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Donald Freed

DONALD FREED

  (1933 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Donald Freed's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         1956 - 2006         Alfred And Victoria: A Life         Alger and the Robber Barons         American Iliad         B.A.P.U.         Child Of Luck         Circe And Bravo         Death Of Ivan Ilych, The         Devil's Advocate, The         Einstein Plan, The         Hamlet (In Rehearsal)         How Shall We Be Saved?         Inquest         Is He Still Dead?         Julien Sorel         Patient 1         Quartered Man, The         Secret Honor         Sokrates Must Die         Tomorrow         Veterans Day         White Crow, The : Eichmann In Jerusalm
1956 - 2006

1956 - 2006
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1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing    

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Alfred And Victoria: A Life

Synopsis:
Version of the Bloomingdale-Morgan scandal

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1st Produced:
Los Angeles    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Plays by Donald Freed, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    

Music:
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Genre:
Historical

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Alger and the Robber Barons

Synopsis:
It concerns the author Horatio Alger Jr

Notes:
Music of the time with additional lyrics by Hal Lieberman; book by Donald Freed; Hal Lieberman

1st Produced:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Five Plays by Hal Lieberman" published by Bookbaby 2015   

Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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American Iliad

Synopsis:
Richard Nixon is dying and he looks back on his life and the people in it. John F Kennedy, J Edgar Hoover and Marilyn Monroe (who he hated).

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B.A.P.U.

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.305/Box 1

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Child Of Luck

Synopsis:
a cynical and acute view of American politics

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1st Produced:
Denver    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Plays by Donald Freed, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Circe And Bravo

Circe And Bravo
Set in the President's lodge at Camp David, the First Lady--code name "Circe"--has become a security risk.

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1st Produced:
Los Angeles    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, ambergate, Derbyshire, 1986   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Death Of Ivan Ilych, The

Death Of Ivan Ilych, The
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Notes:
from book by Leo Tolstoy

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1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing    

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Devil's Advocate, The

Devil's Advocate, The
Set in Pananama City in 1989 during General Noriega's downfall. It follows Noam Chomsky in suggesting disturbing parallels between the capyure and trial of Noriega and that of Saddam Hussein for crimes originally supported by America. _ Michael Billington, Guardian

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1st Produced:
Colchester, Mercury     2005

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing    

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Einstein Plan, The

Synopsis:
einstein said that if 2% of the population engaged in civil disobedience the government would collapse

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1st Produced:
Los Angeles Theatre, Los Angeles     27 Mar 2010

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Hamlet (In Rehearsal)

Hamlet (In Rehearsal)
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1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing    

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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How Shall We Be Saved?

Synopsis:
a tryst in a hotel garden

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Inquest

Synopsis:
the trial of Julis and ethel Rosenberg in 1953

Notes:
book by W & M Schneir

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  14            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Is He Still Dead?

Synopsis:
a vaudevillian give-and-take between the Joyces as they attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France in 1940.

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1st Produced:
New Haven Ct    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Plays by Donald Freed, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Julien Sorel

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Based on the novel "the Red And the Black" by Stendahl

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Genre:
Drama

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Patient 1

Patient 1
Patient 1 is a powerful, disturbing and continually gripping Drama which caused me to weep for America" ~ Ronald Harwood

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1st Produced:
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1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing, 2007   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Quartered Man, The

Quartered Man, The
This is the story of the last day in the life of a famous spy, George C O'Connor

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1st Produced:
Los Angeles    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, ambergate, Derbyshire, 1988   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Secret Honor

Synopsis:
Sequestered in his home, a disgraced President Richard Milhous Nixon arms himself with a bottle of scotch and a gun to record memoirs that no one will hear. He is surrounded by the silent portraits of Lincoln, Eisenhower, Kissinger, and his mother, as he resurrects his past in a passionate attempt to defend himself and his political legacy. Secret Honour is a searing interrogation of the Nixon mystique and an audacious depiction of unchecked paranoia.

Notes:
Written by Donald Freed And Arnold M Stone

1st Produced:
Provincetown Playhouse, New York     08 Nov 1983

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Sokrates Must Die

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Genre:
Historical play

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Tomorrow

Synopsis:
A young woman, a one hundred year old woman and her grand-nephew rehearse "Macbeth"

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Veterans Day

Veterans Day
Three veterans meet just before a ceremony to honour them. Private Holloway was shell shocked on the Marne in World War One. John Butts was injured in World War Two. Colonel Kercelik was the most decorated soldier in the Vietnam War

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Denver: Denver Center Theatre     1987

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, ambergate, Derbyshire, 1989   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Bibliographies/VN_drama_bib.php

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White Crow, The : Eichmann In Jerusalm

Synopsis:
Adolph eichmann's role in the second world war was dedicated to the facilitation and timetabling of the deportation of Jews to ghettos and concentration camps across Nazi occupied eastern europe. after the war eichmann escaped to argentina where he lived under a false identity for ten years. He was eventually unearthed by the Israeli Mossad in 1960, and deported to Jerusalem where he was tried for war crimes and hanged on 11th May, 1962. the White Crow uses this historical backdrop as a starting point for a fictitious encounter between the imprisoned eichmann and a female Israeli psychologist, Dr Baum. Baum's relentless interrogations provide the audience with a detailed account of the horrors of 'the Final Solution' and an acute insight into eichmann's state of mind.
- Hannah Davies, British theatre Guide

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1st Produced:
York Theatre Royal Studio     2009

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing    

Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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