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JOHN O'KEEFFE |
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Adaptation / Translations of Plays by John O'Keeffe |
Wild Oats | ||
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1983 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23571 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 23 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | (many roles can be doubled): 20 total | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - John O'Keeffe | |||||
Synopsis: | Switching the locale of the action from the drawing room of Restoration England to the saloons and prairies of the Old West, and transforming the characters from scheming servants and lustful gentry to music hall girls and stalwart cavalrymen, the playwright holds onto the hilariously convoluted structure which has made the original play a timeless delight. As Edwa, in Variety, puts it: "Plot elements include standard mistaken identities, long lost son reunited with parents, long estranged parents finding each other, evil landlord foreclosing at the drop of a tumbleweed, an F Troop type of cavalry, an Indian guide who speaks with an Irish brogue, a crusty colonel who's planted progeny all over the wild west, a hero who stops a speeding train with one hand, a lustful and slithery preacher, a foppish son who's been kicked out of more military schools than he can count, ad histrionicum." And so it goesresulting happily enough, in a slambang, wildly funny farce which provides both a field day for performers, and an experience of sheer delight for audiences. | |||||
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Wild Oats | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1995 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30655 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 17 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - John O'Keeffe | |||||
Synopsis: | A romance of the Old West | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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