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Clash Of Symbols, A
Linda GABORIAU
Execution, The
David LOBDELL
Island, The
David LOBDELL
Ocean, The
Ray CHAMBERLAIN

	MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS (1939 - )
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LINDA GABORIAU

Clash Of Symbols, A

1st Produced:		- - -			- - -
Organisations:		n/a
1st Published:		Contained in: "An Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation volume One" published by Playwrights Canada Press 2007			ISBN/ASIN:	978-0887548680
Music:		-			doollee no	#147509
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Genre:		Translation
Parts:		Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:		-
Notes:		Original Playwright - Marie-Claire Blais
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Further Reference:		-

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DAVID LOBDELL

Execution, The

1st Produced:		- - -			1976
Organisations:		n/a
1st Published:		Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 1976			ISBN/ASIN:	978-0889221031
Music:		-			doollee no	#21109
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Genre:		Translation
Parts:		Male		3	Female	17
Parts other:		-
Notes:		Original Playwright - Marie-Claire Blais
		Two schoolboys plot the murder of one of their classmates and enact the crime. a continuation of the author's study of evil begun in her first novel MaD SHaDOWS, 1958.
Further Reference:		-

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DAVID LOBDELL

Island, The

1st Produced:		- - -			- - -
Organisations:		n/a
1st Published:		Oberon Books, London, 1991			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:		-			doollee no	#21110
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Genre:		Translation
Parts:		Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:		-
Notes:		Original Playwright - Marie-Claire Blais
Synopsis:
Further Reference:		-

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RAY CHAMBERLAIN

Ocean, The

1st Produced:		- - -			- - -
Organisations:		n/a
1st Published:		Contained in: "an anthology Of Quebec Women's Plays In english Translation" published by Playwrights Canada Press 2006			ISBN/ASIN:	978-0887548680
Music:		-			doollee no	#142834
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Genre:		Translation
Parts:		Male		3	Female	4
Parts other:		2 boys; 2 girls
Notes:		Original Playwright - Marie-Claire Blais
		a famous writer dies. His three children reunite at his home by the sea. Francois - the favourite defends his father's writings to his siblings Simon and Maria
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