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Richard Nelson

RICHARD NELSON

  (1950 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  UK representative Macnaughton Lord Representation (theatrical and Literary Agents)

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         Accidental Death Of An Anarchist         American Comedy, An         Bal         Between East And West         Cherry Orchard, The         Chess         Columbus And the Discovery Of Japan         Conjuring An Event         Controversy of Valladolid, The         Conversations in Tusculum         Dead, The         Don Juan         Enrico Iv         Farewell To the theatre         Father, The         Frank's Home         Franny's Way         General From America, The         Goodnight Children Everywhere         Hopey Changey Thing         How Shakespeare Won the West         Hungry         Il Campiello         James Joyce's The Dead         Jitterbugging - Scenes of Sex in Society         Jungle Coup         Jungle Of Cities         Kenneth's First Play         Killing Of Yablonski, The         Left         Life Sentences         Lolita         Madame Melville         Marriage Of Figaro         Misha's Party         My Life With Albertine         New England         Nikolai and the Others         Paradise Found         Principia Scriptoriae         Regular Singing         Return Of Pinocchio, The         Rip Van Winkle         Rodney's Wife         Roots In Water         Scooping         Seagull, The         Sensibility And Sense         Some Americans Abroad         Sorry         Suicide, The         Sweet and Sad         That Hopey Changey Thing         Three Sisters, The         Two Shakespearean Actors         Tynan         Vienna Notes, The         Wedding, The         Where Do I Come From:Scenes From Abroad By Mike Williams         Wild Duck, The         Wood Demon, The

Accidental Death Of An Anarchist

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Dario Fo; translation by Suzanne Cowan

1st Produced:
Washington D.C.     1984

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1987   -

Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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American Comedy, An

Synopsis:
Many doors slammed, fires put out, trunks shut, typewriters ruined, disrobings, and darts

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Los Angeles, Mark Taper Forum     13 Oct 1983

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "An American Comedy and Other Plays", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York, 1984   -

Music:
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Genre:
Farce

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Bal

Synopsis:
Two suicides are caused by the destructive manipulations which a young man sows on all around him

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "An American Comedy and Other Plays", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York, 1984   -

Music:
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Genre:
Experimental Play Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Between East And West

Synopsis:
When a Czech theatre director and his wife emigrate to the USA unforeseen difficulties confront them.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Seattle, Wash., Seattle Repertory Theatre     23 Mar 1984

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "New Plays USA 3", Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1986   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Cherry Orchard, The

Synopsis:
the story of mortgage with the grounds of the proud house being sold to pay off debts

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Best American Short Plays", Applause, New York, 1991   -

Music:
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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Chess

Chess
develops the ancient and distinguished game of chess into a metaphor for romantic rivalries and East-West political intrigue

Notes:
Book by Richard Nelson; Music by Benny Andersson And Bjorn Ulvaeus; Lyrics by Tim Rice; Based on An idea by Tim Rice

1st Produced:
New York, Imperial Theatre     28 Apr 1988

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London,    -

Music:
London studio cast recording: RCA (70500) 1984

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  2 chorus playing multiple roles

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Columbus And the Discovery Of Japan

Synopsis:
On the deck of his flagship, the expedition commander addresses his men, his voice rising in stirring peroration: 'Let us all be new men! Born today! This minute! And with only one purpose in mind! To push forward to triumph! To push forward - to Japan!' That Columbus had a clearer sense of destiny than destination is, even without the facile irony of hindsight, emblematic of the confusion of motives and expectations which inspired him and his companions to undertake their epoch-making voyage, and which Richard Nelson explores in this intimate Drama of epic events.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Barbican, London >>>     22 Jul 1992

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1992   -

Music:
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Genre:
Ironic Epic Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  17            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Conjuring An Event

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Los Angeles, Mark Taper Forum/ Lab     1976

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "An American Comedy and Other Plays", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York, 1984   -

Music:
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Controversy of Valladolid, The

Synopsis:
Imagine a time when the Catholic Church had the right to determine whether or not you were human. In a sixteenth-century Spanish monastery, the fate of millions of American natives from an ocean away hangs precariously in the balance. the CONTROVERSY OF VALLADOLID, an exciting new masterwork by French playwright and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, brings to light the shocking real-life debates whose outcomes are still felt today. Jean-Claude Carriere's fierce attack on [the Catholic Church] for its policies on human slavery makes for a refreshing change. Although based on a Spanish papal tribunal of 1550, Carriere's stern historical Drama hits a resounding contempo note with its revelations of how the church agonized over its ultimate conclusion that indigenous American natives were children of God after all-after invading their land, destroying their culture, plundering their natural resources and subjecting thousands of people to servitude, torture and death. -Variety.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Claude Carriere

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  1            Other:  1c

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Conversations in Tusculum

Synopsis:
the country you love and the values it represents are being destroyed by a misguided leader. You can continue to live in relative comfort by not involving yourself, or you can take action to save the democracy you love. Set outside of Rome in the villas and hillsides of Tusculum, Richard Nelson continues his revelatory exploration of history with a new play that chronicles those entangled in Julius Caesar's world of manipulation and power
- press release

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Genre:
Play/Dram

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dead, The

Synopsis:
Adapted from Joyce's literary masterpiece set in 1904, the last and best known of the short stories collected in the Dubliners, this intimate musical portrays a homespun Yuletide party with Irish music, dancing, food, drink and good fellowship. Sparkling songs, many of them traditional sounding Irish melodies that are performed as entertainment by the partygoers, are all original.

Notes:
adapted from James Joyce by Richard Nelson And Shaun Davey

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
American Theatre Magazine, NY - September (French, NY),    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Don Juan

Synopsis:
Usual story of nobleman parted from his riches

Notes:
Original Playwright - Moliere

1st Produced:
Washington D.C.     1979

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY, 1989   -

Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Enrico Iv

Synopsis:
"the time is the early 1920s and the place is an isolated Italian villa, but it might as well be the 12th century. the master of the house bumped his head 20 years ago during a costume ball and has since believed himself to be King Enrico IV of Germany. As the play goes on, perception, reality, fantasy and freedom become confused. . . an effective new adaptation by Richard Nelson" - Chad Jones, the Oakland Tribune

Notes:
Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Farewell To the theatre

Farewell To the theatre
Widely regarded as the man who laid the foundations of modern British theatre, Harley Granville-Barker was famed for his Shakespeare productions and wrote and produced ground breaking new plays in the early twentieth century. He lectured at Cambridge, Oxford, Yale and Harvard. Richard Nelsons new play finds him embittered and world-weary in Massachusetts in 1916, with war raging in Europe, having fallen in with a group of British expatriates endeavouring to find their way in an academic, theatre obsessed community. Internecine, intrigue, lust and betrayal permeates this witty and absorbing study of human nature, as Granville Barker gradually rediscovers his love of the Art of theatre and his faith in its centrality to a life well lived.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Father, The

Father, The
"the Father still has the power to astonish. Richard Nelson's new adaptation of the Swedish text speaks in clean, spare English prose, the kind that remains discreetly outside time without betraying the conventions of the period when the play was written (1887). . .. It's not exactly news to report that the Father is an extraordinary play. the news is that its ability to shock remains undiminished as,in the course of twenty-four hours, the increasingly chilly, twenty-year marriage of the Captain and the willful Laura escalates into a war to the death. We are deep in territory that Ingmar Bergman would later explore, though never with quite such harrowing results. . . .Mr Nelson's excellent adaptation." Vincent Canby, the New York Times

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    978-08814599413

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Frank's Home

Synopsis:
It is summer 1923, and architect Frank Lloyd Wright has recently left Chicago for California, determined to embrace Hollywood's youthful zest and mend broken relationships with his adult children. Having completed his latest 'wonder of the world'-Tokyo's Imperial Hotel-Wright is poised to settle down and embrace his new home. But his splintered family still holds deep-seated resentments.
Press Release

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Goodman Theatre, New York     25 Nov 2006

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Franny's Way

Franny's Way
Boundaries warp and melt in the dense urban heat that pervades FRANNY's WAY, Richard Nelson's sensitively drawn portrait of love in the age of J D Salinger. the lines between childhood and adulthood blur disorientingly for the three generations of characters gathered in a cramped apartment in Greenwich Village at the height of summer in the 1950s.
- Ben Brantley, the New York Times

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY, 2003
in Richard Nelson Plays 2, Faber and Faber Ltd, London (2012) >>>    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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General From America, The

Synopsis:
Can you betray your country, when your country has betrayed itself? In 1780, America's most successful General believed the War of Independence had lost its way. He decided to surrender his soldiers, hand over George Washington to the British and end the war. In America today, General Benedict Arnold is considered one of the most heinous men the world has ever known; in London, a plaque celebrates the house where he lived out his years in exile. Richard Nelson's haunting play presents a richly emotional portrait of a man searching for love and country, and finding only compromise and despair.

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1996   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Goodnight Children Everywhere

Goodnight Children Everywhere
Spring 1945 seventeen year old evacuee returns from Canada to find his parents dead and his sisters awaiting his arrival;

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Hopey Changey Thing

Synopsis:
It's Election Day 2010, and the Apple family gathers for dinner in their childhood home in upstate New York. On the menu is a discussion of everything from Sarah Palin to the best way to de-skunk a dog. Richard Nelson explores ideas big and small, personal and political, and fashions them into a heartfelt, funny and engaging snapshot of contemporary life.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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How Shakespeare Won the West

Synopsis:
The play tells the story of a ragtag troupe of actors as they head West during the Gold Rush, seeking fortune and fame and performing Shakespeare for enthusiastic 49ers. But with stiff competition, romantic entanglements, and an Indian chief who sees himself in King Lear, their ambitious cross-country adventure is complicated by the teeming challenges and glories of the new American frontier. Embracing elements of Shakespearean comedy and American vaudeville, HOW SHAKESPEARE WON THE WEST is a jubilant celebration of the human spirit.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Boston University Theatre, Boston     05 Sep 2008

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
drama 100 min

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Hungry

Synopsis:
To the rhythm of peeling, chopping and mixing, HUNGRY places us in the center of the Gabriel's kitchen. The family discusses their lives and disappointments, and the world at large and nearby, as they struggle against the fear of being left behind and the challenge to find resilience in the face of loss.

Notes:
This season, Tony Award winning playwright and director RICHARD NELSON returns to The Public with HUNGRY, the first in a new three-play cycle introducing us to the Gabriels of Rhinebeck, New York. Subtitled Election Year in the Life of One Family,these three plays track the lives of the Gabriels throughout the coming presidential election year; the final play will open on Election Day, November 8, 2016. As with The Apple Family Plays, each play in the cycle will open on the day it is set and unfold in real time over a couple of hours.

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Il Campiello

Synopsis:
the coarse Latin flavour of the characters' scraps is nicely captured in suitably vulgar English

Notes:
Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni; Adapted by Richard Nelson; translation by Erika Gastelli.

1st Produced:
New York     1981

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1981   -

Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  6            Other:  -

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James Joyce's The Dead

Synopsis:
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Notes:
by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey based upon James Joyce's short story "The Dead".

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Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Jitterbugging - Scenes of Sex in Society

Synopsis:
Schnitzler's LA RONDE, a cynical turn-of-the-century romance that Nelson reinvented as a rueful American tale. Set in 1947, this cycle of brief sexual encounters in a seaside New England town contrasts the sadness of each manipulative liaison with the surface optimism of period songs. the World War has burned out; its passions are gone, too. What's left is a reflection of the play's subtitle: "Scenes of Sex in a New Society." Once again, Nelson is not far from the war of his own youth and its shallow aftermath.

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1st Produced:
-     1983

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Early plays Vol 3, Broadway Play Publishing, New York,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Jungle Coup

Jungle Coup
Hopper, a reporter, is covering a military coup in the jungles of central Africa. Bellows, a rival journalist, arrives to begin his own coverage only to find that Hopper seems to have been making the whole story up.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New York, Playwrights Horizons     22 Jun 1978

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Plays from Playwrights Horizons, Broadway Play Pub (May 1987)   978-0881450477

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Jungle Of Cities

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

1st Produced:
New York     1981

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Kenneth's First Play

Synopsis:
Written for 9 to 14-year-olds, this play is an imaginative journey into the history of Western theatre, ancient Greeks, a day in Shakespeare's theatre, and an encounter with a play by Anton Chekhov. Included with the text are the author's commentary and notes about the script and its production.

Notes:
written by Richard Nelson And Colin Chambers.

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Killing Of Yablonski, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Los Angeles, Mark Taper Forum/ Lab     1975

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Plays by Richard Nelson I, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    -

Music:
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Left

Synopsis:
We first meet Marianne, a retired college president, and Eddie, who writes essays on pornography for the New York Review of Books, in the Adirondacks. they are waiting for Elinor, an editor at a Manhattan publishing house, to arrive by motorboat and explain her memoir. In her memoir, Elinor savages her oldest friend, Marianne, as typical of a whole class of I'm-all-right-Jack Upper West side intellectuals who betrayed their youthful idealism in the dreary Cold War years. Eddie, an ex-husband as well as an ex-radical, has been deleted, even from Elinor's index. From the beginning of their menage a trois, Eddie has always been the odd man out. [LEFT] is as much consumed by female friendship as it is by left history. Almost immediately, we flash back fifty years to their first visit to the Adirondacks, fresh from college politics in the middle of the Spanish Civil War, looking for money to start a magazine a lot like Partisan Review. We'll go back and forth the rest of the play, until all six of them, the pure of heart and their revised editions, are in the same room, at the same time, a crowd of regrets. these people talk about Joseph Stalin and the Sierra Club, Amnesty International and Saran Wrap, South Africa and skinny-dipping. What they're really talking about is friendship in history. If the person is political, how much so, at what cost and is there any forgiveness? I felt like a spy, switching sides so often in my sympathies.
- John Leonard, New York

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-

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New York Stage And Film    

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Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    -

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Life Sentences

Synopsis:
This examines the relationship between Burke, a middle-aged college English professor, and his lover, Mia, an unmarried mother in her mid-20s, who seem in no way made for each another

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-

1st Produced:
Second Stage Theatre. New York     01 Dec 1993

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-

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Faber and Faber, London,    -

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-

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Lolita

Synopsis:
Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of thwarted adolescent love. He becomes obsessed and involved with 12-year-old Dolores Haze; but first he must deal with the mother.

Notes:
By Vladimir Nabokov, edited And directed by Richard Nelson

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Madame Melville

Madame Melville
'A memory play of wonderful delicacy, tenderness and humour . . . I left the theatre elated at having discovered such a terrific new play. An exquisite reminder of lost love, innocence and youth.' Daily Telegraph

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-

1st Produced:
Vaudeville, London     18 Oct 2000

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Ostar Enterprises

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100 min Play/Drama

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Marriage Of Figaro

Synopsis:
A new and emphatically idiomatic adaptation

Notes:
Original Playwright - Beaumarchais

1st Produced:
Minneapolis     1982

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-

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Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    -

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Misha's Party

Synopsis:
With the 1991 attempted coup in Moscow for its backdrop, the play is about how simple solutions only look simple and how past mistakes aren't easily made right.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Aleksandr Gelman

1st Produced:
The Pit, London     21 Jul 1993

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Faber and Faber, London, 1993   -

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-

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My Life With Albertine

My Life With Albertine
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Notes:
Music by Ricky Ian Gordon; lyrics by Ricky Ian Gordon; Richard Nelson; book by Richard Nelson. Based on "Remembrance of Things Past" by Marcel Proust

1st Produced:
Playwrights Horizon, New York     13 Mar 2003

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-

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-   -

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Original cast recording: P S Classics PS-313) 2003

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New England

New England
"the barbarians are sweeping over us and all we do is kiss their ass". An Englishman and his family live far-flung across the vast American continent. Brought together by tragedy, they find comfort in attacking their adopted country, ridiculing its crude ways and lack of standards. Humour and irony as well as the sense of loss and longing permeate this story of exiles unable to address a world that is passing by.

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-

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The Pit, London     29 Nov 1994

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Faber and Faber, London, 1994   978-0571175109

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Nikolai and the Others

Synopsis:
It's 1948 and during a spring weekend in Westport, Connecticut a close-knit group of Russian emigres, including choreographer George Balanchine, composer Igor Stravinsky, conductor Serge Koussevitsky, painter/set designer Sergey Sudeikin and composer Nikolai Nabokov, gather to eat, drink and talk. In Nikolai and the Others playwright Richard Nelson (Some Americans Abroad, Two Shakespearean Actors) imagines the relationships between Balanchine and Stravinsky, their friends, lovers, wives and ex-wives, partners, supporters and dancers (including Maria Tallchief and Nicholas Magallanes), at the time of their historic collaboration on the ballet Orpheus. Later that year, Orpheus would be the spectacular inaugural production of the newly formed New York City Ballet. With this in mind, the play also explores the controversial ways American art and artistic institutions were funded at the outset of the Cold War -- including the subtle hand of the State Department in the post-war cultural scene.

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Paradise Found

Synopsis:
the Shah of Persia is feeling low. So to lift his spirits he's off to Vienna with his Eunuch in tow for some new adventures. He promptly falls in love with the Empress of the Empire, much to the dismay of her husband, so a resident of the local brothel - who is a double for the Empress - is substituted for a night of passion. But she's in love with a Baron, who's having an affair with the Soap Manufactuer's Wife. . .

Notes:
Book by Richard Nelson, lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh, music by Johann Strauss II. Based on Joseph Roth's 1939 novel the Tale of the 1002nd Night

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Principia Scriptoriae

Synopsis:
Set in 1970, two aspiring writers, one American the other Latin American, meet in a South American jail where they've been sent for distributing subversive leaflets. the second half of the play takes place 15 years later after the right-wing dictatorship has been replaced a revolutionary socialist government and now the two men fight against each other for the freedom of an imprisoned poet. "A passionate, enlightened play" - Time Magazine

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1st Produced:
New York, Manhattan Theatre Club     25 Mar 1986

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-

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 1986   -

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-

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Regular Singing

Synopsis:
-

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-

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Public theater
425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003     01 Nov 2013

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-

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-   -

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-

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Return Of Pinocchio, The

Synopsis:
-

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-

1st Produced:
Seattle, Washington, Empty Space     01 Mar 1983

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-

1st Published:
in "An American Comedy and Other Plays", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York, 1984   -

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-

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Rip Van Winkle

Synopsis:
Rip Van Winkle's sleep and waking are used to frame a variety of themes: men and women, parents and children, alcoholism, superstition, and, above all, the battle between industry and agriculture.

Notes:
aka the Works

1st Produced:
Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut     04 Dec 1981

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-

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY, 1986   -

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-

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Rodney's Wife

Synopsis:
a deep and sorrowful understanding of how much loneliness there often is in lust

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-

1st Produced:
Williamstown, Mass., Williamstown Theatre Festival     07 Jul 2004

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-

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Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    -

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-

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Roots In Water

Synopsis:
"ROOTS IN WATER is a series of 12 short plays, ranging from five to 15 minutes in length. Some have already been staged at a small theater in Woodstock, but the new radio production is the first time they have been performed as a whole. Richard calls the plays `a fragmented portrait of a generation' -- his generation, the `baby boom' children of the 1950s who came to adulthood in post-Vietnam America. All the characters are American, though not all the plays take place in the USA. the Drama spans the years 1976 to 1988 and the plays were written over the past eight years. Stylistically different -- some are funny, some satirical, some moving -- they focus on a disparate set of characters including a Vietnam pilot, former anti-war campaigners, teachers, politicians, and lawyers. Nelson sees the series as being `like a volume of collected stories'." Radio Times

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-

1st Produced:
Woodstock, N.Y., River Arts Repertory     Summer 1988

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-

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Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    -

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-

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Twelve Short Plays Ten Min

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Scooping

Synopsis:
-

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-

1st Produced:
Washington D.C. Arena Stage     04 Feb 1977

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-

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Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    -

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-

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Short Monologue One Act

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Seagull, The

Synopsis:
It's a comedy with three female and six male roles, four acts, a landscape (view of a lake), lots of talk of literature, little action and 180 lbs of love - Chekhov

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

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-    

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-

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Broadway Play Publishing, New York,    -

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-

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Sensibility And Sense

Synopsis:
Explores with clear-eyed compassion what time does to people and the causes (and the other people) they have espoused.

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-

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-    

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-

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Faber and Faber, London, 1989   -

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-

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Some Americans Abroad

Synopsis:
Some students, accompanied by their professors, on a Drama tour in England engage in youthful antics.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Stratford-upon-Avon, Royal Shakespeare Company     19 Jul 1989

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-

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1989   -

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-

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Comedy

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Sorry

Synopsis:
The Apples sort through family anxieties and confusion on the day of electing the President.

Notes:
SORRY is the third play in the Apple Family Plays tetralogy

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Public theater
425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003     01 Nov 2012

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-

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Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    -

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-

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Suicide, The

Synopsis:
an unemployed 'little man' contemplates suicide and is besieged by discontented groups wanting him to turn his suicide into a gesture on their behalf

Notes:
Original Playwright - Nikolai Erdman

1st Produced:
Goodman Theater, Chicago     1980

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-

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Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    -

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-

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Sweet and Sad

Synopsis:
the Apple Family finds themselves together again for the first time since Election Night, 2010. Marian, reeling from a personal tragedy, now lives with her sister Barbara; sister Jane is back with her boyfriend Tim; their brother Richard has come up from Manhattan; and Uncle Benjamin prepares for his first Dramatic performance in years. Over Sunday brunch on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the Apples find themselves talking about loss, memory, remembrance and the meaning of compensation.
- nytheatre.com

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-

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Public theater
425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003     11 Sep 2011

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-

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-   -

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-

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That Hopey Changey Thing

That Hopey Changey Thing
That Hopey Changey Thing is set on election day, November 2, 2010. Uncle Benjamin's dog has died and his nieces and nephew have gathered for dinner in Rhinebeck, New York, to surprise him with a new one. While the polls close, the Apple family discusses memory, manners, and politics.
- nytheatre.com

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-

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Public theater
425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003     02 Nov 2010

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-

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Broadway Play Publishing 2010   978-0881454925

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-

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Three Sisters, The

Synopsis:
A natural-sounding translation, works against meloDrama and sentiment

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
Minneapolis     1984

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-

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    -

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-

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Two Shakespearean Actors

Synopsis:
Set in New York, 1849, riots abound when an English actor and his American counterpart both play the role of Macbeth.

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-

1st Produced:
Swan Theatre, Stratford-On-Avon     1990

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-

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1990   -

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-

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Tynan

Synopsis:
Based on the diaries of the theatre critic and writer Kenneth Tynan. Written over the last ten years of Tynan's life, these painfully honest and revealing diaries create a portrait of one of the most interesting and complex men of our time. Literary Manager of the National theatre under Olivier, dominant theatre critic, journalist, impresario of Oh Calcutta!, Kenneth Tynan was a profound, original and witty observer of his world. and never was he more ruthless than when he turned his sights upon himself.

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adapted by Richard Nelson with Colin Chambers from the book by John Lair

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Organisations:
RSC New Works Festival

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 2004   978-0571227297

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-

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Vienna Notes, The

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-

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-

1st Produced:
Minneapolis, Minn., The Tyrone Guthrie Theater     06 Oct 1978

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-

1st Published:
n Plays by Richard Nelson II, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    -

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-

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Wedding, The

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-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; Written in collaboration with Helga Ciulei

1st Produced:
New York     1980

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-

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Where Do I Come From:Scenes From Abroad By Mike Williams

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-

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-

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Shell Connections

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-

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Wild Duck, The

Synopsis:
the peaceful lives of the Ekdal family are turned upside down by an idealistic young family friend. Can the truth liberate the lives of two families bound together by a web of secrets? Or will it destroy their delicate hold on happiness? One of the giants of modern theatre, Ibsen created a masterpiece that pairs profound tragedy with irresistible comedy.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
Museum Of Contemporary Art, 220 East Chicago AVenue Chicago     15 Jan 2009

Organisations:
Court Theatre

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    -

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-

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Wood Demon, The

Synopsis:
In the play I portray a disgusting, selfish, provincial fellow who for twenty years has been reading works on art but understanding nothing about the subject - a man who brings despondency and gloom to all those near him, who is not accessible to laughter and music - and who, despite all this, is undoubtedly happy - Chekhov

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

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-    

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-

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Broadway Play Publishing, New York,    -

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-

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Adaptation

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