doollee banner
The Playwrights Database
contact doollee


Tania Alexander

TANIA ALEXANDER

  (1915 - 2004)
Nationality:    USA
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    United Agents  

Tania Alexander published English translations of several German and Russian works of history and fiction. She acted as production adviser to several directors, including Ken Loach on his television production of Chehov's short stories and to Jonathan Miller on his production of the THRee SISTeRS as well as several of his opera productions of Eugene ONeGIN, La TRaVIaTa, the MaRRIaGe OF FIGaRO and aRaBeLLA. She collaborated with Pam Gems on a new translation of Chekhov's the CHeRRY ORCHaRD and translated with Charles Sturridge Chekhov's the SeaGULL which was performed in Oxford and London and Maxim Gorky's VaSSa ZHeLeZNOVa with Tim Suter. Tania's memoir a LITTLe OF aLL OF theSe was published in 1987 by Jonathan Cape. It appeared in paperback under the title aN eSTONIaN CHILDHOOD published by Heineman

Buy Plays with Doollee

Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.
AbeBooks.co.uk   AbeBooks.com   Stageplays.com   amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template

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

         Seagull, The         Siblings         Uncle Vanya         Vass Zheleznova A Mother

Seagull, The

Synopsis:
Can the young people's dreams be realised or will their desires turn sour when confronted by the cruelties of the adult world?

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov; Written in collaboration with Charles Sturridge

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1985   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Siblings

Siblings
In a Germany inexorably slipping towards Nazi domination, initial public reaction to Siblings was one of moral disgust. Meanwhile Klaus and his sister Erika were feted by the world as the Literary Twins and their father Thomas Mann was at the height of his career. The play (first produced in Munich in 1930), a weird and unsettling portrayal of incest inspired by Cocteau s Les Enfants Terribles and set in pre-war Paris, reflects Klaus Mann s own life with Erika - an intimate world of private games cultivated against their overpowering father. In Siblings, however, the participants are no mere adolescents but adults whose rituals and games are sinister and desperate attempts to exclude the encroaching totalitarian conformity of the outside world. The play was given both its English language and British premiere in this version in 1989 at the Lyric Hammersmith under the direction of Peter Eyre.As a companion piece the evocative novella The Children s Story, written in 1926 when Klaus Mann was nineteen, presents a complementary view of childhood. Here the more carefree games and fantasies of the children are played out beneath the shadows cast by adult passions and conflicts.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Klaus Mann. Translated by Tania Alexander and Klaus Mann

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom, 25 June 1992   978-0714529394

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Uncle Vanya

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
Oxford    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Vass Zheleznova A Mother

Synopsis:
after the death of her husband, Vassa ruthlessly tries to keep her self-indulgent children and a high-society brother-in-law from harming the family business. But will her family be destroyed by the very bourgeois values that she seeks to preserve?
Press Release

Notes:
Original Playwright - Maxim Gorky; Written in collaboration with Tim Suter

1st Produced:
the Duo Theater, NY    2006

Organisations:
Horizon Theatre Rep

1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1988   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page