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Jeremy Brooks

JEREMY BROOKS  (1926 - 1994)

 Nationality:    British
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Jeremy Brooks (born in Southampton in 1926, died in Gwynedd, North Wales, 1994) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist. Best known for his novels (particularly Jampot Smith, Henry's War and Smith, as Hero) and for his stage adaptations of classic works, particularly a series of Maxim Gorky plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His novels were praised for their lyricism and for their "Chekhovian mixture of comic concision and pathos". anthony Burgess, in The Novel Now said Jeremy Brooks has come to considerable stature in Jampot Smith and Smith, as Hero: he has created one of the few really large picaresque characters in the post-war novel.

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

 Barbarians         Children Of The Sun         Child's Christmas In Wales, A         Comrades         Enemies         Forest, The         Government Inspector, The         Herr Puntilla And His Servant Matti         Ivanov         Little Drummer Boy,The         Love-Girl And The Innocent, The         Lower Depths, The         Medea         Rosmersholm         Spate         Summerfolk         Zykovs, The

Barbarians

Synopsis:
a small provincial Russian town is suddenly aroused from its lethargy by the imminent arrival of the first railroad

Notes:
Original Playwright - Maxim Gorky; Written in collaboration with Kitty Hunter-Blair

1st Produced:
BaM Theatre Company, New York    1980

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1982   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  8            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Children Of The Sun

Synopsis:
pre revolution Russian life during a cholera epidemic

Notes:
Original Playwright - Maxim Gorky; Written in collaboration with Kitty Hunter-Blair

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Gorky: Five Plays" Methuen, London, 1988   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  7            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
-

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Child's Christmas In Wales, A

Synopsis:
Christmas day luncheon as turkey catches fire and family sings

Notes:
from work by Dylan Thomas, with Adrian Mitchell

1st Produced:
Great Lakes Shakespeare festival    1982

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1984
Dramatic Publishing Company   978-0871293756

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical adaptation

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  7            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
-

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Comrades

Synopsis:
comedy of manners portraying artists living in Paris in what they consider to be a modern 'bohemian' marriage

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Enemies

Synopsis:
pre revolution Russian life in the midst of industrial conflict

Notes:
Original Playwright - Maxim Gorky; Written in collaboration with Kitty Hunter-Blair

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Gorky: Five Plays" Methuen, London, 1988   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  17            Female:  8            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Forest, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Alexander Ostrovsky

1st Produced:
Other Place Theatre, Stratford, UK    29 Apr 1981

Organisations:
RSC

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
RSC ref FOR198104

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Government Inspector, The

Synopsis:
set in Yorkshire in the winter of 1946-47a penniless nobody from Moscow is mistaken for a government inspector by the corrupt officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia

Notes:
Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Eyre methuen, london, 1968   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  21            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Herr Puntilla And His Servant Matti

Synopsis:
Mister Puntila, Lord of the Manor, is the owner of land as far as the eye can see. He also owns a raging thirst which splits him right down the middle. When he's drunk he is friendly and humane, when he's sober, he is cruel and egotistical.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  14            Female:  7            Other:  children

Further Reference:
-

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Ivanov

Synopsis:
disillusioned Russian estate owner has fallen out of love with his wife, his land and his friends

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  5            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
-

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Little Drummer Boy,The

Synopsis:
a drummer boy is convicted of rape and to escape the death sentence agrees to become the public executioner. a gang of prisoners try to rape him.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Basile

1st Produced:
alexandra Theatre, Toronto    1969

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Love-Girl And The Innocent, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Lower Depths, The

Synopsis:
pre revolution Russian life in a Moscow lodging house

Notes:
Original Playwright - Maxim Gorky; Written in collaboration with Kitty Hunter-Blair

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Gorky: Five Plays" Methuen, London, 1988   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Medea

Jeremy Brooks
classic tale of Medea and her love for Jason

Notes:
Original Playwright - Euripides

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Euripides, Plays: One" Methuen, London, 1988   978-0413752802

Music:
-

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Genre:
Greek Tragedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  2 c

Further Reference:
-

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Rosmersholm

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
Haymarket Theatre, London    1977

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Spate

Synopsis:
Society has collapsed, three survivors, on a moorland road, struggle for possession of a gun, a woman and a new set of values

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Harlech and Cardiff    1977

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
50 min One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Summerfolk

Synopsis:
pre revolution Russian life in a holiday dacha

Notes:
Original Playwright - Maxim Gorky; Written in collaboration with Kitty Hunter-Blair

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Gorky: Five Plays" Methuen, London, 1988   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  9            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
-

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Zykovs, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Maxim Gorky

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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