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Harlequinade
Harlequinade
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Author: Terence Rattigan Publisher: Samuel French, Inc. Format: Softcover # of Pages: 60 Pub. Date: 1949 ISBN-10: 0573020949 ISBN-13: 9780573020940
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About
the Play:
Harlequinade is a one-act farce by Terence Rattigan.
A man who is preparing to play Romeo opposite his wife's Juliet in
the English countryside learns that he is still married to a previous
wife, with whom he has a daughter who now has a child of her own.
Harlequinade follows a classical theatre company whose
members intrigues and dalliances are accidentally revealed with
increasingly calamitous consequences in an affectionate celebration
of the lunatic art of putting on a play. One of two Shakespearean ham
actors touring the provinces has a dubious and shady past. Arthur and
Edna Gosport are opening a Shakespearian tour to produce The Winter's
Tale and Romeo and Juliet. During the dress rehearsal of Romeo and
Juliet, a pallid spectre turns up out of Arthur's past, claiming to
be his daughter. In a few moments before the curtain rises, the
harassed Arthur makes wild attempts to solve this imbroglio.
Harlequinade premiered in 1948 at the Phoenix Theatre jn
London, along with The Browning Version in a double-bill under
the joint title, Playbill. This same double-bill was presented
on Broadway at the Coronet Theater.
Cast: 5 women, 9 men
About the Author:
Sir Terence Rattigan (1911-1977) was a popular English
dramatist who wrote some of the most memorable and important plays of
the twentieth century. His plays are generally situated within an
upper-middle-class background. He was that relative rarity among the
ranks of playwrights: a major theatre author who was almost equally
successful as a screenwriter, and one of a very few playwrights of
his era privileged to adapt his own stage work to the screen on a
regular basis.
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