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Frank Hauser

FRANK HAUSER

  (1922 - 2007)
Nationality:    British
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educated at Cardiff high school, he went on to Christ Church, Oxford. From 1942 to 1945 he served in the Royal artillery. He joined the BBC radio Drama department as a producer in 1948, working on a multitude of shows, including Dick Barton: Special agent and Mrs Dale's Diary. and, significantly, he directed the youthful Richard Burton as Henry V. as a Theatre director he revitalised the Oxford Playhouse in the 1950s and 60s, championing european playwrights

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

         1933         Always         Assassin, The (Les Mains Sales)         Curtain Up         Devil And The Good Lord         Kean         No Way Out         Turnabout         Wolf, The

1933

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Always

Always
Edward VIII gives up the throne for the love of Wallis Simpson

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Music And lyrics by William May And Jason Sprague; book by William May, Jason Sprague And Frank Hauser

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Victoria Palace, London    22 May 1997

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Original cast recording: Warner Brothers (3984-20283) 1997

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Assassin, The (Les Mains Sales)

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Written by the existentialist, French philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre, this rarely performed play is set during the second world war in a fictional country. The tension and focus are on the main character, Hugo Barine, who has joined Illyria's Proletarian Party to forget his past. In order to gain acceptance and to escape the label of a mere bourgeois intellectual, he begs the leaders of his faction to allow him to take direct action - to become an assassin. His target will be the Party leader, Hoederer who has agreed to negotiate deals with the Fascist leaders of Illyria to get his hands dirty for the party's political survival. The worlds of politics and philosophy collide as Hugo struggles to find the psychological moment. Tortured by his own indecision and self-loathing, he finds comfort and purpose from a most unlikely source. The Assassin highlights our own fragile world order where political fundamentalism lead to acts of terror against fellow human beings and where faith is not what some die for, but what they are prepared to kill for.

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Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre

1st Produced:
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham    14 May 2008

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MDCC Theatre Company

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translation

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Curtain Up

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about putting on a play

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Devil And The Good Lord

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Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre

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adaptation

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Kean

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This cross-century collaboration is a romance, redolent with greasepaint and overflowing with the life of the theatre. Kean, the woman iscr, drinker and debtor, postures through life, never certain where life ends and acting begins. His private life is a public performance, a tragic-comedy about a man with an insatiable appetite for romantic adventure, an ego as big as a stage and an inability to rescue himself from jeopardy. Sartre's colourful play is a passionate, sexy, funny, full-blooded experience for anyone who loves Shakespeare, the theatre and great adventure.

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Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre. Adapted from the play by Alexandre Dumas

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No Way Out

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the play was first performed in Paris before the city had been liberated from the Nazis.hauser's translation has sexed up sartre's original by deploying tango as a form of subservice decandence, and invoking a repressive 1970's argentina as the context for the story.
- John Nathan, Jewish Chronicle

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Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre

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Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre2the play was first performed in Paris before the city had been liberated from the Nazis.hauser's translation has sexed up sartre's original by deploying tango as a form of subservice decandence, and invoking a repressive 1970's argentina as the context for the story.
- John Nathan, Jewish Chronicle19892    1989

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4th Wall entertainment

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adaptation - Gay, theme/character full length

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Turnabout

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man kills partners in a new radar device invention, then his wife, then he walks off with the money

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written with Derek Prouse, by Alain Reynaud-Fourton

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Samuel French, London, 1989   -

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Wolf, The

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Original Playwright - Ferenc Molnar; Written in collaboration with Henric Hirsch

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Apollo, London    1973

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Genre:
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Male:  14            Female:  5            Other:  -

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