BARBARA WRIGHT   


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Plays by Barbara Wright

BARBARA WRIGHT
Balcony, The
1st Produced:
1971
Company:
RSC
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1991
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
16
Female
8
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Genet. Translated by Terry Hands and Barbara Wright
Synopsis:
set in a brothel in the midst of a revolution that has wiped out all the real holders of power except the Chief of Police who now enacts the customers fantasies
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BARBARA WRIGHT
Car Cemetry, The
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
-
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Fernando Arrabal; aka The Automobile Graveyard
Synopsis:
prostitute who follows her profession simply because religion demands that one be kind to ones neighbours
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BARBARA WRIGHT
Eleutheria
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1996
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
11
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Playwright - Samuel Beckett
Synopsis:
about a young man living alone in a bedsit and refusing to take part in 'normal life'
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BARBARA WRIGHT
Fando And Lis
1st Produced:
Courtyard, N1, London
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Revival
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BARBARA WRIGHT
Marathon
1st Produced:
Albany Empire, London
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
play with music
Translation
Parts:
Male
3
Female
-
Parts Other:
musicians
Notes:
Original Playwright - Claude Confortes. Translated by Barbara Wright and Vladimir Mirodan. Music adapted by Bruce Cole from the original score by Alain Goraguer and Jules Datin
Synopsis:
probably the most physically exhausting play any actor has ever been obliged to perform. Set in an Olympic marathon, the three actors spend 90 minutes either running on the spot or jogging purposefully around, their faces wracked with agonies of quite genuine physical exertion.
- Nick Brown, Guardian
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BARBARA WRIGHT
Orison
1st Produced:
1963
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Fernando Arrabal
Synopsis:
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BARBARA WRIGHT
Singular Life Of Albert Nobbs
1st Produced:
1982
Company:
-
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
2
Female
5
Parts Other:
voices
Notes:
Original Playwright - Simone Benmussa
Synopsis:
-
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BARBARA WRIGHT
Swallows, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Playscript 16" Calder & Boyars, London
-
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
by Roland Dubillard
Synopsis:
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BARBARA WRIGHT
Tricycle, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Guernica and Other Plays" French, New York
-
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
6
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Fernando Arrabal
Synopsis:
four outcasts alternately quarrel and declare their love for each other until two are arrested for a murder
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BARBARA WRIGHT
Two Executioners, The
1st Produced:
New York
1960
Company:
-
1st Published:
Calder & Boyers, London
1962
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Fernando Arrabal
Synopsis:
rebel son objects to torture that mother inflicts on father
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BARBARA WRIGHT
Ubu Roi
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
1968
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Alfred Jarry
Synopsis:
takes place in Poland - or nowhere, deals with the cruelty of despots and the stupidity of the human condition
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