KENNETH MCLEISH   (1940 - 1997)


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Plays by Kenneth McLeish

KENNETH MCLEISH
After The Trojan War
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Oberon Books, London, 1995
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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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?
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KENNETH MCLEISH
Bacchae
1st Produced:
Athens
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Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
9781854594112
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
7
Female
1
Parts Other:
chorus and extras
Notes:
Original Playwright - Euripides. Translated by Kenneth McLeish, Frederic Raphael
Bacchae
At the whim of Dionysos, a son is torn to pieces by his own mother during the famous women-only Bacchanalian ritual. The story of revenge by the half-man half-god on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people.
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KENNETH MCLEISH
Belle Vue, The
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London,
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
0
Parts Other:
-
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
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KENNETH MCLEISH
Children Of Hercules
1st Produced:
The Scoop, London
2005
Company:
The Steam Industry
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
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Female
0
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
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KENNETH MCLEISH
Doll's House A
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1994
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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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.
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KENNETH MCLEISH
Electra
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in "Sophocles, Plays: Two" Methuen, London, 1990
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Sophocles
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Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
chorus
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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KENNETH MCLEISH
Flea In Her Ear
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London,
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau
Synopsis:
Complications come fast and furious as the wife of a noble lord misinterprets a note.
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KENNETH MCLEISH
Great Highway, The
1st Produced:
1993
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg
Synopsis:
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KENNETH MCLEISH
Hecuba
1st Produced:
Gate, London
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Euripides
Synopsis:
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KENNETH MCLEISH
Hope Spring Hotel
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath
Synopsis:
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KENNETH MCLEISH
King Oedipus
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
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1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
6
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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KENNETH MCLEISH
Lady From The Sea, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London,
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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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?
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KENNETH MCLEISH
Medea
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
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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
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KENNETH MCLEISH
Miss Julie
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
9781854592057
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
10
Female
9
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg
Miss Julie
presents, with startling clarity, the conflict between sexual passion and social position
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KENNETH MCLEISH
Oedipus  
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London,
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:
Complications come fast and furious as the wife of a noble lord misinterprets a note.
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KENNETH MCLEISH
Oresteia, The
1st Produced:
BBC TV
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Serpent Sun" Cambridge University Press, 1979
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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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
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KENNETH MCLEISH
Orpheus
1st Produced:
Ireland
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Company:
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1st Published:
Oberon Books, London, 1997
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Verse Play
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Parts:
Male
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Twenty First century interpretation of the ancient myth of Orpheus.
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KENNETH MCLEISH
Peer Gynt
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1990
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
21
Female
13
Parts Other:
1c extras
Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen
Synopsis:
Symbolic satirical in verse based on Norwegian folklore.
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KENNETH MCLEISH
Philoctetes
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in "Sophocles, Plays: Two" Methuen, London, 1990
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
0
Parts Other:
chorus
Notes:
Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:
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KENNETH MCLEISH
Wealth
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in "Aristophanes & Menander, New Comedy" Methuen, London, 1994
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
0
Parts Other:
13 + Chorus
Notes:
Original Playwright - Aristophanes
Synopsis:
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KENNETH MCLEISH
Women In Power
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in "Aristophanes & Menander, New Comedy" Methuen, London, 1994
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
9
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
Original Playwright - Aristophanes
Synopsis:
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KENNETH MCLEISH
Women Of Troy
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London,
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Euripides
Synopsis:
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