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Ariadne Nicolaeff

ARIADNE NICOLAEFF

  
Nationality:    British
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below is a list of Ariadne Nicolaeff's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Chance Visitor         Confessions At Night         Do You Turn Somersaults         Five Evenings         Month in the Country, A         Old-World         Promise, The         Seagull, The

Chance Visitor

Synopsis:
loss is separation, wife of 22 years meets other woman then emergency operation reunites marriage

Notes:
Original Playwright - Aleksei Arbuzov

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1986   -

Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Confessions At Night

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Aleksei Arbuzov

1st Produced:
Nottingham    1968

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  14            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Do You Turn Somersaults

Synopsis:
At a sanatorium on the Russian coast a doctor and patient romance develops

Notes:
Original Playwright - Aleksei Arbuzov

1st Produced:
46th Street Theatre, New York    09 Jan 1978

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1978   -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Five Evenings

Synopsis:
As commented on by Harold Clurman: ". . .there is no politics in this comedy. . .the main characters in FIVE EVENINGS are no longer youthful. they fell in love on the eve of the war; the war separated them. After the war they lost sight of one another, though not their memories or their longings for each other. When they meet again seventeen years later they are past the age of 'romance'. . .All the characters in FIVE EVENINGS are sweet people even when they are youthfully foolish or momentarily misguided. . .All are learning and teaching. . .Thus they constantly seem to express themselves in apothegms and proverbs. . .At the final curtain when the lovers have dispelled their misunderstanding, Tamara looks forward to a good life and simply says, 'Oh, if only we don't have a war!'"

Notes:
Original Playwright - Aleksandr Volodin

1st Produced:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Month in the Country, A

Synopsis:
Period 1840 two plots: the doctor wants a team of carriage horses and a young tutor arrives on the Russian estate for everyone to fall in love with him

Notes:
Original Playwright - Ivan Turgenev

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1976   -

Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Old-World

Synopsis:
medical head of sanatorium falls in love with difficult patient

Notes:
Original Playwright - Aleksei Arbuzov (Starmodnaya Komediya)

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1977   -

Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Promise, The

Synopsis:
A.D. Coleman's comments: "the play opens during the three-year siege of Leningrad, as three young people-two boys and a girl-find shelter together and establish a triangular relationship. the girl wants to be a doctor. One of the boys dreams of becoming a poet, while the other has decided to be an engineer so that he may build bridges. the intricacies of the triangle, the rising and falling of their hopes for each other and themselves, over the next seventeen years provide the Drama of the play. Arbuzov has constructed his work simply but soundly; the framework is broad and flexible, allowing the action to evolve organically. there is no attempt to establish dominant symbolic overtones in the writing, and, thankfully, this is mirrored in the production; the playwright is concerned with the literal situation, its obvious reality, and any attempt to place the work within a rigid symbolic structure would have strangled it. As it is, the play lives and breathes a sense of truth and an optimism all its own."

Notes:
Original Playwright - Aleksei Arbuzov; Aka My Poor Marat

1st Produced:
Oxford    1966

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Oxford University Press, 1967   -

Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Seagull, The

Synopsis:
Can the young people's dreams be realised or will their desires turn sour when confronted by the cruelties of the adult world?

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov; Written in collaboration with Ann Jellicoe

1st Produced:
London    1964

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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