plays with alternate endings

[Mike Czuba]

Did Miller's A View from the Bridge have different versions/endings...?

Mike.


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Don Rubin <drubin at yorku.ca> wrote:

> 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
>>> Kingston, ON
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>>>
>>>
>>> ______________________________**__________
>>> From: Canadian Theatre Research [CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA] on behalf of
>>> Ric Knowles [rknowles at UOGUELPH.CA]
>>> Sent: 20 March 2013 11:09
>>> To:CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA
>>> Subject: Re: plays with alternate endings
>>>
>>> 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>
>>> To:CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA
>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 10:45:28 AM
>>> Subject: plays with alternate endings
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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