FAY WELDON   (1931 - )


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Plays by Fay Weldon

FAY WELDON
Action Replay
1st Produced:
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1980
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
This is a study of the shifting inter-relationships between three young couples, following the developments with sympathy and a certain ironic humour, through a span of twenty-five years. The 'Action Replay' technique of television sporting coverage is here used to present the characters in different lights and situations by repeating the action, sometimes in quite brief scenes, with subtle and often radical differences, in order to examine a vast part of the male/female relationship.
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FAY WELDON
Doll's House, A
1st Produced:
Taunton, UK
1988
Company:
Oxford Stage Co
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:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen
Synopsis:
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FAY WELDON
Flood Warning
1st Produced:
Shaftesbury Arts Centre (amateur prod)
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
2005
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
environmental metaphor as two sisters release "flood" of family secrtes as the waters rise
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FAY WELDON
Four Alice Bakers, The
1st Produced:
1999
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:
-
Synopsis:
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FAY WELDON
Friends
1st Produced:
1975
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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FAY WELDON
Hole In The Top Of The World, The
1st Produced:
1987
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:
-
Synopsis:
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FAY WELDON
I Love My Love
1st Produced:
Northcott, Exeter
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1984
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
two contrasting wives, country bumpkin and sophisticate accept £1,000 from magazine to swap places for a week
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FAY WELDON
Jane Eyre
1st Produced:
1986
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:
From Novel By Charlotte Bronte
Synopsis:
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FAY WELDON
Knightley's State
1st Produced:
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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FAY WELDON
Madame Bovary: Breakfast With Emma
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
Shared Experience
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London
2003
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
after Flaubert
Synopsis:
Emma Bovary and her reviled husband are at breakfast on the morning of Emma's last day alive. As they bicker, scenes from Emma's past are called to mind and played out with all the passion for which Flaubert's novel is famous. . .
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FAY WELDON
Mixed Doubles
1st Produced:
Comedy Theatre, London
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
1970
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Genre:
Duologue
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Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Permanence, Words of Advice, Friends, Mixed Blessings, Second Chance. Also at Orange Tree, Richmond, 1974.
Synopsis:
an entertainment on marriage
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FAY WELDON
Moving House
1st Produced:
Redgrave Theatre, Farnham
1976
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:
-
Synopsis:
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FAY WELDON
Mr Director
1st Produced:
1977
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:
-
Synopsis:
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FAY WELDON
Nana
1st Produced:
Mermaid, London
1988
Company:
Shared Experience
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:
-
Synopsis:
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FAY WELDON
Permanence
1st Produced:
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Mixed Doubles - An Entertainment On Marriage, Methuen, London
1970
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Genre:
Short dialogue
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Originally presented as one of eight plays under the title "We Who Are About To. . ." at the Hampstead Theatre Club on February 6th 1969, which was subsequently presented as "Mixed Doubles" at the Comedy Theatre, London on April 9th 1969
Synopsis:
Mixed Doubles, 'an entertainment on marriage,' takes the form of eight short plays, each for two characters. . . Each is an independent play in its own right but the whole sequence, linked by a series of wickedly anti-authoritarian monologues written by George Melly adds up to an amusing if acid picture of the progress of married life from honeymoon to cemetry
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FAY WELDON
Reading Group, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1999
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
5
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Pondering the relative merits of various well-known classics, the women reveal themselves, their personalities echoing their heroines.
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FAY WELDON
Someone Like You
1st Produced:
Cambridge Theatre Workshop tour
1989
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:
-
Synopsis:
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FAY WELDON
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
1st Produced:
Quarry, West Yorkshire Playhouse
1992
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:
novel by Thomas Hardy
Synopsis:
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FAY WELDON
Woodworm
1st Produced:
Phoenix Theatre, New York
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
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-
Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
retitled 'After the Prize'
Synopsis:
a woman's sudden eminence as a Nobel prizewinner transforms her relationship with her twin sister (also married) and her husband. He is rendered sexually impotent by her fame as a physicist so she asks her sister to seduce him - which she does.
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FAY WELDON
Words Of Advice
1st Produced:
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
friends try to advise a couple whose marriage is on the rocks
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