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Kitty Black

KITTY BLACK  (1914 - 2006)

 Nationality:    South African
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 Bonne Soupe         Crime Passionnel         Devil And The Good Lord, The         Donadieu         Innocent Man, The         Isabelle         Kean         Landslide         Legend Of Lovers         Love From Italy         Lucifer And The Lord         Maxibules         Men Without Shadows         Nekrassov         Point Of Departure         Prince Of Bohemia, The         Public Prosecutor, The         Rehearsal, The         Respectable Prostitute, The         Riding To JerUSAlem         Singing Dolphin, The         Snow Was Black         Soldier's Tale, The         Sword Of Vengeance         Three Sisters         Untamed, The         Wings Of The Wind

Bonne Soupe

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Felicien Marceau

1st Produced:
Comedy Theatre, London    1961

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Genre:
Translation

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Crime Passionnel

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre

1st Produced:
-    1948

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Methuen, London, 1961   -

Music:
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Devil And The Good Lord, The

Kitty Black
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "The Devil and The Good Lord and Two Other Plays" published by Vintage Books 1962   -

Music:
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Donadieu

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Fritz Hochwalder

1st Produced:
-    1956

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Innocent Man, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Fritz Hochwalder

1st Produced:
-    1958

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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adaptation

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Isabelle

Synopsis:
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Notes:
from Jaques Deval

1st Produced:
-    1964

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1st Published:
-   -

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adaptation

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Kean

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre

1st Produced:
-    1954

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "The Devil and The Good Lord and Two Other Plays" published by Vintage Books 1962   -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Landslide

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written with David Peel

1st Produced:
-    1943

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Legend Of Lovers

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

1st Produced:
41st Street Theatre, New York    1951

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Coward-McCann, New York 1952   -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Love From Italy

Synopsis:
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Notes:
from Louis Ducreux

1st Produced:
-    1960

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

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Lucifer And The Lord

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre

1st Produced:
-    1952

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Published,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  16            Female:  4            Other:  extras

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Maxibules

Synopsis:
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Notes:
from Marcel Ayme

1st Produced:
-    1964

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Men Without Shadows

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre

1st Produced:
-    1947

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Nekrassov

Kitty Black
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated by Sylvia Leeson And kitty Black

1st Produced:
Unity Theatre, London    1956

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "The Devil and The Good Lord and Two Other Plays" published by Vintage Books 1962   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  17            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Point Of Departure

Synopsis:
Orpheus an out of work musician meets Eurydice in the buffet of a provincial railway station in France. They instantly fall in love and spend the night together. Next morning Eurydice runs away as she feels that she cannot live up to Orpheus' ideals. Unfortunately she is killed. M Henri approaches Orpheus and tells him to accompany him to the Gates of Death. He will arrange for Eurydice to be released. When Eurydice reaches the gate Orpheus must walk ahead and not look back. He looks back.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh; Aka Eurydice, Legend of Loves

1st Produced:
-    1950

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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Prince Of Bohemia, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
from R L Stevenson's The Suicide Club

1st Produced:
-    1941

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Public Prosecutor, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Fritz Hochwalder

1st Produced:
-    1953

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1958   -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Rehearsal, The

Synopsis:
stage romance suddenly becomes the drama of life as a hedonistic Count and his friends rehearse Marivaux's 'The Double Inconstancy'

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh; Written in collaboration with Pamela Hansford Johnson

1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, London    1961

Organisations:
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1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Respectable Prostitute, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre

1st Produced:
-    1947

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Published,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  extras

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Riding To JerUSAlem

Synopsis:
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Notes:
from Evelyn Coquet

1st Produced:
-    1978

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Singing Dolphin, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1963

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Snow Was Black

Synopsis:
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Notes:
from Simenon

1st Produced:
-    1953

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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adaptation

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Soldier's Tale, The

Synopsis:
a modern folk-version of the Faust myth in which a simple soldier is tricked by the Devil into selling his soul - represented by his much loved old violin - in return for a kind of book of capitalism, which tells him how to gain huge earthly riches.
- Joyce McMillan, Scotsman.

Notes:
Piece by Igor Stravinsky, libretto by C F Ramuz, translated by Kitty Black And Michael Flanders

1st Produced:
-    1970

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sword Of Vengeance

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Fritz Hochwalder

1st Produced:
-    1975

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

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Three Sisters

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written with Miki Iveria

1st Produced:
-    1955

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Untamed, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

1st Produced:
-    1951

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Wings Of The Wind

Synopsis:
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Notes:
from Alexandre Rivemale

1st Produced:
-    1957

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

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