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Anthony Burgess

ANTHONY BURGESS

  (1917 - 1993)
Nationality:    British
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Anthony Burgess's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Blooms Of Dublin         Carmen         Clockwork Orange 2004, A         Clockwork Orange, A         Cyrano         Cyrano De Bergerac         Oberon Ald And New

Blooms Of Dublin

Synopsis:
a musical play based on Ulysses by James Joyce

Notes:
music by Burgess

1st Produced:
BBC Radio 3 / Telefis eireann    1982

Organisations:
BBC

1st Published:
Hutchinson, London, 1987   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
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-

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Carmen

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
from the libretto by Henri Heilhac And Ludovic Halevy

1st Produced:
-    1986

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

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Clockwork Orange 2004, A

Synopsis:
In a distopian future criminal behaviour is corrected by aversion therapy.

Notes:
Performed under the title A Clockwork Orange - 2004 with music by the edge And U2

1st Produced:

Organisations:

1st Published:
Hutchinson, London, 1987   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
from author's novel adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Clockwork Orange, A

Clockwork Orange, A
Burgess' own version of the film - very musical but true to the original

Notes:
from his own novel, music by Burgess.

1st Produced:
-    1987

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Methuen Drama, London, Oct 1998   978-0413735904

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Cyrano

Cyrano
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Notes:
Music by Michael J Lewis; lyrics by Anthony Burgess. Based on "Cyrano de Bergerac" by edmond Rostand

1st Produced:
Palace Theater, New York    1973

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
Original Broadway cast: Decca (B0004083-02) 1973

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  chorus

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Cyrano De Bergerac

Cyrano De Bergerac
the swordsman poet with the large nose

Notes:
Original Playwright - edmond Rostand

1st Produced:
Stratford-upon-avon    1983

Organisations:

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1985   978-1854591173

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  31            Female:  9            Other:  extras

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Oberon Ald And New

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
libretto by James Robinson Planche, music by Carl Maria von Weber

1st Produced:
-    1985

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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