KENNETH MCLEISH
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Plays by Kenneth McLeish
After The Trojan War |
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London | 1995 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Euripides; comprises three plays | ||||
Synopsis: A powerful indictment on the effects of war by one of the greatest of all Greek tragedians. Gods and humans worked together to build the great city of Troy, then wrought its destruction; Troy has falen, thousands are dead, every male trojan slaughtered but what of those left alive? | ||||
Bacchae |
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Euripides; Written in collaboration with Frederick Raphael | ||||
Synopsis: First performed in Athens in 405 BC this bloodthirsty story still has a timeless theatrical power. The half-god Dionysos returns to Thebes intent on punishing his family for rejecting him. Dionysos persuades his cousin Pentheus, King of Thebes, to disguise himself as a woman so he can witness the Theban women celebrating the wild Bacchanalian rites. Pentheus's mother mistakes Pentheus for a lion and tears him to pieces. But that only marks the beginning of Dionysos's revenge. | ||||
Belle Vue, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London | - | ||
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Notes: Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | ||||
Synopsis: set in a seedy hotel in Central Europe i9n the 1920's where the only guest in a drunken ageing nymphomaniac | ||||
Children Of Hercules |
| 1st Produced: | The Scoop, London | 2005 | ||
| Company: | The Steam Industry | |||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Euripides | ||||
Synopsis: plunges straight into the heart of the play that begins in the wake of Hercules' death | ||||
Doll's House A |
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 1994 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | 1b 1g | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | ||||
Synopsis: The final revolt of a wife who has been treated as a plaything by pompous husband. | ||||
Electra |
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| 1st Published: | in "Sophocles, Plays: Two" Methuen, London | 1990 | ||
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| Genre: | Sophocles | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||
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Flea In Her Ear |
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau | ||||
Synopsis: Complications come fast and furious as the wife of a noble lord misinterprets a note. | ||||
Great Highway, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg | ||||
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Hecuba |
| 1st Produced: | Gate, London | 1992 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Euripides | ||||
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Hope Spring Hotel |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | ||||
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King Oedipus |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
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Lady From The Sea, The |
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | - | ||
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Notes: Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | ||||
Synopsis: Beyond the walls of her fjord home, where her husband Dr Wangel offers the security of family and responsibility, Ellida is constantly drawn towards the sea. It's from this element that her past love returns - promising the ecstasy of the unknown. Will she suffocate on dry land, or find freedom across the sea? | ||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
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| 1st Published: | 1994 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 11 |
| Parts Other: | 4c | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Euripides; Written by Frederick Raphael and Kenneth McLeish | ||||
Synopsis: The powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children to revenge her husband's infidelity | ||||
Miss Julie |
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 9 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg | ||||
Synopsis: presents, with startling clarity, the conflict between sexual passion and social position | ||||
Oedipus |
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Sophocles | ||||
Synopsis: Complications come fast and furious as the wife of a noble lord misinterprets a note. | ||||
Oresteia, The |
| 1st Produced: | BBC TV | 1979 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "The Serpent Sun" Cambridge University Press | 1979 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: written with Frederic Raphael | ||||
Synopsis: a trilogy of plays concerning the bloody domestic aftermath of the Trojan War | ||||
Orpheus |
| 1st Produced: | Ireland | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London | 1997 | ||
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| Genre: | Verse Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Twenty First century interpretation of the ancient myth of Orpheus. | ||||
Peer Gynt |
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 1990 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 21 | Female | 13 |
| Parts Other: | 1c extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | ||||
Synopsis: Symbolic satirical in verse based on Norwegian folklore. | ||||
Philoctetes |
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| 1st Published: | in "Sophocles, Plays: Two" Methuen, London | 1990 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Sophocles | ||||
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Wealth |
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| 1st Published: | in "Aristophanes & Menander, New Comedy" Methuen, London | 1994 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 13 + Chorus | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Aristophanes | ||||
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Women In Power |
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| 1st Published: | in "Aristophanes & Menander, New Comedy" Methuen, London | 1994 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 9 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Aristophanes | ||||
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Women Of Troy |
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | - | ||
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Notes: Original Playwright - Euripides | ||||
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