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JAMES KIRKUP  

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

 Meteor, The         Physicists, The         Play Strindberg         Prince Of Homburg, The         True Mystery Of The Nativity

Meteor, The

Synopsis:
Wolfgang Schwitter dies in hospital - then comes back to life. He runs away to the studio of an artist friend where he wants to just sit and die. He starts to get visitors - his mother-in-law, his doctor and many others. Everyone who enters the room drops

Notes:
Original Playwright - Friedrich Durrenmatt

1st Produced:
London    1966

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Cape, London, 1973   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  3            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
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Physicists, The

James Kirkup
in a mad world the only defence of the sane is to assume madness, so goes the inventor of an all powerful nuclear weapon

Notes:
Original Playwright - Friedrich Durrenmatt

1st Produced:
Royal Shakespeare Company >>> at The Warehouse, London aldwych Theatre, London    1963

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Jonathan Cape, London, 1963
Grove Press 1964   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  16            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Play Strindberg

James Kirkup
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Friedrich Durrenmatt

1st Produced:
Mermaid Studio, London    1992

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Company    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Prince Of Homburg, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Heinrich von Kleist

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Classic Theater volume Two" published by Doubleday anchor, 1959   -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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True Mystery Of The Nativity

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Oxford University Press (1956)   -

Music:
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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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