HOWARD RICHARDSON
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Plays by Howard Richardson
Ark of Safety |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1977 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy drama with music | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: written with Frances Goforth Based on 'tall Tales From Old Smoky' by C. Hodge Mathes | ||||
Synopsis: memory play of half forgotten tales of long ago in a tiny Appalachian community | ||||
Dark Of The Moon |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1944 | ||
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| 1st Published: | William Heinemann Ltd | 1978 | ||
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| Genre: | fairy story | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 28 roles | |||
Notes: based on the ballad of Barbara Allen. Written by Howard Richardson and William Berney | ||||
Synopsis: recounts the story of an elfin witch boy who once beheld the beautiful Barbara Allen and immediately fell in love with her | ||||
Evening Star |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Frances Goforth | ||||
Synopsis: about a group of elderly actors and actresses living in retirement on a converted Mississippi River showboat | ||||
Laundry, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1966 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1965 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - David Guerdin | ||||
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Thread of Scarlet, A |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1980 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | choral group | |||
Notes: written with Ella Gerber Kasakoff | ||||
Synopsis: portrait of Victoria Woodhull who ran for office with Frederick Douglas on a women's suffrage and free love ticket but who was ruined by her affair with Henry Ward Beecher | ||||