PETER USTINOV (1921 - 2004)
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Peter Ustinov
Banbury Nose, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1944 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Cape, London | 1945 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: tracing a great military family through three generations in reverse order | ||||
Beethoven's Tenth |
| 1st Produced: | Paris | 1982 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
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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 | ||||
Beyond |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1943 | ||
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| 1st Published: | English Theatre Group, London | 1944 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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Bishop of Limpopoland, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1939 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Sketch | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Blow Your Own Trumpet |
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1943 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Plays About People, Cape, London | 1950 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: a fantasy set in an Italian restaurant. | ||||
Diversion |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1940 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Sketches in | Sketch | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Diversion 2 |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1941 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
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| Genre: | Sketches in | Sketch | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Empty Chair, The |
| 1st Produced: | Bristol | 1956 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Evening with Peter Ustinov, An |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Royal Haymarket, London | 1990 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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Fishing for Shadows |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1940 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: from play by Jean Sarment | ||||
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Frenzy |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1948 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Notes: play by Ingmar Bergman | ||||
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Halfway Up the Tree |
| 1st Produced: | on tour, Germany | 1967 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Random House, New York | 1968 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: The General returns home to subvert expectations on domestic crisis and live up a tree. | ||||
High Balcony |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1952 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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House Of Regrets |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1942 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Cape, London | 1943 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: story of Russian emigres living in genteel poverty in wartime London. | ||||
Indifferent Shepherd, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1948 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in Plays About People, Cape, London | 1950 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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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. | ||||
Life in My Hands, The |
| 1st Produced: | Nottingham | 1964 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Love of Four Colonels, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1951 | |||
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| 1st Published: | English Theatre Group, London | 1951 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 |
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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. | ||||
Man in the Raincoat, The |
| 1st Produced: | Edoinburgh | 1949 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Marriage, The |
| 1st Produced: | Milan | 1981 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: from an opera libretto by Gogol, music by Mussorgsky | ||||
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Moment Of Truth, The |
| 1st Produced: | Nottingham | 1951 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | English Theatre Group, London | 1953 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: political drama | ||||
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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: reworking of the Noah legend | ||||
Overheard |
| 1st Produced: | Billingham, County Durham, UK | 1981 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: a lachrymose comedy of diplomatic life | ||||
Paris Not So Gay |
| 1st Produced: | Oxford | 1958 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Photo Finish: An Adventure In Biography |
| 1st Produced: | Dublin | 1962 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann, London | 1962 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 |
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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. | ||||
Romanoff and Juliet |
| 1st Produced: | Manchester | 1956 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | English Theatre Guild, London | 1957 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 4 |
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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." | ||||
Swinging the Gate |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1940 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Sketches in | Sketch | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Tragedy of Good Intentions, The |
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1945 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Plays About People, Cape, London | 1950 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | 1g extras | |||
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Synopsis: a chronicle play about the Crusades | ||||
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 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
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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 | ||||
Who's Who in Hell |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1974 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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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. | ||||