Love of Four Colonels
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Love of Four Colonels | ||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | Multiple (tour), New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||
| First Date | 1954 | ||||||||||||||||
| Dates Estimated | No | ||||||||||||||||
| Status | Professional | ||||||||||||||||
| World Premiere | No | ||||||||||||||||
| Part of a Tour | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Description | An adult fairy tale, where four colonels representing America, France, Russia and England are taken to a magical castle by two fairies, one wicked, the other good. At the castle they discover The Sleeping Beauty. Each of our national characters (personified by the colonels) sees her as his own particular ideal - The Frenchman as an 18th Century lass of the Boulevards, the Russian as a flaxen-haired figure out of Chekhov, the Englishman as something virginally Elizabethan, the American as a moll in an all-night dive. Each man gets a chance to waken and then to claim her, but each fails, surrendering the illusion that he had long cherished. | ||||||||||||||||
| Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | ||||||||||||||||
| Secondary Genre |
Comedy
Satire |
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| Subjects |
Fairytale
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| Text Nationality | England
Russia |
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| Further Information | Play premiered in London in May 1951. Visited 20 centres, playing to 48,542 people. | ||||||||||||||||
| Event Status | Completed | ||||||||||||||||
| Data Set | Theatre Aotearoa | ||||||||||||||||
| Event Identifier | 192297 | ||||||||||||||||
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