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Charles Marowitz

CHARLES MAROWITZ

  (1934 - 2014)
Nationality:    USA
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Charles Marowitz (26 January 1934 - 2 May 2014) was an American critic, theatre director, and playwright, regular columnist on Swans Commentary. He was perhaps best known for being a "close collaborator" with Peter Brook at the Royal Shakespeare Company and for founding and directing The Open Space Theatre, both in London. He is also the co-founder of Encore magazine which was published between 1954 and 1965, and co-editor of The Encore Reader: A Chronicle of the New Drama (1965). He was a regular contributor to publications such as The New York Times, The Times (London), TheaterWeek, and American Theatre and was the lead critic on the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner until it ceased publication. He was additionally the author of Murdering Marlowe, which imagines a rivalry between William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, which was selected as a finalist for the GLAAD Media Awards of 2002, and of the 1987 Broadway play Sherlock's Last Case with Frank Langella in the lead role. His free translations of Shakespeare have been collected in The Marowitz Shakespeare. He died of complications from Parkinson's disease in 2014 at the age of 80.
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         Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life!         And they Put Handcuffs On the Flowers         Artaud At Rodez         Chicago Conspiracy, The         Clever Dick         Critic As Artist, The         Cyrano De Bergerac         Disciples         Enemy Of the People         Father, The         Hedda Gabler         Investigators, The         Macbett         Mandragola         Marowitz Hamlet, The         Marriage         Murdering Marlowe         Othello, An         Palach         Parisienne, La         Quack         Sex Wars         Shakespeare Collages And Adaptations         Sherlock's Last Case         Shrew, The         Silent Partners         Stage Fright         Stark Naked         Tragical History Of Dr Faustus, The         Wilde West

Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life!

Synopsis:
rueful comedy of love and divorce

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-    -

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1st Published:
in "Potboilers" Marion Boyars, London, 1986   -

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Genre:
Black Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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And they Put Handcuffs On the Flowers

And they Put Handcuffs On the Flowers
a handful of men in a cell re-enact their suppressions, their dreams and their desires for love and freedom until on losses his appeal and is subjected to an ugly death

Notes:
Original Playwright - Fernando Arrabal; Aka the Car Cemetery

1st Produced:
-    -

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-

1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,
Contained in: "Guernica and Other Plays" published by Grove Press 1986   978-0394622842

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-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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-

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Artaud At Rodez

Synopsis:
-

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1st Produced:
Open Space Theatre, London    27729

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Marion Boyars   -

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Chicago Conspiracy, The

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Open Space Theatre, London    1970

Organisations:
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-   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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-

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Clever Dick

Synopsis:
the action begins at a stately home in rural england, where Colonel Calvarley, the lord of the manor, suddenly expires (or seems to) after sipping a glass of (apparently poisoned) Sauterne. His body is discovered by Hannah, the housekeeper, and Harold, the houseboy, which leads to the arrival of Inspector Farcus of Scotland Yard and his assistant, Potts, two working-class types who have little sympathy for the decadent life styles of the landed gentry. After putting the Colonel in the freezer for safekeeping, the Inspector sets about investigating the circumstances of his death, which brings into suspicion all the others at the manor. there is Alan Hobbiss, the Colonel's business partner (who stands to inherit their equestrian outfitting business); his wife, Berenice (played by a male actor, and smitten with Harold, the houseboy); Charles Appley, the Colonel's legal advisor (who is carrying on with Lady Calvarley); and Lady Calvarley herself (who is hardly dismayed by the Colonel's apparent demise). As their

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1983

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Potboilers" Marion Boyars, London, 1986   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Mystery/Farce Mystery

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Critic As Artist, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
from essay by Oscar Wilde

1st Produced:
Open Space, London    1971

Organisations:
-

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-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Cyrano De Bergerac

Synopsis:
romantic classic in a streamlined, highly playable, new english blank verse adaptation

Notes:
Original Playwright - edmond Rostand

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-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Smith & Kraus,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Disciples

Synopsis:
Begins in the mid-1950s at the institute in Rangeley, Maine, which the famed scientific innovator Wilhelm Reich has established after fleeing from Hitler's Germany. He is visited by a Dr. Andre, from the Sigmund Freud Archives, who wants to interview him about his early association-and later falling out-with the master. As their conversation progresses it becomes apparent that Dr. Andre has also begun to harbor doubts about many of Freud's theories but his request to stay on at Rangeley and work with Reich is less than enthusiastically received-for reasons which become apparent as the action of the play, through flashbacks, explores the development, and disintegration, of Reich's singular career. We learn of his early apprenticeship under Freud, and of his gradual disagreement with many of the older man's concepts; and of his years in Vienna and Berlin, when his radical theories about primal energy and the liberating force of the human orgasm first brought him into conflict with the medical/scientific establi

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  -            Other:  doubling possible

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Enemy Of the People

Enemy Of the People
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Sex Wars" published by Marion Boyars 1982   978-0714527222

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Father, The

Father, The
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Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Sex Wars" published by Marion Boyars 1982   978-0714527222

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Sex Wars" published by Marion Boyars 1982   978-0714527222

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Investigators, The

Synopsis:
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-

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 45/2

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Macbett

Synopsis:
partly a parody of Shakespeare, it is like and yet quite unlike Macbeth, the roles are ironically devised so that one woman plays the parts of Lady Macbeth, Lady Duncan and the first witch

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Grove Press 1973
edition Gallimard, Paris, 1972   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  extras

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Mandragola

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
by Niccolo Machiavelli Adapted by Charles marowitz

1st Produced:
Tempo Theatre, London    13 Nov 1958

Organisations:
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-   -

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Marowitz Hamlet, The

Synopsis:
"I despise Hamlet. He is a slob, a talker, an analyser, a rationalizer. Like the parlour liberal or the paralysed intellectual, he can describe every facet of a problem, yet never pull his finger out." Considering the play imprisoned by three-and-a-half centuries of critical appreciation and grand acting, Marowitz has taken it bodily, broken it into pieces and reassembled it in a collage which, he hopes, makes its meaning real again.

Notes:
-

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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Allen Lane, 1968   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  3            Other:  doubling, flexible

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Marriage

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
comedy by Nikolai Gogol

1st Produced:
Unity Theatre, London    1958

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Murdering Marlowe

Synopsis:
William Shakespeare, in his mid-twenties, an aspiring playwright without a foothold in London, is desperate to make his mark. the greatest obstacle to his achieving the success he believes he richly deserves is the prominence of Christopher Marlowe, the superstar of the Elizabethan theatre. So formidable is his envy against this charismatic playwright that he persuades himself the only way to achieve his goal is to remove Marlowe from the scene. To this end, he musters the support of Robert Poley, a man who detests the atheistic, homosexual young Marlowe. Poley and his cohort Ingram Frizer proceed to devise the plan which will dispatch the detested anti-Christ. Will's wife, Anne Hathaway, constantly rails against her feckless husband, who can provide no support for the family and who is wasting his time and measly talents in playmaking. To elude the abuse of his embittered Stratford wife, Will finds solace in his mistress, emilia, without realizing that she is Marlowe's mistress as well. the fateful day of the murder arrives: the site, eleanor Bull's Tavern where Poley, Frizer and another accomplice zero in on the hapless Marlowe. Sodden with drink, woozy and unsuspecting, the Cambridge poet is brutally murdered. After the fatal blows have been struck, Will reveals himself to Marlowe as the arch conspirator who has masterminded his downfall. With his last gasps, Marlowe condemns the paltriness of his Dramatic rival, proclaiming his artistic superiority to Shakespeare. Marlowe's supremacy in the Elizabethan theatre has been successfully eclipsed by the conniving Shakespeare. His posters are torn from their hoardings and Shakespeare's star rapidly begins to rise.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th floor, New York, NY 10013    2005

Organisations:
In Actu Productions

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character full length

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Othello, An

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Open Space, London    1972

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Marowitz, Charles, Open Space Plays" Penguin, London, 1974   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Palach

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Open Space Theatre, London    1970

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Parisienne, La

Parisienne, La
classical triangular comedy of jealousy and infidelity

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henry Becque

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Boulevard Comedies, Smith & Kraus,    978-1575252100

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Quack

Synopsis:
Orville, an impecunious woodchopper, and his wife, Marti, have a lovingly belligerent relationship. But after a particularly violent row, Marti decides to wreak a revenge on her wayward husband. When Valmoth and Lucien, two upper-class gentleman out on a grouseshoot, tell her they are trying to cure a well-born young lady of a rare disease which, for some mysterious reason, prevents her from speaking, she concocts a fabulous lie about her hubby, telling them that he is a miraculous doctor who has cured innumerable cases originally thought to be hopeless. enthralled by Marti's description of her "miraculous doctor," they coerce him over to the home of the speechless young lady and, believing he might be in for a bountiful reward, Orville pretends to be the Great Healer they take him to be. While in residence, he realizes the young lady's speech problem is simply a ruse to avoid being married to an insufferable suitor and that she is really in love with another. After several farcical scrapes with the young lad

Notes:
A Vaudevillized Musical Version of Moliere's the Doctor in Spite of Himself. Music by Michael Valenti

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play with Music

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  2 extras

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Sex Wars

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1983

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Shakespeare Collages And Adaptations

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1978

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-   -

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-

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-

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Sherlock's Last Case

Synopsis:
Picking up where the famous stories ended, the play centers on a death threat against Sherlock Holmes by the supposed son of his late nemesis, Professor Moriarty. Oddly enough, however, Holmes is warned of the plot by Moriarty's daughter, to whom Holmes (who turns out to be quite a ladies' man) is strongly attracted. the plot then twists and turns until Holmes finds himself imprisoned in a dank cellar, trapped not by young Moriarty but, to his shocked surprise, by the good Dr. Watson-who, it turns out, has long been bitterly resentful of his second-class status as Holmes' lackey. After Holmes' demise Watson comes into his own, or seems to, until a number of imposters turn up claiming to be the real Sherlock Holmes. In sorting all this out the play mixes humor and suspense in equal amounts, leading to a stunning final twist that will surely catch audiences by complete and breath-stopping surprise

Notes:
winner of the Louis B. Mayer Playwriting Award

1st Produced:
Olympic Arts Festival, Los Angeles    1987

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Potboilers" Marion Boyars, London, 1986   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Thriller

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Shrew, The

Synopsis:
-

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-

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-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Calder & Boyers, London, 1975   -

Music:
-

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-

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Silent Partners

Synopsis:
Charles Marowitz's Silent Partners, based on Eric Bentley's novel A Brecht Memoir. In Silent Partners we see the charismatic and dominant Brecht, who captures the loyalty of anyone he deems useful to his political and artistic ambitions, and the young Bentley who tries to understand his own thralldom and the nature of Brecht's hold on others. Brecht wins over Bentley, who is hungry for a cause to get behind and ripe for exploitation. It was to be quid pro quo, but Bentley learns, as all Brecht's devotees did, that fifty-fifty wasn't the great man's way.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Washington DC    2006

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-

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-   -

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-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Stage Fright

Synopsis:
A leading metropolitan Drama critic is led by an attractive production assistant into a recently discovered nineteenth-century theatre. there, the critic will film a television interview for a documentary on the actor John Wilkes Booth, who once acted on those very boards. the critic, F.F. Charnick, notorious for his venomous reviews, visibly warms to the classy elegance of the British P.A. But no sooner has he downed a glass of wine than he falls drugged and unconscious. When he awakens, he is firmly tied to a Shakespearean throne on the stage of the old theatre with an ominous woman intoning Lady Macbeth beside him. the attractive P.A. has turned into Mitzi Crenshaw, an actress of the "old school" whom Charnick has savaged in dozens of reviews. the critically maligned actress has shanghaied the surly critic as part of an elaborate murder plot against the man who virtually destroyed both her career and that of her actor-husband, Denis Michaelson. After forcing the bound critic to endure several Dramatic reci

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-    -

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-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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-

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Stark Naked

Stark Naked
deals with a bourgeois family's inability to confront nudity

Notes:
Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Boulevard Comedies, Smith & Kraus,    978-1575252100

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Tragical History Of Dr Faustus, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

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-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Penguin, London, 1970   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  61 characters

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Wilde West

Synopsis:
Having been sent to America to prepare the new world for a forthcoming tour of Gilbert and Sullivan's latest opus, Patience, Oscar Wilde, knee britches and all, finds himself in the definitely uncouth precincts of Leadville, Colorado. He arrives just as the local good-old-boys are about to dispense swift justice to a young bandit, part of the Jesse James gang, who was captured after robbing the local bank. Immediately smitten by the fetching youth, Wilde, with the town's ladies in support, out-talks the impatient judge and demands a new trial-at which he will appear for the defense. Drawing on his devastating wit and verbal agility, Wilde soon convinces the awed citizenry that the boy, Jody, is the real victim-which is fine until Jesse James himself bursts in to recapture his coveted protege. From then on the action becomes an hilarious contest between the menacing gunman (abetted by a definitely jealous Belle Starr); the bumbling sheriff (who first arrests and then is overcome by the outlaws); and the resour

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1st Produced:
-    1989

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  5            Other:  many of the male roles are bit parts

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