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Rosemary Anne Sisson

ROSEMARY ANNE SISSON

  (1923 - 2017)
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Andrew Mann Ltd  

Rosemary Anne Sisson has written more than twenty television plays, including Catherine Of Aragon, Elizabeth R and episodes for Upstairs Downstairs and The Duchess Of Dukestreet.She has seven feature films to her credit, including Escape From The Dark and Candleshoe for Disney. Television credits also include Mistral's Daughter (CBS); The Irish R.M. (ChAnnel 4); Seal Morning; Wind In The Willows; Lark Rise To Candleford; Mary Queen Of Scots (BBC TV Scotland); The Bretts (Callender Company/Central/Mobil); the dramatisation of Have His Carcase in the Dorothy L. Sayers series and the dramatisation of two Georgette Heyer novels. She was story consultant on the Catherine Cookson TV film,Fifteen Streets, and dramatised two Ruth Rendell short stories for TVS. She also wrote scripts for the Young Indy series (Lucas Films). She worked with the National Youth Ballet on an adaptation of LittleWomen, and developed a major new drama series, The Palace. She has had several novels published and she recently wrote an episode of Murder She Wrote. Her classic television screenplays are constantly broadcast on cable, and she frequently works on commemorative scripts for public performance, such as those for VE Day, and many major Royal events.

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         Acrobats, The         Bitter Sanctuary         Dark Horse, The         Fear Came To Supper         Ghost On Tiptoe, A         Home and Heart         I Married A Clever Girl         Man In the Case, The         Queen and The Welshman, The         Splendid Outcasts, The
Acrobats, The

Acrobats, The
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Samuel French Ltd, London   

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Bitter Sanctuary

Synopsis:
Stefan and Tanya are determined to prevent themselves and their children from sinking into degradation. In their cramped, bare space in a displaced persons' camp, they try to create a home, to teach their children, and above all, to retain their dignity. Fmigration and escape is their only hope, thus Tanya's greatest sacrifice must be to send her husband and children away to Australia even though she is barred from the country by having TB. This is a play that can inspire great affection and love, not just for itself, but for the whole human condition. Period 1960s

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Samuel French, London, 1964   

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  1b 1g

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Dark Horse, The

Synopsis:
Richard III has been defeated at Bosworth and Henry Richmond is now King. He shocks his supporters and soldiers by insisting that Richard be stripped naked and paraded on a horse. He then refuses to pay a debt to Jasper Tudor. Is the new King as bad as the previous one?

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Samuel French, London, 1979   

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Genre:
Historical Play

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  4            Other:  extras

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Fear Came To Supper

Synopsis:
East Berlin in the Cold War. Michail sends Andrei into West Berlin. He is to assassinate Professor Nikolai Karov an anti-Communist and his daughter Anna. Michail introduces Andrei to the Karovs as a friend. Anna recognises him as a member of the secret police who interrogated her to the point that she betrayed her Father and mother.

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Samuel French, London, 1959   

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Ghost On Tiptoe, A

Synopsis:
with only eighteen months to live remarkable changes take place in a families life - until the diagnosis is proved wrong

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written with Robert Morley

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Samuel French, London,    

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Home and Heart

Synopsis:
Farmer Morgan has been heard to threaten Dai Big-Boots. When Morgan arrives home one night the worse for drink and covered with blood and when the next day there is no sign of Big-Boots - Scotland Yard is called in

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Manuscript on hire from: Samuel French, London   

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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I Married A Clever Girl

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Man In the Case, The

Synopsis:
the fifth form at the Grammar School have returned after the summer break. One of them has a newspaper cutting stating that a London schoolmaster was arrested for assaulting a fourteen year old girl. He has the same name as their form master.

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in "Fight Plays Book 2" Cassell, London, 1965   

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  extras

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Queen and The Welshman, The

Synopsis:
Katherine the widow of King Henry is confined to Windsor Castle. Sir Owen Tudor is allowed to visit her and they fall in love. However they know that the Lord Protector will not allow them to marry so they do so in secret. Katherine is moved to Hatfield where for seven years she and Owen live in happiness. During this time she has two children and is now pregnant with a third. the Lord Protector's attention has been drawn to this fact

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1st Produced:
Edinburgh: St Mary's Hall     1957

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1958   

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Genre:
Historical Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 57.264

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Splendid Outcasts, The

Synopsis:
Cesar Borgia has ambitious plans and one of them is to take over the Kingdom of Naples. To this end he arranges for his sister Lucretia to marry Alfonso the son of the ruler of Naples. Lucretia agrees to anything her brother wants - even though she is secretly in love with an unknown nobleman that she once saw. It turns out to be Alfonso. the marriage is a great success but Cesar does not like the influence that Alfonso now has on Lucretia. Cesar arranges for Alfonso to be assassinated. He then starts arranging a marriage for his sister to another Alfonso - Alfonso d'Este so that the lands he owns can come under his control.

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1st Published:
in "Plays Of the Year Vol.19", Flek, London, 1960   

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  3            Other:  -

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