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Washington D.C.

1984

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Samuel French, NY

1987

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Adaptation

5

1

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Notes: Original Playwright - Dario Fo; translation by Suzanne Cowan

Synopsis:

Mark Taper ForumLos Angeles

1983

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in "An American Comedy and Other Plays", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York

1984

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Farce

7

2

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Notes: also published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY >>>

Synopsis: Many doors slammed, fires put out, trunks shut, typewriters ruined, disrobings, and darts

Williamstown Theatre Festival , MA, USA >>>

1980

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in "An American Comedy and Other Plays", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York

1984

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Experimental Play

Play/Drama

9

5

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Notes: -

Synopsis: Two suicides are caused by the destructive manipulations which a young man sows on all around him

Seattle

1984

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in "New Plays USA 3", Theatre Communications Group, New York

1986

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Play/Drama

1

1

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Notes: also pub by Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY >>>

Synopsis: When a Czech theatre director and his wife emigrate to the USA unforeseen difficulties confront them.

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in "Best American Short Plays", Applause, New York

1991

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One Act

2

2

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Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

Synopsis: the story of mortgage with the grounds of the proud house being sold to pay off debts

Barbican, London >>>

1992

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Faber & Faber, London

1992

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Ironic Epic

Play/Drama

17

2

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Synopsis: On the deck of his flagship, the expedition commander addresses his men, his voice rising in stirring peroration: 'Let us all be new men! Born today! This minute! And with only one purpose in mind! To push forward to triumph! To push forward - to Japan!' That Columbus had a clearer sense of destiny than destination is, even without the facile irony of hindsight, emblematic of the confusion of motives and expectations which inspired him and his companions to undertake their epoch-making voyage, and which Richard Nelson explores in this intimate drama of epic events.

Los Angeles

1976

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in "An American Comedy and Other Plays", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York

1984

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Adaptation

8

1

1c

Notes: Original Playwright - Jean-Claude Carriere

Synopsis: Imagine a time when the Catholic Church had the right to determine whether or not you were human. In a sixteenth-century Spanish monastery, the fate of millions of American natives from an ocean away hangs precariously in the balance. THE CONTROVERSY OF VALLADOLID, an exciting new masterwork by French playwright and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, brings to light the shocking real-life debates whose outcomes are still felt today. Jean-Claude Carrières fierce attack on [the Catholic Church] for its policies on human slavery makes for a refreshing change. Although based on a Spanish papal tribunal of 1550, Carrières stern historical drama hits a resounding contempo note with its revelations of how the church agonized over its ultimate conclusion that indigenous American natives were children of God after allafter invading their land, destroying their culture, plundering their natural resources and subjecting thousands of people to servitude, torture and death. Variety.

Public Theatre, NY

2008

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Play/Dram

4

2

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Notes: -

Synopsis: The country you love and the values it represents are being destroyed by a misguided leader. You can continue to live in relative comfort by not involving yourself, or you can take action to save the democracy you love. Set outside of Rome in the villas and hillsides of Tusculum, Richard Nelson continues his revelatory exploration of history with a new play that chronicles those entangled in Julius Caesars world of manipulation and power
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Adaptation

5

8

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Notes: adapted from James Joyce by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey

Synopsis: Adapted from Joyce's literary masterpiece set in 1904, the last and best known of the short stories collected in The Dubliners, this intimate musical portrays a homespun Yuletide party with Irish music, dancing, food, drink and good fellowship. Sparkling songs, many of them traditional sounding Irish melodies that are performed as entertainment by the partygoers, are all original.

Washington D.C.

1979

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Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY

1989

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Adaptation

8

3

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Notes: Original Playwright - Moliere

Synopsis: Usual story of nobleman parted from his riches

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Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY

-

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Adaptation

11

2

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Notes: Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello

Synopsis: "The time is the early 1920s and the place is an isolated Italian villa, but it might as well be the 12th century. The master of the house bumped his head 20 years ago during a costume ball and has since believed himself to be King Enrico IV of Germany. As the play goes on, perception, reality, fantasy and freedom become confused. . . an effective new adaptation by Richard Nelson" - Chad Jones, The Oakland Tribune

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Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY

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Adaptation

5

3

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Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg

Synopsis: "THE FATHER still has the power to astonish. Richard Nelson's new adaptation of the Swedish text speaks in clean, spare English prose, the kind that remains discreetly outside time without betraying the conventions of the period when the play was written (1887). . .. It's not exactly news to report that THE FATHER is an extraordinary play. The news is that its ability to shock remains undiminished as,in the course of twenty-four hours, the increasingly chilly, twenty-year marriage of the Captain and the willful Laura escalates into a war to the death. We are deep in territory that Ingmar Bergman would later explore, though never with quite such harrowing results. . . .Mr Nelson's excellent adaptation." Vincent Canby, The New York Times

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Play/Drama

4

4

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Notes: -

Synopsis: It is summer 1923, and architect Frank Lloyd Wright has recently left Chicago for California, determined to embrace Hollywood's youthful zest and mend broken relationships with his adult children. Having completed his latest 'wonder of the world'-Tokyo's Imperial Hotel-Wright is poised to settle down and embrace his new home. But his splintered family still holds deep-seated resentments.
Press Release

Playwrights' Horizons, NY, USA >>>

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Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY

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Play/Drama

1

4

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Notes: -

Synopsis: Boundaries warp and melt in the dense urban heat that pervades FRANNY'S WAY, Richard Nelson's sensitively drawn portrait of love in the age of J D Salinger. The lines between childhood and adulthood blur disorientingly for the three generations of characters gathered in a cramped apartment in Greenwich Village at the height of summer in the 1950s.
- Ben Brantley, The New York Times

Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon >>>

1996

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Faber & Faber, London

1996

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Play/Drama

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Synopsis: Can you betray your country, when your country has betrayed itself? In 1780, America's most successful General believed the War of Independence had lost its way. He decided to surrender his soldiers, hand over George Washington to the British and end the war. In America today, General Benedict Arnold is considered one of the most heinous men the world has ever known; in London, a plaque celebrates the house where he lived out his years in exile. Richard Nelson's haunting play presents a richly emotional portrait of a man searching for love and country, and finding only compromise and despair.

Other Place Theatre, Stratford, UK >>>

1997

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Faber & Faber, London

1997

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Play/Drama

4

4

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Synopsis: Spring 1945 seventeen year old evacuee returns from Canada to find his parents dead and his sisters awaiting his arrival;

New York

1981

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Theatre Communications Group, New York

1981

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Adaptation

10

6

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Notes: Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni; adapted by Richard Nelson; translation by Erika Gastelli. also pub by Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY >>>

Synopsis: The coarse Latin flavour of the characters' scraps is nicely captured in suitably vulgar English

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1983

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in Early plays Vol 3, Broadway Play Publishing, New York

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Play/Drama

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Synopsis: Schnitzler's LA RONDE, a cynical turn-of-the-century romance that Nelson reinvented as a rueful American tale. Set in 1947, this cycle of brief sexual encounters in a seaside New England town contrasts the sadness of each manipulative liaison with the surface optimism of period songs. The World War has burned out; its passions are gone, too. What's left is a reflection of the play's subtitle: "Scenes of Sex in a New Society." Once again, Nelson is not far from the war of his own youth and its shallow aftermath.

New York

1978

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in "Plays from Playwrights Horizons", Broadway Play Publishing, New York

1987

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Satire

3

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Synopsis: Hopper, a reporter, is covering a military coup in the jungles of central Africa. Bellows, a rival journalist, arrives to begin his own coverage only to find that Hopper seems to have been making the whole story up.

New York

1981

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Adaptation

-

-

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Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:

Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon >>>

1997

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Methuen Drama, London >>>

1998

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Childrens

Youth Audience

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Notes: written by Richard Nelson and Colin Chambers. also pub by Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY >>>

Synopsis: Written for 9 to 14-year-olds, this play is an imaginative journey into the history of Western theatre, ancient Greeks, a day in Shakespeare's theatre, and an encounter with a play by Anton Chekhov. Included with the text are the author's commentary and notes about the script and its production.

Los Angeles

1975

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in Plays by Richard Nelson I, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY

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New York Stage and Film

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Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY

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Play/Drama

4

4

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Synopsis: We first meet Marianne, a retired college president, and Eddie, who writes essays on pornography for The New York Review of Books, in the Adirondacks. They are waiting for Elinor, an editor at a Manhattan publishing house, to arrive by motorboat and explain her memoir. In her memoir, Elinor savages her oldest friend, Marianne, as typical of a whole class of I'm-all-right-Jack Upper West side intellectuals who betrayed their youthful idealism in the dreary Cold War years. Eddie, an ex-husband as well as an ex-radical, has been deleted, even from Elinor's index. From the beginning of their ménage à trois, Eddie has always been the odd man out. [LEFT] is as much consumed by female friendship as it is by left history. Almost immediately, we flash back fifty years to their first visit to the Adirondacks, fresh from college politics in the middle of the Spanish Civil War, looking for money to start a magazine a lot like Partisan Review. We'll go back and forth the rest of the play, until all six of them, the pure of heart and their revised editions, are in the same room, at the same time, a crowd of regrets. These people talk about Joseph Stalin and the Sierra Club, Amnesty International and Saran Wrap, South Africa and skinny-dipping. What they're really talking about is friendship in history. If the person is political, how much so, at what cost and is there any forgiveness? I felt like a spy, switching sides so often in my sympathies.
- John Leonard, New York

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Faber & Faber, London

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1

1

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Synopsis: An intimate relationship between two people no dating service would ever put together

Vaudeville, London

2000

Ostar Enterprises

Faber & Faber, London

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100 min

Play/Drama

2

2

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Synopsis: "Nelson, in his 100-minute play, intertwines two familiar themes: the sexual initiation of the young and the confrontation of American innocence by European experience. His hero, Carl, now married with children, reminisces about Paris is 1966. We see how, as 15-year-old student at the American school, he falls under the spell of a beguiling literature teacher. One night, after an extramural film excursion, Carl stays behind in her flat. For him, this offers a magical introduction to the world of art, music, adult emotion and Kama Sutra sex. For Claudie, the literature teacher, this brief encounter is largely a way of overcoming her devastation at the breakup of an affair. But what gives the play its peculiar charm is the tender collision between two people at different stages of their emotional cycle - Carl has what Henry James called "the hungry futurity of youth" while the messed-up Claudie has the restless solitude of the permanent other woman. - Nelson has pinned down with exact compassion what happens when two worlds collide"
Michael Billington, The Guardian

Minneapolis

1982

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Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY

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Adaptation

7

4

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Notes: Original Playwright - Beaumarchais

Synopsis: A new and emphatically idiomatic adaptation

The Pit, London

1993

Royal Shakespeare Company >>>

Faber & Faber, London

1993

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Play/Drama

7

7

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Notes: Original Playwright - Aleksandr Gelman

Synopsis: With the 1991 attempted coup in Moscow for its backdrop, the play is about how simple solutions only look simple and how past mistakes aren't easily made right.

The Pit, London

1994

Royal Shakespeare Company >>>

Faber & Faber, London

1994

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Play/Drama

3

4

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Synopsis: "The barbarians are sweeping over us and all we do is kiss their ass". An Englishman and his family live far-flung across the vast American continent. Brought together by tragedy, they find comfort in attacking their adopted country, ridiculing its crude ways and lack of standards. Humour and irony as well as the sense of loss and longing permeate this story of exiles unable to address a world that is passing by.

New York

1986

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Broadway Play Publishing, New York

1986

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Play/Drama

8

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Synopsis: Set in 1970, two aspiring writers, one American the other Latin American, meet in a South American jail where they've been sent for distributing subversive leaflets. The second half of the play takes place 15 years later after the right-wing dictatorship has been replaced a revolutionary socialist government and now the two men fight against each other for the freedom of an imprisoned poet. "A passionate, enlightened play" - Time Magazine

Seattle

1983

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in "An American Comedy and Other Plays", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York

1984

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New Haven, Connecticut

1981

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Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY

1986

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Play/Drama