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Graham Anderson

GRAHAM ANDERSON  

 Nationality:    English
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         Barber Of Seville, The         Boubouroche         Farce Of Peter Pathelin, The         Flea In Her Ear, A         Football, And Other Considerations         French As She Is Spoke         Golden Joe         Guilty Mother, The         Heat         King's Pleasure, The         La Dame Aux Camelias         Letter, The         Love Surprises         Marriage Of Figaro, The         Ode To Cantona         Topaze         Woman Of Paris, A

Barber Of Seville, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Beaumarchais

1st Produced:

Organisations:
the arches, Glasgow

1st Published:
absolute Classics, in 3-play volume: the Figaro Plays (1993)   0-948230-54-1

Music:
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Genre:
comedy adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  1            Other:  officers of the law, servants

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Boubouroche

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Georges Courteline

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Genre:
comedy Translation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  1            Other:  cafe customers

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Farce Of Peter Pathelin, The

Synopsis:
Pathelin, self-styled lawyer, cons the Draper out of a bale of cloth, feigns madness to keep him at bay when he calls for payment. In the second part, the first-ever courtroom Drama as Pathelin defends the Draper's shepherd against a sheep-rustling charge, only to find himself out-conned at the last by the shepherd's low cunning.

Notes:
New translation of the Anonymous La Farce de Maistre Pierre Pathelin (c1465), the celebrated original of the genre.

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Flea In Her Ear, A

Flea In Her Ear, A
Complications come fast and furious as the wife of a noble lord misinterprets a note.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau

1st Produced:

Organisations:
West Yorkshire Playhouse/theatr Clwyd

1st Published:
Oberon Books, London, 1993   978-1870259323

Music:
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Genre:
farce adaptation

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Football, And Other Considerations

Synopsis:
Football is the theatre in which modern civilisation plays out its roles: a group of players, dazzled by their own skills, by the mystery of the game, by the tyranny of the owners, faces up to the intensity and pointlessness of their lives.

Notes:
Original playwright: Christian Rullier. rehearsed reading with Toby Jones, Adapted And directed by Simon Reade (7 m And 1 f voice over in Reade's Adaptation

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Gate Theatre, Notting Hill

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Music:
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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  4-5            Female:  -            Other:  -

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French As She Is Spoke

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Original Playwright - Tristan Bernard Adaptation of L'anglais tel que l'on parle, 1895

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Genre:
ne-act farce adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Golden Joe

Synopsis:
a contemporary Hamlet story set in London, where Golden Joe is a city trader.

Notes:
clerks, mAIDS, tramps. Translation of Golden Joe, by original playwright eric-emmanuel Schmitt.

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Genre:
Tragi-comedy

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Guilty Mother, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Beaumarchais

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Gate Theatre, Notting Hill

1st Published:
absolute Classics, in 3-play volume: the Figaro Plays (1993)   0-948230-54-1

Music:
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Genre:
comedy adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Heat

Synopsis:
a european city in the grip of winter and war. the Professor, his assistant and the assistant's student girlfriend, having burned all the professor's furniture to keep warm, begin to burn his books. a bitter version of Desert Island Books. What will be the last volume to go in the flames? What will survive at the end, the humans or their literature?

Notes:
Translation (2003) of Les combustibles(1994), by Amelie Nothomb.

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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King's Pleasure, The

Synopsis:
Triboulet, jester at the court of Francois 1st, tries to protect his daughter Blanche from the king's lust, with tragic consequences. the source play for Rigoletto.

Notes:
Translation of Le Roi s'amuse, by Victor Hugo. commissioned by Gate theatre, Notting Hill; used As reading copy by NT.

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  4            Other:  -

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La Dame Aux Camelias

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Original Playwright - Alexandre Dumas fils. translation commissioned for P.W. Productions

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  8            Other:  doubling possible

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Letter, The

Synopsis:
a father and mother receive a letter from their son, a resistance fighter captured by the Nazis and shortly to be executed. an affirmation of life in a situation of national and personal tragedy.

Notes:
Translation of La lettre, by Jean-Luc Jeneer.

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Love Surprises

Synopsis:
translation of La Surprise de l'amour by Marivaux. This is the first (1722) of two Marivaux plays bearing the same title.Renouncing women for ever, Lelio has retreated to the solitude of his country house, accompanied by his loyal but less self-denying servant arlequin. When the neighbouring house is visited by its new owner, the Countess, and her spirited servant Colombine, dismay is felt on both sides. But the servants are soon conspiring to melt the frosty relations between the nobles. Written for the Comediens-Italiens, this piece was Marivaux's first major success with a full-length play.For the second Surprise de l'amour (1727) see under Mike alfreds: the Surprise of Love.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Marivaux. Commissioned by Ustinov, theatre Royal Bath, 2011

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Genre:
Comedy in 3 acts

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Marriage Of Figaro, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Beaumarchais

1st Produced:
University of Southern California    1994

Organisations:
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1st Published:
absolute Classics, in 3-play volume: the Figaro Plays (1993)   0-948230-54-1

Music:
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Genre:
comedy adaptation

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  5            Other:  servants, etc - some doubling possible

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Ode To Cantona

Synopsis:
a football star not unlike Eric Cantona is serving his community punishment for asaulting a spectator. as he trains with a ball-boy, practising headers and trading philosophy, Cantona's journey of self-discovery takes flight.

Notes:
Translation of Ode A Canto, by Gerard Gelas (avignon Festival 1996).

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Topaze

Synopsis:
Principled but naive schoolmaster Topaze is unjustly sacked. He becomes clerk to a corrupt city councillor and learns a bitter lesson about how life really works.

Notes:
Original playwright: Marcel Pagnol (1928).

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Woman Of Paris, A

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Henri Becque. translation of La Parisienne, 1885

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Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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