the surly critic as part of an elaborate murder plot against the man who virtually destroyed both her career and that of her actor-husband, Denis Michaelson. After forcing the bound critic to endure several dramatic reci

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in Boulevard Comedies, Smith & Kraus

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Adaptation

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Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau

Synopsis:
deals with a bourgeois family's inability to confront nudity

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Penguin, London

1970

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Play/Drama

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1989

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Comedy

13

5

many of the male roles are bit parts

Notes:
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Synopsis:
Having been sent to America to prepare the new world for a forthcoming tour of Gilbert and Sullivan's latest opus, Patience, Oscar Wilde, knee britches and all, finds himself in the definitely uncouth precincts of Leadville, Colorado. He arrives just as the local good-old-boys are about to dispense swift justice to a young bandit, part of the Jesse James gang, who was captured after robbing the local bank. Immediately smitten by the fetching youth, Wilde, with the town's ladies in support, out-talks the impatient judge and demands a new trial-at which he will appear for the defense. Drawing on his devastating wit and verbal agility, Wilde soon convinces the awed citizenry that the boy, Jody, is the real victim-which is fine until Jesse James himself bursts in to recapture his coveted protégé. From then on the action becomes an hilarious contest between the menacing gunman (abetted by a definitely jealous Belle Starr); the bumbling sheriff (who first arrests and then is overcome by the outlaws); and the resour