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Carlo Ardito

CARLO ARDITO  

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Carlo Ardito is a playwright, adaptor and translator whose work has been performed on stage and BBC Radio in Britain and throughout the English-speaking world. a recent study on his Dramatisation of Italo Svevo's novel Confessions of Zeno was published in the volume of essays Writers and Performers in Italian Drama from the time of Dante to Pirandello (edwin Mellen Press, 1992) His volume of translations: eduardo de Filippo  Three Plays (Hamish Hamilton 1976) was shortlisted for the Florio Prize. His translations of Grand Magic, Filumena Marturano, and the Local authority are available in Four Plays by Eduardo de Filippo in the Methuen World Dramatists series. His version of Grand Magic, directed by Richard eyre, was staged in July 1995 by the Royal National Theatre. He was recently commissioned and is currently working on new versions of six plays by Pirandello for the Calder Collected edition of Plays by that author. He lives and works in London.

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         Bed For the Knight, The         Brief Candle         Confessions Of Zeno         Da Ponte's Last Stand         Filumena Martrano         Grand Magic         Living Dangerously         Local Authority, The         Saturday, Sunday, Monday         St James's Blues         Stoney Bowes         Waiting For the Barbarians

Bed For the Knight, The

Bed For the Knight, The
the wife of the Home Secretary wakes up one morning to find a strange man asleep in her bed

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Three Plays" published by Amber Lane 2000   978-1872868288

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Brief Candle

Brief Candle
When she died Marie Bashkirtseff left 103 volumes of her diaries - and she was only 24 when she died.

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Contained in: "Brief Candle" published by Amber Lane Press 1998   978-1872868233

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  1 narrator

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Confessions Of Zeno

Confessions Of Zeno
Pre World War One Trieste and psychoanalysis is being touted as a cure for smoking

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Contained in: "Brief Candle" published by Amber Lane Press 1998   978-1872868233

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Genre:
Historical Drama

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Male:  8            Female:  8            Other:  doubling

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Da Ponte's Last Stand

Da Ponte's Last Stand
New York 1838. Da Ponte - Mozart's librettist looks back on his life

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Contained in: "Brief Candle" published by Amber Lane Press 1998   978-1872868233

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Genre:
Historical Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Filumena Martrano

Synopsis:
Italian husband is father of one of three sons, but which?

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Original Playwright - eduardo de Filippo (1946)

1st Produced:
BBC Radio 4    1988

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Hamish Hamilton, London, 1976   -

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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Grand Magic

Synopsis:
the illusionist gives his best performance as husband agonises over opening a box to reveal his wife's infidelity

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Original Playwright - eduardo de Filippo; Aka the Gift Of Illusion (La Grande Magia, 1948)

1st Produced:
BBC Radio 3    1975

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1st Published:
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1976   -

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  11            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Living Dangerously

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Original Playwright - eduardo de Filippo

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Genre:
Translation

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Local Authority, The

Synopsis:
an arbitrator in local disputes is fatally stabbed, truth will out even if it causes a generational blood feud

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Original Playwright - eduardo de Filippo (Il Sindaco del Rione Sanita, 1960)

1st Produced:
BBC World Service    1979

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1st Published:
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1976   -

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Saturday, Sunday, Monday

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Original Playwright - eduardo de Filippo

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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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St James's Blues

St James's Blues
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Three Plays" published by Amber Lane 2000   978-1872868288

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Stoney Bowes

Stoney Bowes
Stoney Bowes - from whom we get the expression "stoney broke" tricked the Countess of Strathmore into marriage so that he could get his hands on her fortune. the Countess was known as "the Unhappy Countess"

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Brief Candle" published by Amber Lane Press 1998   978-1872868233

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Historical Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Waiting For the Barbarians

Waiting For the Barbarians
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Three Plays" published by Amber Lane 2000   978-1872868288

Music:
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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

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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