BARRIE STAVIS (1906 - 2007)
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Barrie Stavis
Banners of Steel |
| 1st Produced: | Carbondale, Illinois | 1962 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | A.S. Barnes, South Brunswick, New Jersey, 1967 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | aka Harper's Ferry | |||||
| Synopsis: | John Brown adopts guerilla warfare to overthrow slavery. The raid fails and he is executed, but his truth marches on to victory | |||||
Coat of Many Colours |
| 1st Produced: | Provo, Utah | 1966 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | A.S. Barnes, South Brunswick, New Jersey, 1968 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | The biblical Joseph in Egypt helps establish human control over nature and gets enmeshed in court politics | |||||
Galileo Galilei |
| 1st Produced: | Huntsville, Alabama | 1975 | ||||
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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 | |||||
| Genre: | Oratorio | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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| Notes: | music by Lee Hoiby, from play Lamp at Midnight by Stavis | |||||
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House Of Shadows, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2003 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | People face complicated moral choices during cataclysmic social change. (France Aug. 1937). | |||||
In These Times |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1932 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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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Joe Hill |
| 1st Produced: | Berlin | 1970 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
| Genre: | Opera libretto | Opera | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | music by Alan Bush, from play The Man Who Never Died by Stavis | |||||
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Lamp at Midnight |
| 1st Produced: | New Stages, New York | 1947 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1948 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | one hour school and church version produced Chicago, 1972, Dramatic Publishing Company, 1974 | |||||
| Synopsis: | Galileo challenges religious dogma with science and finds enormous resistance to the truth | |||||
Man Who Never Died, The |
| 1st Produced: | St Paul | 1955 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Haven Press, New York, 1954 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Joe Hill confronts power by organizing a trade union and pays with his life | |||||
Refuge |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1938 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1939 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | about the Spanish Civil War | |||||
Sun and I, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1933 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | revised version New York, 1937 | |||||
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Washington |
| 1st Produced: | Midland, Texas | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Dramatics", Cincinnati, Apriland May, 1986 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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| Notes: | aka The Raw Edge of Victory | |||||
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