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Charles Osborne

CHARLES OSBORNE  

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

 Constance         Round Dance, The

Constance

Synopsis:
William Daventry, a rich industrialist and self-made man, is married to Constance, the perfect wife: loyal, faithful, and with excellent family credentials. At the Daventrys country house, various members of Constances extended family, a zealous man of the cloth and his flirtatious wife are assembled for an evening of entertainment - such as is affordable only by the middle classes, a fact deplored by the Duchess of Sandgate and her companion, Sir Richard. An incident between the Reverends wife and the industrialist sets in motion a train of events that risk upsetting the moral code of this aristocratic family, driving them from Twickenham to London to the Tyrolean Alps.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Oscar Wilde. CONSTANCE was unearthed by Wilde enthusiast And writer, Charles Osborne, many years later. Osborne has translated the play back into English, recreating for the world A genuine, brand new, Oscar Wilde play. After his release from prison in 1897, Oscar Wilde immediately began writing A new play, CONSTANCE. Wilde sold what he claimed were exclusive rights to A number of theatrical Agents, publishers, Actors And managers, eventually handing over his handwritten manuscript to An American Actress, Mrs Cora Brown Potter. On her death in the 1930s the manuscript passed onto the French writer Guillot de Saix, who with A colleague Henri de Briel, put together A French translation. Henri de Briel was suspected of being A collaborator with the Germans during World War II, And Wildes original English manuscript is thought to have been destroyed by members of the resistance movement when they caught up with him. However, A copy of the French translation survived in Guillot de Saixs possession, And in due course was published in A French literary magazine.

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Good Night Out Presents

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translation

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Round Dance, The

Synopsis:
at the centre of the play is a desperate search for meaning through sexual encounter, in which all the characters, from the Prostitute to the Lord, are engaged.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Arthur Schnitzler

1st Produced:
Undercroft at the Roundhouse, London    2004

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

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