DONALD WATSON   


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Plays by Donald Watson

DONALD WATSON
Bald Prima Donna, The
1st Produced:
Pike Theatre Club, Dublin
1956
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1961
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco
Synopsis:
hilarious maniacal assault on the banality of English suburbia
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DONALD WATSON
Black Sail, White Sail
1st Produced:
1994
Company:
Sphinx
1st Published:
-
-
Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Helene Cixous
Synopsis:
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DONALD WATSON
Caprice
1st Produced:
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Five Plays" Methuen, London
1995
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Alfred de Musset; with Frenzy For Two under title Teacups and Handgrenades
Synopsis:
happy ending, the husbands love for his wife reaffirmed and instead of a cheap mistress she finds a true friend
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DONALD WATSON
Chairs, The
1st Produced:
1957
Company:
-
1st Published:
Calder & Boyers, London
1958
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco
Synopsis:
In a house on an island a very old couple pass their time with private games and half-remembered stories
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DONALD WATSON
Constant Players, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Marvaux, Pierre De, Plays" Methuen, London
1988
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Genre:
Marivaux
-
Parts:
Male
4
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DONALD WATSON
Exit The King
1st Produced:
London
1958
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1964
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco
Synopsis:
Like everyone King Berenger has lived from day to day, and now there is only the duration of the play to live
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DONALD WATSON
Frenzy For Two
1st Produced:
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionescot; with Frenzy For Two under title Teacups and handgrenades
Synopsis:
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DONALD WATSON
Harlequin's Lesson In Love
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Marvaux, Pierre De, Plays" Methuen, London
1988
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Genre:
Marivaux
-
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DONALD WATSON
Hunger And Thirst
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
-
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
10
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco
Synopsis:
religion is shown as a matter of habit or force, devoid of freedom, constructed to fill voids in the human heart
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DONALD WATSON
Indiada or The India of Their Dreams
1st Produced:
-
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
in The Helene Cixous Reader, ed Susan Sellers, Routledge
1994
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
42+
Female
7
Parts Other:
doubling possible
Notes:
Original Playwright - Helene Cixous
Synopsis:
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DONALD WATSON
Jacques Or Obedience
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Ionesco, Eugene, Plays Vol.1" Calder & Boyars, London
1958
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
4
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Ionesco
Synopsis:
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DONALD WATSON
Killer, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
10
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco
Synopsis:
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DONALD WATSON
Lesson, The
1st Produced:
Arts Theatre Club, London
1955
Company:
-
1st Published:
Calder & Boyers, London
1958
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco
Synopsis:
professor, the maid and the pupil
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DONALD WATSON
Lorenzaccio
1st Produced:
University of Bristol, Bristol
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Five Plays" Methuen, London
1995
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
23
Female
4
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
Original Playwright - Alfred de Musset
Synopsis:
a vast fresco of fifteenth century Florence mixing freely a depiction of public life, of court intrigue with intimate scenes and moments of great personal introspection
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DONALD WATSON
Moods Of Marianne, The
1st Produced:
Manchester University, Manchester
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Five Plays" Methuen, London
1995
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
Original Playwright - Alfred de Musset
Synopsis:
dramatises the split personality of the playwright in his dealings with women and his contacts with society
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DONALD WATSON
New Tenant
1st Produced:
Arts Theatre, Cambridge
1956
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Plays II", Calder & Boyers, London
1958
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco
Synopsis:
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DONALD WATSON
Obaldia : Two Women for One Ghost
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
John Calder Publishers
-
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
-
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DONALD WATSON
Oh, What A Bloody Circus
1st Produced:
Courtyard, London
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
Large Cast
Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco (Ce formidable bordel)
Synopsis:
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DONALD WATSON
Portrait Of A Woman
1st Produced:
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays: Two" Methuen, London
1997
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
8
Female
3
Parts Other:
15 characters
Notes:
Original Playwright - Michael Vinaver
Synopsis:
factual from a twenty three year old medical student who in 1952 murdered her ex lover and the strange communication gap between the court and the accused
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DONALD WATSON
Stroll In The Air, A
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
12
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco
Synopsis:
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DONALD WATSON
Swimming Pools At War
1st Produced:
Downstairs, London
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Yves Navarre
Synopsis:
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DONALD WATSON
Victims Of Duty
1st Produced:
Pike Theatre, Dublin
1957
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Plays II", Calder & Boyers, London
1958
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco
Synopsis:
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