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Clare Venables

CLARE VENABLES  (1943 - 2003)

 Nationality:    English
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below is a list of Clare Venables's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Love Story Of The Century         Medea         Oedipus Rex         Peer Gynt

Love Story Of The Century

Synopsis:
a wife and mother tells of the havoc wreaked by her husbands alcoholism

Notes:
Original Playwright - Marta Tikkanen; translated by Stina Katchadourian

1st Produced:
Stode Theatre, Street    1990

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1st Published:
in "Monstrous Regeiment" Nick Hern Books, London, 1991   -

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Medea

Synopsis:
the company has modernised Euripedes tragedy into a feminist stock-taking exercise which dispenses with higher wisdoms to represent Jason as a patronising opportunist who, notwithstanding that he has ostensibly walked out on his wife for no good reason, would seem entitled to sue for divirce on grounds of unreasonable behaviour.
Claire Armitstead, Financial Times

Notes:
Original Playwright - Euripides

1st Produced:
Lilian Baylis, london    1992

Company:
Monstrous Regiment

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Oedipus Rex

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Peer Gynt

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  extras

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