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Maurice Desvallieres

MAURICE DESVALLIERES   (1857 - 1926)

Nationality:   French    Email:   n/a   Website:   n/a

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Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Maurice Desvallieres

PETER GLENVILLE  

Free Exchange At The Hotel Paradiso

1st Produced:

Birmingham: Alexandra

10 Apr 1956

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

Heinemann, London, 1957

ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

9

Female

8

Parts other:

extras

Notes:

Original Playwright - Maurice Desvalliers and Georges Feydeau. London: Winter Gardens 02 May 1956 as "Hotel Paradiso"

Synopsis:

Period 1910, enticements from an amorous maidservant and noises in the night provide the backdrop

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MORRIS PANYCH  

Hotel Peccadillo

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Still Laughing", Talon Books,Canada (15 Oct 2009)

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0889226241

Music:

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Genre:

translation

Parts:

Male

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Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

Original Playwrights - Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres. The universal mark of good satire is still to make audiences laugh at the worst traits in human nature. Here, in his own words, is how Morris Panych updated these three great comedy classics from a century ago:

Hotel Peccadillo

There are certain literary subjects that hardly change over time; sex isnt one of them. Take Viagra and cosmetic surgery, for example. These are fertile subjects for absurd comedy particular to our time. With Hotel Peccadillo, I wanted to play up, but also comment on the notion of hypocrisy as it relates to in?delitythe play was written a hundred years ago, without the hind-sight of Feydeaus own death from syphilis. To that end, I made the author the landlord of his bordelloto include him in the farce, to heighten the irony.

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MAURICE DESVALLIERES  

Moroccan Evening, A

1st Produced:

La MaMa E.T.C., 74A East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003 >>>

10 Apr 1975

Organisations:

La MaMa Morocco

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#90234

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Genre:

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Parts:

Male

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Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Maurice Desvallieres

Synopsis:

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Further Reference:

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