DODIE SMITH (1896 - 1990)
| Nationality: | English |
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Plays by Dodie Smith
Amateur Means Lover |
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1961 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1962 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
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| Synopsis: | A London boarding house. A new tenant arrives Courtney Kemble. He is evasive about his past - hinting that for years he has been looking after an invalid mother. Courtney has a strange effect on the tenants and somehow sorts out there problems and love lives. It is then discovered that Courtney and his wife were great Shakespearean actors on the brink on stardom when she took ill and he had to nurse her for ten years until her death. | |||||
Autumn Crocus |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Ltd, London | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 8 |
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| Notes: | by Dosie Smith. Originally produced under the pseudonym C L Anthony | |||||
| Synopsis: | A school teacher on holiday in the Austrian Tyrol falls in love with the owner of the hotel - not knowing that he is married with a child. | |||||
Call It A Day |
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| 1st Published: | (French's Acting Edition No. 1830), 1937 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Comedy in Three Acts | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 11 |
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| Synopsis: | Sixteen hours in the lives of Roger and Dorothy Hilton. He falls in love and out again with a client. She dallies with a rubber planter. The son with the girl next door. One daughter with a married artist and the other obtains a Rossetti drawing. | |||||
Dear Octopus |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1939 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Comedy in Three Acts | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 12 |
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| Synopsis: | four generations arrive to celebrate golden wedding anniversary, the Family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor really wish to | |||||
I Capture The Caste |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Synopsis: | The Mortmain family are staying at a converted Norman castle. The new heir to the estate, Simon, an American arrives with friend Neil arrive to view his inheritance. Neill falls for one of the daughters, Rose, but decides against pursuing the matter because he does not want to be tied to England. Simon, however, does propose to Rose and she accepts as she believes his money will help her family. One day, Cassandra, the other daughter, is alone with Simon and she realises that she is in love with him. Just before her sister's wedding Rose arrives with Neil- they can no longer deny their love for each other and they plan to marry. Which leaves Simon and Cassandra to settle things between them | |||||
Letter From Paris |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Ltd, London | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 |
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| Notes: | Based on the novel: "The Reverberator" by Henry James | |||||
| Synopsis: | A rich American family have gone to Paris for the season. They are befriended by another American a journalist who has a weekly gossip column called "Letter From Paris" | |||||
These People, Those Books |
| 1st Produced: | Leeds | 1958 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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