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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 |
Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934) was the leading playwrightof the Victorian theatre. His plays include The Schoolmistress(1886), Dandy Dick (1887), Sweet Lavender (1888), TheNotorious Mrs. Ebbsmith (1895), Trelawny of the Wells (1898),The Gay Lord Quex (1899), Iris (1901), and Mid-Channel (1909).
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Arthur Wing Pinero
Country Magic | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Organisations: | 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. | |||||
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Dandy Dick | ||
| 1st Produced: | 28 Jun 2012 | |||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849434232 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #142057 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Arthur W Pinero | |||||
| Written in Brighton in 1887, Dandy Dick is tells the hilarious story of the Very Reverend Augustin Jedd, a pillar of Victorian respectability, who preaches regularly against the evils of horse racing and gambling. However, a visit from his tearaway sister, Georgiana, leads him to risk all at the races, much against his better judgement. Mayhem ensues, with romantic intrigue, mistaken identity and a runaway horse. A glorious British comedy, Dandy Dick is a rarely seen treasure that so richly deserves to be revived again, for the first time in almost fifteen years. | |||||
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Little Lies | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wyndham's Theatre, London | 1983 | ||||
Organisations: | 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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Magistrate, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 21 Nov 2012 | |||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849434577 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #146126 | |||
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Genre: | text revisions to the play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | dandies | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Arthur W Pinero. Text revisions by Stephen Beresford | |||||
| With his louche air and a developed taste for smoking, gambling, port and women, it s hard to believe Cis Farringdon is only fourteen. And that's because he isn't. Agatha his mother lopped five years from her true age and his when she married the amiable Posket. The imminent arrival of Cis godfather sends Agatha incognito to the Hôtel des Princes to warn him of her deception. But it's also where her son has cajoled his otherwise staid stepfather into joining him for a binge. High-spirited carousing leads to a police raid and a night of outrageous mishap as the trapped guests make desperate attempts to conceal themselves from the law and from each other. Indignities escalate at court the next day where Posket, the police magistrate, must preside. | |||||
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Thunderbolt, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1966 | ||||
Organisations: | 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 | |||||
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: | Donmar Warehouse, 41 Earlham Street, Seven Dials, London WC2H 9LX >>> | 15 Feb 2013 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571303458 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #148585 | |||
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Genre: | original comedietta | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Arthur W Pinero with some most respectful additions and ornamentation by Patrick Marber. Trelawny of the 'Wells', by Arthur Wing Pinero, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in January 1898 | |||||
| Rose Trelawny is the brightest star in the firmament of the Wells, the theatre company that raised her from birth. But she's prepared to give it all up for the love of her stage door suitor, aristocratic Arthur. His family are less convinced of her charms, however, and her joyful challenge to their dreary, snobby existence shocks them to their core. Trelawny of the Wells is Pinero's love letter to the theatre. Joe Wright (Anna Karenina, Atonement, Pride and Prejudice) is one of our most exciting and visual film directors. This production is a celebration of the enchantment, the vivaciousness, the melodrama, the music and the irrepressible joy of the Victorian stage. | |||||
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Trelawny Of The "Wells" | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Organisations: | 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. | |||||
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