HENRY REED   (1914 - 1986)


Henry Reed
   Nationality:
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Plays by Henry Reed

HENRY REED
Advertisement, The
1st Produced:
London
1968
Company:
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1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1969
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Tragicomedy
Translation
Parts:
Male
1
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Natalia Ginzburg
Synopsis:
Separated woman takes in student lodger for company
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HENRY REED
Burnt Flower-Bed , The
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1957
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Ugo Betti
Synopsis:
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HENRY REED
Corruption in the Palace of Justice
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "The New Theater of Europe" published by Dell, New York,
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Genre:
Translation
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Parts:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Ugo Betti
Synopsis:
A judge in the High Court is instrumental in causing the daughter of another judge to commit suicide.
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HENRY REED
Crime On Goat Island
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1960
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Ugo Betti
Synopsis:
Three sisters Agata, Pia and Sylvia have been left on Goat Island when their father and the husband of one of them went away to war. They have been alone for three years. One day Angelo a young good looking man arrives. He says that he was in a prisoner of war camp with the father and husband - but they both died. He is feted by the sisters and waited on hand and foot. It seems that Agata has attracted his attention - but he has seduced all three. Angelo falls down the dried out well. Agata insists that her sisters leave and she sits by the well listening to Angelo as he dies.
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HENRY REED
Queen And The Rebels, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1957
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
7
Female
4
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
Original Playwright - Ugo Betti
Synopsis:
After a revolution the Queen is in hiding. As she was seldom seen in public she has managed to evade her pursuers because they do not know what she looks like. Two women are brought in for questioning. One suspects that the other is in fact the Queen
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HENRY REED
Summertime
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1957
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Ugo Betti
Synopsis:
Alberto and Francesca have grown up together. Alberto hardly notices her and does not realise that she is in love with him. Francesca determines to win Alberto over on the village's annual picnic but then finds out that Alberto is not going - he is to leave for the city and a new job. Alberto has been seeing a young widow Noemi and she has mistaken his friendship for more. Her brother is upset that her feelings have been trifled with and they both set of after him. Alberto runs up into the mountains to hid with the picnickers. He meets Francesca who accidentally pushes him off a cliff.
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