<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">Now that the conversation bends to variant endings in general: my favourite is Odet's unpublished revision for a radio version of <i>Waiting for Lefty</i>, which replaced the rousing militant ending of "Strike! Strike! Strike!" with the somewhat less inspiring "Industrial organization! Industrial organization! Industrial organization!"<br><br><br><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"Deborah Cottreau" <cottreau@UWINDSOR.CA><br><b>To: </b>CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, 21 March, 2013 12:11:41 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: plays with alternate endings<br><br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">There's also the happy ending for <i>King
Lear.</i></font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Dr Deborah Cottreau<br>
School of Dramatic Art<br>
University of Windsor<br>
cottreau@uwindsor.ca<br>
519-253-3000 Ext. 2809</font>
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<br><font color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" size="1">From:
</font><font face="sans-serif" size="1">"Poulsen, John"
<john.poulsen@ULETH.CA></font>
<br><font color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" size="1">To:
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<br><font color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" size="1">Date:
</font><font face="sans-serif" size="1">20/03/2013 07:55 PM</font>
<br><font color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" size="1">Subject:
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alternate endings</font>
<br><font color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" size="1">Sent by:
</font><font face="sans-serif" size="1">Canadian Theatre
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<br><font face="Calibri" size="2">In 1670, a</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
very popular adaptation of Romeo and Juliet ran that had alternate endings.
One night the lovers lived the next they died. </font>
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<br><font face="Calibri" size="2">- </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">John
C. Poulsen PhD</font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Drama Education<br>
Faculty of Education<br>
University of Lethbridge</font><font color="blue" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><u><br>
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<br><font face="Calibri" size="2"><b>From: </b>Mike Czuba <</font><a href="mailto:czuba.mike@GMAIL.COM" target="_blank"><font color="blue" face="Calibri" size="2"><u>czuba.mike@GMAIL.COM</u></font></a><font face="Calibri" size="2">><b><br>
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Date: </b>Wednesday, 20 March, 2013 11:12 AM<b><br>
To: </b>"</font><a href="mailto:CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA" target="_blank"><font color="blue" face="Calibri" size="2"><u>CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA</u></font></a><font face="Calibri" size="2">"
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Subject: </b>Re: plays with alternate endings</font>
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<br><font face="Calibri" size="2">Did Miller's A View from the Bridge have
different versions/endings...? </font>
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<br><font face="Calibri" size="2">Mike.</font>
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<br><font face="Calibri" size="2">On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Don Rubin
<</font><a href="mailto:drubin@yorku.ca" target="_blank"><font color="blue" face="Calibri" size="2"><u>drubin@yorku.ca</u></font></a><font face="Calibri" size="2">>
wrote:</font>
<br><font face="Calibri" size="2">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.<br>
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don<br>
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On 3/20/2013 11:48 AM, Robin C. Whittaker wrote:</font>
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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).<br>
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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.<br>
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And in a different sense, Caryl Churchill rewrote the ending to /Cloud
9/ for its American premier (though it's not a choice).<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Robin.<br>
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Dr. Robin C. Whittaker<br>
Assistant Professor, Drama<br>
Department of English<br>
St. Thomas University<br>
Fredericton, NB E3B 5G3 Canada</font><font color="blue" face="Calibri" size="2"><u><br>
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On 2013-03-20 12:36 PM, Craig Walker wrote:</font>
<br><font face="Calibri" size="2">The Mystery of Edwin Drood---the musical<br>
Night of January 16th, by Ayn Rand (jury verdict)<br>
and maybe Shaw's "Cymbeline Refinished" counts.<br>
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Craig Walker<br>
Head of Drama and<br>
Professor of Drama and English<br>
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Department of Drama<br>
Queen's University<br>
Kingston, ON<br>
Canada K7L 3N6</font><font color="blue" face="Calibri" size="2"><u><br>
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Subject: Re: plays with alternate endings<br>
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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.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Ric<br>
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Co-editor, Theatre Journal<br>
Professor of Theatre Studies<br>
University of Guelph<br>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 10:45:28 AM<br>
Subject: plays with alternate endings<br>
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Hello<br>
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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??<br>
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Glen</font>
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