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Dorothy Parker

DOROTHY PARKER

  (1893 - 1967)
Nationality:    USA
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Dorothy Parker's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Against Her Better Judgment         Candide         Dusk Before Fireworks         Here We Are         Ladies Of The Corridor         One to Another
Against Her Better Judgment

Synopsis:
This is an original theatrical work adapted from the short stories and poetry of Dorothy Parker. A biting collage of couples and quips, Against Her Better Judgment lays bare a shameless self-portrait of the modern woman in love. Parker's acid wit and melancholy bring to the stage a series of sharp-tongued heroines-and the devastating men they call their own-who both create and confront their neuroses, navigating the tricky territories of romance with vicious humor, regret and more than the occasional cocktail.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
the Osgood Group and Bingo Pajamas

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Candide

Candide
Candide is banished for romancing the daughter of the Baron. In exile he faces many troubles

Notes:
Music by Leonard Bernstein; Book by Lillian Hellman; Lyrics by Richard Wilbur, John La Touche And Dorothy Parker; Based on the novel "Candide" by Voltaire

1st Produced:
Martin Beck Theatre, NY     1956

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Random House (1957)   

Music:
Original cast recording: Columbia (38732) 1956

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Genre:
Musical

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Dusk Before Fireworks

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Watergate Theatre, London     15 May 1950

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
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Here We Are

Here We Are
the newly weds argue over the wife's new expensive hat

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "24 Favorite One Act Plays" published by Main Street Books 1991   

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Ladies Of The Corridor

Ladies Of The Corridor
The women who are widowed in their forties or fifties with another twenty years of living alone and lonely

Notes:
Written by Dorothy Parker and Arnaud d'Asseau

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Penguin Books 2008   

Music:
-

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Drama

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One to Another

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
written by Patrick Gowers (mus, sk, lyr) And Joseph Horovitz (mus,t'sk, lyr) And Stanley Myers (mus, sk, lyr) And Humphrey Searle (mus, sk, lyr) And Charles Cansley (sk, lyr) And Robert Benchley (sk, lyr) And John Cranko (sk. lyr) And Serge Gainsbourg (sk. lyr) And Bamber Gascoigne (sk, lyr) And David Heneker (sk. lyr) And Roddy Maude-Roxby (sk, lyr) And Julian More (sk, lyr) And John Mortimer (sk, lyr) And David Nobbs (sk, lyr) And Monty Norman (sk, lyr) And Dorothy Parker (sk, lyr) And Harold Pinter (sk, lyr) And Alistair Sampson (sk, lyr) And William Sansom (sk, lyr) And N.F. Simpson (sk, lyr) And Keith Statham (mus, sk, lyr) And Brian Tester (sk, lyr).

1st Produced:
Margate: Theatre Royal     36/1959

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1960   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Sketches in Revue

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 59.155

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