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Duet for One

  • Tom Kempinski
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 1M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573110917

"A wonderfully sensitive play, positive and optimistic."

The London Financial Times

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
This immensely moving play won the London Theatre Critics Award for Best Play of 1980.

Both Anne Bancroft and Julie Andrews have played the role of a famous concert violinist who is stricken with a disease which necessitates her retirement from the stage and which threatens her marriage as well. 

The play is structured as a series of interviews between the violinist and her psychiatrist in which she tries to cope with her illness and its effort on her life.

REVIEWS:

"As moving a piece of theatre as you could wish for or perhaps bear."

 The London Daily Mail

"A wonderfully sensitive play, positive and optimistic."

 The London Financial Times

"A first rate play."

 The London Sunday Times

Premiere Production: Duet For One was first produced at the Bush Theatre on 13th February, 1980.
  • Casting: 1M, 1F

  • STEPHANIE ABRAHAMS
    DR. ALFRED FELDMANN
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    This immensely moving play won the London Theatre Critics Award for Best Play of 1980.

    Both Anne Bancroft and Julie Andrews have played the role of a famous concert violinist who is stricken with a disease which necessitates her retirement from the stage and which threatens her marriage as well. 

    The play is structured as a series of interviews between the violinist and her psychiatrist in which she tries to cope with her illness and its effort on her life.

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