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The Sisterhood

The Sisterhood

6 Male, 3 Female

Moliere trans & adapt R.R.Bolt Published by Samuel French Ltd

Moliere’s mischievous farce, ‘Les Femmes Savantes’, concerning and satirising a family of pseudo-intellectual pontificating women is brought to life with contemporary illusions in this…

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The Suitors

The Suitors

6 Male, 2 Female

Jean Racine translated Richard Wilbur Published by Dramatists Play Service

One of the most hilarious French plays ever written, Racine’s only comedy (1688) tells of a judge named Nigaud who has lost his mind from overwork and yet is possessed with the desire to go to court…

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The Threesome

The Threesome

3 Male, 3 Female

Eugene Labiche trans Neil Bartlett Published by Oberon

Paris, 1870 ... Adultery ought to be a serious business but it’s hard to keep your dignity when the cleaning lady has a fireman in your kitchen and she suspects that something is up Not to mention the…

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The Tower

The Tower

Alexandre Dumas trans/adapted Charles Wood Published by Oberon

Translation of La Tour de Nesle - a tale of murder, sexual depravity and treachery among the French aristocracy The play, dubbed anti-monarchist, played for 800 performances during the French revolutions…

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The Triumph of Love

The Triumph of Love

4 Male, 3 Female

Pierre Marivaux trans James Magruder Published by Dramatists Play Service

Princes Leonide, in disguise, arrives in the garden of the philosopher, Hermocrate. She has come to try and win some time in his retreat for she has fallen in love, from afar, with Hermocrate’s student,…

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The Triumph of Love

The Triumph of Love

Pierre Marivaux adapted Stephen Wadsworth Published by Samuel French Inc

Princes Leonide, in disguise, arrives in the garden of the philosopher, Hermocrate. She has come to try and win some time in his retreat for she has fallen in love, from afar, with Hermocrate’s student,…

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The Two Pierrots or The White Supper (Les Deux Pierrots ou Le Souper blanc)

The Two Pierrots or The White Supper (Les Deux Pierrots ou Le Souper blanc)

Edmond Rostand trans Thom Christoph intro Sue Lloyd Published by Genge Press
9780954904326

This short play - a three-hander in verse with one other minor part and two non-speaking roles - was long a favourite with amateur players It already displays many of the qualities that were to make Cyrano…

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The Ubu Plays - Ubu Rex & Ubu Cuckolded & Ubu Enchained

The Ubu Plays - Ubu Rex & Ubu Cuckolded & Ubu Enchained

Alfred Jarry Published by Methuen

There was a riot at the first performance of Ubu Roi on 10 December 1896, when Firmin Gemier, playing Ubu, strode to the footlights and roared: “Merde!” at the audience, and theatre would never…

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The Unexpected Man

The Unexpected Man

Yasmina Reza trans Christopher Hampton Published by Faber & Faber
9780571196043

A famous author takes a train journey and sits opposite an unknown woman who’s reading his latest book, The Unexpected Man. He observes her reading the novel but affects not to notice. Likewise,…

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The Waltz of the Toreadors

The Waltz of the Toreadors

4 Male, 7 Female

Jean Anouilh adapt Lucienne Hill Published by Samuel French Ltd

Retired General St Pre tries to keep himself young by getting involved with every pretty young lady that comes along whilst his wife Emily, a determined invalid, moans about his peccadilloes. Seventeen…

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The new Theatre of Europe - 3

The new Theatre of Europe - 3

Robert W Corrigan - editor Published by Used Copy

Includes Inadmissable Evidence - John Osborne, The Sunday Promenade - Lars Forsell, The Curve - Tankred Dorst and The Laundry - David Guerdon Published by Dell 1968

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Thieves’ Carnival

Thieves’ Carnival

9 Male, 5 Female

Jean Anouilh trans Lucienne Hill Published by Samuel French Inc

This most successful of Anouilh’s works in the United States is an excellent lark loaded with humorous whims, romance and masquerades. The scene is a palatial home where two attractive young girls…

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Thirteen Monologues

Thirteen Monologues

Georges Feydeau & Jean Cocteau Published by Oberon
9781849431194

Two of the seven monologues by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) in this edition were written for Édith Piaf and the other five were written for Cocteau’s friend, the celebrated actor Jean Marais Although a minor…

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