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Doris Lessing

DORIS LESSING

  (1919 - 2013)
Nationality:    South African/British
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Literary Agent:    Jonathan Clowes Ltd  

Doris Lessing's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Before the Deluge         Each His Own Wilderness         Making Of the Representative For Planet 8, The         Mr Dolinger         Play With A Tiger         Singing Door, The         Storm, The         Truth About Billy Newton, The
Before the Deluge

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1st Produced:
Bolton's Theatre Club, Drayton Gardens, South Kensington, London     26 Feb 1953

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Each His Own Wilderness

Synopsis:
middle aged, liberal, freethinking woman sells her house so that she may be free - and thus freeing her son too

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1st Published:
in "New English Dramatists Vol.1" Penguin, London, 1959   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Making Of the Representative For Planet 8, The

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Notes:
music by Philip Glass

1st Produced:
London     1988

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Genre:
Opera libretto Opera

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Mr Dolinger

Synopsis:
Drink, lust and greed in Rhodesia

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1st Produced:
Oxford     1958

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Genre:
Drama

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Play With A Tiger

Play With A Tiger
Anna works on the artistic fringes of London. She breaks up with her fiancée because he has taken a job with a woman's magazine. She waits for Dave a rootless American she has an on again off again relationship. Her landlady and her married lover pop in and complain about each other before heading off to the pub. Janet pregnant by Dave arrives - she is one of Dave's girls. When she leaves Dave arrives.

Notes:
"A play wasted on Hampstead Theatre Club" Charles Wood

1st Produced:
Brighton     1962

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1st Published:
Joseph, London, 1962   

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Genre:
Contemporary Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Singing Door, The

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1st Published:
in "Second Playbill 2", Hutchinson, London, 1973   

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Genre:
Childrens Youth audience

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Storm, The

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Alexander Ostrovsky

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Organisations:
National Theatre Company

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Truth About Billy Newton, The

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1st Produced:
Salisbury, Wiltshire     1960

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