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Michael Meyer

MICHAEL MEYER

  (1921 - 2000)
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  

Michael Meyer obituary

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         Brand         Creditors         Dance Of Death, PArts 1 & 2         Doll's House, A         Dream Play, A         Easter         Emperor And Galilean         Enemy Of the People, An         Eric the Fourteenth         Father, The         Ghost Sonata, The         Ghosts         Hedda Gabler         John Gabriel Borkman         Lady From the Sea, The         Little Eyolf         Lunatic And Lover         Master Builder, The         Master Olof         Miss Julie         Odd Women, The         Ortolan, The         Pariah         Peer Gynt         Pillars Of Society, The         Playing With Fire         Pretenders, The         Rosmersholm         Storm         Stronger, The         To Damascus, PArts 1, 2 & 3         Virgin Bride, The         When We Dead Awaken         Wild Duck, The

Brand

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
Lyric Opera House, London    08 Apr 1959

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Hart Davis, London, 1960   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  5            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 59.63

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Creditors

Synopsis:
Take on the eternal triangle with Gustav pulling the strings that will destroy his ex-wife and her young husband.
Joe Blairrdes, Time Out

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:
Lyric Opera House, London    03 Mar 1959

Organisations:
State of Unrest Theatre Company

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  2 ladies

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 59.39

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Dance Of Death, PArts 1 & 2

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:
Warehouse, Covent Garden, London    1995

Organisations:
RSC

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
RSC ref DAD197804

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Doll's House, A

Synopsis:
A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian middle class marriage on stage. the play ushered in a new social era and "exploded like a bomb into contemporary life".

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1965
Methuen Drama, London, 2005   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Dream Play, A

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Easter

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Emperor And Galilean

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Ibsen, Henrik, Plays: Five, 1985   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Enemy Of the People, An

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Hart-Davis, 1963   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
-

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Eric the Fourteenth

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Father, The

Synopsis:
displays Strindberg's suspicion of women at its most implacable

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:
London    1964

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Secker & Warburg, London, 1964   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Ghost Sonata, The

Synopsis:
written in physical pain and spiritual torment is a phantasmagoric dream play

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:
BBC    1962

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Secker & Warburg, London, 1964   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
TV

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  8            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Ghosts

Synopsis:
deals with the futile struggle to escape outdated ideals. A mother tries to shield her son from the moral and sexual lapses of his late father.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
Shaw, London    1984

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Ibsen, Henrik, Plays: One, 1980   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Hedda Gabler

Synopsis:
Appallingly comic spectacle of a claustrophobic and fragile world coming apart at the seams.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
4th Street Theatre, 83 East 4th Street New York, NY 10003    09 Nov 1960

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd, 1962   0-413326705

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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John Gabriel Borkman

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Ibsen, Henrik, Plays: Four, 1980   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Lady From the Sea, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Ibsen, Henrik, Plays: Three, 1980   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
-

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Little Eyolf

Synopsis:
One of Henrik Ibsen's final plays is a master class of the inevitable laws of change, enduring love and the guilt of ambition. Alfred Allmers returns from the mountains wholly dedicated to the welfare of his crippled son, Eyolf, much to the consternation of his wife Rita and sister Asta. An unexpected visit from the mythical Rat Wife triggers a chain of irrevocable consequences that will offer no redemption.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Hart Davis, London, 1961   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 58.53
Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 09 Page 467

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Lunatic And Lover

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  3 

Further Reference:
-

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Master Builder, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Hart Davis, London, 1961   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
-

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Master Olof

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Miss Julie

Synopsis:
presents, with startling clarity, the conflict between sexual passion and social position

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Secker & Warburg, London, 1964   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  9            Other:  musicians

Further Reference:
-

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Odd Women, The

Synopsis:
Period 1880, genteel but impoverished woman escapes her life of drudgery by marrying, with disastrous results, a rich man twice her age

Notes:
After the Novel by George Gissing

1st Produced:
Manchester    1992

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1993   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:

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Ortolan, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Oxford University Dramatic Society

1st Published:
Hart Davis, London, 1967   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Pariah

Synopsis:
Two gently spoken scientists are exchanging pleasantries in a laboratory whilst a storm brews outside, promising to brrak the suffocating heat. Within the blink of an eye the conversation becomes a battle of wills for each man's very survival.
Philip Chapman, What's On

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:

Organisations:
State of Unrest Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Peer Gynt

Synopsis:
Symbolic satirical in verse based on Norwegian folklore.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Hart Davis, London, 1963   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
-

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Pillars Of Society, The

Synopsis:
Set in a seaside port in provincial Norway, a wealthy ship owner has married to further his career. He has, however, a scandal in his past, and all attempts by this 'pillar of the community' to hide his shame come back to haunt him in the present

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Ibsen, Henrik, Plays: Four, 1980   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Social Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  9            Other:  1b extras

Further Reference:
-

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Playing With Fire

Synopsis:
Knut and Kirsten are in a loveless marriage. Knut is attracted to his cousin Adele who lives with them. A friend Axel arrives. the last time Axel was there he left suddenly without saying that he was going. Knut and Adele get close. Axel and Kerstin starts an affair. they plan to go away together. Axel wants to tell Knut before they leave. Knut says that it is all right but Axel must marry Kirsten. Axel's love for Kirsten suddenly disappears

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1963   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Pretenders, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Ibsen, Henrik, Plays: Six, 1986   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  5            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
-

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Rosmersholm

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Ibsen, Henrik, Plays: Three, 1980   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Storm

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Stronger, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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To Damascus, PArts 1, 2 & 3

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Virgin Bride, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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When We Dead Awaken

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Ibsen, Henrik, Plays: Four, 1980   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Wild Duck, The

Synopsis:
greatest account ever written of the destructiveness of missionary zeal

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Ibsen, Henrik, Plays: One, 1980   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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