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ARTHUR WING PINERO (1855 - 1934) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Samuel French London |
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Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Arthur Wing Pinero |
Country Magic | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | Steam Industry with Neil McPherson | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #97082 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Arthur W Pinero | |||||
Synopsis: | Although first produced in the West End as The Enchanted Cottage in 1921, on Broadway two years later and in both a silent film version and again by Hollywood in 1945, this was a play entirely unknown to me and not what you might expect from the writer of comedies and farces such as Trelawny of the Wells, The Magistrate and Dandy Dick, though perhaps not so surprising if you think of the social criticism of plays like The Second Mrs Tanqueray. Written in the aftermath of the 1914-1918 War, it presents us with the harsh reality of the lives of mentally and physically damaged survivors and the reception they got on their return. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Little Lies | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wyndham's Theatre, London | 1983 | ||||
Company: | Robert Mackintosh and William de Silva | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6356 | |||
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Genre: | A Comedy/Farce in Two Acts Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Arthur W Pinero (The Magistrate). the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto, Canada in 1984; both productions starred Sir John Mills | |||||
Synopsis: | A stylized comedy of an upper-class family in Edwardian England, and revolves around a wife's "little lies" about her age. Agatha Posket, widow of an Army officer in India, has married Aenaes Posket, the local Magistrate, but being vain, she has lied about the number of years she had been married, and her son's real age: Cis Farringdon is supposedly 14 when he is actually 19! He has never been told the truth, however. Cis is in love with his 16-year-old music teacher, but their romance seems doomed because of the differences in their ages. Problems abound when Posket invites an old friend, Colonel Lukyn, to dinner. Lukyn has recently returned from India, and is an old friend of Agatha and her first husband -- he knows the truth about Agatha's age! Agatha and her sister go to a "questionable hotel" to meet him and beg him for understanding. Unbeknown to Agatha, Cis and Posket, who is upset that she has gone out, are also dining at the hotel, presided over by the very French Madame Blonde. The police raid the place. They are arrested, but Posket and Cis escape. The case comes before Posket, the Magistrate, and Agatha finally must tell the whole truth. | |||||
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Thunderbolt, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1966 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26656 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Arthur W Pinero | |||||
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Thunderbolt, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1908 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117436 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Arthur W Pinero | |||||
Synopsis: | The eldest Mortimore, a brewer, has died. His estranged siblings gather to divide the spoils. But there is no will and an illegitimate daughter. Guilt, envy and greed jostle for prominence as a large middle class family fight, with whatever weapons are at their disposal, for what they feel is their rightful and much needed inheritance. In this 1908 play Pinero moves away from the London society of his earlier successes, like The Second Mrs Tanqueray, to the small town politics, tensions and sensitivities of a provincial town. | |||||
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Trelawny Of The "Wells" | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | Steam Industry and Concordance | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51506 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Arthur W Pinero | |||||
Synopsis: | Rose Trelawney, a young Sadler's Wells actress, flirtation with Victorian respectable borgeois life and her troubled return to the theatrical fold. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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