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Augustus Goetz

AUGUSTUS GOETZ

  (1901 - 1957)
Nationality:    USA
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Augustus Goetz (1901-1957) is probably most famous for co-writing (with his wife Ruth Goetz) the 1947 play The Heiress, along with the screenplay for the feature-length film version two years later. The play was first staged in London and featured Ralph Richardson, James Donald, Peggy Ashcroft and Donald Sinden, with John Gielgud as director. He is also known for his work (again alongside Ruth) on Carrie (1952) and Rhapsody (1954).

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below is a list of Augustus Goetz's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Franklin Street         Heiress, The         Hidden River, The         Immoralist, The         One-Man Show
Franklin Street

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Written by Augustus Goetz and Ruth Goetz

1st Produced:
National Theatre, Washington DC     Sep 1940

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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Heiress, The

Heiress, The
Period 1850 heiress slowly gathers confidence in order to take her revenge

Notes:
Adapted with Ruth Goetz. Based on the novel "Washington Square" by Henry James

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service 1949   

Music:
Complete play recording: L A Theatre Works 1998 (9781580816106

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Hidden River, The

Synopsis:
Beckley describes "It all takes place during twenty-four hours in a quiet French house on the Loire when an englishman returns to visit the family that sheltered him during the desperate days of the war. His return coincides with the return from prison of the eldest member of the family, who was locked away five years for continuing during wartime an old friendship with a German general, as intellectual if not as completely immured in the peaceful pre-war world as he. Behind everybody and every action stands the figure of a resistance leader, Robert, who was captured at Orleans in 1944 and tortured to death by the invaders. He peers out of the grief-pained eyes of his mother, the guilt-clouded vision of the senior brother of the house and the englishman who counts him a friend. all of these people are driven by an anguished need to identify his betrayer. . ."

Notes:
written by Ruth Goetz And Augustus Goetz, from the novel by Storm Jameson

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Immoralist, The

Synopsis:
Can a marriage be saved when the husband has affairs with teenage arab boys?

Notes:
from Andre Gide. written by Augustus And Ruth Goetz

1st Produced:
-     1962

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  -

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One-Man Show

Synopsis:
The relationship of a father and daughter in the antiques world

Notes:
Written by Augustus Goetz and Ruth Goetz

1st Produced:
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York     1945

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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