GEORGE TABORI (1914 - 2007)
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by George Tabori
Andorra |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1963 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Max Frisch | |||||
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Brecht on Brecht |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1962 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1967 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | improvisation | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | readings and enactment's from the works of Bertolt Brecht | |||||
Brouhaha |
| 1st Produced: | Brighton | 1958 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Cannibals, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1968 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in "The American Place Theatre", Dell, New York, 1973 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | voices | |||||
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Changes |
| 1st Produced: | Munich | 1976 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Clowns |
| 1st Produced: | Tobingen | 1972 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Emperor's Clothes, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1953 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1953 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Flight Into Egypt |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1952 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1953 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | An Austrian refugee family desperately waits in Cairo for passage to America, but Franz needs a wheelchair and must pass a medical examination to be allowed to make the trip. His wife, Lili, struggles to pay their bills, keep Franz's spirits up, and preserve their sons decent nature. But when Franz fails the medical examination, he kills himself in order to release his family from an impediment that will prevent them from going to America. But this act is not so much a tragedy, as a courageous gesture to enable them to devote themselves to creating a new life. Yet the play ends on a note of triumph. Two of the refugees decide to return to their home, to seek their the true answer to the problems they had hoped to find in a somewhat idealized America. | |||||
Goldberg Variations, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Mr Jay, assisted by Goldberg, a concentration camp survivor, is rehearsing a montage of biblical scenes in Jerusalem. It is inspired satire, laced with Jewish and Christian polemics, sparkling wit and dazzlingly simple effects. For Golgotha a stagehand brings on three crosses. "Just two," says Jay. "The boy is bringing his own." Tabori often claimed that the joke was the most perfect literary form. | |||||
Guns of Carrar, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1963 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1970 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | |||||
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Mein Kampf |
| 1st Produced: | Vienna Akademietheater | 1987 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Farce | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | "A great love story - Hitler and his Jew" | |||||
| Synopsis: | is living in a doss house in Vienna preparing for the art college entrance exam, and wily old Schiomo Herzl, a Jewish hawker who sells Bibles and Korans, tries to teach him manners. Schiomo trims Hitler's droopy moustache and cOmbs his unruly hair to create the well-known visage before sending him to his exam minus his trousers. When he is rejected, Schiomo advises him to go into politics. This deeply serious, utterly hilarious black farce was a runaway international success | |||||
Miss Julie |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1956 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 9 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - August Strindberg | |||||
| Synopsis: | presents, with startling clarity, the conflict between sexual passion and social position | |||||
Mother Courage And Her Children |
| 1st Produced: | Washington, D.C. | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 19 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | |||||
| Synopsis: | Period 1630's, Mother Courage follows the Swedish armies through the terrible Thirty Years War with her mobile canteen and three children, each by a different man | |||||
My Mother's Courage |
| 1st Produced: | Munich | 1979 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | dramatised the incident in 1944 when Tabori's mother persuaded an SS guard to let her off the Auschwitz train, claiming that she had left her Red Cross pass at home. | |||||
Niggerlovers, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1967 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | music by Richard Peaslee, includes The Demonstration, and man and Dog | |||||
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Pinkville |
| 1st Produced: | Stockbridge, Massachusetts | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | music by Stanley Walden | |||||
| Synopsis: | A young innocent man is brutalised by his military induction | |||||
Premature Demise |
| 1st Produced: | Berliner Ensemble | 2001 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | developed from one of his own tales, a sex/crime/love/spy story touching on old themes. Tabori slumbered fitfully in an armchair stage right while his fourth wife, Ursula Hapfner, whom he had married in 1985, played the female lead. | |||||
Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1963 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1972 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 28 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | |||||
| Synopsis: | Hitler's rise to power is illustrated in the story of a small-time gangster's take-over of the greengrocery trade in Chicago | |||||
Talk Show |
| 1st Produced: | Bremen | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Weisman and Copperface |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
| Company: | Yorick Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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