PETER USTINOV   (1921 - 2004)


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Plays by Peter Ustinov

PETER USTINOV
Banbury Nose, The
1st Produced:
London
1944
Company:
-
1st Published:
Cape, London
1945
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
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Female
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
tracing a great military family through three generations in reverse order
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PETER USTINOV
Beethoven's Tenth
1st Produced:
Paris
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
6
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
about an acidic music critic who is writing a book about what Beethoven's tenth symphony might have been like
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PETER USTINOV
Beyond
1st Produced:
London
1943
Company:
-
1st Published:
English Theatre Group, London
1944
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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PETER USTINOV
Bishop of Limpopoland, The
1st Produced:
London
1939
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Sketch
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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PETER USTINOV
Blow Your Own Trumpet
1st Produced:
Liverpool
1943
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Plays About People, Cape, London
1950
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
10
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
a fantasy set in an Italian restaurant.
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PETER USTINOV
Diversion
1st Produced:
London
1940
Company:
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1st Published:
-
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Genre:
Sketches in
Sketch
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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PETER USTINOV
Diversion 2
1st Produced:
London
1941
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Sketches in
Sketch
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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PETER USTINOV
Empty Chair, The
1st Produced:
Bristol
1956
Company:
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1st Published:
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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PETER USTINOV
Evening with Peter Ustinov, An
1st Produced:
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
Solo
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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PETER USTINOV
Fishing for Shadows
1st Produced:
London
1940
Company:
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1st Published:
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
from play by Jean Sarment
Synopsis:
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PETER USTINOV
Frenzy
1st Produced:
London
1948
Company:
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1st Published:
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
play by Ingmar Bergman
Synopsis:
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PETER USTINOV
Halfway Up the Tree
1st Produced:
on tour, Germany
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1968
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
5
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
The General returns home to subvert expectations on domestic crisis and live up a tree.
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PETER USTINOV
High Balcony
1st Produced:
London
1952
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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PETER USTINOV
House Of Regrets
1st Produced:
London
1942
Company:
-
1st Published:
Cape, London
1943
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
story of Russian emigres living in genteel poverty in wartime London.
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PETER USTINOV
Indifferent Shepherd, The
1st Produced:
London
1948
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Plays About People, Cape, London
1950
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
centres around a clergyman's crisis of conscience and his closest approach to a conventional well made West End play.
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PETER USTINOV
Life in My Hands, The
1st Produced:
Nottingham
1964
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
10
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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PETER USTINOV
Love of Four Colonels, The
1st Produced:
1951
Company:
-
1st Published:
English Theatre Group, London
1951
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
6
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
In the conference room of a four-power zone in Germany, four Colo-nels, representing their respective countries, The United States, England, France, and Russia, are apparently getting nowhere with their negotiations except deeper into a mess of red tape. A mancalled the Wicked Fairydrops in on them and invites them to accompany him to a nearby castle, which they do. Soon joined by the Good Fairy, at the castle they discover The Sleeping Beauty. Each of the Colonels sees her as his own particular idealthe Frenchman as an eighteenth-century lass of the boulevards, the Russian as a flaxed-haired figure out of Chekhov, the Englishman as something virginally Elizabethan, and the American as a moll in an all-night dive. The Colonels each get a chance to waken and claim her, but they all fail, surrendering the illusion that they had long cherished. The American and the Frenchman, however, decide to stay at the castle for the next hundred years and take another chance at making their dreams come true.
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PETER USTINOV
Man in the Raincoat, The
1st Produced:
Edoinburgh
1949
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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PETER USTINOV
Marriage, The
1st Produced:
Milan
1981
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
from an opera libretto by Gogol, music by Mussorgsky
Synopsis:
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PETER USTINOV
Moment Of Truth, The
1st Produced:
Nottingham
1951
Company:
-
1st Published:
English Theatre Group, London
1953
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
7
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
political drama
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PETER USTINOV
No Sign of the Dove
1st Produced:
Leeds
1953
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Five Plays, Heinemann, London & Little Brown, Boston
1965
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
reworking of the Noah legend
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PETER USTINOV
Overheard
1st Produced:
Billingham, County Durham, UK
1981
Company:
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1st Published:
-
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
a lachrymose comedy of diplomatic life
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PETER USTINOV
Paris Not So Gay
1st Produced:
Oxford
1958
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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PETER USTINOV
Photo Finish: An Adventure In Biography
1st Produced:
Dublin
1962
Company:
-
1st Published:
Heinemann, London
1962
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
6
Female
5
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
At the age of 80 Sam is the victim of a shrewish wife, Stella, who he has quarreled with for 60 years. One night he receives a strange visitor, an immaculately dressed man of 60, who opens a drawer to which only Sam has the key and withdraws a valuable necklace, which Sam gave to a lady of easy virtue (but expensive access) 20 years earlier. No sooner do Sam and the mysterious stranger discover that they are the same man, than another interloper appears, Sam at 40, followed by Sam at 20. Valiantly the octogenarian tries to keep the others from making the mistakes he has made, but his efforts are futile. Each Sam proceeds to make the identical missteps; marrying Stella at 20, not leaving her at 40, becoming hopelessly infatuated with another woman at 60. To join this foursome comes their father, an irascible Victorian with a lecherous leaning toward a secretary who looks suspiciously like the lady of the necklace. In the end there is still another Sam, A newborn babe whom Old Sam holds for an instant, then hastily rejects.
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PETER USTINOV
Romanoff and Juliet
1st Produced:
Manchester
1956
Company:
-
1st Published:
English Theatre Guild, London
1957
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
9
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
revised version as R Loves J, music by Alexander Faris, Lyrics by Julian More, Produced Chischester, 1973
Synopsis:
As told by Chapman in the NY Daily News: "Ustinov, with a beard, rimmed nose-glasses and padded waistline, is the president of the smallest of all mythical countries. It is so small that it has a standing army of twoand the army doesn't even stand, but slouches. This country lies smack between the East and the West, so each of these world divisions seeks to make Ustinov an ally. Russia sends an ambassadora Romanoff, no less. The U.S. dispatches one of its typical business diplomats. One of several high points of this delightful comedy is the scene in which Ustinov shuttles between the rival embassies, listening to their blandishments and threats. This is a hilarious cartoon of diplomacy. Why the title, ROMANOFF AND JULIET? The Russian has a son, and the American has a daughter named Juliet and these twain fall in love. And love has its sway. National rivalries vanish as the parents are reconciled after a wedding which is remarkable for its lunacy."
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PETER USTINOV
Swinging the Gate
1st Produced:
London
1940
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Sketches in
Sketch
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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PETER USTINOV
Tragedy of Good Intentions, The
1st Produced:
Liverpool
1945
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Plays About People, Cape, London
1950
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
14
Female
1
Parts Other:
1g extras
Notes:
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Synopsis:
a chronicle play about the Crusades
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PETER USTINOV
Unknown Soldier and his Wife, The: Two Acts Of War Separated By a Truce For Refreshment
1st Produced:
New York
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1967
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
11
Female
2
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
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Synopsis:
It sweeps from ancient Rome to edieval England to modern times, with links provided by recurring characters who emerge whenever war comes and who controls its course
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PETER USTINOV
Who's Who in Hell
1st Produced:
New York
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
set in an anteroom of hell where the ultimate destination of new arrivals, including the US president and the Russin premier is decided.
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