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Bridget Boland

BRIDGET BOLAND  (1913 - 1988)

 Nationality:    Irish
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although I hold a British passeport I am in fact Irish'

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 Arabian Nights, The         Cockpit         Damascus Blade         Gordon         Juan By Degrees, A         Prisoner, The         Return (Aka Journey To Earth)         Temple Folly         Zodiac In The Establishment, The

Arabian Nights, The

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1st Produced:
Nottingham    1948

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Contained in: "Plays of the Year 1" published by Elek (1949)   -

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Cockpit

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Cockpit was one of the early forerunners of the vogue for environmental theatre which was to spread to Eng­land from off-Broadway in the 1960's. It was a play which boldly turned its back on everything that was normal in the English theatre of the time, including insularity. Its way of coming to grips with the problem of Displaced Persons in post­war Europe was to use the whole auditorium to create a theatri­cal image of a D.P. assembly centre, which itself served as an image of the chaos on the continent, with masses of bewil­dered hopeless people uprooted from where they belonged. Unsuspecting London theatregoers arriving at the Playhouse found themselves faced with a curtain painted in Germanic style and with notices in various European languages forbid­ding them to fight or carry firearms. The dialogue began incom­prehensibly: a quarrel in Polish between two women fighting over a saucepan. Two English soldiers take charge, appearing from the back of the stalls, shouting orders and questions, treating the

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1st Produced:
London    1948

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1st Published:
Plays of the Year I, Elek, London, 1948   -

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Damascus Blade

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1st Produced:
Edinburgh    1950

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Gordon

Synopsis:
Events surrounding General Gordon and the siege of Khartoum

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1st Produced:
Derby    1961

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in "Plays of the Year 25", Elek, London, 1962   -

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Genre:
Historical Drama

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Male:  9            Female:  9            Other:  -

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Juan By Degrees, A

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Original Playwright - Pierre Humblot

1st Produced:
London    1965

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Prisoner, The

Synopsis:
Is that of the destruction of one man by another. The Prisoner is a Cardinal in the Catholic Church of a middle-European country. The Interrogator represents the totalitarian government which has taken over that country and which finds it necessary to destroy the Cardinal whose independence of spirit constitutes a danger to the government. The play is a series of scenes between The Interrogator and The Prisoner, both of whom respect the other, but cannot accept what the other stands for. The Interrogator attacks The Prisoner first in one area, then in another, without effect; his faith and his integrity are so strong they cannot be touched by ordinary means. at first it is The Interrogator who shows the strain of the interviews; he becomes desperate in his search for some weapon to break The Prisoner's spirit. The relationship between the two men is a complex one, almost that of friendship. The Interrogator believes so deeply in what his government is doing that he feels he is actually trying to bring The Pri

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1st Produced:
London    1954

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Plays of the Year I0, Elek, London, 1954   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  several non-speaking parts

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Return (Aka Journey To Earth)

Synopsis:
a nun's return to the modern world after 36 years of seclusion in a convent

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1st Produced:
Liverpool    1952

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Samuel French, London, 1954   -

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Temple Folly

Synopsis:
a family of aristocrats haunted a stately home

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1st Produced:
London    1951

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Evans, London, 1958   -

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Zodiac In The Establishment, The

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aka Time Out Of Mind

1st Produced:
Nottingham    1963

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Evans, London, 1963   -

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