plays with alternate endings

[Don Rubin]

ibsen also wrote an alternative ending tro doll's house where nora comes 
back (or doesn't leave). but he never approved of his own alternative. 
he said if his play has to be butchered he wd prefer to do it himself.

don

On 3/20/2013 11:48 AM, Robin C. Whittaker wrote:
>
> There's John Krizanc's /Tamara/ where each audience member follows a 
> different character through the house and experiences entirely 
> different scenes in the play (including the ending).
>
> And I saw /Sleep No More/ in New York this fall, a wild and loose 
> adaptation of /MacBeth/, where you do the same thing as in /Tamar//a/ 
> but you can also just wander the old hotel on your own and explore the 
> densely curated and designed rooms across six floors.
>
> And in a different sense, Caryl Churchill rewrote the ending to /Cloud 
> 9/ for its American premier (though it's not a choice).
>
> Cheers,
> Robin.
>
> Dr. Robin C. Whittaker
> Assistant Professor, Drama
> Department of English
> St. Thomas University
> Fredericton, NB E3B 5G3 Canada
> www.stureviews.wordpress.com
> rwhit at stu.ca
> On 2013-03-20 12:36 PM, Craig Walker wrote:
>> The Mystery of Edwin Drood---the musical
>> Night of January 16th, by Ayn Rand (jury verdict)
>> and maybe Shaw's "Cymbeline Refinished" counts.
>>
>> Craig Walker
>> Head of Drama and
>> Professor of Drama and English
>>
>> Department of Drama
>> Queen's University
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>> 613-533-6000 ext 74329
>>
>>
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>> From: Canadian Theatre Research [CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA] on behalf of Ric Knowles [rknowles at UOGUELPH.CA]
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>> The first Canadian one that pops to mind for me is Rex Deverell's TYA play, *Copetown City Kite Crisis*, where the audience votes for the ending it wants.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ric
>>
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Glen Nichols"<gnichols at MTA.CA>
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>> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 10:45:28 AM
>> Subject: plays with alternate endings
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>>
>> Hello
>>
>> Class is working with Lion in the Streets this week and some students were struck by the presence of two possible endings and asked if this was unique. I said it’s not common but is far from unique… on the spot, however, I ran out of examples after an Acadian play I know and Fo’s Death of an Anarchist… figured I’d come up with some more before going back to class tomorrow but the mind is blank…. Any titles come to mind??
>>
>> Glen
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