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DONALD WATSON

  
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         Bald Prima Donna, The         Black Sail, White Sail         CAprice         Chairs, The         Constant Players, The         Duel, The         Exit the King         Foot of the Wall, The         Foursome, The         Frenzy For Two         Harlequin's Lesson In Love         Hunger And Thirst         Improvisation         Indiada or the India of their Dreams         Jacques Or Obedience         Killer, The         Lesson, The         Lorenzaccio         Maid To Marry         Moods Of Marianne, The         Motor Show, The         New Tenant         Obaldia : Two Women for One Ghost         Oh, What A Bloody Circus         Oversight, The         Portrait Of A Woman         Salutations!         Shepherd's Chamelon         Stroll In the Air, A         Swimming Pools At War         Victims Of Duty         Wipe-Out Games

Bald Prima Donna, The

Bald Prima Donna, The
hilarious maniacal assault on the banality of English suburbia

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco. Arts, London 06 Nov 1956. 1st performed Noctambules, Paris 11 May 1950

1st Produced:
Pike Theatre Club, Dublin    1956

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Ionesco, Eugene, Plays Vol.1" Calder & Boyars, London, 1958   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 56.237

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Black Sail, White Sail

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Helene Cixous translated by Donald Watson

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Translation

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CAprice

Synopsis:
happy ending, the husbands love for his wife reaffirmed and instead of a cheap mistress she finds a true friend

Notes:
Original Playwright - Alfred de Musset; with Frenzy For Two under title Teacups And Handgrenades

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Five Plays" Methuen, London, 1995   -

Music:
-

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Translation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Chairs, The

Chairs, The
In a house on an island a very old couple pass their time with private games and half-remembered stories

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Ionesco, Eugene, Plays Vol.1" Calder & Boyars, London, 1958   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation 1 act play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 57.114; 57.191; 58.140

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Constant Players, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Marvaux, Pierre De, Plays" Methuen, London, 1988   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Marivaux

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  -

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-

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Duel, The

Synopsis:
An argument

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
Ionesco Festival, New York    2001

Organisations:
Amensia Wars

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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-

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Exit the King

Synopsis:
Like everyone King Berenger has lived from day to day, and now there is only the duration of the play to live

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
London    1958

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1964   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Foot of the Wall, The

Synopsis:
A gathering of carnival people

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
Ionesco Festival, New York    2001

Organisations:
Amensia Wars

1st Published:
Contained in: "Plays Volume Eight" published by Calder and Boyars 1958   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Foursome, The

Synopsis:
Three suitors plus lots of flowers

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
Ionesco Festival, New York    2001

Organisations:
FHB Theater Company

1st Published:
Contained in: "Plays Volume Five" published by Calder and Boyars    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Frenzy For Two

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionescot; with Frenzy For Two under title Teacups And handgrenades

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Plays Volume Six" published by Calder and Boyars    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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-

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Harlequin's Lesson In Love

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Marvaux, Pierre De, Plays" Methuen, London, 1988   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Marivaux

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
-

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Hunger And Thirst

Synopsis:
religion is shown as a matter of habit or force, devoid of freedom, constructed to fill voids in the human heart

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Improvisation

Improvisation
-

Notes:
Original playwright Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "the Killer and Other Plays" published by Grove Press 1960   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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-

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Indiada or the India of their Dreams

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Helene Cixous

1st Produced:
-    1987

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in the Helene Cixous Reader, ed Susan Sellers, Routledge, 1994   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  7            Other:  doubling possible

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-

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Jacques Or Obedience

Jacques Or Obedience
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Ionesco, Eugene, Plays Vol.1" Calder & Boyars, London, 1958   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Killer, The

Killer, The
A beautiful city with only one problem - a serial killer

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "the Killer and Other Plays" published by Grove Press 1960   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Lesson, The

Lesson, The
professor, the maid and the pupil

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco. Ist original version De Poche, Paris 20 Feb 1951

1st Produced:
Arts Theatre Club, London    09 Mar 1955

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Ionesco, Eugene, Plays Vol.1" Calder & Boyars, London, 1958   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act Play translation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 55.45; 58.141

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Lorenzaccio

Synopsis:
a vast fresco of fifteenth century Florence mixing freely a depiction of public life, of court intrigue with intimate scenes and moments of great personal introspection

Notes:
Original Playwright - Alfred de Musset

1st Produced:
University Of Bristol, Bristol    1974

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Five Plays" Methuen, London, 1995   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  23            Female:  4            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
-

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Maid To Marry

Synopsis:
Rhapsodies for a maid

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
Ionesco Festival, New York    2001

Organisations:
Xoregos Performing Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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-

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Moods Of Marianne, The

Synopsis:
Dramatises the split personality of the playwright in his dealings with women and his contacts with society

Notes:
Original Playwright - Alfred de Musset

1st Produced:
Manchester University, Manchester    1972

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Five Plays" Methuen, London, 1995   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
-

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Motor Show, The

Synopsis:
A motor show in a farmyard

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco. Originally A radio play

1st Produced:
Ionesco Festival, New York    2001

Organisations:
Untitled Theater Company #61

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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New Tenant

Synopsis:
the new tenant arrives. the concierge is peeved when he says he will not need her help to move in. the removal men arrive and begin to bring in the furniture. Soon there is so much furniture in the room that the man and the two removal men are barricaded in unable to move

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco. 1st performed Helsinki 1955

1st Produced:
Arts Theatre, London    06 Nov 1956

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Plays II", Calder & Boyers, London, 1958   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 56.238

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Obaldia : Two Women for One Ghost

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
John Calder Publishers,    -

Music:
-

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Translation

Parts:
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Oh, What A Bloody Circus

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco (Ce formidable bordel)

1st Produced:
Courtyard, London    2003

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Large Cast

Further Reference:
-

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Oversight, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
Ionesco Festival, New York    2006

Organisations:
Sanctuary Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Portrait Of A Woman

Synopsis:
factual from a twenty three year old medical student who in 1952 murdered her ex lover and the strange communication gap between the court and the accused

Notes:
Original Playwright - Michael Vinaver

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Plays: Two" Methuen, London, 1997   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  15 characters

Further Reference:
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Salutations!

Synopsis:
How are you today?

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
Ionesco Festival, New York    2001

Organisations:
Evaporating Theater

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Shepherd's Chamelon

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York    19 Nov 1960

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Tranaslation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Stroll In the Air, A

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  6            Other:  -

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-

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Swimming Pools At War

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Yves Navarre

1st Produced:
Downstairs, London    1985

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Translation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Victims Of Duty

Synopsis:
Choubert and his wife Madeleine are spending a quiet evening at home when a detective arrives. the detective is looking for Mallot who used to be the lodger. the detective insists that Choubert helps him look for Mallot

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
Pike Theatre, Dublin    1957

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Plays II", Calder & Boyers, London, 1958   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Wipe-Out Games

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
Arena Stage Kreeger Theatre, Washington Dc    1970

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Tranaslation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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