PETER MEYER   


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Plays by Peter Meyer

PETER MEYER
Better Late
1st Produced:
BBC
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1976
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Translation
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Male
2
Female
2
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau ( Feu La Mere De Madame)
Synopsis:
loosely based on the breakdown of Feydeaus own marriage
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PETER MEYER
Candlestick, The
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Translation
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Original Playwright - Alfred de Musset
Synopsis:
infatuated clerk is set up as a decoy by his employer's young wife and her lover.
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PETER MEYER
Close Shave, A
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Translation
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Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau
Synopsis:
a woman's would-be lover has to assume the identity of her artist husband, who is about to be called up for military service.
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PETER MEYER
Dead Souls
1st Produced:
BBC Third programme
1961
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Translation
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Male
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Female
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large cast
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Original Playwright - Arthur Adamov (Les Ames Mortes, based on the novel by Nikolai Gogol)
Synopsis:
Dead Souls is Adamov's dramatisation of Gogol's blackly comic novel. Mysterious entrepreneur Tchitchikov approaches the landowners and bureaucrats of a provincial town with the proposal that he will buy the 'dead souls' of deceased peasants, and in the process exposes a society filled with paranoia and corruption.
Oberon
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PETER MEYER
Dissident, Goes Without Saying
1st Produced:
1997
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1st Published:
in "Plays: One" Methuen, London, 1997
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Translation
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1
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1
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Original Playwright - Michael Vinaver; Theatre de chambre
Synopsis:
presents fragmentary snapshots of the relationship between a single mother and her adolescent son
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PETER MEYER
Diversion, A
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Translation, 1 Act
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Original Playwright - Alfred de Musset
Synopsis:
a wife and her friend test her husband's fidelity, or lack of it
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PETER MEYER
Don't Trifle With Love
1st Produced:
1993
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Original Playwright - Alfred de Musset
Synopsis:
shows the dangerous strategems of two childhood sweethearts, supposedly destined for marriage.
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PETER MEYER
Don't Walk About With Nothing On
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BBC
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Translation
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau
Synopsis:
loosely based on the breakdown of Feydeaus own marriage
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PETER MEYER
Door Must Be Open or Shut, A
1st Produced:
2009
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Translation
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Original Playwright - Alfred de Musset
Synopsis:
De Musset's 1845 short play is given here with a prelude based on his 12-line poem Le rideau de ma voisine which presents us with a man looking across to a window opposite and hoping that a movement of a curtain means that the woman there is wondering whether he is watching her. He does indeed seem to be the same character as the besotted Baron of the 50 minute two-hander which shows him calling upon his neighbour the Marquise and his gradual progression from diffident politeness to a declaration of his love.
- Howard Loxton, British Theatre Guide
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PETER MEYER
Eurydice
1st Produced:
1990
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1st Published:
in "Plays 2" Methuen, London, 1997
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
8
Female
4
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Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh; broadcast BBC 14/07/85
Synopsis:
My journey into journalism was an unhappy one - an affectionate excursion which went sour. About the life and work in the offices of a big Sunday newspaper during one week.
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PETER MEYER
Fantasio
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Original Playwright - Alfred de Musset
Synopsis:
In the eponymous hero of the modern 'fairy tale' 'Fantasio, by turns imaginative, abrupt and perceptive, Musset provides us with a compelling self-portrait.
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PETER MEYER
Fitting for Ladies
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Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau
Synopsis:
a man on the look-out for a new romantic rendezvous is mistaken for a dressmaker. . .
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PETER MEYER
Marianne
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Original Playwright - Alfred de Musset
Synopsis:
a confirmed cynic intercedes with a married woman on behalf of his best friend.
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PETER MEYER
Nina, That's Something Else
1st Produced:
Not Performed
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1st Published:
in "Plays: One" Methuen, London, 1997
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Original Playwright - Michael Vinaver; Theatre de chambre
Synopsis:
depicts a threesome: two brother living together who cope with the arrival of the unpredictable but compelling Nina, her brief period of living with them and her subsequent departure
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PETER MEYER
One Month Early
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BBC
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3
Female
3
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau
Synopsis:
loosely based on the breakdown of Feydeaus own marriage
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PETER MEYER
Professor Taranne
1st Produced:
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1953
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1st Published:
in "Adamov, A., Two Plays" Calder & Boyars, London, 1962
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Absurd Drama
Absurd
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Male
9
Female
5
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Original Playwright - Arthur Adamov
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PETER MEYER
Sauce for the Goose
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Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau
Synopsis:
a man discovers that the woman he is pursuing is the wife of an old friend. . .
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PETER MEYER
Smile On The End Of The Line, A
1st Produced:
1987
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1st Published:
in "Plays: One" Methuen, London, 1997
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3
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Original Playwright - Michael Vinaver; aka Blendin In (Traverse Th 1989
Synopsis:
set in the after sales office of a manufacturing business shows how take overs, strikes etc affect a small number of the firms employees
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PETER MEYER
Spring 71
1st Produced:
BBC Third programme
1963
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Original Playwright - Arthur Adamov (Le Printemps 71)
Synopsis:
Motivated in part by his own communist sympathies, Spring 71 reflects Adamov's view of the Paris Commune in 1871. A rich and complex depiction of a city in the throes of major upheaval, it interweaves satire, history and tragedy to show how the stories of normal people influence - and are influenced by - the onward march of history.
Oberon
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PETER MEYER
Take Your Medicine Like a Man
1st Produced:
BBC
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Translation
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau
Synopsis:
loosely based on the breakdown of Feydeaus own marriage
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PETER MEYER
You Can't Think of Everything
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Translation, 1 Act
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Original Playwright - Alfred de Musset
Synopsis:
a couple in love, one absent-minded, the other forgetful, tries to concentrate long enough to get married.
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